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Appearances observed by the besieged. The wooden horse. Its probable size. Various opinions in respect to the disposal of it. Sudden appearance of a captive. His wretched condition. Sinon's account of the departure of the Greeks. His story of the proposed sacrifice. His escape. Priam's address to him. Sinon's account of the horse. Effect produced by Sinon's story. The serpents and Laocoon.
'So by Sinon's wiles and craft and perjury the thing gained belief; and we were ensnared by treachery and forced tears, we whom neither the son of Tydeus nor Achilles of Larissa, whom not ten years nor a thousand ships brought down. 'Here another sight, greater, alas! and far more terrible meets us, and alarms our thoughtless senses.
"I fled, I own it, from the knife, I broke my bands and ran for life, And in a marsh lay that night While they should sail, if sail they might." This was Sinon's story. The Trojans believed it and King Priam ordered the prisoner to be released, and promised to give him protection in Troy. "But tell me," said the king, "why did they make this horse?
The last point is well illustrated in Sinon's speech at the opening of the second book. The old folktale of how the "wooden horse," left on the shore by the Greeks, was recklessly dragged to the citadel by the Trojans satisfied the unquestioning Homer. Vergil does not take the improbable on faith. Sinon is compelled to be entirely convincing.
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