50/122 So Diomedes and Ulysses stole the image. Apollo had conferred on Cassandra the gift of prophecy. But she deceived him, and as he could not take away his former gift, he added as a curse that no one should ever believe her. _Neoptolemus_ was the son of Achilles and grandson of Peleus. _Sigeum_ is the name of the promontory which juts out into the Hellespont from the Troad. |