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The article currently refers to the Mysians as "lion-hearted spearmen who fought with their bare hands.[1]" where the footnote refers to "Homer. 'II, 858'. The Iliad." The line cited gives the names of the commanders found a bit earlier in the article, but not the characterization as "spearmen who fought with their bare hands" (an oxymoron). The relevant lines in Greek:
The Mysians did Chromis lead and Ennomus the augur:
but by his birds he did not ward off black death,
but he was defeated by the hands of the swift-footed descendent of Aeacus
in the river, where he slaughtered Trojans and others. (Hom. Il. 2.858–61; my translation)
I haven't found the oxymoron "spearmen who fought with their bare hands" in any translation of the Iliad, and it's certainly not in the Greek. Is it someone's joke?
