Crossword-Solution: OILEUS 6 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

The reference is to the stones which Deucalion and Pyrrha transformed into men and women after the Flood.] 1753 (return) [ Eustathius identifies Ileus with Oileus, father of Aias.

Whereas the old heroes, in Homer, dreaded nothing more than water or drowning; probably upon the old opinion of the fiery substance of the soul, only extinguishable by that element; and therefore the poet emphatically implieth[AH] the total destruction in this kind of death, which happened to Ajax Oileus.

Oileus' fiery son smote Derinoe 'Twixt throat and shoulder with his ruthless spear; And on Alcibie Tydeus' terrible son Swooped, and on Derimacheia: head with neck Clean from the shoulders of these twain he shore With ruin-wreaking brand.

Straight was the smart assuaged, and healed the scars Upon their brows and 'neath their clustering hair Then for the archery-test Oileus' son Stood forth with Teucer, they which in the race Erewhile contended.

Yet a few abode the strife Round Aias and the Atreidae rallying; And haply these had perished all, beset By throngs on throngs of foes on every hand, Had not Oileus' son stabbed with his spear 'Twixt shoulder and breast war-wise Polydamas; Forth gushed the blood, and he recoiled a space.