in favour of Ulysses.

According to Pliny and Pausanias, Ajax was buried near the
promontory of Sigaeum, where a tomb was erected for him; though other
writers, on the authority of Dictys, place his tomb on the
promontory of Rhoetaeum. Horace speaks of him as being denied the
honour of a funeral; but he evidently alludes to a passage in the
tragedy of Sophocles, where the poet introduces Agamemnon as
obstinately refusing to allow him burial, till he is softened by the
entreaties of Teucer.

It is probable that Homer knew nothing of the story here mentioned
relative to the concealment of Achilles, disguised in female
apparel, by Thetis, in the court of Lycomedes, her brother; for
speaking of the manner in which Achilles engaged in the war, he says
that Nestor and Ulysses went to visit Peleus and Menoetius, and
easily prevailed with them that Achilles and Patroclus should
accompany them to the war. It was, however, at the court of
Lycomedes that Achilles fell in love with and married Deidamia, by
whom he had Pyrrhus, or Neoptolemus, who was present at the taking
of Troy, at a very early age.

The story of Polydorus is related in the third Book of the AEneid,
and is also told by Hyginus, with some variations. He says that
Polydorus was sent by Priam to Polymnestor, king of Thrace, while he
was yet in his cradle; and that Ilione, the daughter of Priam,
distrusting the cruelty and avarice of Polymnestor, who was her
husband, educated the child as her own son, and made their own son
Deiphylus pass for Polydorus, the two infants being of the same age.
He also says that the Greeks, after the taking of Troy, offered
Electra to Polymnestor in marriage, on condition that he should
divorce Ilione, and slay Polydorus, and that Polymnestor, having
acceded to their proposal, unconsciously killed his own son
Deiphylus. Polydorus going to consult the oracle concerning his
future fortune, was told, that his father was dead, and his native
city reduced to ashes; on which he imagined that the oracle had
deceived him; but returning to Thrace, his sister informed him of
the secret, on which he deprived Polymnestor of his sight.

FABLES III. AND IV. [XIII.439-622]

In returning from Troy, the Greeks are stopped in Thrace by the
shade of Achilles, who requests that Polyxena shall be sacrificed to
his manes. While Hecuba is fetching water with which to bathe the