BOOK TWO.
ARGUMENT AEneas' story .-- The Greeks, baffled in battle, built a wooden horse, in which their leaders took ambush.

Their fleet sailed to Tenedos.
The Trojans, but for Capys and Laocoon, had dragged the horse forthwith as a trophy into Troy (1-72).

Sinon, a Greek, brought before Priam, feigns righteous indignation against Greece.

The Trojans sympathise and believe his story of wrongs done him by Ulysses (73-126).

"When Greek plans of flight had often," says Sinon, "been foiled by storms, oracles foretold that only a human sacrifice could purchase their escape." Chosen for victim, Sinon had fled.