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lovely-eyed, perfect, well-nosed, beautiful, ambitious, affable, quiet. Andromache of double portion, slender, well-dressed, well-nosed, full-breasted, lovely-eyed, with beautiful eyebrows, with curly hair, somewhat fair-haired, with long hair behind, of long features, with a beautiful neck, having dimples in her cheeks, graceful, lively. Cassandra of short stature, round-faced, fair-skinned, of manly build, well-nosed, lovely-eyed, with dark pupils, somewhat fair-haired, with curly hair, with a beautiful neck, large-breasted, small-footed, quiet, noble, priestess-like, an accurate prophetess and foretelling all things, ascetic, a virgin. Polyxena tall, pure, very fair-skinned, large-eyed, black-haired, with long hair behind, well-nosed, with beautiful cheeks, slightly snub-nosed, with rosy lips, small-footed, a virgin, graceful, very beautiful, being 107 18 years old she was slain, just as the most wise Dictys of Crete recorded with truth the things written before and all the rest concerning the Greeks who campaigned against Ilion. For he was with Idomeneus, the champion of the Danaans, who went down to the war along with the other Achaeans; for this same Dictys happened to be the chronicler of this very Idomeneus, and having seen accurately the events of the war and written them down, as being present then in those times with the Greeks. Who also set forth those who were urged on by the kings Agamemnon and Menelaus and those who armed themselves and came down with the fleet against Ilion, each having his own army and ships. Of whom before all set out Agamemnon, son of Atreus, king of the Mycenaeans, with 100 ships, and for the purpose of provisions for the camps 30 ships, Menelaus and Leïstus and Arcesilaus and Prothoenor and Clonius with 50 ships, Elephenor from Euboea with 60 ships, and Menelaus son of Plisthenes, the king of Sparta, with 60 ships, Diomedes from Argos with 80 ships, Ascalaphus and Ialmenus with 30 ships, Schedius and Epistrophus with 40 ships, Meges from Dolicha of Hellas with 40 ships, Ajax son of Telamon from Salamis with 40 ships, Nestor with 6 ships, Thoas with 40 ships, Agenor and Teuthides with 60 ships, Prothous and Magnitor with 40 ships, Eumenus with 11 ships, Nereus from Mycenae with 3 ships, 108 Chalias from Trikke with 40 ships, Leonteus and Polypoetes with 40 ships, Amphigeneias from Ilion with 43 ships, Menestheus from Athens with 50 ships, Idomeneus and Meriones from Crete with 80 ships, Odysseus from Cephallenia of Ithaca with 12 ships, Tlepolemus with 9 ships, Ajax the Locrian with 9 ships, Achilles from Argos of Hellas with Patroclus with 50 ships, Protesilaus and Podarces with 40 ships, Palamedes with 12 ships, Philoctetes from Mothone with 22 ships, Sorthes, Philippus, Antiphus with 78 ships. The total ships of the Greeks 1250. Who sailed away according to their own commands first to the land of Aulis, and from there setting upon the land of the Phrygians they sacked their palaces, as has been written before, seizing king Priam and killing him and queen Hecuba, and taking their children captive and plundering all the palaces they returned to their own lands. The kingdom of Ephesus of all Asia and of Troy of Phrygia therefore lasted for a total of 819 years. Therefore after the fall of Troy all the Achaeans, having divided the booty and the goods, wishing to set out for their own homelands, having prepared their ships, some sailed away, but many remained, as Ajax the son of Telamon and Odysseus and Diomedes came to a fight. For Te- 109 -lamonian Ajax sought to take the image, which is the Palladium, a small wooden figure of Pallas, which they said was consecrated for victory, keeping the city where it is laid up unconquerable. And this same Palladium a certain Asios, a philosopher and initiator, gave to the Trojan king who was about to found the city. and for thanksgiving the Trojan king to

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