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Teucer

/ ˈtjuːsə /

noun

  1. a Cretan leader, who founded Troy
  2. a son of Telamon and Hesione, who distinguished himself by his archery on the side of the Greeks in the Trojan War


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So he went, and Teucer his brother went with him, with117 Pandion carrying his bow.

Teucer it struck not, missing him by a little, but Amphimachus it smote on the breast so that he fell dead.

So Teucer took his bow and laid an arrow on the string,126 and smote Clitus, who was charioteer to Polydamas.

But Glaucus was sore troubled, for he could not help him, so grievous was the wound where Teucer had wounded him.

It is said to have been founded by a colony of Greeks, whose captain was no less a personage than Teucer the Telamonian.

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