Note 5 — SCENE I.
Thomas Sheridan translation
Lycomedes King of Scyros, (one of the Cyclades) to whom the Goddess Thetis gave her Son Achilles in Charge, having stoln him from his Master Chiron, as he was asleep; because she foresaw that he would never return alive from the Siege of Troy. For this Reason he was kept at the Court of Lycomedes, in a Woman’s Dress, among his Daughters, the better to conceal him. He was at last discover’d by a Stratagem of Ulysses.