Another term for death, the fate of Asios who, horse-proud, insisted on driving his chariot into the fray where he met a Trojan spear. 

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‘Before this the dark-named destiny had shrouded about him

through the spear of Idomeneus, proud son of Deukalion.’

Source: Homer, The Iliad of Homer, trans. Richmond Lattimore (Chicago: Chicago UP, 1961 (1951)), book XII, p. 261