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the north of the world. The Trojans began to fight for their
country and their fatherland and their city. So when matters
stood thus, Hercules marched to the city. Now they passed
by each other, to wit, the road which the Trojans took to the
ships was not the same as that which Hercules with his host
took to Troy. As to Hercules, he reached Troy and found
Troy open, without any one protecting or keeping it. So he set
it under a mist and a fringe of fire, and slew all that was fit ,' • -.
for slaughter therein, and he gathered the gold and silver,
jewels and treasures and goods of the city. No one escaped
out of the city but he who fled from point of spear and from
mouth of sword.
160. So when they told Laomedon of the onfall on the
city, he turned back to the city, and met Hercules, front to
front, in the middle of the way. Then indeed did Hercules
cast off weariness from his mind, and fulfilled his desire to JLá d
pour forth the Trojans' blood, and he broke a battle -breach
through might of men, on the choice of the worthies of the
Trojans around their king: in such wise that Laomedon the
king of the Trojans was slain there with his three sons and
with his kings and soldiers. Thereafter Hercules went, with
great victory, to his ships, unto Castor and Pollux and Nestor.
Now after the hosts came together they divided the booty
among them. Unto Telamon came Hesione, Laomedon's daughter
because of the champions of valour of Greece he was the first
hero who entered the city. So when all that came to a end
each leader of them went to his land with victory and triumph.
173. Gloomy, uneasy, troubled was Priam son of Laome-
don, crownprince of the Trojans and of Little Asia, at the great
agony that had befallen him, namely, the burning of Troy and
its ruin, its jewels and treasures and goods and booty carried
away by Greeks, his own sister borne into bondage and given
to Telamon in guerdon of his valour. Sorer than every grief
he deemed his father's fall and the slaughter of the Trojans
made in the battle and in the city. Disgrace and great shame
he deemed the triumphing of the Greeks over the Trojans and