For if your hands should harm Minerva’s gift, then vast destruction (may the gods turn this their prophecy against the priest’s own lips!) 270 would fall on Priam’s kingdom and the Phrygians; but if it climbed by your hands into Troy, then Asia would repel the Greeks and, more, advance in war as far as Pelops’ walls; this is the doom that waits for our descendants.’ 275 “Such was the art of perjured Sinon, so insidious, we trusted what he told. So we were taken in by snares, forced tears— yes, we, whom neither Diomedes nor Achilles of Larissa could defeat, 280 nor ten long years, a
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