I shall have the power to bear it too, my sister. Yet,
Anna, in my misery, perform me this one service. You, 5
and you only, the perfidious man was wont to make his
friend—aye, even to trust you with his secret thoughts.
You, and you only, know the subtle approaches to his
heart, and the times of essaying them. Go, then, my
sister, and supplicate our haughty foe. Tell him I was 10
no party to the Danaan league at Aulis to destroy the
Trojan nation; I sent no ships to Pergamus; I never
disinterred his father Anchises, his dust or his spirit. Why