Trojan Horse

now only this must be noted, that the Basilidean man preserves the image of a certain Trojan horse, according to the poetic myth, having enfolded in one body an army of so many different spirits.

These things being sworn, the horse was completed by the Achaeans, a great work, and the Trojans led it up to the city, and the gates not receiving it, they pulled down a part of the wall;

that a whole army was hidden in the horse, and that none of the Trojans perceived this or suspected it, and that too there being among them an unerring seer, but that they brought the enemy by their own hands into the city;

And the Achaeans fleeing from Asia in silence and burning the tents, and their naval station set on fire by Hector and their wall taken, and dedicating an offering to Athena and inscribing it, as is the custom for the vanquished, but nonetheless having taken Troy, and an army of men hidden in the wooden horse;