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The king, hearing the rumors in the city about his wife, the Ilian Phaedra, was grieved with her; and being indignant 89 against his own son Hippolytus, he did not show it to them; but taking 89 a white bull, he gave it as a sacrifice to Poseidon, cursing his son Hippolytus and asking that he die a bad death. And it happened after three months, when Hippolytus went out on horseback to hunt and pursued a wild boar, his horse stumbled, he was thrown from the saddle and fell to the ground, holding the horse's bridle in his left hand, and when the rein was wrapped around his hand he was dragged by the horse; and having received a blow to his head, he was carried by the slaves into the city to the palace; and on the sixth day he died from the wound to his head; he was 22 years old. And King Theseus, mourning him, expressed his grief to Phaedra, reproaching her, having told her also of the rumors in the city and the country on account of Hippolytus and her. But Phaedra, hearing these things, swore to him that she knew nothing of the sort, but that she was devoted to him and that the people of the city had spread this slander in vain, being suspicious. But Theseus, not being persuaded by her, and being ashamed before his senate, put her out of his sight, ordering that she no longer be seen by him, being grieved also by the death of his own son; for he loved him. But Phaedra, being very chaste, and being afflicted both by the false accusation of the people of the city and the country, and being ashamed of her husband's rejection, did away with herself, and died being 39 years old, just as 90 the most wise Cephalion wrote these things, saying that they fabricated in vain the myth about the chaste Phaedra's passion for Hippolytus, having invented it poetically about her. In these times Eurystheus first reigned over the Lacedaemonians for 42 years, and 8 other kings after him, together they reigned for 246 years. and Alcmenus for 37 years. And the kingdom of the Lacedaemonians held everything for 325 years, as the most wise Africanus wrote. After Eli the prophet of the Jews, Saul, the son of Kish, of the tribe of Benjamin, first reigned over the Jews for 20 years, in the city of Gibeon. And of the Corinthians, after the Lacedaemonians, Aletes then reigned for 35 years, and 11 other kings for 277 years. And later * reigned for 1 year. And the kingdom of the Corinthians held everything for 313 years. In the time of Saul, the Pisans first devised the Olympian contest, then celebrating the secular festival to Olympian Zeus, about which the most wise Africanus wrote a chronicle. And at that time Samuel the prophet became priest of the Jews; and he put forward, by God's command, David as king of the Jewish nation, the son of Jesse. FIFTH DISCOURSE OF THE TROJAN TIMES. And in the time of David, Priam, son of Laomedon, reigned over Ilium, that is, the country of the Phrygians. And in his reign then, Ilium and Dardanus and Troy and all the land of Phrygia are sacked by the Achaeans; in which are recorded Agamemnon and Menelaus and the rest with Neoptolemus Pyrrhus, as many as campaigned against Ilium on account of the abduction of Helen by Paris, also called Alexander; for he was smitten with love for her. For Helen was perfect, well-dressed, full-breasted, white as snow, with beautiful eyebrows, a fine nose, beautiful features, curly-haired, somewhat blond, having large eyes, charming, with a beautiful voice, a formidable sight among women; she was 26 years of age. And this pretext was found to be the beginning of the evils for the destruction of Troy and all the land of the Phrygians and its kingdoms.

