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Captured. original: "Θηρευθεῖσα" (Thēreutheisa). Likely a reference to a lost context or a specific reading of a city's history. Because of the sudden death at Cilla. Furthermore, having founded a city, he called it Cilla. Some say Cillus Pelops’ charioteer died and Pelops, in order to prevail over Oenomaus in the race, invoked? his help after death. The history is found in Theopompus. And of Tenedos.) Or belonging to Tenedos. This is an island situated in front of Troy. It previously held this name. Cycnus, the son of Colonae?, was the father of Tenes and Leucothea Also called Hemithea in other sources; their mother was no longer living. Cycnus remarried a woman named Phylonome (or as some say, Polyboea). When Tenes grew into manhood, Phylonome fell in love with him and tried to force him into a sexual encounter. He, however, maintained what was right according to nature.

She then accused him to his father, claiming he had tried to force? her. Cycnus, believing the accusation, seized the boy, put him into a chest term: "λάρνακα" (larnaka) — a chest or coffer often used in myths for infants cast into the sea, and threw him into the underlying sea. Poseidon saved him because of his self-control and because he was of the race of demigods. The chest was carried to the island of Leucophrys. When the locals saw it and took off the lid, they learned what had happened. They not only established Tenes as their king but also renamed the island Tenedos after him. Mightily.) original: "ἶφι" (iphi) Strongly; bravely. You rule over.) original: "ἀνάσσεις" (anasseis) [You rule the] sea. Smintheus.) original: "σμινθεῦ" (smintheu) O Smintheus. This is an epithet given to Apollo. Sminthos is a place in the Troad the region surrounding Troy where there is a temple of "Sminthian" Apollo. It is named for the following reason: in the city of Chryse in Mysia, there was a priest of this Apollo named Crinis. The god, being angry with him, sent mice to his fields which ruined the crops. Later, wanting to be reconciled with him, the god appeared to Crinis's chief ox-herd at dawn. After receiving hospitality from the man, the god promised to rid them of the pests. And indeed, by shooting them, he destroyed the mice. As they were being cleared away, he commanded the man to reveal this divine manifestation to Crinis. When this was done, Crinis established a sanctuary to the god, calling it the "Sminthian" temple. This is because, in their local dialect, mice are called sminthoi. This history is in Polemon. Others tell it this way: that Cretans sending out a colony received an oracle from Apollo that they should found their city wherever "the earth-born" should oppose them. When they arrived at the Hellespont and night fell, mice gnawed the leather straps of their shields. Waking up in the morning and seeing this, they realized the meaning and founded a city there, which they called Smintheia. For the Cretans call mice sminthoi. Upon the sacrifices.) Apollo was called "Smintheus" because he protects them. If ever to you.) If at any time for you. Pleasing.) original: "χαρίεντα" (charienta) Graceful; beautiful. Temple.) original: "νηὸν" (nēon) Sanctuary. I roofed.) original: "ἔρεψα" (erepsa) I covered the roof; I crowned.

O Smintheus, if ever I roofed a pleasing temple for you,

Or if ever I burned for you the fat thigh-pieces

Of bulls or goats, fulfill this desire for me:

May the Danaans pay for my tears with your arrows.

So he spoke in prayer. And Phoebus Apollo heard him.

He went down from the peaks of Olympus, angry in his heart,

Having his bow on his shoulders, and his covered quiver.

The arrows clanged on the shoulders of the angry god

As he moved. And he went like the night.

Then he sat down away from the ships, and let fly an arrow.

A terrible clang arose from the silver bow.

Or if ever to you.) Or if at any time for you. Fat.) original: "πίονα" (piona) Large; oily; the thigh-bones. I burned.) original: "ἔκηα" (ekēa) I burned upon the altar.
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Perfected sacrifices of bulls and goats. This for me.) This thing for me. Fulfill.) original: "κρήηνον" (krēēnon) Bring to pass. Desire.) original: "ἐέλδωρ" (eeldōr) A longing. May they pay.) original: "τίσειαν" (tiseian) May they give a penalty, or be paid back, or be struck. Danaans.) The Greeks. Named after Danaus, son of Belus. Belus was the brother of Agenor, and the son of Poseidon and Libya (after whom the land of Libya was named). While ruling Egypt, Belus married Anchinoe, daughter of the Nile. From her, twin sons were born to him: Aegyptus and Danaus. Belus settled Danaus in Libya and Aegyptus in Arabia. Aegyptus, having subdued the land of the "Black-footed people," named it Egypt after himself. From many wives, Aegyptus had fifty sons, and Danaus had fifty daughters. When they quarreled with one another over the rule, Danaus eventually killed the sons of Aegyptus—except for one, Lynceus—by the hand of his daughters. Because of an oracle that he would be killed by one of them, and on the advice of Athena, Danaus was the first to build a fifty-oared ship (named "penteconter" after the number of his daughters), and putting the girls inside, he fled. Stopping at Rhodes, he dedicated a statue of Zeus. From there he came to Argos, and the man then ruling there handed over the kingship to him.
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Having taken control of the country, he named the inhabitants Danaans after himself. Apollodorus records this in his second book. My tears with your arrows.) Instead of saying "atone for my tears." Why did Chryses not pray against Agamemnon specifically, who insulted him, but against all the Greeks? We say that if Agamemnon died, the army would dissolve and Chryseis would still be taken to Greece. But by striking the masses, there would be an inquiry into the cause of the suffering, leading to the return of the girl. Furthermore, if Agamemnon died, he would be free of pain; but while living, he is tortured, seeing as a king the destruction of his people. Or it is because he did it for everyone’s sake, since the people stood together and did not honorably stop the king’s insult. Therefore, they justly suffered. Indeed, Hesiod says: "Often an entire city suffers because of one bad man." So he spoke.) Thus he said. Heard.) original: "ἔκλυε" (eklye) He listened. Phoebus.) original: "Φοῖβος" (Phoibos) Pure; unsullied; or prophetic. For "Phoebus" means "the pure." Hesiod calls him Phoebus metonymically using a related name for a thing after Phoebe. He went down from Olympus.) He descended from the heights of Olympus, which are the peaks.
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Angry.) original: "χωόμενος" (chōomenos) Grieved; enraged. Heart.) original: "κῆρ" (kēr) When accented on the last syllable, it means the soul; when used differently, it refers to the "death-bearing fate." Having his bow on his shoulders.) Meaning he carried the bow upon his shoulders. And his covered quiver.) The quiver covered on both sides. Clanged.) original: "ἔκλαγξαν" (eklanxan) They made a sound from the impact. Arrows.) original: "ὀϊστοὶ" (oistoi) The projectiles. On his shoulders.) Upon his shoulders. Of the angry god.) Of him being enraged. As he moved.) As he set out on his rush. And he.) This one. Went.) original: "ἤϊε" (ēie) Arrived. Like the night.) Dark and incomparable; terrifying and invisible. He sat down.) He seated himself. Then.) After these things. Away from.) original: "ἀπάνευθεν" (apaneuthen) At a distance; apart from. The ships.) The vessels. And then.) And after this. Arrow.) original: "ἰὸν" (ion) A shaft. Let fly.) original: "ἕηκεν" (eēken) Sent forth; released. A terrible clang.) A fearful sound arises.