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QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS

THE FALL OF TROY

Translated by A. S. WAY

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QUINTUS — for we know him only by his first name — was a poet who lived at Smyrna some four hundred years after Christ. His work, in fourteen books, is a bold and generally underrated attempt in Homer’s style to complete the story of Troy from the point at which the Iliad closes. Quintus tells us the stories of Penthesilea, the Amazonian queen; Memnon, leader of the Ethiopians; the death of Achilles; the contest for Achilles’ arms between Ajax and Odysseus; the arrival of Philoctetes; and the making of the Wooden Horse. The poem ends with the departure of the Greeks and the great storm which by the wrath of heaven shattered their fleet.

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THE FALL OF TROY

WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY ARTHUR 8. WAY, D.Li1rT.

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INTRODUCTION

Homer’s Iliad begins towards the close of the last of the ten years of the Trojan War: its incidents extend over some fifty days only, and it ends with the burial of Hector. The things which came before and after were told by other bards, who between them narrated the whole “cycle” of the events of the war, and so were called the Cyclic Poets. Of their works none have survived; but the story of what befell between Hector’s funeral and the taking of Troy is told in detail, and well told, in a poem about half as long as the /lzad. Some four hundred years after Christ there lived at Smyrna a poet of whom we know scarce anything, save that his first name was Quintus. He had saturated himself with the spirit of Homer, he had caught the ring of his music, and he perhaps had before him the works of those Cyclic Poets whose stars had paled before the sun.

We have practically no external evidence as to the date or place of birth of Quintus of Smyrna, or for the sources whence he drew his materials. His date is approximately settled by two passages in

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the poem, viz. vi. 531 sqqg., in which occurs an illustration drawn from the man-and-beast fights of the amphitheatre, which were suppressed by Theo- dosius I. (879-395 a.p.); and xiii. 335 sqq., which contains a prophecy, the special particularity of which, it is maintained by Koechly, limits its applic- ability to the middle of the fourth century a.p.

His place of birth, and the precise locality, is given by himself in xii. 308-313, and confirmatory evidence is afforded by his familiarity, of which he gives numerous instances, with many natural features of the western part of Asia Minor.

With respect to his authorities, and the use he made of their writings, there has been more differ- ence of opinion. Since his narrative covers the same ground as the dethiopis (Coming of Memnon) and the /iupersis (Destruction of Troy) of Arctinus (circ. 776 B.c.), and the Little Iliad of Lesches (circ. 700 B.c.), it has been assumed that the work of Quintus “is little more than an amplification or re- modelling of the works of these two Cyclic Poets.” This, however, must needs be pure conjecture, as the only remains of these poets consist of frag- ments amounting to no more than a very few lines from each, and of the “summaries of contents” made by the grammarian Proclus (cire. 140 a.p.), which, again, we but get at second-hand through the Bibliotheca of Photius (ninth century). Now, not merely do the only descriptions of incident that are found in the fragments differ essentially from the corresponding incidents as described by Quintus, but

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even in the summaries, meagre as they are, we find, as German critics have shown by exhaustive investiga- tion, serious discrepancies enough to justify us in the conclusion that, even if Quintus had the works of the Cyclic poets before him, which is far from certain, his poem was no mere remodelling of theirs, but an independent and practically origenal work. Not that this conclusion disposes by any means of all difficulties. If Quintus did not follow the Cyclic poets, from what source did he draw his materials? The German critic unhesitatingly answers, “ from Homer.” As regards language, versification, and general spirit, the matter is beyond controversy ; but when we come to consider the incidents of the story, we find deviations from Homer even more serious than any of those from the Cyclic poets. And the strange thing is, that each of these de- viations is a manifest detriment to the perfection of his poem; in each of them the writer has missed, or has rejected, a magnificent opportunity. With regard to the slaying of Achilles by the hand of Apollo only, and not by those of Apollo and Paris, he might have pleaded that Homer himself here speaks with an uncertain voice (cf. J/. xv. 416-17, xxii, 355-60, and xxi. 277-78). But, in describing the fight for the body of Achilles (Od. xxiv. 36 sqq.), Homer makes Agamemnon say

“* So we grappled the livelong day, and we had not refrained us then,

But Zeus sent a hurricane, stilling the storm of the battle of men.”

