‘All, my lord, shall be avowed to you truly, whatever 20
be the issue. I will not deny that I am an Argive by
nation; this to begin with. Nor if Fortune has made a
miserable man out of Sinon, shall her base schooling
make him deceiver and liar as well. If haply in talk your
ears ever caught the name of Palamedes, of the house of 25
Belus, and his wide-spread renown—his, whom under
false accusation, an innocent man, charged by the blackest
calumny, all because his voice was against the war,
the Pelasgians sent down to death, and now, when he is