denied him, he captures the twice-perjured walls of conquered Troy. Nor
does Telamon, a sharer in the warfare, come off without honour; and he
obtains Hesione, who is given to him.

But Peleus was distinguished by a Goddess for his wife; nor was he more
proud of the name of his grandfather than that of his father-in-law.[17]
Since, not to his lot alone did it fall to be the grandson of Jove; to
him alone, was a Goddess given for a wife.

[Footnote 14: _Rhoetaeum._--Ver. 197. Sigaeum and Rhoetaeum were two
promontories, near Troy, between which was an altar dedicated to
Jupiter Panomphaeus.]

[Footnote 15: _Panomphaean._--Ver. 198. Jupiter had the title
'Panomphaeus,' from +pan+, 'all,' and +omphe+, 'the voice,' either
because he was worshipped by the voices of all, or because he was
the author of all prophecy.]

[Footnote 16: _Build the walls._--Ver. 204. It has been suggested
that the story of Laomedon obtaining the aid of Neptune in
building the walls of Troy, only meant that he built it of bricks
made of clay mixed with water, and dried in the sun.]

[Footnote 17: _His father-in-law._--Ver. 219. Nereus, the father
of Thetis; was a Divinity of the sea, and was gifted with the
power of prophecy.]

EXPLANATION.

Laomedon, being King of Troy, and the city being open and
defenceless, he undertook to enclose it with walls, and succeeded so
well, that the work was attributed to Apollo. The strong banks which
he was obliged to raise to keep out the sea and to prevent
inundations, were regarded as the work of Neptune. In time, these
banks being broken down by tempests, it was reported that the God of
the sea had thus revenged himself on Laomedon, for refusing him the
reward which had been agreed upon between them. This story received
the more ready credit from the circumstance mentioned by Herodotus
and Eustathius, that this king used the treasure belonging to the
temple of Neptune, in raising these embankments, and building the
walls of his city; having promised the priests to restore it when he
should be in a condition to do so; which promise he never performed.
Homer says that Neptune and Apollo tended the flocks while all the
subjects of Laomedon were engaged in building the walls.

When these embankments were laid under water, and a plague began to
rage within the city, the Trojans were told by an oracle that to
appeas