58 T ROY not taken 



JUPITER interpofe to fit it to his body ; though, after all, the 

 god did not perform the work fufficiently j for HECTOR owed 

 his death to fighting ACHILLES in that armour, as an aperture 

 ftill remained near the throat, through which ACHILLES drove 

 his fpear. If then the armour of ACHILLES could not be ufed 

 by HECTOR, how is it poffible, that it could be ufed by PATRO- 

 CLUS, who was fo much inferior to him ? It is palpable, that he 

 muft have been almoft as ill fitted with it as DAVID was with 

 SAUL'S. HOMER himfelf admits*, that PATROCLUS could not 

 wield ACH ILL ES'S fpear, how then could he fupport, not to fay 

 march and fight, under the load of his armour ? 



IT cannot be denied, that ACHILLES fell during the fiege j 

 and it is evident the Greeks muft have been lefs able to take 

 the town, after this and their other lofles, than before. Ac- 

 cordingly it is admitted by HOMER and his followers, that they 

 did not take it by force, but it is pretended they took it by ftra- 

 tagem. HOMER'S account of which, is precifely as follows f: 

 EPEUS made a wooden horfe, into which ULYSSES and the Gre- 

 cian chiefs -went with a body of troops ; the reft of the Greeks 

 burnt their tents, and fet fail. Upon this, the Trojans came 

 down, and, along with them, HELEN. She, attended by DEI- 

 PHOBUS, went three times round the horfe, calling each of the 

 Grecian leaders by his name, and mimicking the voice of his 

 wife. This made them all, except ULYSSES, defirous to get out, 

 or return an anfwer ; but he reftrained them, and clapped his 

 hand oh the mouth of one of them, who was more eager to fpeak 

 than the reft, and kept him gagged in that manner till HELEN 

 retired. The Trojans then drew up the machine to their citadel, 

 and held a confultation as to what they mould do with it. Some 

 were for cutting it up ; fome for precipitating it from the rock;, 

 but others thought it ought to be allowed to remain as a propi- 

 tiatory figure. This laft opinion prevailed, and the Greeks came 



- out 



* II. xvi. 140, } Odyff. viii. 500.5 iv. 271. . 



