The mind ofttimes forgets a well-conned woe.

Ulysses: Now since thy boy hath shunned the sacrifice

That to the walls was due, and hath escaped635

By grace of better fate, our priest declares

That only can our homeward way be won

If Hector's ashes, scattered o'er the waves,

Appease the sea, and this his sepulcher

Be leveled with the ground. Since Hector's son

Has failed to pay the debt he owed to fate,640

Then Hector's sacred dust must be despoiled.