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« Helenus, son of Priam and Hecuba, had the gift of 

 prophecy. After the death of Paris he and Deiphobus, his 

 brother, were rivals for the hand of Helen. Deiphobus 

 being preferred, Helenus retired to Ida, where he was by 

 the advice of Calchas seized and brought to the Greek 

 camp. He advised the Greeks to build the wooden horse 

 and to carry off the Palladium. 



* Neoptolemus, son of Achilles, by Deidaraia, daughter of 

 Lycoraedes, king of Scyros. His original name was Pyrrhus, 

 and he was called Neoptolemus because he went to war 

 when j'oung, or because his father did so (Pans. x. 26. 4). 

 Helenus prophesied that Troy would not be taken without 

 Neoptolemus and the arrows of Heracles— then in the 



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