Potential Titles: Achilles (Allusion)

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An Achilles of computation - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

Achilles' spectre stalked upon the summit of his tomb - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Butchered by curst Achilles' ruthless son - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Suffer unnumbered taunts for having reft Thetis of her Achilles - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Lured young Achilles from his haunted sleep - James Elroy Flecker "A Fragment"

Achilles howls like a wild coyote - John M. Ford "Troy: the Movie"

Achilles of the moleskins and the gridiron - Frank Horne "Letters Found Near a Suicide" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Red with the death of Achilles - Charles Jensen "Complaint of Achilles' Heel"

Have ta'en Achilles by the hair - John Keats "Hyperion"

A god toiled that Achilles' arms might shine - T. Sturge Moore "Sent from Egypt with a Fair Robe of Tissue to a Sicilian Vine-Dresser 276 B.C."

Great Achilles crumbling on his pyre - Phillips Stewart "De Profundis"

Some great Achilles to some Troy be sent - Virgil "Eclogues IV" (transl. not identified)


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