1 There I sacked the town and put the people to the sword.
2 Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.
3 I seek news of my unhappy father Ulysses, who is said to have sacked the town of Troy in company with yourself.
4 Anon he sang how the sons of the Achaeans issued from the horse, and sacked the town, breaking out from their ambuscade.
5 There we fought for nine whole years, but in the tenth we sacked the city of Priam and sailed home again as heaven dispersed us.
6 On this the men fell to talking among themselves, and said I was bringing back gold and silver in the sack that Aeolus had given me.
7 They loosed the sack, whereupon the wind flew howling forth and raised a storm that carried us weeping out to sea and away from our own country.
8 He put the sack in the ship and bound the mouth so tightly with a silver thread that not even a breath of a side-wind could blow from any quarter.
9 We are the people of Agamemnon, son of Atreus, who has won infinite renown throughout the whole world, by sacking so great a city and killing so many people.
10 He says that you have here the most ill-starred of all those who fought nine years before the city of King Priam and sailed home in the tenth year after having sacked it.
11 I should have made him leave Ithaca with his goods, his son, and all his people, and should have sacked for them some one of the neighbouring cities that are subject to me.
12 Now, however, change your song and tell us of the wooden horse which Epeus made with the assistance of Minerva, and which Ulysses got by stratagem into the fort of Troy after freighting it with the men who afterwards sacked the city.
13 When, however, we had sacked the city of Priam, and were setting sail in our ships as heaven had dispersed us, then Jove saw fit to vex the Argives on their homeward voyage; for they had not all been either wise or understanding, and hence many came to a bad end through the displeasure of Jove's daughter Minerva, who brought about a quarrel between the two sons of Atreus.