Achilles did not go forth to the war, because he was angry on account of
Briseis, ... the daughter of Chryses the priest.1 Therefore the barbarians took heart of grace and sallied out of the city. And Alexander fought a single
combat with Menelaus; and when Alexander got the worst of it, Aphrodite carried him
off.2 And Pandarus, by shooting an arrow at Menelaus, broke the
truce.3
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1 Compare Hom. Il. 1.1ff. From this point Apollodorus follows the incidents of the Trojan war as related by Homer.
2 Compare Hom. Il. 3.15-382.
3 Compare Hom. Il. 4.85ff.
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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