After we have destroyed the lofty city of Priam,[1427]
By counsel, by wisdom, and by artifice,
The city of Priam was destroyed in the tenth year.”[1428]
Of this they produce evidence of the following kind; the statue of Minerva, which Homer represents as in a sitting posture, is seen at present to be a standing figure, for he orders them
“to place the robe on the knees of Athene,”[1429]
in the same sense as this verse,
“no son of mine should sit upon her knees,”[1430]
and it is better to understand it thus, than as some explain it, “by placing the robe at the knees,” and adduce this line,
“she sat upon the hearth in the light of the fire,”[1431]