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Updated: June 15, 2025
"'What can you do? asked my father, when the two had told their wishes. "Poseidon answered, 'I am a builder of walls. "And Apollo answered, 'I am a shepherd, and a tender of herds. "'It is well, answered Laomedon. 'The wall-builder shall build a wall around this Troy so high and strong that no enemy can pass it. The shepherd shall tend my herds of crook-horned kine on the wooded slopes of Ida.
The Phoenicians faithful subjects of Alexander At his death Phoenicia falls, first to Laomedon, then to Ptolemy Lagi Is held by the Ptolemies for seventy years Passes willingly, B.C. 198, under the Seleucidae Relations with the Seleucid princes and with the Jews Hellenisation of Phoenicia Continued devotion of the Phoenicians generally to trade and commerce Material prosperity of Phoenicia.
Laomedon found means of escaping from Egypt; he fled to Alcetas in Caria, who had just withdrawn himself to the mountainous regions of Pisida, thence to begin the decisive war against Antigonus. Painted by Alexander Cabanel
Laomedon was killed by Hercules, in punishment for his perfidy in giving him mortal horses for his destruction of a sea monster, instead of the immortal horses, as he had promised, the gift of Zeus to Tros. He was the father of illustrious sons, among whom were Hector and Paris.
I round their city built the Trojans a wall, wide and most fair, that the city might be unstormed, and thou Phoebus, didst herd shambling crook-horned kine among the spurs of woody many-folded Ida. But when the joyous seasons were accomplishing the term of hire, then redoubtable Laomedon robbed us of all hire, and sent us off with threats.
Amongst the diggers, pioneers, and rampire-builders, I will do as did Neptune and Apollo at Troy under Laomedon, or as did Renault of Montauban in his latter days: I will serve the masons, I'll set on the pot to boil for the bricklayers; and, whilst the minced meat is making ready at the sound of my small pipe, I'll measure the muzzle of the musing dotards.
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