OCR Text |
Show Thefew Bokeoftheforkpart Cannas Cume.14.§.5.. "oftheHiftory oftheWorld, repelled the Troiansvery hardly. Forin thatfight Patr wins ns hebane his body,with muchcontention recouered by his friends, was brought backe into the Campe: thear. mour ofAchilles which he had put on,being torne from him by Heder. Itwasthe mane ner ofthofe warres; hauing flaineaman, to {ttip him andhale away his body, not reftoring it without ranfome,if hee were one of marke. Ofthe wangatalicle reckoning was (which followedthe Poets) haue delivered, it is vncertaine. Some write that vpon one of the gates of Troy,called Scaa, was the image ofa horfe,and thatthe Greekes entring by thatgare,gaue occafion to the report,that the Citie was taken by an artificiall horfe.It niay welbkethat with fone woodden engine,' which they calledan Horle,, they either did batids the-walsjagrhed Romanesiin after-timesvfedta do withthe Ramme . or {ealed made: fortliey foughtall on foor,flightly armed,and commonly fol owed the fuccefle the wals vpomthe fuddenyandfo'tooke the Cities Asforthe hidingof meniprthe hol- two orthree of their Gapraines ; who rode not vponhorfes, but in Char iots,drawne by horfes; ‘which were guided by fometruftie followers of theirs, which dmue vp and dowacthefield, asthey were directed by the Captaines, who bythe {wiftnefle of their horfes prefenting themfelueswhere neede required, threw firtt their Jauelins, and then to alighting,fought on foot, with fwordsand battel-axes, retiring into therankes of foot. men,or elfé returning to their Chariots when they found caufe, and fo began againe with anewdartastheycould getit, if their old were loft, or broken. I heirar mes defenfine were helmets,breft-plates,bootes of brafle, or other metall, and fhields commonly low body-ofiawooddenhorfe,it had beena defperate)aduenture; and feruing tono purs pofe: Foreither the Ttoiansmighthaue'perceiued the deceit, and:flaine all thee Princes ofrGteece, that werd inclofed im iv-(whithal{oiby fuch as maintaine this report they. qo ate faid tohaucthonghtwpbn:)orthey Might hauelefteica few dayes withourthe Citic (tor it was¥nlikely tharthey fhouldchevery firft day:both conclude vpon the bringing inihtotietowwne, andibreake downe their wals vponthe fliddento:doeit :) by which meanesthey whowere {hurinto ir, muft haue perifhied forhunget;/if they had nor by iffuing forthynfeafonablydiftouéred thethuchtionss Whereas fuitherit is faidy that this horfe- wasifohighnd: great; tharircéouldnor bee broughrintothé towne through any ofthe gares, andichavthereforethé Thoians were: faine to pull downea part oftheir wall tomakeway for it;chrough whichbreachithe Greckes did afterwards enter: ‘it is heereby manifeft;chac thelinolofing of fo many-principall: men: wasaltogetherneedlefle,con- of leatherplated ouer. The offenfine were {words andbattel-axes at hand;and ftones, arrowes or darts when they fought at anydiftance. Thevie of their Chariots (belides the {wiftneffe) was to keepe themfrom wearinefle, whereto the leaders were much {ub- ie@,becaufe oftheir armour, which the ftrongeft and ftoutelt ware heauicft: alfo that from them they might throw their Iauelins downewards, with the more violences Of which weapon find nottharany carried more than one ortwo intothe field: whiere:! forethey were often driuen to returne to theirtents for a new one when the old was gone. Likewife ofarmouts they hadlitle changeiornone; every man ({peaking ofthe chiefe) carried his owne compleat,of whichif any piece were loft or broken, he was diiuento repaire it with the like, ifhe had any fitting, taken from fome Capraine whom he had flaine,and ftripped : or el{e to borrow ofthemthat had by fuch meanesgotten fome fidering that without their helpetherenwas way fafficient for thearmie, fo thatthe! fur- go Priling of any gate by them was nowto no purpofe. LohnBaptiftaGramiay ibis Hiltorie, ofe-4/iz; difeourfing of this, warre, faith thatthe Greekes didboth batterthewals witha wooddenengine, and werealfolet into the Citie by edarenoratrlit Scesan gate: thezowneliien fleeping and drinking withoutfeare orcare, becaufetheicete ofthe Greckansivhad hoifted {aile, and:was gone the day.beforetothe lle. of Tettedos,thereby:to bring the Troiansinto fecurity.That the City was oetrayed the booksiofMares: 8 Diciys mutt proueswhich whetherwe now hauethe fame thar were by themwritten; itmay be fufpected ; for! fuitcly theywbo have made:mentinot the{e wricers inancienttimes; wuld not,asthey didshaue followed the reports. of tofpare: Whereas therefore Achilles had loft hisarmour which Hecfor(as is faidbefore) had taken from the body