THE TAKING OF ILIOS 



harm the divine shrine, a Delphian man smote and 

 slew him with a holy knife.** 



And Andromache bewailed short-lived Astyanax,* 

 whom she saw dive headlong from the airy towers, 

 hurled to death by the hand of Odysseus. Swift 

 Aias, son of Oileus, assaulted Cassandra when she 

 took shelter at the knees of the stainless goddess 

 Pallas ; and the goddess rejected his violence, and, 

 helper though she had been aforetime, for one man's 

 sake Athena was angered against all the Argives. 

 Aeneias and Anchises did Aphrodite steal awav, 

 taking pity on the old man and his son, and far from 

 their fatherland established them in Ausonia." 

 So the counsel of the gods was fulfilled with 

 approval of Zeus, so that imperishable sovereignty 

 should be the lot of the children and the grand- 

 children <* of Aphrodite dear to Ares. The 

 children and race of godlike Antenor,' that 

 hospitable old man, the son of Atreus saved, in 

 gratitude for his former kindness and that table 

 wherewith his gentle wife Theano had welcomed 

 him. Poor Laodice-''! thee by thy native land 

 the enfolding earth took to her yawning bosom, 



" Italy. <« The Romans. 



• Antenor and his wife Theano, sister of Hecabe, had 

 entertained Odysseus and Menelaus when they came to Troy 

 to ask the restoration of Helen before the war (Horn. //. 

 iii. 205), and subsequently he advised the surrender of Helen 

 (Horn. //. vii. 347 ff.). His friendly attitude to the Greeks 

 ("Troianae suasorem Antenora pacis," Ovid, F. iv. 75) led 

 later to charges of treachery ; cf. Lycophr. 340. 



' Daughter of Priam and Hecabe, mother of Munitus by 

 Acamas, son of Theseus, was, at the taking of Troy, 

 swallowed up by the earth ; cf. Lycophr. 314, 497. 