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βασιλεὺς ἀκούσας τὰ θρυλούμενα ἐν τῇ πόλει περὶ τῆς αὐτοῦ γυναικὸς Ἰλίας Φαίδρας, ἐλυπεῖτο πρὸς αὐτήν· καὶ ἀγανακτήσας 89 κατὰ τοῦ ἰδίου υἱοῦ Ἱππολύτου οὐκ ἔδειξεν αὐτοῖς· λαβὼν δὲ 89 ταῦρον λευκὸν ἔδωκεν αὐτὸν θυσίαν τῷ Ποσειδῶνι, καταρώμενος τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ Ἱππόλυτον καὶ αἰτούμενος κακῶς αὐτὸν ἀπολέσθαι. καὶ συνέβη μετὰ μῆνας τρεῖς ἐν τῷ ἐξελθεῖν τὸν Ἱππόλυτον εἰς θήραν ἔφιππον καὶ διῶξαι σύαγρον, τοῦ ἵππου αὐτοῦ προσκόψαντος ἐξεσελλίσθη καὶ ἔπεσε χαμαί, κατέχων τῇ ἀριστερᾷ χειρὶ τὸν χαλινὸν τοῦ ἵππου, καὶ εἱλιγέντος τοῦ λωρίου ἐν τῇ χειρὶ αὐτοῦ ἐσύρη ὑπὸ τοῦ ἵππου· πληγὴν δὲ λαβὼν ἐν τῇ αὐτοῦ κεφαλῇ εἰσηνέχθη ὑπὸ τῶν δούλων εἰς τὴν πόλιν ἐν τῷ παλατίῳ· καὶ τῇ ἕκτῃ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκ τῆς πληγῆς τῆς αὐτοῦ κεφαλῆς τελευτᾷ· ἦν δὲ ἐτῶν κβʹ. ὁ δὲ Θησεὺς βασιλεὺς πενθῶν αὐτὸν ἐξεῖπε τῇ Φαίδρᾳ τὴν ἑαυτοῦ λύπην, ὀνειδίζων αὐτήν, εἰρηκὼς αὐτῇ καὶ τὸ θρυλούμενα ἐν τῇ πόλει καὶ τῇ χώρᾳ ἕνεκεν τοῦ Ἱππολύτου καὶ αὐτῆς. ἡ δὲ Φαίδρα ἀκούσασα ταῦτα ἐξωμόσατο αὐτῷ μὴ εἰδέναι τοιοῦτον, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀποκειμένην αὐτῷ καὶ μάτην τὴν λοιδορίαν ταύτην τοὺς τῆς πόλεως φημίσαι ὑπονοήσαντας. ὁ δὲ Θησεὺς μὴ πεισθεὶς αὐτῇ, αἰσχυνόμενος δὲ καὶ τὴν σύγκλητον αὐτοῦ, ἐποίησεν αὐτὴν ἀπὸ ὄψεως, κελεύσας μηκέτι αὐτῷ ὁρᾶσθαι, λυπούμενος δὲ καὶ διὰ τὸν θάνατον τοῦ ἰδίου αὐτοῦ υἱοῦ· ἐφίλει γὰρ αὐτόν. ἡ δὲ Φαίδρα, ὡς πάνυ σώφρων, θλιβομένη δὲ καὶ διὰ τὴν ψευδῆ κατηγορίαν τῶν τῆς πόλεως καὶ τῆς χώρας, καὶ τοῦ ἀνδρὸς τὸν ἀποδιωγμὸν αἰσχυνομένη, ἑαυτῇ ἀπεχρήσατο, καὶ τελευτᾷ οὖσα ἐτῶν λθʹ, καθὼς 90 Κεφαλίων ὁ σοφώτατος συνεγράψατο ταῦτα, λέγων ὅτι μάτην περὶ τῆς σώφρονος Φαίδρας τὸν κατὰ Ἱππόλυτον πόθον