) with many of
Zimmermann's emendations, which are acknowledged in the notes.
Passages enclosed in square brackets are suggestions of Koechly
for supplying the general sense of lacunae. Where he has made no
such suggestion, or none that seemed to the editors to be
adequate, the lacuna has been indicated by asterisks, though here
too a few words have been added in the translation, sufficient to
connect the sense.

--A. S. Way

CONTENTS

BOOK

I How died for Troy the Queen of the Amazons,
Penthesileia.
II How Memnon, Son of the Dawn, for Troy's sake fell
in the Battle.
III How by the shaft of a God laid low was Hero Achilles.
IV How in the Funeral Games of Achilles heroes contended.
V How the Arms of Achilles were cause of madness and
death unto Aias.
VI How came for the helping of Troy Eurypylus,
Hercules' grandson.
VII How the Son of Achilles was brought to the War
from the Isle of Scyros.
VIII How Hercules' Grandson perished in fight with the
Son of Achilles.
IX How from his long lone exile returned to the war
Philoctetes.
X How Paris was stricken to death, and in vain sought
help of Oenone.
XI How the sons of Troy for the last time fought from
her walls and her towers.
XII How the Wooden Horse was fashioned, and brought
into Troy by her people.
XIII How Troy in the night was taken and sacked with fire
and slaughter.
XIV How the conquerors sailed from Troy unto judgment
of tempest and shipwreck.

BOOK I:

How died for Troy the Queen of the Amazons, Penthesileia.

When godlike Hector by Peleides slain
Passed, and the pyre had ravined up his flesh,
And earth had veiled his bones, the Trojans then
Tarried in Priam's city, sore afraid
Before the might of stout-heart Aeacus' son:
As kine they were, that midst the copses shrink
From faring forth to meet a lion grim,
But in dense thickets terror-huddled cower;
So in their fortress shivered these to see
That mighty man. Of those already dead
They thought of all whose lives he reft away
As by Scamander's outfall on he rushed,
And all that in mid-flight to that high wall
He slew, how he quelled Hector, how he haled
His corse round Troy;--yea, and of all beside
Laid low by him since that first day whereon
O'er restless seas he brought the Trojans doom.
Ay, all these they r