y wave, resound, {and} the sailors bid them take advantage
of the winds. "Troy, farewell!" the Trojan women cry;-- "We are torn
away!" and they give kisses to the soil, and leave the smoking roofs of
their country. The last that goes on board the fleet, a dreadful sight,
is Hecuba, found amid the sepulchres of her children. Dulichian hands
have dragged her away, while clinging to their tombs and giving kisses
to their bones; yet the ashes of one has she taken out, and, {so} taken
out, has carried with her in her bosom the ashes of Hector. On the tomb
of Hector she leaves the grey hair of her head, an humble offering, her
hair and her tears. There is opposite to Phrygia, where Troy stood,
a land inhabited by the men of Bistonia. There, was the rich palace of
Polymnestor, to whom thy father, Polydorus, entrusted thee, to be
brought up privately, and removed thee {afar} from the Phrygian arms.
A wise resolution; had he not added, {as well}, great riches, the reward
of crime, the incentive of an avaricious disposition. When the fortunes
of the Phrygians were ruined, the wicked king of the Phrygians took a
sword, and plunged it in the throat of his fosterchild; and, as though
the crime could be removed with the body, he hurled him lifeless from a
rock into the waters below.

[Footnote 1: _We are pleading._--Ver. 5. The skill of the Poet is
perceptible in the abrupt commencement of the speech of the
impetuous Ajax.]

[Footnote 2: _Nor his._--Ver. 11. Ajax often uses the pronoun
'iste' as a term of reproach.]

[Footnote 3: _Night alone._--Ver. 15. By this he means that the
alleged exploits of Ulysses were altogether fictitious; or that
they were done in the dark to conceal his fear.]

[Footnote 4: _Took the city._--Ver. 23. Telamon, was the companion
of Hercules when he sacked Troy, as a punishment for the perfidy
of Laomedon.]

[Footnote 5: _Sisyphus._--Ver. 26. This is intended as a
reproachful hint against Ulysses, whose mother, Anticlea, was said
to have been seduced by Sisyphus before her marriage to Laertes.]

[Footnote 6: _Ajax is the third._--Ver. 28. That is the third,
exclusive of Jupiter; for Ajax was the grandson of AEacus, and the
great grandson of Jupiter.]

[Footnote 7: _My cousin._--Ver. 31. 'Frater' here means, not
'brother,' but 'cousin,' as Peleus and Telamon, the fathers of
Achilles and Ajax, were brothers.]

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