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having mistreated him, and having moderately mutilated him who was willing and rejoicing in the praise and the reward, they let him go as a traitor; who, when the barbarians inquired what this proposed work might be and to what end it tended, answered saying "The Danaans are dedicating this to the temple of Athena, both as an apology for the wrongs they did to her city, and also they have judged it necessary to dedicate this gift for the safety of their return to their own homelands and in memory of them." The Trojans, therefore, being persuaded by these things, taking the wooden horse, or rather their own destruction, with gladness and joy, and dragging it up with ropes and celebrating, lifting the lintel of the gate, brought it with the enemy into the sanctuary of their god. And at midnight those lying in ambush in the horse, having leaped out at their leisure, having killed Priam himself and his children, and having mutilated Deiphobus, and having killed the multitude of the men, with very bright and frequent torches from the wall they turned the fleet of the Danaans back toward themselves. And when day was already dawning, they themselves arriving killed all who were left; and taking the women captive, and Hecuba, and the cattle, and dividing up the equipment and goods, 1.232 and giving Helen back to Menelaus, and having burned and destroyed the entire city, they returned home. After Ilium was captured, Ajax the son of Telamon and Odysseus each laid claim to the statue of Pallas, on the grounds that it belonged to him and that he would have it as a protective charm for his own city, as one who had fought before all others. And though many stratagems were spoken by both, nevertheless the Palladium was given into the keeping of Diomedes until morning. During the night, however, Ajax was slain secretly. And when morning came and he was found dead, a great sedition having arisen, Odysseus came under suspicion for the deed; whence, as the matter was kindling into a civil war, Odysseus was the first to drag down his ships and set sail from Troy, and after him all the others, and this became the beginning of the withdrawal of the Greeks. But Hecuba, as she was cursing the army, those with Odysseus stoned and cast into the sea in a place called Maroneia, which they also named the dog's tomb. From there in Sicily he falls in with a Cyclops, not one using a single eye according to the mythologies of Homer; but he was a man by nature just as all men and the other Cyclopes, who were also large