the work of slaughtering the Greeks, on a heap of undistinguished

carnage. Then with my own hand, I set up 20

an empty tomb on the Rhœtean shore, and thrice with a

loud voice invoked your spirit. There are your name and

your arms to keep the spot in memory: your self, dear

friend, I could not see, so as to give you repose in the

fatherland I was leaving.” To whom the son of Priam: 25

“Dear friend, you have failed in nought: all that Deiphobus

could claim has been paid by you to him and to his

shade. No; it was my own destiny and the deadly