Sacker of cities and father of Iphition, leader of a great host whom a Naiad nymph bore beneath snowy Timolus in the rich land of Hyde — named when Achilles first slew the son in the terrible rout of *Iliad* 20.1
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Achilles leapt among the Trojans and first he slew Iphition, the valiant son of Otrynteus, the leader of a great host, whom a Naiad nymph bare to Otrynteus, sacker of cities, beneath snowy Timolus in the rich land of Hyde.2
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