While this lengthy fragment consists mostly of a catalogue of martial themes from the Trojan war, the speaker insists that he does not really want to deal with these (v. 10ff.). They function rather as foil to the central point, which comes only at the poem's culmination: praise for the good looks of a certain Polykrates (perhaps the tyrant), whose physical beauty is put on a par with the most beautiful heroes at Troy, including Troilos.
