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Rh was predicted that the city of Troy could not be captured without the death of Achilles. His mother, hearing this, placed him in the dress of a female, amongst the ladies of the court of a certain king. Ulixes, suspecting the stratagem, loaded a ship with a variety of wares; and beside the trinkets of women, took with him a splendid suit of armour. Arriving at the castle in which Achilles dwelt, among the girls, he exposed his goods for sale. The disguised hero, delighted with the warlike implements upon which he gazed, seized a lance, and gallantly brandished it. The secret was thus manifested, and Ulixes