According to Greek mythology, “the wound that would not heal” was inflicted by the intemperate warrior Achilles when he fell upon Telephus, son of Hercules, after invading an allied kingdom in the mistaken belief that he had landed at Troy. Terrible was Achilles’s spear, and terrible was the wound that would not heal. Telephus recovered only after clever Odysseus intervened, persuading Achilles to use his spear to heal the wound.
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