Danai victores cum ab Ilio classem conscenderent et vellent in patriam suam quisque reverti et praedam quisque sibi duceret, ex sepulcro vox Achillis dicitur praedae partem expostulasse.
Itaque Danai Polyxenam Priami filiam, quae virgo fuit formosissima, propter quam Achilles cum eam peteret et ad colloquium venisset ab Alexandro et Deiphobo est occisus, ad sepulcrum eius eam immolaverunt. |
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When the victorious Greeks launched their fleet at Troy, each one wishing to return to his own country taking his spoils with him, it is said that, from his tomb, the voice of Achilles demanded his share of the loot.
So the Greeks sacrificed, on top of his tomb, an astoundingly beautiful girl: Polyxena, the daughter of Priam.
And this was because Achilles had met his death at the hands of Alexander and Deiphobus when seducing her at a secret tryst. |
