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72 The Destruction of Troy.
coine on an embassy", saith he, „from Priam son of Laomedon,
from the king of the Trojans. Of the Trojans is my race.
To declare and to set forth the vast vexation that Priam suffers
from the dishonour and from the disgrace that the Greeks have
put upon him, to wit, slaying his father, and burning his city
(and) enslaving his sister, without making (any) compensation
to him. Yet he would forgive every one of all those things if his
sister Hesione were delivered to him out of bondage." As soon as
Peleus heard that, anger and grief at that answer possessed
him, and he said: „It is audacity and it is great rashness for
Trojans to come unto Greeks without the guarantee, without
the safeguard of the country, because much of evil have they
done to the Greeks." So Peleus told Antenor to go forth out
of the country and out of the haven. So Antenor went to
his vessel, according to the king's commands. They set their
vessel on sea, and fared onwards, past Boeotia, to Salamis.
When he came to Telamon, king of Salamis, he set forth his
embassy to him, namely, to ask for Hesione of him particularly
— for unto him she had been given in guerdon of his valour
and war-service — and Antenor said that it was not meet for
a daughter of the royal race to abide in bondage and thraldom
like a slavegirl. Then Telamon answered and said that
he had done no evil to Priam, that it was not he that had
caused the expedition to fare forth, and he declared that he
would not give to any one the payment that had been bestowed
on him in guerdon of his valour. He declared to him then
(that he should go) out of the country.
259. After that declaration, Antenor went on board his
vessel, and came to Achaia, to Castor and to Pollux. He told
them what he had come for, and said that peace and friend-
ship with the Trojans and Priam were better than being at
variance with them. If Hesione were given back to him it
would be a cause of that peace and friendship. They replied
that they had not given occasion of dissension or disunion to the
Trojans, for they had not been present at the sacking nor at
the burning of the city, nor at carrying away the plunder