in appearance and savage and abominable, very difficult in their disposition and most misanthropic and murderous. Then to the Aeolian islands, to Circe and Calypso, the daughters of Atlas; from which Circe he also had a son, Telegonus. Then to the lake 1.233 called Nekyopon, in which through phantoms he learned what was about to happen to him. From there he is cast away to the Sirens' rocks and the so-called Charybdis and Scylla, which, being situated in a narrow place, receives the currents of the Ocean and sinks those who sail by. wherein, having lost all his ships along with his companions, he himself, holding on to a plank, was carried along in the currents of the waters. Phoenicians found him sailing and brought him naked to Idomeneus in Crete. And he sends him to Phaeacia, now called Corcyra, to Alcinous, having given him two ships and 50 chosen men. Alcinous, therefore, taking more soldiers with Odysseus, seizes Ithaca. And having killed the suitors, and having cleansed the house of those plotting against him, he regains the kingdom. Odysseus, then, having lived for many years, ends his life at the hands of his own child, Telegonus, who had been born to him by Circe. For, suspecting death from his son based on certain oracles, he was on his guard against Telemachus and refused to be with him. So when Telegonus arrived at Ithaca and announced himself to his father, not being received by the guards, and it being night

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καταικισάμενοι, καὶ μετρίως αὐτὸν ἀκρωτηριάσαντες ἐθέλοντα καὶ χαίροντα τῷ ἐπαίνῳ καὶ τῷ μισθῷ, προδότην ἀφιᾶσιν αὐτόν· ὃς διαπυνθανομένοις τοῖς βαρβάροις τί ἂν εἴη τὸ προκείμενον ἔργον τουτὶ καὶ πρὸς τί φέροιτο, ἀπεκρίνατο λέγων "τῷ ἱερῷ τῆς Ἀθηνᾶς ἀνατιθέασι ∆αναοὶ τοῦτο, ὁμοῦ μὲν ἀπολογίαν ὑπὲρ ὧν εἰς τὴν πόλιν αὐτῆς ἠδίκησαν, ὁμοῦ δὲ καὶ δῶρον τοῦτο ὑπὲρ τῆς εἰς τὰς ἑαυτῶν πα τρίδας σωτηρίας καὶ εἰς μνήμην αὐτῶν ἀφιεροῦν κεκρίκασι δεῖν." οἱ τοίνυν Τρῶες πειθήνιοι τούτοις γενόμενοι, λαβόντες σὺν εὐθυ μίᾳ καὶ χαρμονῇ τὸν δούρειον ἵππον, μᾶλλον δὲ τὸν ἴδιον ὄλεθρον, καὶ καλωδίοις ἀνέλκοντες καὶ εὐάζοντες, τὸ τῆς πύλης ὑπέρθυρον ἄραντες τοῖς τοῦ θεοῦ αὐτῶν ἀδύτοις μετὰ τῶν ἐχθρῶν εἰσήγαγον. ἐν δὲ τῷ μεσονυκτίῳ οἱ ἐν τῷ ἵππῳ λοχῶντες ἐπὶ σχολῆς ἐκπεπη δηκότες, αὐτόν τε τὸν Πρίαμον καὶ τοὺς παῖδας αὐτοῦ ἀνελόντες, τόν τε ∆ηΐφοβον ἀκρωτηριάσαντες, τὸ πλῆθος δὲ τῶν ἀνδρῶν ἀποκτείναντες, πυρσοῖς μάλα λαμπροῖς καὶ συχνοῖς τοῖς ἐκ τοῦ τείχους τὸν τῶν ∆αναῶν στόλον πρὸς ἑαυτοὺς ἐπέστρεψαν. ἡμέ ρας δὲ ἤδη διαγελώσης καὶ αὐτοὶ παραστάντες τοὺς ὑπολειφθέντας πάντας ἀπέκτειναν· τὰς