Priam appears to be the only one of whom polygamy is directly asserted in the Iliad.

Grote, vol.ii.p.

114, note.
223 "Circled with foes as when a packe of bloodie jackals cling About a goodly palmed hart, hurt with a hunter's bow Whose escape his nimble feet insure, whilst his warm blood doth flow, And his light knees have power to move: but (maistred by his wound) Embost within a shady hill, the jackals charge him round, And teare his flesh--when instantly fortune sends in the powers Of some sterne lion, with whose sighte they flie and he devours.
So they around Ulysses prest." -- Chapman.
224 -- _Simois, railing,_ &c.
"In those bloody fields Where Simois rolls the bodies and the shields Of heroes." -- Dryden's Virgil, i.

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225 "Where yon disorder'd heap of ruin lies, Stones rent from stones,--where clouds of dust arise,-- Amid that smother, Neptune holds his place, Below the wall's foundation drives his mace, And heaves the building from the solid base." Dryden's Virgil, ii.

825.
226 -- _Why boast we._ "Wherefore do I assume These royalties and not refuse to reign, Refusing to accept as great a share Of hazard as of honour, due alike to him Who reigns, and so much to him due Of hazard more, as he above the rest High honour'd sits." -- "Paradise Lost," ii.