[484] From Il. 11. 59, where the names of Antenor's three sons are given, Τρεῖς δ᾽ Ἀντηνορίδας, Πόλυβον καὶ Ἀγήνορα δῖον, Ἠΐθεόν τ᾽ Ἀκάμαντ᾽, ἐπιείκελον ἀθανάτοισιν. The name ‘Polyphoeten’ is variously given in the MSS., Med. e. g. having ‘Polyboeten,’ but the right spelling appears from Il. 13. 791, καὶ ἀντίθεον Πολυφοίτην, where however another reading is Πολυφήτην, so that perhaps we ought to read ‘Polypheten’ here. In this as in the two last passages quoted, the persons named appear as the most distinguished of the Trojans. ‘Cereri sacrum,’ consecrated to the service of Ceres, perhaps her priest, though the two things are distinguished, 11. 768, “sacer Cybelae Chloreus olimque sacerdos.” Nothing is said of this in Hom., with whom indeed, as Mr. Gladstone remarks (vol. iii. p. 185), priests do not take part in battle, though their sons do.
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