,
my note on AEsch. Prom, p. 8, ed. Bohn; intpp. on Theocrit. i.
48.]

Then in the third place, having beheld Ajax, the old man asked: "Who is
that other Achaean hero, valiant and great, out-topping the Argives by
his head and broad shoulders?"

But him long-robed Helen answered, divine of women: "This indeed is
mighty Ajax, the bulwark of the Achaeans: on the other side, amongst the
Cretans, stands Idomeneus like unto a god: but around him the leaders of
the Cretans are collected. Often did Mars-beloved Menelaus entertain him
in our palace, when he would come from Crete. But now I behold all the
other rolling-eyed Greeks, whom I could easily recognize, and pronounce
their names; but two leaders of the people I cannot see: horse-taming
Castor, and Pollux skilled in boxing, twin brothers, whom the same
mother brought forth with me. Either they have not followed from
pleasant Lacedaemon, or they indeed have followed hither in the
sea-traversing ships, but now are reluctant to enter the fight of the
heroes, fearing the disgrace, and the many reproaches which are mine."

Thus she spoke; but them the life-bestowing earth already possessed:
there in Lacedaemon, in their dear native land.[160]

[Footnote 160: They had fallen in combat with Lynceus and Idas,
whilst besieging Sparta.--Hygin. Poet. Ast. ii. 22. According,
however, to other mythologists, they shared immortality in turns.
See Od. xi. 302. Virg. AEu. vi. 121; with Servius, and Apollodor.
iii. ll. 2.]

But heralds through the city were bearing the firm pledges of the gods,
two lambs and joyous wine, the fruit of the earth, in a goat-skin
flagon. But the herald Idaeus also brought a splendid goblet, and golden
cups; and standing by him, incited the old man in these words:

"Arise, son of Laomedon; the chiefs of the horse-breaking Trojans, and
of the brazen-mailed Greeks, call thee to descend into the plain, that
thou mayest ratify a faithful league. For Alexander and Mars-beloved
Menelaus are about to fight with long spears for the woman. But let the
woman and the effects attend the conqueror; but let the rest of us,
having struck a friendship and faithful league, inhabit fruitful Troy,
and they shall return to horse-feeding Argos, and to Achaia, famed for
fair dames."

Thus he said, but the old man shuddered, and ordered his attendants to
yoke his horses; and they briskly obeyed. Priam then mounted his
chariot, and drew back the reins: a