defence—gilded rafters, the stately ornaments of elder
days, they are hurling down; while others, their swords
drawn, are stationed at the doors at the bottom, and 35
guarding them in close array. The fire revived within
me, to bring succour to the royal roof, and relieve those
brave men, and breathe new daring into the vanquished.
“A door there was, a hidden entrance, a thoroughfare
through Priam’s palace, a postern which you leave in the
rear; by it the hapless Andromache,[134] while yet the throne
was standing, used often to repair unattended to her husband’s 5