demoleos

Updated: May 16, 2025

But to him who, next in merit, held the second place, he gives to wear a corslet triple-woven with hooks of polished gold, stripped by his own conquering hand from Demoleos under tall Troy by the swift Simoïs, an ornament and safeguard among arms. The third prize he makes twin cauldrons of brass, and bowls wrought in silver and rough with tracery.

Virgil - The Aeneid of Virgil