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The Achaeans poured the blood of Polyxena^a over the tomb of dead Achilles to propitiate his wrath, and took each his lot of Trojan women and divided all their other spoil, both gold and silver: wherewith they loaded their deep ships and through the booming sea set sail from Troy, having made an end of war.

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NOTES

^a Polyxena, daughter of Priam, was loved by Achilles, and it was when he had gone to meet her in the temple of Thymbraean Apollo that he was slain by Paris. On the capture of Troy Neoptolemus sacrificed her at the tomb of Achilles; schol. Lycophr. 323; Eur. Tr. 261 ff.

END OF TRYPHIODORUS' The Taking of Ilios translated by A.W. Mair.

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