ofFatroclus,he was faineto awaitthe making of new,ere hee could enter the fight : whereof he becamevery defirous,that he might rcuenge the death rwdg ofPatroclus his deare friend. Atthis time Agamemnon reconciled himfelfe vato Achilles, not onely reftoring his o concubine Briféis,but giuing him very great gifts, and excufing former mateers aswellas Homer and others quite contradistorie inmoft poihtsto thefe rweauthors, without once takiagnoticeofthe appofition, whichthey: hauing {érued inthat warremade againftthe common report: -+hadirnov:beene that, either thofe:bookes weréeutn: in thofe times thoughrftiuolous:; :orelfe contained tio fuch repugnancieto the orlier authors as now is he might. Inthenextbattell achilles did fo behauchimfelfe; thathce did noronelyput the Trojans to the worft, but alfo flew the valiast Hedfor, whom (if. Homer may licercia be beleeued) he chaced three times about the wals ofTroy. But great queftion may bee found inthert: made ofHomers truth in this narration. Foritis not likely that Heclor would ftay alone withoutthe Citie (as Homer doth report of him) whenall the Trojans, were fled intost: nor thathe could leape ouerthe riuers of Xanthus and Simois, as hee mutt have doneit that flight : nor that the Troians perceiuing Hedfor in fuchan extremitie,would have fot borne to open fomeoftheir gatesand lethimin, Butthis is reported onely to grace * 1%, ) ‘ Alfo concerning the numberof men flaine-in this warre; which Dares and Dydis fay to hatiebeene aboue 6oada0.onthe Troian fide,and more than 800000. 0fthe Greeks, it is'a'repottmeerély: fabulous ; forvas'much as the whole Fleete of. the: Greekes Was reckoned by Hamer,whoextolled theit armie and deedesas muchashee could,to be fomewhatleffe than't200.-faile, andthe armietherein tranfported ouer the Greeke feas, not much aboue 10co00, men,according to the rate formerly mentioned.. Buritis the | cominonfafhion ofmento extoll the deeds of their Ancients: for which caufe both chiles, who hauing (by what meanes foeuer) flaine the noble Hedfor, did not onelycatti€4? | Homer magnified the Captaines ofthe Greekes that ferued in the warre, and Virgil with others were asdiligent in commending and extolling: the'Troians and their Citie, from away hisdeadbody, asthecuftomethen was, but boring holesinhis feet, and thrutting leatherne thongs into them, tyed him to his Chariot, and dragging him fhamefally about theficld.felling the dead bodyto his father Priamus fora very great ranfome. But his cruelty and couctoufneffe were not long vnreuenged; for he was fhortly aftet flaine which the Romanes defcended. Yea, the Athenianslong after in the warre which Xer*es the Perfian King made agaitft alli Greece,did not forbeare to vaunt ofthe great cunning whichAdnefleus the fon ofPetes had thewed, in marfhalling the Grecian army before Troy: whernpon,as ifit had bin a matter of mtich confequence,they were fo proud, med(as Lycophron {aith)at thefelfe-fame rate that Hedfors was by him fold for. Not long Seas,notwithftanding that heé promifed tobring 200. goodfighting thips,and 30000. With an arrow by Parts,as Homer fayes,inthe Sczan Gate; or as others, inthe Templeo Apalloywhither he came to haue married Polyxena the daughter ofPriamus, withwhom he wastoofare in loue,hauing flaine fo many of her brethren ; and his body was ranlo- afterthis,Penthefiiea Queene ofthe Amazons atriued at Troy;whoafter fome proofegt uen of her valour,was flaine by Pyrrhusthe fonne of Achilles. i = : §. V. Ofthe taking ofTroy,the weedden Horfe, the Booke ofDares and Dytis,he Colonies on _ reliques of Troy. G {nally , after the death of many worthy perfons on each fide, the Citic taken by night, as all Writers agree: but whether bythe treafon.of «7 i< : fame ana -dnienor , or by a Wooden Horfe, as the Poets, and commonTh that they refufed toyceld vnto Gelos King of almott all Sicily, the Admiraltie of their §5 men for their defence, Thelike vaniti¢ poffefitdmany other'Gities of Greece, and many Nations inthefe Parts ofthe world; which haue triuento bring their defcent from fome of the Princes, that warred at Troy ?all'difficulties or vnlikelihoodsin fuch their Pedigree notwithftanding: Burthofe Nations which indedde, or in moft probabilitie:came ofthe/Trotans, Were the Albatiés in Italy';\and from them the Romans,brought intothat Countrey. by Aneass the Venetiansfirt {cated in Paduasand the Country adioyning by «4mtenor:the haoniiansplanted in Epirus by Helenusthe fonne of King Priamus.T0 which Hellanicus, addeth;thar the polteritie of Heder did refemble-fuch of the Troians aswereleft,and reigned oueérthem about Troy. Ooz yt §. Vi |