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Departing from Mysia, the Greeks put to sea, and a violent storm coming on, they were
separated from each other and landed in their own countries.1 So the Greeks returned at that time, and it is said
that the war lasted twenty years.2 For it was in the second
year after the rape of Helen that the Greeks, having completed their
preparations, set out on the expedition and after their retirement from Mysia to Greece
eight years elapsed before they again returned to Argos and came to Aulis.
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1 Compare Proclus in Epicorum Graecorum Fragmenta, ed. G. Kinkel, p. 19, according to whom Achilles, on this return voyage, landed in Scyros and married his youthful love Deidamia, daughter of Lycomedes. See above, Apollod. 3.13.8.
2 Compare Hom. Il. 24.765ff., where Helen at Troy says that it was now the twentieth year since she had quitted her native land. The words have puzzled the Scholiasts and commentators, but are explained by the present passage of Apollodorus.
Apollodorus. Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Includes Frazer's notes.
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