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 And Hesiod answered:

"But when horses with rattling hoofs wreck chariots, striving for victory about the tomb of Zeus."

And it is said that, because this reply was specially admired, Hesiod won the tripod (at the funeral games of Amphidamas).

Sinon, as it had been arranged with him, secretly showed a signal-light to the Hellenes. Thus Lesches writes:—

"It was midnight, and the clear moon was rising."

Meges is represented wounded in the arm just as Lescheos the son of Aeschylinus of Pyrrha describes in his Sack of Ilium where it is said that he was wounded in the battle which the Trojans fought in the night by Admetus, son of Augeias. Lycomedes too is in the picture with a wound in the wrist, and Lescheos says he was so wounded by Agenor...Lescheos also mentions Astynoüs, and here he is, fallen on one knee, while Neoptolemus strikes him with his sword...The same writer says that Helicaon was wounded in the night-battle, but was recognised by Odysseus and by him conducted alive out of the fight...Of them, Lescheos says that Eïon was killed by Neoptolemus, and Admetus by Philoctetes...He also says that Priam was not killed at the hearth of Zeus Herceius, but was dragged away from the altar and destroyed offhand by Neoptolenuisut the doors of the house...Lescheos says that Axion was the son of Priam and

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