Son of Nestor of Gerenia — horse-taming captain of the Achaean sentinels at Troy and one of the Pylians who welcomed Telemachus beside his father and brother Peisistratus on the shore at sandy Pylos.1
At Troy Nestor lent his own shield to Diomedes when the son of Tydeus went on the night sortie, while Thrasymedes kept his father's gear — and Nestor himself took up the son's shield to stand watch when the Achaeans' discipline failed. Homer names him captain of the sentinels whom Agamemnon's embassy posted around the camp.2
When Telemachus came to Pylos seeking news of Odysseus, Peisistratus was first to greet the strangers, but Thrasymedes sat with his father at the feast on fleeces upon the sand — one of Nestor's sons among the Pylians sacrificing to Poseidon on the shore.3
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