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Argive warriors inside the wooden horse

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Canonical name
Argive warriors inside the wooden horse
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Kind
Character
Scope
Collective
Editorial note
This bounded subset is distinct from the full Argive collective and is not distributed to it.

Aliases

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all the bravest of the Argives

Descriptive reference · Reported

sons of the Achaeans

Descriptive reference · Reported

Location presence

Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

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Trojan place of assembly1 observation
·Reported

The Argive warriors waited in the Trojan place of assembly inside the horse.

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“The bard inspired of heaven took up the story at the point where some of the Argives set fire to their tents and sailed away while others, hidden within the horse, {73} were waiting with Ulysses in the Trojan place of assembly. For the Trojans themselves had drawn the horse into their for tress, and it stood there while they sat in council round it, and were in three minds as to what they should do. Some were for breaking it up then and there; others would have it dragged to the top of the rock on which the fortress stood, and then thrown down the precipice; while yet others were for letting it remain as an offering and propitiation for the gods. And this was how they settled it in the end, for the city was doomed when it took in that horse, within which were all the bravest of the Argives waiting to bring death and destruction on the Trojans. Anon he sang how the sons of the Achaeans issued from the horse, and sacked the town, breaking out from their ambuscade. He sang how they overran the city hither and thither and ravaged it, and how Ulysses went raging like Mars along with Menelaus to the house of Deiphobus. It was there that the fight raged most furiously, nevertheless by Minerva’s help he was victorious.”
Troy1 observation
·Reported

The sons of the Achaeans issued from the horse and sacked Troy.

See evidence text
“The bard inspired of heaven took up the story at the point where some of the Argives set fire to their tents and sailed away while others, hidden within the horse, {73} were waiting with Ulysses in the Trojan place of assembly. For the Trojans themselves had drawn the horse into their for tress, and it stood there while they sat in council round it, and were in three minds as to what they should do. Some were for breaking it up then and there; others would have it dragged to the top of the rock on which the fortress stood, and then thrown down the precipice; while yet others were for letting it remain as an offering and propitiation for the gods. And this was how they settled it in the end, for the city was doomed when it took in that horse, within which were all the bravest of the Argives waiting to bring death and destruction on the Trojans. Anon he sang how the sons of the Achaeans issued from the horse, and sacked the town, breaking out from their ambuscade. He sang how they overran the city hither and thither and ravaged it, and how Ulysses went raging like Mars along with Menelaus to the house of Deiphobus. It was there that the fight raged most furiously, nevertheless by Minerva’s help he was victorious.”

Claims

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·Remembered

The Argive warriors hide in the wooden horse to bring death and destruction upon the Trojans.

See evidence text
“all the bravest of the Argives were lying in wait to bring death and destruction upon the Trojans”
·Reported

The sons of the Achaeans issue from the wooden horse, break from ambush, and sack Troy.

See evidence text
“Anon he sang how the sons of the Achaeans issued from the horse, and sacked the town, breaking out from their ambuscade.”

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3
·Remembered
“all the bravest of the Argives were lying in wait”
·Reported
“within which were all the bravest of the Argives”
·Reported
“all the bravest of the Argives went inside the horse”

Passage preview

Book 4 · Passage 22

Then Menelaus said, ‘All that you have been saying, my dear wife, is true. I have travelled much, and have had much to do with heroes, but I have never seen such another man as Ulysses. What endurance too, and what courage he displayed within the wooden horse, wherein all the bravest of the Argives were lying in wait to bring death and destruction upon the Trojans. {43} At that moment you came up to us; some god who wished well to the Trojans must have set you on to it and you had Deiphobus with you. Three times did you go all round our hiding place and pat it; you called our chiefs each by his own name, and mimicked all our wives—Diomed, Ulysses, and I from our seats inside heard what a noise you made. Diomed and I could not make up our minds whether to spring out then and there, or to answer you from inside, but Ulysses held us all in check, so we sat quite still, all except Anticlus, who was beginning to answer you, when Ulysses clapped his two brawny hands over his mouth, and kept them there. It was this that saved us all, for he muzzled Anticlus till Minerva took you away again.’