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128 The Destruction of Troy.
1812. Thereafter, then, Agamemnon asked of the kings
what they should do unto the traitors, whether they should
give sureties to them or should not give. Ulysses and Nestor
said there was no truth in Polydamas, but that he had come
guilefully. As to Pyrrhus, however, he did not at all reject
Polydamas' story. 1 So when Polydamas had certified them that
he had not come to tell them a falsehood the Greeks asked
him for a signal. Polydamas said: „Even though in this hour,
before I go, ye shall fare unto Troy, Aeneas and Antenor will
open the gates of the city before you." Then the leaders of
the Greeks said that if they should see the signal, to wit,
candles lit to make (things) manifest to them, and if they
should hear the voice of Aeneas and Antenor, they would
perform 2 their oath to the betrayers, that is, to protect An-
tenor and Ucalegon and Polydamas and Aeneas and Anchises,
with their wives and sons and daughters, with their cousins
and relatives by marriage and companions, and with their kins-
folk besides.
1827. Now when they had settled their pledges, Polydamas
led them 3 to the city, that is, to the gate which is named
Scaea. There, then, they found a signal of their signals, to
wit, the head of a white horse in the border over the gate.
1831. Then came the betrayers, to wit, Aeneas son of
Anchises and Antenor, to meet the Greeks. As to Priam, how-
ever, he had everything prepared and ready to slay the betrayers
and to fight for the city. Then the chief traitors gathered their
households and their comrades and their friends to the gate at
which they had set a signal for the Greeks, so that there they
were biding about the gate on this side and on that. There-
after came the Greeks to the gate which is named Scaea. The
betrayers opened the gate and lit the lights against the faces
of their friends and their companions and let them into the city.
1
This must be the meaning ('Neoptolemus hos refutat'). This
meaningless chucai is a scribal error due to the clmcui in line 1818.
2 Lit. make true.
3 Lit. took the van before them.