ANTILOCHUS, in Greek legend, son of Nestor, king of Pylos. One of the suitors of Helen, he accompanied his father to the Trojan War, and distinguished himself as acting commander of the Pylians. He was an intimate friend of Achilles, to whom he was commissioned to announce the death of Patroclus. When his father was attacked by Memnon, he saved his life at the sacrifice of his own (Pindar, Pyth., vi. 28), thus fulfilling the oracle which had bidden him "beware of an Ethiopian." According to other accounts, he was slain by Hector (Hyginus, Fab., 113), or by Paris in the temple of the Thymbraean Apollo together with Achilles (Dares Phrygius 34).