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Rh to account); Machaon, the hero-physician, whom one hardly expects to find selected for such a desperate service; Epeus, the contriver of the machine; and Ulysses, without whose aid and presence no such stratagem would seem complete.

At dead of night the traitor Sinon looked out to sea, and saw a light in the offing. It was the fire-signal from Agamemnon's vessel; the Greek fleet had come back under cover of the darkness from its lurking-place at Tenedos. Then he silently undid the fastenings of the horse, and the Greek adventurers, as has been said, emerged from their wooden prison.

In the visions of the night Æneas saw the ghastly spectre of the dead Hector stand before him,—

All torn by dragging at the car,

And black with gory dust of war.

Ah, what a sight was there to view!

How altered from the man we knew,

Our Hector, who from day's long toil

Comes radiant in Achilles' spoil,

Or with that red right hand, which casts

The fires of Troy on Grecian masts!

Blood-clotted hung his beard and hair,

And all those many wounds were there,

Which on his gracious person fell

Around the walls he loved so well."

Virgil seems to have followed the more horrible tradition, which appears also in some of the Greek dramatists, that Achilles fastened Hector to his chariot while still alive.

The shade of the dead hero had come to warn