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They use them as taxicabs.
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Achilles
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or Patroclus,
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or whoever is on his chariot, is driving.
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He is riding from the ships
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or wherever he is from the camp to the battlefield.
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He might pick up a missile of some kind, a spear typically,
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and fire it at somebody as he goes by.
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This would be a drive by killing,
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but then when he really gets to where the action is he hops off--
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now we're going to have some fighting. And so,
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the implication I think is that the memory of chariot warfare