Aenius
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In Greek mythology, Aenius (Ancient Greek: Αἴνιον, romanized: Aīnion or Aínion, lit. 'praiseworthy' or 'praise') was a Paeonian soldier who participated in the siege of Troy. He sided with the Trojans during the Trojan War and was killed by the hero Achilles.
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A. T. Murray, Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1924 · Homer, Iliad with an English Translation · CC BY-SA 3.0 US
“and Mnesus and Thrasius and Aenius and Ophelestes; and yet more of the Paeonians would swift Achilles have slain, had not the deep-eddying River waxed wroth and called to him in the semblance of a man, sending forth a voice from out the deep eddy: O Achilles, beyond men art thou in might, and beyond men doest deeds of evil;”
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