Abstract
In Diomedes' heroic deeds (Iliad V), Homer quotes three accidents happened to Ares, god of the war. First, he is shut in a jar ; we think that it is a punishment peculiar to the third Indo-european function. Second, he is wounded by Diomedes : that is a punishment peculiar to the second i-e. function. Third, he is thrown down the Olympus (a punishment peculiar to the first i-e. function). Similarly, in the Roman legendary story, Horatius Codes undergoes a threefold ordeal. He must jump in the Tiber : in my opinion this plunge is equivalent to an hanging, a death peculiar to the first Indo-european function. He has missed being overburdened by his weapons and being drowned : there punishments are peculiar to the second and third i-e. functions.
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