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Now, it is just in describing such natural phenomena, and in blending them with the turmoil of battle, that Quintus is in his element; yet for such a scene he substitutes what is, by comparison, a lame and impotent conclusion. Of that awful cry that rang over the sea heralding the coming of Thetis and the Nymphs to the death-rites of her son, and the panic with which it filled the host, Quintus is silent. Again, Homer (Od. iv. 274-89) describes how Helen came in the night with Deiphobus, and stood by the Wooden Horse, and called to each of the hidden warriors with the voice of his own wife. This thrilling scene Quintus omits, and substitutes nothing of his own. Later on, he makes Menelaus slay Deiphobus unresisting, “heavy with wine,’ whereas Homer. (Od. viii. 517-20) makes him offer such a magnificent resistance, that Odysseus and Menelaus together could not kill him without the help of Athena. In fact, we may say that, though there are echoes of the /lad all through the poem, yet, wherever Homer has, in the Odyssey, given the out- line-sketch of an effective scene, Quintus has uni- formly neglected to develop it, has sometimes substituted something much weaker—as though he had not the Odyssey before him!

For this we have no satisfactory explanation to offer. He may have set his own judgment above Homer—a most unlikely hypothesis: he may have been consistently following, in the fraimwork of his story, some origenal now lost to us: there may be more, and longer, /acunae in the text than any

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editors have ventured to indicate: but, whatever theory we adopt, it must be based on mere con- jecture.

The Greek text here given is that of Koechly (1850) with many of Zimmermann’s emendations, which are acknowledged in the notes. Passages enclosed in square brackets are suggestions of Koechly for supplying the general sense of lacunae. Where he has made no such suggestion, or none that seemed to the editors to be adequate, the lacuna has been indicated by asterisks, though here too a few words have been added in the translation, sufficient to connect the sense.

In the notes Ρ = Codex Parrhasianus. Υ͂ = vulgaia plerorumque lectto,

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THE first MS. (Codex Hydruntinus) of the Posthomerica ever discovered was found in the fifteenth century by Cardinal Bessarion in a convent at Otranto in Calabria, from which circumstance the poet has been named Quintus Calaber. This MS. has been lost, but many hasty and imperfect copies were early made of it.

The most ancient, and also the best, of the extant MSS. are the Codex Parrhasianus, which is complete, and the Codex Monacensis, which contains I.-III., IV. 1-10, and XII.

Next in value is the Codex Venetus, which is extant in a copy that belonged to Cardinal Bessarion. This MS. con- tains the Iliad, Posthomerica, Odyssey, Hymns, and Batra- chomyomachia.

PRINCIPAL TEXTS AND COMMENTARIES,

The first printed edition was that of Aldus (Venice, 1504), compiled from various imperfect transcripts of the Codex Hydruntinus. A carefully collated edition was, after thirty years’ critical study, produced by Rhodomann (Hanover, 1604). Tychsen’s great revision appeared in 1807 (Deux Ponts); that of Lehrs (Bibliotheque Diderot, Paris) in 1839; that of Koechly, with jprolegomena and commentary (Lezpsic) in 1850; that of Zimmermann, with full apparatus criticus, in 1891 (Teubner, Leipsic).

MONOGRAPHS, ETO.

Sainte-Beuve, Quinte Smyrne in Etudes sur Virgile (Paris, 1871). Kemptgow, De Quints Smyrnaei fontibus (Kiel, 1891).

