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As
Cassandra said that there was an armed force in it, and she was further confirmed by
Laocoon, the seer, some were for burning it, and others for throwing it down a precipice;
but as most were in favour of sparing it as a votive offering sacred to a divinity,1 they betook them to sacrifice
and feasting.
1 As to these deliberations of the Trojans, compare Hom. Od. 8.505ff.; Arctinus, Ilii Persis, summarized by Proclus in Epicorum Graecorum Fragmenta, ed. G. Kinkel, p. 49; Tryphiodorus, Excidium Ilii 250ff.
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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