Hector, Il. vi. 87. Helenus, ibid. Laodice, vi. 252. Deiphobus, Il. xxii. 333. Paris, (because Hecuba was ἑκυρὴ to Helen,) Il. xxiv. Next, we have two children of Laothoe, daughter of Altes, lord of the Lelegians of Pedasus. Lycaon, Il. xxi. 84. Polydorus, ibid. 91. Next Gorgythion, son of Kastianeira, who came from Aisume, (Il. viii. 302). Then we have, without mention of the mother, Agathon } Pammon } Il. xxiv. Antiphonos } 249-51. Hippothoos } Dios } Cassandra, xxiv. 699. Mestor, xxiv. 257. Troilos, Il. xxiv. 257. Echemmon[444], v. 159. Chromios[444], ibid. Antiphos, iv. 490. xi. 101. Cebriones, viii. 318. Polites, ii. 791. [444] Possibly one of these is νόθος, illegitimate: for they are together in the same chariot, as Antiphus and Isus were. One of the two would be the charioteer; who was commonly, though not always, an inferior. And, lastly, illegitimate (νόθοι), Isos, Il. xi. 101. Doryclos, xi. 489. Democoon, iv. 499. Medesicaste, xiii. 173. The most important conclusion derivable from the comparison of the names thus collected is, that the children of Priam, and consequently their mothers, fell into three ranks: 1. The children of Hecuba. 2. The children of his other wives. 3. The children of concubines, or of chance attachments, who were, νόθοι, bastards. The name νόθος with Homer, at least among the Greeks, ordinarily marks inferiority of condition. The mothers of the four νόθοι are never named. This may, however, be due to accident. At any rate Lycaon appears to have the full rank of a prince: he was once ransomed with the value of a hundred oxen, and, when again taken, he promises thrice as much; again, in describing himself as the half-brother of Hector, he avows nothing like spurious birth. The reference to him by Priam explains his position more clearly, and places it beyond doubt that Laothoe was recognised as a wife, for she brought Priam a large dowry[445]; and if her sons be dead, says the aged king, ‘it will be an affliction to me and to their mother.’ The language used in another passage about Polydorus is also conclusive[446]. He is described as the youngest and dearest of the sons of Priam, which evidently implies his being in the fullest sense a member of the family. Again, in the palace of Priam there were separate apartments, not for the nineteen only, but for the fifty. Thus they seem to have included all the three classes. So that it is probable enough that the state of illegitimacy did not draw the same clear line as to rank in Troy, which it drew in Greece. [445] Il. xxii. 51, 3. [446] Il. xx. 407. xxi. 79, 95. Laothoe, mother of Lycaon and Polydorus, was a woman of princely rank: and when Lycaon says that Priam had many more besides her[447], [447] Il. xxi. 88. τοῦ δ’ ἔχε θυγατέρα Πρίαμος, πολλὰς δὲ καὶ ἄλλας,