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120 The Destruction of Troy.
was a battle- soldier as regards prowess, he was a chief (?) as
regards bounty.
1590. Those, then, are the tidings and the goings and
the violent death of the fifth mighty battle-soldier of the whole
of Adam's seed, to wit, Troilus.
1592. Then did Hecuba, Priam's wife, form a crafty, guile-
ful design. She was grieved that her two full- valiant sons
had been slain by Achilles without her having taken vengeance
upon him. Then Alexander was invited to visit her that he
might prepare ambushes for Achilles. Because she would send
messengers to Achilles to (invite) him to come to Apollo's
temple for Polyxena, Priam's daughter, to be betrothed to him,
and (also) in order to make peace with Priam. Alexander
promised that he would fulfil that if Achilles should come into
the meeting. On that night, then, Alexander himself chose the
most valiant, most famous soldiers of the Trojans, and gathered
them to the idol-house of Thymbraean Apollo.
1601. Now when these things ended, Hecuba sent a mes-
senger to summon Achilles. The messenger declared to Achilles
that for which he had been sent. That was welcome to Achilles,
and it seemed long to him till morning, because of (his) love
for the maiden. On the morrow, then, Achilles and Antilochus,
son of Nestor, his fosterbrother, went together to the idol-house,
even as the messenger had said to them. Then Alexander
with his people rose out of their ambush and he began to
encourage the soldiers. So when Achilles and Antilochus be-
held that, they cast their garments from them on their left
hand, and bared their swords. Thereafter Achilles was frenzied,
and ho inflicted upon the hosts his rage and his wrath, and
attacked them angrily and manfully; and many thousands of
them fell by him, so that of the unreckonable things of the
'Destruction' is what fell by him on that day with the short-
sword that lay in his hand. So Alexander came to him, after
slaying Antilochus, and set many wounds on Achilles. Then
the Trojans smote him on this side and on that, so that at last
he fell by Alexander, after having been long contending and