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Literal Translation. 129
1840. These, then, are the leaders whom they let in, to
wit, Pyrrhus son of Achilles in the van, and I Homeric and Menc-
laus son of Atreus, and other leaders besides. Pyrrhus, however,
it is he that was protecting all the household of the folk that
betrayed the city. Now Antenor was leader before the troops
and the hosting of the Greeks unto the citadel and the royal
apartment and royal palace of Priam, a place wherein were
biding the choice of all the leaders of the Trojans. It seemed vW t«r»~
to thee that the earth would fall under their feet because of
the mightiness of the pride which they brought and the great-
ness of the wrath. Then, in sooth, did Pyrrhus son of Achilles
wreak his fury and his wrath and his enmity on the Trojans.
Multitudes of them fell that night by his hand. There, then,
fell Panthus son of Euphorbus, chief speaker of all the Trojans
after Antenor. There, also, fell Choroebus, the husband of
Cassandra daughter of Priam. A stripling was he and a cham-
pion and a spearpoint of battle of the north-east of the world.
It was not more than a week after the warrior came till Cas-
sandra was betrothed to him. Cassandra did not at all desire
to be defiled, 1 but she preferred to abide in maidenhood and
in chastity. Then Pyrrhus son of Achilles, the battle-soldier,
remained standing before Priam's citadel, with a two-edged
axe in his hand, and then there was a gate that was the L
fairest and beautifullest in the world, from the various carving of
every land, with a border of gold and silver and precious stone.
1860. Then the soldiers who were in Priam's palace divided
themselves. A troop of them they put into the doorway of the
court. These began to resist Pyrrhus and the rest of the heroes.
The others, however, went on the palisades and mounds and scon-
ces (?) of the citadel, and began to cast mightily at the hosts in
such wise that they hurled together on them the spears and
the swords and the shields and the arrows and the rocks of the
stones under foot, and the beams and planks and roofs and
poles of the balconies and the plank-houses. Then they broke
Lit. her pollution.