δὲ γυναῖκας αἰχμαλώτους καὶ τὴν Ἑκάβην καὶ τὰ κτήνη λαβόντες, τά τε σκεύη καὶ εἴδη καταμερισάμενοι, 1.232 τήν τε Ἑλένην τῷ Μενελάῳ ἀποδόντες καὶ τὴν πόλιν πᾶσαν ἐμ πρήσαντες καὶ καταστρεψάμενοι ἐπαλινόστουν. Μετὰ τὸ ἁλῶναι τὸ Ἴλιον Αἴας ὁ Τελαμώνιος καὶ Ὀδυσσεὺς τοῦ ζωδίου Παλλάδος ἑκάτερος ἀντεποιοῦντο, ὡς αὐτῷ δια φέροντος καὶ τῇ ἰδίᾳ πόλει ἕξειν αὐτὸ φυλακτήριον, ὡς πάντων ἐπίπροσθεν ἀγωνιζόμενον. πολλὰ δὲ στρατηγήματα ἐξ ἀμφοτέρων ῥηθέντα, ὅμως ἐν παραθήκῃ δίδοται τὸ Παλλάδιον ἕως πρωῒ τῷ ∆ιομήδει. διὰ μέντοι νυκτὸς ἀδήλως σφάζεται Αἴας. πρωΐας δὲ γενομένης ὡς εὑρέθη νεκρός, πολλῆς στάσεως γενομένης εἰς ὑπόληψιν ἦλθε τῆς πράξεως Ὀδυσσεύς· ὅθεν καὶ εἰς ἐμφύλιον ἀναπτομένου τοῦ πράγματος πόλεμον, πρῶτος Ὀδυσσεὺς ἑλκύσας τὰ ἑαυτοῦ πλοῖα ἀφώρμησε τῆς Τροίας, καὶ μετ' ἐκεῖνον ἅπαν τες, καὶ τοῦτο ἀρχὴ γέγονε τῆς τῶν Ἑλλήνων ὑποχωρήσεως. τὴν δὲ Ἑκάβην καταρωμένην τῷ στρατῷ οἱ μετὰ Ὀδυσσέως λίθοις βάλλουσι καὶ τῇ θαλάσσῃ ῥίπτουσιν εἰς χώραν λεγομένην Μαρώ νειαν, ἣν καὶ κυνὸς σῆμα ὠνόμασαν. Ἐκεῖθεν ἐμπίπτει ἐν Σικελίᾳ Κύκλωπι, οὐχὶ ἑνὶ ὀφθαλμῷ κατὰ τὰς μυθολογίας Ὁμήρου κεχρημένῳ· ἀλλ' ἄνθρωπος μὲν ἦν τὴν φύσιν ὡς πάντες ἄνθρωποι καὶ οἱ λοιποὶ Κύκλωπες, οἳ καὶ τὸ εἶδος ἦσαν μεγάλοι καὶ ἀπηγριωμένοι καὶ ἀπευκτοί, τὴν προαί ρεσιν παγχάλεποι καὶ μισανθρωπότατοι καὶ φονικώτατοι. εἶτα εἰς τὰς Αἰολίας νήσους εἰς Κίρκην καὶ Καλυψὼ τὰς θυγατέρας Ἄτλαν τος· ἀφ' ἧς Κίρκης καὶ υἱὸν ἔσχε τὸν Τηλέγονον. εἶτα εἰς λίμνην 1.233 τὴν καλουμένην Νεκύοπον, ἐν ᾗ διὰ φαντασμάτων ἔγνω τὰ μέλ λοντα συμβαίνειν αὐτῷ. ἐκεῖθεν εἰς τὰς Σειρῆνας ἐκρίπτεται πέ τρας καὶ τὴν καλουμένην Χάρυβδιν καὶ Σκύλλαν, ἥτις ἐν στενῷ τόπῳ διακειμένη ὑποδέχεται τὰ τοῦ Ὠκεανοῦ ῥεύματα καὶ τοὺς παραπλέοντας βυθίζει. ἐν ᾧ τὰ πλοῖα πάντα μετὰ καὶ τῶν ἑταί ρων ἀποβαλών, αὐτὸς κρατήσας σανίδος ἐν τοῖς ῥεύμασι τῶν ὑδάτων ἐφέρετο. τοῦτον Φοίνικες πλέοντα λαβόντες εἰς Κρήτην πρὸς Ἰδομενέα γυμνὸν ἤγαγον. καὶ αὐτὸς πέμπει τοῦτον εἰς Φαια κίαν τὴν νῦν λεγομένην Κέρκυραν πρὸς Ἀλκίνοον, δεδωκὼς αὐτῷ ναῦς δύο καὶ ἄνδρας ἐπιλέκτους νʹ. ὁ Ἀλκίνοος τοίνυν μετὰ τοῦ Ὀδυσσέως πλείονας στρατιώτας ἀναλαβόμενος καταλαμβάνει τὴν Ἰθάκην. καὶ τοὺς μνηστῆρας ἀποκτείνας, καθάρας τε τὸν οἶκον ἀπὸ τῶν ἐπιβουλευόντων αὐτῷ, ἀνακτᾶται τὴν βασιλείαν. βιώσας οὖν ὁ Ὀδυσσεὺς πολλοὺς χρόνους ὑπὸ τοῦ ἰδίου παιδὸς τοῦ ἀπὸ τῆς Κίρκης αὐτῷ γεγενημένου τοῦ Τηλεγόνου τὸν βίον καταλύει. τὸν γὰρ ἀπὸ τοῦ υἱοῦ θάνατον ἔκ τινων μαντευμάτων ὑφορώμενος τὸν Τηλέμαχον ἐφυλάττετο καὶ συνεῖναι αὐτῷ παρῃτεῖτο. τοῦ οὖν Τηλεγόνου τὴν Ἰθάκην καταλαβόντος καὶ ἑαυτὸν τῷ πατρὶ καταμηνύσαντος, μὴ προσδεχομένου παρὰ τῶν φυλάκων, νυκτός τε οὔσης