ἐμυθολόγησαν, ποιητικῶς περὶ τῆς αὐτῆς πλασάμενοι. Ἐν αὐτοῖς δὲ τοῖς χρόνοις ἐβασίλευσε τῶν Λακεδαιμονίων πρῶτος Εὐρυσθεὺς ἔτη μβʹ, καὶ ἄλλοι βασιλεῖς μετ' αὐτὸν ηʹ, ὁμοῦ ἐβασίλευσαν ἔτη σμςʹ. καὶ ὁ Ἄλκμαινος ἔτη λζʹ. καὶ κατέσχεν ἡ βασιλεία Λακεδαιμονίων τὰ πάντα ἔτη τκεʹ, ὡς Ἀφρικανὸς ὁ σοφώτατος συνεγράψατο. Μετὰ δὲ Ἠλεὶ τὸν προφήτην τῶν Ἰουδαίων πρῶτος ἐβασίλευσε τῶν Ἰουδαίων Σαούλ, ὁ τοῦ Κίς, ἐκ φυλῆς Βενιαμίν, ἔτη κʹ, ἐν Γαβαὼν τῇ πόλει. τῶν δὲ Κορινθίων μετὰ τοὺς Λακεδαιμονίους ἐβασίλευσε τότε Ἀλήτης ἔτη λεʹ, καὶ ἄλλοι βασιλεῖς ιαʹ ἔτη σοζʹ. καὶ ὕστερον ἐβασίλευσεν * ἔτος αʹ. κατέσχε δὲ ἡ βασιλεία Κορινθίων τὰ πάντα ἔτη τιγʹ. Ἐν τοῖς χρόνοις τοῦ Σαοὺλ ἐπενόησαν πρῶτον ἀγῶνα οἱ Πισαῖοι Ὀλυμπίων, τότε τὴν ἑορτὴν ἐπιτελέσαντες τὴν κοσμικὴν τῷ ∆ιὶ Ὀλυμπίῳ, περὶ ὧν ὁ σοφώτατος Ἀφρικανὸς ἐχρονογράφησεν. Ἐν αὐτῷ δὲ τῷ καιρῷ ἐγένετο ἱερεὺς τῶν Ἰουδαίων Σαμουὴλ ὁ προφήτης· καὶ προεβάλετο κατὰ κέλευσιν θεοῦ βασιλέα τὸν ∆αβὶδ τοῦ Ἰουδαϊκοῦ ἔθνους, τὸν υἱὸν τοῦ Ἰεσσαί. ΛΟΓΟΣ ΠΕΜΠΤΟΣ ΧΡΟΝΩΝ ΤΡΩΙΚΩΝ. Ἐν δὲ τοῖς χρόνοις τοῦ ∆αβὶδ ἐβασίλευσε τοῦ Ἰλίου, ἤτοι τῆς Φρυγῶν χώρας, Πρίαμος, υἱὸς Λαομέδοντος. ἐν δὲ τῇ αὐτοῦ βασιλείᾳ τότε καὶ τὸ Ἴλιον καὶ τὸ ∆άρδανον καὶ ἡ Τροία καὶ πᾶσα ἡ χώρα τῆς Φρυγίας πορθεῖται ὑπὸ τῶν Ἀχαιῶν· ἐν οἷς ἱστορεῖται Ἀγαμέμνων καὶ Μενέλαος καὶ οἱ λοιποὶ σὺν τῷ Νεοπτολέμῳ Πύῤῥῳ, ὅσοι ἐπεστράτευσαν κατὰ τοῦ Ἰλίου διὰ τὴν ὑπὸ Πάριδος τοῦ καὶ Ἀλεξάνδρου κλοπὴν τῆς Ἑλένης· ἐτρώθηγὰρ εἰς αὐτήν. ἡ γὰρ Ἑλένη ἦν τελεία, εὔστολος, εὔμασθος, λευκὴ ὡσεὶ χιών, εὔοφρυς, εὔρινος, εὐχαράκτηρος, οὐλόθριξ, ὑπόξανθος, μεγάλους ἔχουσα ὀφθαλμούς, εὐχαρής, καλλίφωνος, φοβερὸν θέαμα εἰς γυναῖκας· ἦν δὲ ἐνιαυτῶν κςʹ. ἡ δὲ ἀρχὴ τῶν κακῶν τοῦ ἀπολέσθαι τὴν Τροίαν καὶ πᾶσαν τὴν Φρυγῶν χώραν καὶ τὰ βασίλεια αὐτῆς εὑρέθη ἡ πρόφασις αὕτη.