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Philocretes
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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A famous archer, who had been the friend and armour-bearer of Hercules who instructed him in the use of the bow, and also bequeathed his bow with the poisoned arrows to him after his death; he accompanied the Greeks to the siege of Troy, but one of the arrows fell on his foot, causing a wound the stench of which was intolerable, so that he was left behind at Lemnos, where he remained in misery 10 years, till an oracle declared that Troy could not be taken without the arrows of Hercules; he was accordingly sent for, and being healed of his wound by Æsculapius, assisted at the capture of the city.
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Philocretes'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/p/philocretes.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Philocretes'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/p/philocretes.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
