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of Chiron. This Chiron, sending, brought him; for he was living with king Lycomedes, the father-in-law of the same Achilles, and the father of Deidamia, on the island. And the same Achilles went away with the sons of Atreus, having his own army of those then called Myrmidons, but now called Bulgarians, of three thousand, along with Patroclus the army commander and Nestor; who were entreated by Chiron and Peleus and Thetis to be with Achilles. And 98 Achilles went away alone with his own army to Ilium of the Argives and the Myrmidons. And the same kings, the sons of Atreus, urged, that is entreated, the other kings, that is toparchs, and champions from each country of Europe, each with his own army and ships. And they all sailed away, having gathered in a place so-called Aulis. And when a storm came, and the seer Calchas had said that Agamemnon owed a sacrifice to Artemis, the goddess of that country, namely his own daughter; Odysseus, going away, through deceit, as if from a letter of Agamemnon, brought his daughter Iphigenia from Argos. And Agamemnon, seeing her arrive, wept bitterly; but fearing the army and the toparchs, he gave her up for sacrifice to Artemis. And as she was going to the temple of Artemis to be slain, a deer cut across the path, running before them in the midst of the kings and the army and the priest and the maiden Iphigenia. And seeing it, the priest and seer Seize the deer and lead it to sacrifice to Artemis instead of the maiden. And the deer, having been caught, was slain for Artemis; and he gave Iphigenia back to her own father Agamemnon; whom Agamemnon left there in the temple of Artemis as a priestess. And then Agamemnon was proclaimed king there over all from the expeditionary force; and setting out from there they came to Troy. 99 And when the same Greeks came to Troy, the Trojans resisted them and did not allow them to land. And many having been slain from both sides, among whom Protesilaus was also slain, a champion of the Danaans, the Danaans did not give way, until they prevailed. And they disembarked on the coastal land of Troy and secured the ships with ropes. And when evening came, the Trojans entered the city and secured the gates; but at midnight a certain Cycnus by name, being of the race of Priam, being from nearby, having heard of the arrival of the Greeks at Troy, coming out from