The Wooden Horse · Atlas

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Wooden Horse2 mentions

De Rerum Natura (Latin) · Odyssey (Greek)

Of savage war, nor had the wooden horse

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OdysseyClassical · Greek

The stratagem-object in which the bravest Argives, including Odysseus, hid to bring down Troy.

What endurance too, and what courage he displayed within the wooden horse, wherein all the bravest of the Argives were lying in wait to bring death and destruction upon the Trojans.

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For the Trojans themselves had drawn the horse into their fortress, and it stood there while they sat in council round it, and were in three minds as to what they should do.

chapter 8 ¶

Now, however, change your song and tell us of the construction [ kosmos] of the wooden horse which Epeios made with the assistance of Athena, and which Odysseus got by stratagem into the fort of Troy after freighting it with the men who afterwards sacked the city.

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The Trojan WomenClassical · Greek

The hollow wooden horse built by Epeus and Athena's craft, used to smuggle armed Achaeans into Troy and trigger the city's fall.

Chorus:

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Chorus:

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Phocian Epeus, aided by the craft of Pallas, framed a horse to bear within its womb an armed army, and sent it within the battlements, a deadly statue;

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De Rerum NaturaHellenistic · Latin

The Trojan Horse, the legendary wooden horse by which the Greeks entered Troy, mentioned in a philosophical argument that events are accidents of bodies and places, not independently existing entities.

Of savage war, nor had the wooden horse

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At midnight of a brood of the Hellenes.

chapter 1 ¶

Involved in flames old Pergama, by a birth

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