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92 The Destruction of Troy.
Then came Ascanius and Antiphus and Phorcys with great
hosts out of Phrygia.
Came Epistrophus and Boetius from . . . There came Py-
laemenes with a great host out of Paphlagonia.
796. Then, too, came Perses (and) Memnon with innumerahle
hosts from Ethiopia, chief of consultation and captain of all Asia.
Agrestia.
There came Rhesus and Archilochus with the host of
Then came Epistrophus with numerous troops from Alizonia.
800. Now when all these had arrived, Priam chose a single
captain of manslaying over all these hosts, both in the middle
and in the outside of them, to wit, Hector. Every man had
authority after the other, that is to say, Deiphobus after Hector;
Alexander after him; then Troilus; then Aeneas; lastly, Memnon.
Then, moreover, proclamation was made by Agamemnon to the
kings of the Greeks to come to take counsel concerning the
answer which the envoys had brought with them from Priam.
When they were at the council, there came Nauplius Palamedes,
(i. e. son of Nauplius) from Zona (?) out of Cormum (?) with
a crew of thirty ships. Great welcome is made to him. He
was excusing himself for not having come at once to the port
of Athens, (saying that this was) because he was in heavy
sickness, and when it ceased upon him he came.
811. Thereafter he went into the council, and the Greeks
said that this was the proper advice, to attack (?) Troy by
night. Palamedes did not allow that, but (he said) that they
should break upon the Trojans in the light of the day, and
besiege 1 the city afterwards. Every one lauded that advice.
Then at the end of their council they appointed Agamemnon
as overking and chief captain of them all. Then they sent
envoys and travellers (?) from them into Mysia and into other
lands besides.
818. Agamemnon proclaimed to the kings and to the
soldiers and to the whole host that they should set their ships
1
I take saighe to stand for suidhe: cf. ac iomsuide immon mbaile,
4 Masters A. D. 1527.