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in his memory all the country under him, formerly called Epitropon, which he renamed Asia. This statue Odysseus and Diomedes stole with the consent of Antenor, a leader of the Trojans, whose wife, by name Theano, was a priestess of Pallas, where the same statue was kept, Odysseus and Diomedes having entered Troy by night, and having slept in the temple of Pallas, when the Phrygians and the Hellenes were holding the feasts of the votive offerings. The Danaans did this, because an oracle was given to them that "It is not possible for you to take Troy, unless you carry off the Palladium." And Telamonian Ajax sought to take it for his own homeland, saying, "It is owed to me; for I have toiled for the Achaeans. For the reprieve given to me by Hector in my single combat against him is enough for me. And again I made an assault on the gate of Ilium, alone driving back the Trojans, and saving the ships of all of you Hellenes, and striking down many of the Trojan heroes, I was not wounded. And 110 this too is enough, I think, for glory, to have brought the body of Achilles to the tents from the temple of Thymbraean Apollo." But Odysseus opposed him, saying that "I am taking it for my city; for you have not toiled more than I for the Hellenes. For from the beginning, after the theft of Helen by Paris, I set out for Ilium with Palamedes and king Menelaus. Likewise, it was I who summoned the kings and the heroes from all quarters. In the same way, it was I who brought about the death of Paris. For when an engagement between the Trojans and Hellenes took place, as you know, and many had fallen, and the foremost men of Troy and you, the leaders of the Hellenes, were standing and pressing one another to decide the war, I urged the hero Philoctetes to challenge Paris to single combat with the bow. And suddenly Philoctetes, coming forth from among the kings, challenges Paris to single combat with the bow. And upon hearing this, Paris himself rushed forth opposite him as an archer, along with Deiphobus, his brother. And going out, I measured out for them a space of distance, where they should stand. And when they had drawn lots, it fell to Paris to shoot first; but Paris, having shot, misses. And shouting to Philoctetes to be of good courage, Philoctetes shot back, and pierced the left hand of Paris. And immediately hurling a second, he blinded his right eye; 111 and as he was groaning and turning