THE TAKING OF ILIOS 



The Achaeans poured the blood of Polyxena* 

 over the tomb of dead Achilles to propitiate his 

 wrath, and took each his lot of Trojan women and 

 divided all their other spoil, both gold and silver : 

 wherewith they loaded their deep ships and through 

 the booming sea set sail from Troy, having made 

 an end of the war. 



Thymbraean Apollo that he was slain by Paris. On the 

 capture of Troy Neoptolemus sacrificed her at the tomb of 

 Achilles ; schoL Lycophr. 3^ ; Eur. Tr. 261 flF. 



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