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84 The Destruction of Troy.
and Alania in the north, from the east of the land of the
Macedonians in the west to the shore of the Aegean sea in
the east, in order that they might have frequent meetings and
assemblies and congregations in every district, that they might
have boats and barques and vessels ready, and that they might
be in their armies and in their battalions in the harbour of
Athens and then fare forth on one track to Troy, to take
vengeance for the outrage upon them.
572. Now Castor and Pollux, after hearing that their
sister was carried off in elopement and flight by Trojans, went
in their vessel to sea to voyage after their sister. They then
coasted by the Lesbian strand, till a storm forced them towards
land, and they put their vessel on shore. Then Castor and
Follux passed away, and no one knows how they fared after
that. But the gentiles say that they were turned into two
stars, and that Gemini are their names in heaven. Apparently,
however, they were drowned a drowning in the storm. Howbeit,
the Lesbians were a-seeking them in boats and in vessels, and
searched minutely from the estuary of their land as far as
Troy, and they found not. Even though the Greeks had lost
from that expedition only those two champions and those two
points of battle, great were the loss unto them.
584. Now when this news had spread throughout Greece,
namely, that Helen was carried off in elopement, there was a
great commotion throughout the whole of Europe from the
lands of the Maeotici to the estuary of the river Rhine. That
news boiled up in the whole of Greece, forasmuch as every
tribe and every race therein felt the disgrace as if it had been
done to themselves. So there were frequent assemblies in
every tribe, and everyone's messages (?) went to the other
to know when it would be fitting for them to wend on their
way; and the implements of the way were gotten ready for
them, both vessels and sails and ropes, both food and raiment
and cattle (?). The Thessalians harnessed their steeds and
their studs to bring them to the border of the sea. The
hauberks and helmets of the Myrmidons were cleansed from