Note 46 — INTRODUCTION. CONTENTS.
L. Dora Schmitz translation
Iliad, V. 640-642, where Tlepolemus boasts of his ancestor Hercules—
Ὅς ποτε δεῦρ’ ἐλθὼν ἕνεχ’ ἵππων Λαομέδοντος, Ἓξ οἴῃς σὺν νηυσὶ καὶ ἀνδράσι παυροτέροισιν, Ἰλίου ἐξαλάπαξε πόλιν, χήρωσε δ’ ἀγυιάς. “With but six ships, and with a scanty band, The horses by Laomedon withheld Avenging, he o’erthrew this city, Troy, And made her streets a desert.”