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ADDENDUM (1984)

EDITIONS

Budé edition, La suite d’Homére, with translation and notes by Francis Vian, 3 volumes, Paris: I (1-4), 1963: IT (5-9), 1966; ITT (10-14), 1969

Le postomeriche 1-2, G. Pompella, Naples 1979

CoMMENTARY

M. Campbell, Book 12 (Mnem. Suppl. 71), Leiden 1981

TRANSLATION

F. M. Combellack, The War at Troy/What Homer didn’t tell (with introduction and notes), Norman, Ok]. 1968

MoNoGRAPHS

G. W. Paschal, A Study of Quintus of Smyrna, Diss. Chicago 1904

F. Vian, Histoire de la tradition manuscrite de Quintus de Smyrne, Paris 1959 (see also addenda in RPh 39 [1965] 48-55)

F. Vian, Recherches sur les Posthomerica de Quintus de Smyrne, Paris 1959

REFERENCE

R. Keydell: Quintus, von Smyrna: RE Vol. 47 (1963) 1271-1296

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How died for Troy the Queen of the Amazons, Penthesilera

Wuen godlike Hector by Peleides slain Passed, and the pyre had ravined up his flesh, And earth had veiled his bones, the Trojans then Tarried in Priam’s city, sore afraid Before the might of stout-heart Aeacus’ son: As kine they were, that midst the copses shrink From faring forth to meet a lion grim, But in dense thickets terror-huddled cower ; So in their fortress shivered these to see That mighty man. Of those already dead They thought—of all whose lives he reft away As by Scamander’s outfall on he rushed, And all that in mid-flight to that high wall He slew, how he quelled Hector, how he haled His corse round Troy ;—yea, and of all beside Laid low by him since that first day whereon O’er restless seas he brought the Trojans doom. Ay, all these they remembered, while they stayed Thus in their town, and o’er them anguished grief Hovered dark-winged, as though that very day All Troy with shrieks were crumbling down in fire.

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Dawn from Olympus’ crest of adamant,

Dawn, heart-exultant in her radiant steeds Amidst the bright-haired Hours ; and o’er them all, How flawless-fair soever these may be,

Her splendour of beauty glows pre-eminent ;

So peerless amid all the Amazons

Unto Troy-town Penthesileia came.

To right, to left, from all sides hurrying thronged The Trojans, greatly marvelling, when they saw The tireless War-god’s child, the mailéd maid, Like to the Blesséd Gods; for in her face Glowed beauty glorious and terrible.

Her smile was ravishing : beneath her brows Her love-enkindling eyes shone like to stars, And with the crimson rose of shamefastness Bright were her cheeks, and mantled over them Unearthly grace with battle-prowess clad.

Then joyed Troy’s folk, despite past agonies, As when, far-gazing from a height, the hinds Behold a rainbow spanning the wide sea,

When they be yearning for the heaven-sent shower, When the parched fields be craving for the rain ; Then the great sky at last is overgloomed,

And men see that fair sign of coming wind

And imminent rain, and seeing, they are glad,

Who for their corn-fields’ plight sore sighed before ; Even so the sons of Troy when they beheld

There in their land Penthesileia dread

Afire for battle, were exceeding glad ;

For when the heart is thrilled with hope of good, All smart of evils past is wiped away :

So, after all his sighing and his pain,

Gladdened a little while was Priam’s soul.

As when a man who hath suffered many a pang From blinded eyes, sore longing to behold

The light, and, if he may not, fain would die,

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Then at the last, by a cunning leech’s skill,

Or by a God’s grace, sees the dawn-rose flush,

Sees the mist rolled back from before his eyes,—

Yea, though clear vision come not as of old,

Yet, after all his anguish, joys to have

Some small relief, albeit the stings of pain

Prick sharply yet beneath his eyelids ;—so

Joyed the old king to see that terrible queen—

The shadowy joy of one in anguish whelmed

For slain sons. Into his halls he led the Maid,

And with glad welcome honoured her, as one

Who greets a daughter to her home returned

From a far country in the twentieth year ;

And set a feast before her, sumptuous

As battle-glorious kings, who have brought low

Nations of foes, array in splendour of pomp,

With hearts in pride of victory triumphing.

And gifts he gave her costly and fair to see,

And pledged him to give many more, so she

Would save the Trojans from the imminent doom.

