Et Mulier peregrina vertit
In pulverem.[94]
Troy,—perjured Troy has felt
The dire effects of her proud tyrant’s guilt;—
An Umpire partial and unjust,
And a lewd woman’s impious lust,
Lay heavy on her head, and sunk her to the dust. Addison.
She then proceeds in the most artful manner to insinuate, that as the destruction of this city was occasioned by her ingratitude to the Gods, as well as by the particular injury done to her and Minerva, if Troy should be thrice rebuilt by the hand of Apollo, the Greeks would thrice be permitted to overturn it; and
——ter Uxor
Capta, virum puerosque ploret.[95]