these Greeks. For
whether we deal with our enemy by craft or by force, who will ask?" Then
he took to himself the helmet and shield of Androgeos and also girded
the sword upon him. In like manner did the others, and thus, going
disguised among the Greeks, slew many, so that some again fled to the
ships and some were fain to climb into the horse of wood. But lo! men
came dragging by the hair from the temple of Minerva the virgin
Cassandra, whom when Coroebus beheld, and how she lifted up her eyes
to heaven (but as for her hands, they were bound with iron), he endured
not the sight, but threw himself upon those that dragged her, the others
following him. Then did a grievous mischance befall them, for the men of
Troy that stood upon the roof of the temple cast spears against them,
judging them to be enemies. The Greeks also, being wroth that the virgin
should be taken from them, fought the more fiercely, and many who had
before been put to flight in the city came against them and prevailed,
being indeed many against few. Then first of all fell Coroebus, being
slain by Peneleus the Boeotian, and Rhipeus also, the most righteous
of all the sons of Troy. But the gods dealt not with him after his
righteousness. Hypanis also was slain and Dymas, and Panthus escaped not
for all that more than other men he feared the gods and was also the
priest of Apollo.

Then was AEneas severed from the rest, having with him two only, Iphitus
and Pelias, Iphitus being an old man and Pelias sorely wounded by
Ulysses. And these, hearing a great shouting, hastened to the palace of
King Priam, where the battle was fiercer than in any place beside. For
some of the Greeks were seeking to climb the walls, laying ladders
thereto, whereon they stood, holding forth their shields with their left
hands and with their right grasping the roofs. And the men of Troy, on
the other hand, being in the last extremity, tore down the battlements
and the gilded beams wherewith the men of old had adorned the palace.
Then AEneas, knowing of a secret door whereby the unhappy Andromache in
past days had been wont to enter, bringing her son Astyanax to his
grandfather, climbed on to the roof and joined himself to those that
fought therefrom. Now upon this roof there was a tower, whence all Troy
could be seen and the camp of the Greeks and the ships. This the men of
Troy loosened from its foundations with bars of iron, and thrust it
over, so that it fell upon the enemy, s