“The hero Achilles,”
says Andromache,
“killed my father, and destroyed Thebe, with its lofty gates, the city of the Cilicians.”—
“I had seven brothers in the palace; all of them went in one day to Hades, for they were all slain by the swift-footed divine Achilles.”[1512]
Those also under the command of Mynes had lost their leaders, and their city;
“He slew Mynes, and Epistrophus,
And destroyed the city of the divine Mynes.”[1513]
He describes the Leleges as present at the battles;
“on the sea-coast are Carians, and Pæonians with curved bows, Leleges, and Caucones.”[1514]
And in another place,