Ajax for the violation of Cassandra.
For it is manifest, if we believe Herodotus, that if they had not
been willing they had never been defiled. And yet he himself said that
Aristomenes was taken alive by the Spartans; and the same afterwards
happened to Philopoemen, general of the Achaeans; and the Carthaginians
took Regulus, the consul of the Romans; than whom there are not easily
to be found more valiant and warlike men. Nor is it to be wondered,
since even leopards and tigers are taken alive by men. But Herodotus
blames the poor women that have been abused by violence, and patronizes
their ravishers.

Nay, he is so favorable to the barbarians, that, acquitting Busiris of
those human sacrifices and that slaughter of his guests for which he is
accused, and attributing by his testimony to the Egyptians much religion
and justice, he endeavors to cast that abominable wickedness and those
impious murders on the Grecians. For in his Second Book he says, that
Menelaus, having received Helen from Proteus and having been honored by
him with many presents, showed himself a most unjust and wicked man; for
wanting a favorable wind to set sail, he found out an impious device,
and having taken two of the inhabitants' boys, consulted their entrails;
for which villany being hated and persecuted, he fled with his ships
directly into Libya. (See Herodotus, ii. 45.) From what Egyptian this
story proceeds, I know not. For, on the contrary, many honors are even
at this day given by the Egyptians to Helen and Menelaus.

The same Herodotus, that he may still be like himself, says that the
Persians learned the defiling of the male sex from the Greeks. (Ibid,
i. 135.) And yet how could the Greeks have taught this impurity to the
Persians, amongst whom, as is confessed by many, boys had been castrated
before ever they arrived in the Grecian seas? He writes also, that
the Greeks were instructed by the Egyptians in their pomps, solemn
festivals, and worship of the twelve gods; that Melampus also learned of
the Egyptians the name of Dionysus (or Bacchus) and taught it the other
Greeks; that the mysteries likewise and rites of Ceres were brought out
of Egypt by the daughters of Danaus; and that the Egyptians were wont to
beat themselves and make great lamentation, but yet he himself refused
to tell the names of their deities, but concealed them in silence. As to
Hercules and Bacchus, whom the Egyptians named gods, and the Greeks
very aged men,