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70 The Destruction of Troy.
that Phrygia should suffer 1 mockery and honour-scathe. Sure
he was that, unless the vengeance should come speedily, it
would never come. 2 /^ This is, what he desired, to renew the
walls and to make the city secure, and to array armies and
peoples. Thereafter he went to consider that to the city of
his fatherland, with his wife, namely Hecuba, with his sons,
namely 1) Hector, 2) Alexander, 3) Deiphohus, 4) Helenus,
5) Troilus; and Andromeda wife of Hector son of Priam, and
Priam's two daughters, namely Cassandra and Polyxena. Many
sons had Priam, besides these five of Hecuba's — sons of har-
lots and concubines. A hundred sons altogether were, it is
declared, borne to him, and none of them are reckoned in the
royal seed besides those five of Hecuba and other sons who
were born of lawful wives and of unions just and legal. The
sons, however, that were begotten in illegality and in adultery
are not reckoned in the royal race. So after Priam had reached
Troy great strong walls were built by him round Troy, so that
they were vaster greatly than the first walls. Casemates (?)
and mighty bastions were built around it first of all (?). Hosts
and mighty multitudes of those that had been scattered through-
out Phrygia and Little Asia were gathered together that he
might have soldiers strong (and) active to keep and to fight
on behalf of the city. That he did in order that foemen might
not come upon him into his city without (his) knowledge and
without protection by the valiant soldiery, even as they had
come upon his father Laomedon. A wonderful royal pavilion
was erected by him amidst the city. Moreover, a fair, adorned
dwelling, and a mound were built by him on the acropolis and
the stronghold of the city, for ./
. and for outlooking, and for
hurling at foes over it outside. 'Priam's arc\ that is, fortress,
was its name. An altar was consecrated by him to Jove in
that royal pavilion, overagainst himself: The gates of the city
were carefully adorned by him. These are the names of the
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1 Lit. be under.
2 I cannot translate the following sentence (Arapaidhe etc.).