[1428] Il. xii. 15.
[1429] Il. vi. 92 and 273.
[1430] Il. ix. 455.
[1431] Il. vi. 305.
[1432] The corrupt passage replaced by asterisks is εἶθ’ ἱκετεύοντες τε φρένας, which is unintelligible.
[1433] The following is a translation of the passage, as found in the speech of Lycurgus, still preserved to us:
“Who has not heard of Troy, the greatest
City of those times, and sovereign of all
Asia, that when once destroyed by
The Greeks it remained for ever uninhabited?”