away, sending another arrow he pins his feet at the ankles, and Paris falls. And they all flee, snatching the body of Paris; and having entered the city he called his three sons, whom he had by Helen, Bounimos and Korythaios and Idaios; and having seen them, being young, he remained breathless and in the middle of the night gave up his spirit. And having seen him, his former wife Oenone did away with herself by hanging. And Deiphobus, the other son of Priam, took Helen as his wife, he who was mutilated by king Menelaus, as you all know. And it was I who advised that Polyxena come to the tomb of Achilles to be sacrificed by the hero Pyrrhus. And Odysseus cried out and said, "What do I not deserve, having contrived for Paris to be destroyed for the vengeance of Menelaus and Achilles and all the Hellenes?" And Agamemnon and many of the army acclaimed him. And again Odysseus said, "I will not be silent about my other dangers, which I underwent with Diomedes, when we wished to carry off the divine statue, how while staying in Ilium with the barbarians and all that was happening to them, coming out to the camp by night we reported to you, the kings, relating things which I will also now speak. For then as the Trojans were performing a sacrifice 112 at the time of the votive offerings, it happens

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μνήμην αὐτοῦ τὴν ὑπ' αὐτὸν οὖσαν χώραν πᾶσαν τὴν πρῴην λεγομένην Ἐπίτροπον ἣν μετεκάλεσεν Ἀσίαν. τοῦτο δὲ τὸ βρέτας Ὀδυσσεὺς καὶ ∆ιομήδης ἔκλεψαν κατὰ γνώμην τοῦ Ἀντήνορος, ἐξάρχου τῶν Τρώων, οὗτινος ἡ γυνή, ὀνόματι Θεανώ, ἦν ἱέρεια τῆς Παλλάδος, ὅπου τὸ αὐτὸ βρέτας ἀπέκειτο, εἰσελθόντες νυκτὸς οἱ περὶ τὸν Ὀδυσσέα καὶ ∆ιομήδην ἐν τῇ Τροίῃ, καὶ παρακοιμηθέντες εἰς τὸ ἱερὸν τῆς Παλλάδος, ὅτε τὰς ἑορτὰς τῶν ἀναθημάτων εἶχον οἱ Φρύγες καὶ οἱ Ἕλληνες. ἐποίησαν δὲ τοῦτο οἱ ∆αναοί, ἐπειδὴ ἐδόθη αὐτοῖς χρησμὸς ὅτι Οὐ δυνατὸν ὑμᾶς παραλαβεῖν τὴν Τροίην, εἰ μὴ τὸ Παλλάδιον ἀφέλησθε. καὶ ἐζήτει λαβεῖν αὐτὸ ὁ Τελαμώνιος Αἴας εἰς τὴν ἰδίαν αὐτοῦ πατρίδα, λέγων, Ἐμοὶ ἐχρεώστηται· ἔκαμον γὰρ Ἀχαιοῖς. ἀρκεῖ μοι γὰρ ἡ παρὰ Ἕκτορος εἰς ἐμὲ γεναμένη παραίτησις ἐν τῇ παρ' ἐμοῦ πρὸς αὐτὸν μονομαχίᾳ. καὶ πάλιν ἐποίησα ἔφοδον ἐπὶ τὴν πύλην τοῦ Ἰλίου, μόνος διώξας τοὺς Τρῶας, καὶ σώσας τὰς νῆας πάντων ὑμῶν Ἑλλήνων, καὶ πολλοὺς τῶν Τρώων ἥρωας ἄνδρας βαλὼν οὐκ ἐτρώθην. ἀρκεῖ 110 δέ μοι, νομίζω, καὶ τοῦτο πρὸς δόξαν, τὸ ἀγάγαι τὸ σῶμα τοῦ Ἀχιλλέως εἰς τὰς σκηνὰς ἐκ τοῦ ἱεροῦ τοῦ Θυμβρίου Ἀπόλλωνος. Ὁ δὲ Ὀδυσσεὺς ἀνθίστατο αὐτῷ λέγων ὅτι Ἐγὼ αὐτὸ λαμβάνω εἰς τὴν ἐμὴν πόλιν· οὔτε γὰρ πλέον μου κέκμηκας Ἕλλησιν. ἐξ ἀρχῆς γὰρ μετὰ τὴν τῆς Ἑλένης ὑπὸ Πάριδος κλοπὴν εἰς τὸ Ἴλιον ἐξώρμησα σὺν Παλαμήδῃ καὶ Μενελάῳ βασιλεῖ. ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ τοὺς βασιλεῖς καὶ τοὺς ἥρωας ἐγὼ πανταχόθεν προσεκαλεσάμην. ὡσαύτως δὲ καὶ τὸν θάνατον τοῦ Πάριδος ἐγὼ κατειργασάμην. συμβολῆς γάρ, ὡς ἴστε, Τρώων καὶ Ἑλλήνων γενομένης, καὶ πολλῶν πεσόντων, ἱσταμένων τῶν τὰ πρῶτα φερόντων τῆς Τροίης καὶ ὑμῶν τῶν ἡγεμόνων Ἑλλήνων καὶ πρὸς ἀλλήλους ἐπικειμένων κρῖναι τὸν πόλεμον, ἐγὼ προετρεψάμην τὸν ἥρωα Φιλοκτήτην κατὰ Πάριδος προκαλέσασθαι τοξικὴν μονομαχίαν. καὶ ἐξαίφνης διὰ μέσον τῶν βασιλέων ὁ Φιλοκτήτης ἐξελθὼν προκαλεῖται τὸν Πάριδα εἰς μονομαχίαν τοξικήν. ἀκούσας δὲ ὁ Πάρις ἐξώρμησε καὶ αὐτὸς κατέναντι αὐτοῦ τοξότης καὶ ἅμα ∆ηιφόβῳ, ἀδελφῷ αὐτοῦ. ἐξελθὼν δὲ διεμέτρησα αὐτοῖς διαστήματος τόπον, ποῦ ἐχρῆν αὐτοὺς ἑστάναι. καὶ λαβόντων αὐτῶν κλῆρον ἔλαχε τῷ Πάριδι πρώτῳ τοξεῦσαι· ῥίψας δὲ ὁ Πάρις ἀποτυγχάνει· θαρσεῖν δὲ Φιλοκτήτῃ κράξας, ἀντετόξευσεν ὁ Φιλοκτήτης, καὶ διαπείρει τοῦ Πάριδος τὴν ἀριστερὰν χεῖρα. καὶ εὐθὺς δευτέραν ἀκοντίσας τὸν δεξιὸν αὐτοῦ ὀφθαλμὸν ἐπήρωσεν· 111 οἰμώζοντος δὲ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀποστραφέντος, πέμψας ἑτέραν σαγίτταν τοὺς αὐτοῦ πόδας φιβλοῖ ἐπὶ τὰ σφυρά, καὶ πίπτει ὁ Πάρις. καὶ φεύγουσι πάντες, ἁρπάσαντες τὸ σῶμα Πάριδος· καὶ ἐν τῇ πόλει εἰσελθὼν ἐκάλεσε τοὺς τρεῖς υἱοὺς αὐτοῦ, οὓς εἶχεν ἐκ τῆς Ἑλένης, τὸν Βούνιμον καὶ Κορυθαῖον καὶ Ἰδαῖον· οὕστινας ἑωρακὼς μικροὺς ἄπνοος ἔμεινε καὶ διὰ μέσης νυκτὸς τὴν ψυχὴν ἔδωκε. καὶ ἑωρακοῦσα αὐτὸν ἡ προτέρα γυνὴ αὐτοῦ Οἰνόη ἑαυτῇ ἀπεχρήσατο ἀγχόνῃ. καὶ ἔλαβε τὴν Ἑλένην γυναῖκα ∆ηίφοβος, ὁ ἄλλος υἱὸς τοῦ Πριάμου, ὃς ἠκρωτηριάσθη ὑπὸ Μενελάου βασιλέως, ὡς πάντες ἐπίστασθε. καὶ Πολυξένην δὲ ἐγὼ συμβουλεύσας ἧξαι πρὸς τύμβον Ἀχιλλέως σφαγιασθῆναι ὑπὸ τοῦ ἥρωος Πύῤῥου. καὶ ἀνακράξας Ὀδυσσεὺς ἔφη, Τίνος ἀντάξιός εἰμι, κατασκευάσας ὀλέσθαι Πάριδα πρὸς ἐκδίκησιν Μενελάου καὶ Ἀχιλλέως καὶ τῶν Ἑλλήνων πάντων; Καὶ εὐφήμησεν αὐτὸν ὁ Ἀγαμέμνων καὶ πολλοὶ τοῦ στρατοῦ. καὶ πάλιν Ὀδυσσεὺς εἶπεν, Οὐ σιγήσομαι καὶ τοὺς λοιπούς μου κινδύνους, οὓς ἅμα ∆ιομήδῃ ὑπέστην, ὅτε τὸ θεῖον βρέτας ἀφελέσθαι ἠβουλήθημεν, πῶς ἐν Ἰλίῳ διατρίβοντες σὺν τοῖς βαρβάροις καὶ τὰ συμβαίνοντα αὐτοῖς ἅπαντα νυκτὸς εἰς τὸ στρατόπεδον ἐξερχόμενοι ἀπηγγείλαμεν ὑμῖν τοῖς βασιλεῦσι, διηγούμενοι ἅτινα καὶ νῦν εἴπω. θυσίαν γὰρ τότε ἐπιτελούντων τῶν Τρώων 112 κατὰ τὸν καιρὸν τῶν ἀναθημάτων, συμβαίνει