Sinon in Aeneid, Book 2

An important section in Vergil, Aeneid, Book 2 covered in handout, pp. 17-23, is Aeneas' account of how Sinon deceived the Trojans into allowing the wooden horse to be brought into their city. Most of the passage is simply omitted by Harris & Platzner. It comes in the bracketed section which they summarize, p. 910. The setting is that Aeneas is telling the story of the capture of Troy. The material included in the class handout picks up from the brief summary of the horse, with "soldiers in its belly, deep in that vast cavern: Greeks armed to the teeth" (so Mandelbaum's translation, excerpted by H & P).

Following this, you should read in Dryden's translation from "In sight of Troy lies Tenedos" to "False words and fawning words the city won" (quite a few screens)