Greek Texts & Translations

SINCE there subsisted so great an affinity among the Leleges and Cilicians with the Trojans, the reason is asked, why these people are not included in Homer's Catalogue. Perhaps it is that, on account of the loss of their leaders and the devastation of the cities, the few Cilicians that were left placed themselves under the command of Hector. For Eetion and his sons are said to have been killed before the Catalogue is mentioned; The hero Achilles,
says Andromache, killed my father, and destroyed Thebe, with its lofty gates, the city of the Cilicians.— I had seven brothers in the palace; all of them went in one day to Hades, for they were all slain by the swift-footed divine Achilles.Il. vi. 414, 421.

Those also under the command of Mynes had lost their leaders, and their city; He slew Mynes, and Epistrophus,
And destroyed the city of the divine Mynes. ^note
Il. ii. 692; xix. 296. He describes the Leleges as present at the battles; when he says, on the sea-coast are Carians, and Paeonians with curved bows, Leleges, and Caucones. ^note And in another place, he killed Satnius with a spear—the son of Enops, whom a beautiful nymph Neis bore to Enops, when he was tending herds near the banks of Satnioeis, ^note for they had not been so completely annihilated as to prevent