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ione, and Antigon his daughters, and his most precious jewels, leaving the Greeks the plunder, who loaded all their ships with great riches, and then fired the houses, beat- ing down the walls and bulwarks, so that; of the most famous city then in the world, it was by the enraged Greeks, in a few days; reduced to rubbish.

Thus Troy was the first time destroyed,, with the lives of 50,000 of the inhabitants, for the ingratitude of its king. As for Pri- amus, he was carried prisoner to Thebes in Greece, where he continued a long time, but at length was released and sent home, to see as great, if not greater miseries, as in the sequel of the history will appear.

C H A P. II.

''How Troy was a second Time destroyed by Hercules, for being refused Provision in the Port. Leomedon slain, and Exione his Daughter, given to Telamon Ajax ; and of the Greeks Departure, &c.''

THE Greeks being departed, Leome- don with the treasure he had saved, and large contributions of neighbouring princes, and his own subjects, in ten years space, rebuilded the city of Troy, as strong and

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