Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy: Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls
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Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy: Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls
Legends -- Juvenile literature; Mythology -- Juvenile literature
First of all there met them Androgeos with a great company following
him, who, thinking them to be friends, said, "Haste, comrades; why are
ye so late? We are spoiling this city of Troy and ye are but newly come
from the ships." But forthwith, for they answered him not as he had
looked for, he knew that he had fallen among enemies. Then even as one
who treads upon a snake unawares among thorns and flies from it when it
rises angrily against him with swelling neck, so Androgeos would have
fled. But the men of Troy rushed on and, seeing that they knew all the
place and that great fear was upon the Greeks, slew many men. Then said
Coroebus, "We have good luck in this matter, my friends. Come now, let
us change our shields and put upon us the armor of these Greeks. For
whether we deal with our enemy by craft or by force, who will ask?" Then
he took to himself the helmet and shield of Androgeos and also girded
the sword upon him. In like manner did the others, and thus, going
disguised among the Greeks, slew many, so that some again fled to the
ships and some were fain to climb into the horse of wood. But lo! men
came dragging by the hair from the temple of Minerva the virgin
Cassandra, whom when Coroebus beheld, and how she lifted up her eyes
to heaven (but as for her hands, they were bound with iron), he endured
not the sight, but threw himself upon those that dragged her, the others
following him. Then did a grievous mischance befall them, for the men of
Troy that stood upon the roof of the temple cast spears against them,
judging them to be enemies. The Greeks also, being wroth that the virgin
should be taken from them, fought the more fiercely, and many who had
before been put to flight in the city came against them and prevailed,
being indeed many against few. Then first of all fell Coroebus, being
slain by Peneleus the Boeotian, and Rhipeus also, the most righteous
of all the sons of Troy. But the gods dealt not with him after his
righteousness. Hypanis also was slain and Dymas, and Panthus escaped not
for all that more than other men he feared the gods and was also the
priest of Apollo.
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