What is "daimios"

Usage examples of "daimios".

It was close enough for him to recognize Daimios at the reins, his golden hair streaming back on the wind.

Nefer looked back under his arm and saw Daimios aiming his chariot at the gap they had broached in the burning wall.

At the burning fence, the flames were still too high and fierce to let Daimios pass, though they saw him flogging his team and screaming abuse at them.

Still blocked by the burning barrier Daimios shouted, They have got one of their team across.

It reached as high as his mount's knees, and the maimed animal stumbled and almost fell but Daimios drove it on in a torrent of sparks and the stench of burning hair and flesh.

They exchanged parry for thrust and block for cut, then Daimios stepped back and circled to the left, trying to move in behind him and cut him off from the bridgehead, but Nefer went at him again and forced him to give ground.

Nefer could not look round for Daimios blade flashed and gleamed before his eyes, but he shouted, 'Cut down the bridge, Meren, cut away the mainstays, and let her fall.

He saw that Daimios and the surviving chasers were already mounting their chariots, and through the last wisps of smoke from the smouldering grass fence, he saw them speed away in a line ahead, following the track along the edge of the gorge that would lead them eventually to where the cliffs flattened out, so that they would be able to bring their vehicles and horses across, and renew the pursuit.

In his present state he could not even take on Daimios in a straight fight.

Behind him he heard the crack of the lash, he glanced back and saw Daimios bearing down on them.

Now when Nefer looked back he saw that the mistake had cost them dear, for Daimios had gained a hundred paces on them.

Then there was the sound of other hoofs, blending with those of Nefer's team, and this time when he looked back Daimios was closer still, his horses whipped and galled until their flanks and backs were bloody.

But the turn had cost ground, and Daimios snatched his last javelin from the bin and wrapped the thong around his wrist.

The moment Daimios swivelled his right shoulder forward in the throw, Nefer turned his team back the other way, jinking their run at full gallop.

He changed the angle and this time Daimios aimed not at Nefer but at Dov, whose flank had been exposed by the turn.