the city of Nean Andros with a great warrior multitude, attacked them; and when battle was joined by night, the same Cycnus is killed by Achilles and those with him fell before daybreak. And then it seemed good to the Danaans to take the cities near Ilium and Troy, as they were allied with Priam; and making a pact, that they would bring all things taken by them into the midst of the kings and champions and the camp, they appointed Achilles and Ajax son of Telamon and Diomedes. And immediately Diomedes set out and takes the city of the same champion Cycnus, Nean Andros, and plunders its country; and taking also his two sons, Cobes and Cocarcus, and his daughter named Glauce, being 11 years of age, fair, and all his things and those of the 100 country, he brings them into the midst of the whole army. And Achilles, immediately going away with the Argives and the Myrmidons, that is, his own army, attacks the city of Lesbos and its country, which was ruled by Phorbas, a kinsman of Priam; who also had great enmity with the Greeks. And having taken the country and the city, Achilles kills Phorbas, and takes all the things of his kingdom, and takes his daughter Diomeda; and the girl was fair,

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Χείρωνος. ὅστις Χείρων πέμψας ἤγαγεν αὐτόν· διῆγε γὰρ μετὰ Λυκομήδους βασιλέως, τοῦ πενθεροῦ τοῦ αὐτοῦ Ἀχιλλέως, πατρὸς δὲ τῆς ∆ηιδαμείης, ἐν τῇ νήσῳ. καὶ ἀπῆλθε μετὰ τῶν Ἀτρειδῶν ὁ αὐτὸς Ἀχιλλεύς, ἔχων ἴδιον στρατὸν τῶν λεγομένων Μυρμιδόνων τότε, νυνὶ δὲ λεγομένων Βουλγάρων, τριῶν χιλιάδων, ἅμα Πατρόκλῳ στρατοπεδάρχῃ καὶ Νέστορι· οἵτινες ἐδυσωπήθησαν παρὰ Χείρωνος καὶ Πηλέως καὶ Θέτιδος συνεῖναι τῷ Ἀχιλλεῖ. ἀπῆλθε δὲ ὁ 98 Ἀχιλλεὺς μόνος μετὰ τοῦ ἰδίου στρατοῦ ἐπὶ τὸ Ἴλιον τῶν Ἀργείων καὶ τῶν Μυρμιδόνων. προετρέψαντο δέ, ἤτοι ἐδυσώπησαν, οἱ αὐτοὶ Ἀτρεῖδαι βασιλεῖς καὶ τοὺς λοιποὺς βασιλεῖς, ἤτοι τοπάρχας, καὶ προμάχους τοὺς ἀπὸ ἑκάστης χώρας τῆς Εὐρώπης, ἕκαστον μετὰ τοῦ ἰδίου στρατοῦ καὶ τῶν νηῶν. καὶ ἀπέπλευσαν πάντες συναχθέντες ἐν Αὐλίδι χώρᾳ οὕτω λεγομένῃ. χειμῶνος δὲ γενομένου καὶ τοῦ μάντεως Κάλχαντος εἰρηκότος θυσίαν ὀφείλειν δοῦναι τὸν Ἀγαμέμνονα Ἀρτέμιδι τῇ θεᾷ τῆς χώρας ἐκείνης τὴν ἑαυτοῦ θυγατέρα· ὁ δὲ Ὀδυσσεὺς ἀπελθὼν διὰ δόλου ὡς ἀπὸ γραμμάτων τοῦ Ἀγαμέμνονος εἰς τὸ Ἄργος ἤνεγκε τὴν αὐτοῦ θυγατέρα Ἰφιγένειαν. καὶ ἑωρακὼς αὐτὴν ὁ Ἀγαμέμνων ἐλθοῦσαν ἔκλαυσε πικρῶς· φοβηθεὶς δὲ τὸν στρατὸν καὶ τοὺς τοπάρχας, ἐξέδωκεν αὐτὴν ἐπὶ θυσίαν