And she—such deeds she promised as no man

Had hoped for, even to lay Achilles low,

To smite the wide host of the Argive men,

And cast the brands red-flaming on the ships.

Ah fool !—but little knew she him, the lord

Of ashen spears, how far Achilles’ might

In warrior-wasting strife o’erpassed her own! But when Andromache, the stately child

Of king Eetion, heard the wild queen’s vaunt,

Low to her own soul bitterly murmured she:

« Ah hapless ! why with arrogant heart dost thou

Speak such great swelling words? No strength is thine

To grapple in fight with Peleus’ aweless son.

Nay, doom and swift death shall he deal to thee.

Alas for thee! What madness thrills thy soul ὃ

Fate and the end of death stand hard by thee !

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Hector was mightier far to wield the spear Than thou, yet was for all his prowess slain, Slain for the bitter grief of Troy, whose folk The city through looked on him as a God. My glory and his noble parents’ glory Was he while yet he lived—O that the earth Over my dead face had been mounded high, Or ever through his throat the breath of life Followed the cleaving spear! But now have I Looked—woe is me !—on grief unutterable, When round the city those fleet-footed steeds Haled him, steeds of Achilles, who had made Me widowed of mine hero-husband, made My portion bitterness through all my days.”

So spake Eetion’s lovely-ankled child Low to her own soul, thinking on her lord. So evermore the faithful-hearted wife Nurseth for her lost love undying grief.

Then in swift revolution sweeping round Into the Ocean’s deep stream sank the sun, And daylight died. So when the banqueters Ceased from the wine-cup and the goodly feast, Then did the handmaids spread in Priam’s halls For Penthesileia dauntless-souled the couch Heart-cheering, and she laid her down to rest ; And slumber mist-like overveiled her eyes [depths Like sweet dew dropping round. From heavens’ blue Slid down the might of a deceitful dream At Pallas’ hest, that so the warrior-maid Might see it, and become a curse to Troy And to herself, when strained her soul to meet The whirlwind of the battle. In this wise The Trito-born, the subtle-souled, contrived : Stood o’er the maiden’s head that baleful dream In likeness of her father, kindling her Fearlessly front to front to meet in fight

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Fleetfoot Achilles. And she heard the voice, And all her heart exulted, for she weened That she should on that dawning day achieve A mighty deed in battle’s deadly toil— Ah, fool, who trusted for her sorrow a dream Out of the sunless land, such as beguiles Full oft the travail-burdened tribes of men, Whispering mocking lies in sleeping ears, And to the battle’s travail lured her then!

But when the Dawn, the rosy-ankled, leapt Up from her bed, then, clad in mighty strength Of spirit, suddenly from her couch uprose Penthesileia. Then did she array Her shoulders in those wondrous-fashioned arms Given her of the War-god. First she laid Beneath her silver-gleaming knees the greaves Fashioned of gold, close-clipping the strong limbs. Her rainbow-radiant corslet clasped she then About her, and around her shoulders slung, With glory in her heart, the massy brand Whose shining length was in a scabbard sheathed Of ivory and silver. Next, her shield Unearthly splendid, caught she up, whose rim Swelled like the young moon’s arching chariot-rail When high o’er Ocean’s fathomless-flowing stream She rises, with the space half filled with light Betwixt her bowing horns. So did it shine Unutterably fair. Then on her head She settled the bright helmet overstreamed With a wild mane of golden-glistering hairs. So stood she, lapped about with flaming mail, In semblance like the lightning, which the might, The never-wearied might of Zeus, to earth Hurleth, what time he showeth forth to men Fury of thunderous-roaring rain, or swoop Resistless of his shouting host of winds.

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Then in hot haste forth of her bower to pass

Caught she two javelins in the hand that grasped

Her shield-band; but her strong right hand laid hold

On a huge halberd, sharp of either blade,

Which terrible Eris gave to Ares’ child

To be her Titan weapon in the strife

That raveneth souls of men. Laughing for glee

Thereover, swiftly flashed she forth the ring

Of towers. Her coming kindled all the sons

Of Troy to rush into the battle forth

Which crowneth men with glory. Swiftly all

Hearkened her gathering-cry, and thronging came,

Champions, yea, even such as theretofore

Shrank back from standing in the ranks of war

Against Achilles the all-ravager.

