Who first proposed, and what its purpose here?
Is it some votive gift, or does it stand
Against our walls as enginery of war?
Sinon stretches his freed hands to the heavens. He speaks excitedly and as one inspired.
Sinon (154-194):
O ye eternal fires, be witness now,
Ye heavenly stars, divine, inviolate,
Ye cursed knives, and altars which I fled,
Ye fillets which as victim doomed I wore:
‘Tis right for me to break all sacred oaths