Ἀρτέμιδι. καὶ ἐν τῷ ἀπιέναι αὐτὴν εἰς τὸ ἱερὸν Ἀρτέμιδος καὶ σφαγῆναι ἔλαφος ἔκοψε τὴν ὁδὸν διαδραμοῦσα ἔμπροσθεν ἐν μέσῳ τῶν βασιλέων καὶ τοῦ στρατοῦ καὶ τοῦ ἱερέως καὶ τῆς παρθένου Ἰφιγενείης. καὶ ἑωρακὼς αὐτὴν ὁ ἱερεὺς καὶ μάντις Τὴν ἔλαφον πιάσαντες ἄξατε εἰς θυσίαν ἀντὶ τῆς παρθένου τῇ Ἀρτέμιδι. καὶ ληφθεῖσα ἡ ἔλαφος ἐσφάγη τῇ Ἀρτέμιδι· τὴν δὲ Ἰφιγένειαν ἀποδέδωκε τῷ ἰδίῳ πατρὶ Ἀγαμέμνονι· ἥντινα ὁ Ἀγαμέμνων εἴασεν ἐκεῖ ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ Ἀρτέμιδος ἱέρειαν. καὶ λοιπὸν ἀνηγορεύθη βασιλεὺς ἐκεῖ ἐπὶ πάντων ὁ Ἀγαμέμνων ἐκ τοῦ ἐξπεδίτου· κἀκεῖθεν ὁρμήσαντες ἦλθον ἐπὶ τὴν Τροίαν. 99 Ἐλθόντων δὲ τῶν αὐτῶν Ἑλλήνων ἐπὶ τὴν Τροίαν, ἀντέστησαν αὐτοῖς οἱ Τρῶες καὶ οὐ συνεχώρησαν αὐτοῖς παραβαλεῖν. καὶ πολλῶν σφαγέντων ἐξ ἀμφοτέρων τῶν μερῶν, ἐν οἷς καὶ ὁ Πρωτεσίλαος ἐσφάγη, πρόμαχος ∆αναῶν, καὶ οὐ παρεχώρησαν οἱ ∆αναοί, ἕως οὗ περιεγένοντο. καὶ κατέβησαν ἐπὶ τὴν παράλιον γῆν τῆς Τροίης καὶ ἔδησαν τὰ πλοῖα σχοινίοις. ἑσπέρας δὲ γενομένης εἰσῆλθον οἱ Τρῶες ἐν τῇ πόλει καὶ ἠσφαλίσαντο τὰς πόρτας· μέσῃ δὲ νυκτὶ Κύκνος τις ὀνόματι, ἐκ γένους ὑπάρχων τοῦ Πριάμου, ἐκ τοῦ πλησίον ὑπάρχων, ἀκούσας τὴν τῶν Ἑλλήνων εἰς τὴν Τροίαν παρουσίαν, ἐξελθὼν ἐκ τῆς Νέαν Ἄνδρου πόλεως μετὰ πλήθους πολλοῦ πολεμικοῦ ἐπέῤῥιψεν αὐτοῖς· καὶ γενομένης συμβολῆς νυκτὸς φονεύεται ὑπὸ Ἀχιλλέως ὁ αὐτὸς Κύκνος καὶ ἔπεσαν οἱ μετ' αὐτοῦ πρὸ ἡμέρας. καὶ λοιπὸν ἔδοξε τοῖς ∆αναοῖς παραλαβεῖν τὰς πόλεις τὰς πλησίον τοῦ Ἰλίου καὶ τῆς Τροίης, ὡς συμμαχούσας Πριάμῳ· καὶ ποιήσαντες συνωμοσίας, ὅτι πάντα τὰ παρ' αὐτῶν παραλαμβανόμενα ἄγουσιν εἰς μέσον τῶν βασιλέων καὶ προμάχων καὶ τοῦ στρατοπέδου, ἀφορίζουσι τὸν Ἀχιλλέα καὶ τὸν Τελαμῶνος Αἴαντα καὶ ∆ιομήδην. καὶ εὐθέως ἐξώρμησεν ὁ ∆ιομήδης καὶ παραλαμβάνει τὴν πόλιν τοῦ αὐτοῦ Κύκνου προμάχου, τὴν Νέαν Ἄνδρου, καὶ τὴν χώραν αὐτῆς πραιδεύει· παραλαβὼν δὲ καὶ τοὺς δύο αὐτοῦ υἱούς, Κώβην καὶ Κόκαρκον, καὶ τὴν θυγατέρα αὐτοῦ ὀνόματι Γλαύκην, οὖσαν ἐνιαυτῶν ιαʹ, εὐπρεπῆ, καὶ πάντα τὰ αὐτοῦ καὶ τὰ τῆς 100 χώρας, καὶ ἄγει ἐν μέσῳ τοῦ στρατοῦ παντός. ὁ δὲ Ἀχιλλεὺς εὐθέως ἀπελθὼν μετὰ τῶν Ἀργείων καὶ τῶν Μυρμιδόνων, τοῦτ' ἐστὶ τοῦ ἰδίου στρατοῦ, ἐπέρχεται τῇ Λέσβῳ πόλει καὶ τῇ χώρᾳ αὐτῆς τῇ βασιλευομένῃ ὑπὸ Φόρβαντος, συγγενέως Πριάμου· ὅστις καὶ πολλὴν ἔχθραν εἶχε μετὰ τῶν Ἑλλήνων. παραλαβὼν δὲ τὴν χώραν καὶ τὴν πόλιν ὁ Ἀχιλλεὺς τὸν Φόρβαντα φονεύει, καὶ λαμβάνει πάντα τὰ τῆς βασιλείας αὐτοῦ, καὶ τὴν θυγατέρα αὐτοῦ ∆ιομήδαν ἄγει· ἦν δὲ ἡ κόρη λευκή,