disclose all their secrets to the light of day, all the claims
of the land of my birth notwithstanding. Only do thou
abide by thy plighted word, and preserve faith with thy
preserver, land of Troy, if he tells thee true, and makes
thee large returns. 10
“‘The strength of the Danaan hopes, and the soul of
their confidence in the war they plunged into, has ever
been the aid of Pallas. From the time when Tydeus’ impious
son and Ulysses, that coiner of villany, dared to
drag away from her hallowed temple the fateful Palladium,[128] 15