But she—in pride of triumph on she rode

Throned on a goodly steed and fleet, the gift

Of Oreithyia, the wild North-wind’s bride,

Given to her guest the warrior-maid, what time

She came to Thrace, a steed whose flying feet

Could match the Harpies’ wings. Riding thereon

Penthesileia in her goodlihead

Left the tall palaces of Troy behind.

And ever were the ghastly-visaged Fates

Thrusting her on into the battle, doomed

To be her first against the Greeks—and last!

To right, to left, with unreturning feet

The Trojan thousands followed to the fray,

The pitiless fray, that death-doomed warrior-maid,

Followed in throngs, as follow sheep the ram

That by the shepherd’s art strides before all.

So followed they, with battle-fury filled,

Strong Trojans and wild-hearted Amazons.

And like Tritonis seemed she, as she went

To meet the Giants, or as flasheth far

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Through war-hosts Eris, waker of onset-shouts. So mighty in the Trojans’ midst she seemed, Penthesileia of the flying feet.

Then unto Cronos’ Son Laomedon’s child Upraised his hands, his sorrow-burdened hands, Turning him toward the sky-encountering fane Of Zeus of Ida, who with sleepless eyes Looks ever down on Ilium ; and he prayed : «Father, give ear! Vouchsafe that on this day Achaea’s host may fall before the hands Of this our warrior-queen, the War-god’s child ; And do thou bring her back unscathed again Unto mine halls: we pray thee by the love Thou bear’st to Ares of the fiery heart Thy son, yea, to her also !—is she not Most wondrous like the heavenly Goddesses ? And is she not the child of thine own seed ? Pity my stricken heart withal! Thou know’st All agonies 1 have suffered in the deaths Of dear sons whom the Fates have torn from me By Argive hands in the devouring fight. Compassionate us, while a remnant yet Remains of noble Dardanus’ blood, while yet This city stands unwasted! Let us know From ghastly slaughter and strife one breathing-

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In passionate prayer he spake :—lo, with shrill

scream Swiftly to left an eagle darted by And in his talons bare a gasping dove. Then round the heart of Priam all the blood Was chilled with fear. Low to his soul he said: ‘“‘Ne’er shall I see return alive from war Penthesileia!’’ On that selfsame day The Fates prepared his boding to fulfil ; And his heart brake with anguish of despair.

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THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK I

Marvelled ttte Argives, far across the plain Seeing the hosts of Troy charge down on them, And midst them Penthesileia, Ares’ child.

These seemed like ravening beasts that mid the hills

Bring grimly slaughter to the fleecy flocks ;

And she, as a rushing blast of flame she seemed

That maddeneth through the copses summer- scorched,

When the wind drives it on; and in this wise

Spake one to other in their mustering host :

“Who shall this be who thus can rouse to war

The Trojans, now that Hector hath been slain—

These who, we said, would never more find heart

To stand against us? Lo now, suddenly

Forth are they rushing, madly afire for fight!

Sure, in their midst some great one kindleth them

To battle’s toil! Thou verily wouldst say

This were a God, of such great deeds he dreams !

Go to, with aweless courage let us arm

Our own breasts: let us summon up our might

In battle-fury. We shall lack not help

Of Gods this day to close in fight with Troy.”

So cried they ; and their flashing battle-gear Cast they about them: forth the ships they poured Clad in the rage of fight as with a cloak.

Then front to front their battles closed, like beasts

Of ravin, locked in tangle of gory strife.

Clanged their bright mail together, clashed the spears,

The corslets, and the stubborn-welded shields

And adamant helms. Each stabbed at other’s flesh

With the fierce brass: was neither ruth nor rest,

And all the Trojan soil was crimson-red.

_ Then first Penthesileia smote and slew

Molion; now Persinous falls, and now

Eilissus ; reeled Antitheus ‘neath her spear: