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Idaeis: the poets picturesquely treat the pines of Ida of which the ships of Paris were built as the cause of all the woe. Cf. Eurip. Hec. 631; Tenn. Oenone, 'They came, they cut away my tallest pines.'—perfidus hospitam: cf. 1. 6. 9. n.; 3. 3. 26, famosus hospes; Propert. 3. 32. 7, hospes in hospitium Menelao venit adulter; Eurip. Tro. 866, ξεναπάτης; Aesch. Ag. 401; Il. 13. 624.


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