of it? What is their object? Some religious offering, or
some engine of war?’ 35
“Thus Priam: the prisoner, with all his Pelasgian craft
and cunning about him, raised his unfettered hands to the
stars:—
“‘You, eternal fires, with your inviolable majesty, be
my witnesses; you, altars and impious swords, from which
I fled; and you, hallowed fillets, which I wore for the sacrifice!
I am free to break all the sacred ties that bound me
to the Greeks. I am free to treat them as my foes, and 5