Trojans

Surely Priam with his sons would rejoice, and the Trojans be glad at heart if they could hear this quarrel between you two, who are so excellent in fight and counsel.

I came to make war here not because the Trojans are responsible [ aitioi] for any wrong committed against me.

Go, then, to him, remind him of all this, clasp his knees, and bid him give succor to the Trojans.

If my brave father Odysseus ever did you loyal service, either by word or deed, when you Achaeans were harassed at the district [ dêmos] of the Trojans, bear it in mind now as in my favor and tell me truly all.

"My friend," answered Nestor, "you recall a time of much sorrow to my mind, for the brave Achaeans suffered much both at sea, while privateering under Achilles, and in that district [ dêmos] when fighting before the great city of king Priam.

If Athena were to take as great a liking to you as she did to Odysseus when we were fighting in the Trojan dêmos (for I never yet saw the gods so openly fond of any one as Athena then was of your father), if she would take as good care of you as she did of him, these wooers would soon some of them forget their wooing.

"The only song he will sing and admit is the one befitting Enyalius, very strong and piercing, bringing to its hearers neither pleasure nor relaxation, but irresistible terror and confusion—such as Ares himself raised when 'he shouted shrill from the topmost citadel, urging on the Trojans,' and such as Achilles raised when, merely by his shout, before he was seen, he put the Trojans to flight, and …

so the Trojans and Achaeans, leaping upon one another, kept slaying, and neither side took thought of ruinous flight.

"And indeed he says that the Achaeans, when victorious, encamped in quiet, whereas among the Trojans, whenever they thought they had some advantage, at once there was all through the night 'the sound of flutes and pipes and the din of men'—as though this too were a sufficient sign of virtue or of baseness:

And you, you sons of Troy, to let my orders take at once a double form—start for the Achaean ships for your departure from the land, as soon as the leaders of the army blow loud and clear upon the trumpet.

First, then, that woman was the author of these troubles by giving birth to Paris;

But the Trojans were dying, first for their fatherland, fairest fame to win;

had they listened, Ilium’s daughters ne’er had felt the yoke of slavery, and thou, lady, hadst been established in the royal palace;

for Asia’s daughters have clever heads for such villainy;

Such is all the race of barbarians;

After he had slain Priam, the ruler of Ilium, and captured the famous city of Dardanus, he came here to Argos and set up on the high temples many spoils of the barbarians.

I heard, from someone who had arrived at the harbor of Nauplia from Ilium, that on the circle of your famous shield, O son of Thetis, were wrought these signs, a terror to the Phrygians:

The Trojan soldiers, who have been listening with delight, here break out in irrepressible applause.

Ye gathered Trojans, sharers of my word,

Ah, Phrygia still hath hearts of rock!

But the Greeks, thinking that the Trojans were mocking them, laid siege to the city, until they took it;

that they did not have Helen or the property claimed, but all of that was in Egypt, and they could not justly make reparation for what Proteus the Egyptian had.

and you shall have a dear son who shall reign among the Trojans, and children's children after him, springing up continually.

And do you feel kindly towards me and grant that I may become a man very eminent among the Trojans, and give me strong offspring for the time to come.

Seven hundred acres of barren and uncultivated land, as Servius observes, were given by the native Latins to the Trojans.

on the contrary, the Trojans allowed their cities to be laid waste and their land to be ravaged, so as to avoid yielding Helen to the Greeks, and the Greeks chose rather, remaining in a foreign land to grow old there and never to see their own again, than, leaving her behind, to return to their fatherland.

nay, the Trojans were upholding the cause of Asia, the Greeks of Europe, in the belief that the land in which Helen in person resided would be the more favored of Fortune.

They send envoys to the Trojans, demanding back Helen and the treasures;

In short, he who had proved himself Euphorbus from the argument of the shield, why did he recognize none of the Trojans, his fellow-soldiers, in like manner?

And in this way the Trojans, owing to their being scattered, the more easily held out by open force those ten years;

since even though not united, but only with the part that was successively present, they held out against them.