νεκροὶ δὲ ὁ μὲν γυμνὸς Πῆλις ὄνομα ἐπὶ τὸν νῶτόν ἐστιν ἐρριμμένος, ὑπὸ δὲ τὸν Πῆλιν Ἠιονεύς τε κεῖται καὶ Ἄδμητος ἐνδεδυκότες ἔτι τοὺς θώρακας· καὶ αὐτῶν Λέσχεως Ἠιονέα ὑπὸ Νεοπτολέμου, τὸν δὲ ὑπὸ Φιλοκτήτου φησὶν ἀποθανεῖν τὸν Ἄδμητον. ἄλλοι δὲ ἀνωτέρω τούτων ὑπὸ μὲν τὸ λουτήριον Λεώκριτός ἐστιν ὁ Πουλυδάμαντος τεθνεὼς ὑπὸ Ὀδυσσέως, ὑπὲρ δὲ Ἠιονέα τε καὶ Ἄδμητον Κόροιβος ὁ Μύγδονος· τούτου μνῆμά τε ἐπιφανὲς ἐν ὅροις πεποίηται Φρυγῶν Στεκτορηνῶν καὶ ἀπʼ αὐτοῦ ποιηταῖς Μύγδονας ὄνομα ἐπὶ τοῖς Φρυξὶ τίθεσθαι καθέστηκεν. ἀφίκετο μὲν δὴ ἐπὶ τὸν Κασσάνδρας ὁ Κόροιβος γάμον, ἀπέθανε δέ, ὡς μὲν ὁ πλείων λόγος, ὑπὸ Νεοπτολέμου, Λέσχεως δὲ ὑπὸ Διομήδους ἐποίησεν.
εἰσὶ δὲ καὶ ἐπάνω τοῦ Κοροίβου Πρίαμος καὶ Ἀξίων τε καὶ Ἀγήνωρ. Πρίαμον δὲ οὐκ ἀποθανεῖν ἔφη Λέσχεως ἐπὶ τῇ ἐσχάρᾳ τοῦ Ἑρκείου, ἀλλὰ ἀποσπασθέντα ἀπὸ τοῦ βωμοῦ πάρεργον τῷ Νεοπτολέμῳ πρὸς ταῖς τῆς οἰκίας γενέσθαι θύραις. ἐς δὲ Ἑκάβην Στησίχορος ἐν Ἰλίου πέρσιδι ἐποίησεν ἐς Λυκίαν ὑπὸ Ἀπόλλωνος αὐτὴν κομισθῆναι. Ἀξίονα δὲ παῖδα εἶναι Πριάμου Λέσχεως καὶ ἀποθανεῖν αὐτὸν ὑπὸ Εὐρυπύλου τοῦ Εὐαίμονός φησι· τοῦ Ἀγήνορος δὲ κατὰ τὸν αὐτὸν ποιητὴν Νεοπτόλεμος αὐτόχειρ ἐστί· καὶ οὕτω φαίνοιτο ἂν Ἔχεκλος μὲν φονευθεὶς ὁ Ἀγήνορος ὑπὸ Ἀχιλλέως, Ἀγήνωρ δὲ αὐτὸς ὑπὸ τοῦ Νεοπτολέμου.
Λαομέδοντος δὲ τὸν νεκρὸν Σίνων τε ἑταῖρος Ὀδυσσέως καὶ Ἀγχίαλός εἰσιν ἐκκομίζοντες. γέγραπται δὲ καὶ ἄλλος τεθνεώς· ὄνομά οἱ Ἔρεσος· τὰ δὲ ἐς Ἔρεσόν τε καὶ Λαομέδοντα, ὅσα γε ἡμεῖς ἐπιστάμεθα, ᾖσεν οὐδείς. ἔστι δὲ οἰκία τε ἡ Ἀντήνορος καὶ παρδάλεως κρεμάμενον δέρμα ὑπὲρ τῆς ἐσόδου, σύνθημα εἶναι τοῖς Ἕλλησιν ἀπέχεσθαι σφᾶς οἴκου τοῦ Ἀντήνορος. γέγραπται δὲ Θεανώ τε καὶ οἱ παῖδες, Γλαῦκος μὲν καθήμενος ἐπὶ θώρακι γυάλοις συνηρμοσμένῳ, Εὐρύμαχος δὲ ἐπὶ πέτρᾳ.
παρὰ δὲ αὐτὸν ἕστηκεν Ἀντήνωρ καὶ ἐφεξῆς θυγάτηρ Ἀντήνορος Κρινώ· παιδίον δὲ ἡ Κρινὼ φέρει νήπιον. τῶν προσώπων δὲ ἅπασιν οἷον ἐπὶ συμφορᾷ σχῆμά ἐστι. κιβωτὸν δὲ ἐπὶ ὄνον καὶ ἄλλα τῶν σκευῶν εἰσιν ἀνατιθέντες οἰκέται· κάθηται δὲ καὶ ἐπὶ τοῦ ὄνου παιδίον μικρόν. κατὰ τοῦτο τῆς γραφῆς καὶ ἐλεγεῖόν ἐστι Σιμωνίδου· γράψε Πολύγνωτος, Θάσιος γένος, Ἀγλαοφῶντος / υἱός, περθομένην Ἰλίου ἀκρόπολιν. /
Of dead bodies there are the following. The naked man, Pelis by name, is flung on his back. Below Pelis lie Eioneus and Admetus, both still clad in their corselets. Lescheos says that Eioneus was slain by Neoptolemus and Admetus by Philoctetes. Other corpses lie higher up. Under the wash-basin is Leocritus, son of Pulydamas, slain by Ulysses. Above Eioneus and Admetus is Coroebus, son of Mygdon. This Mygdon has a famous tomb at the boundaries of the territory of Stectorium in Phrygia, and after him poets have been wont to give to the Phrygians the name of Mygdones. Coroebus came to wed Cassandra and was killed, according to the general account, by Neoptolemus, but according to Lescheos by Diomede. Above Coroebus are Priam, Axion, and Agenor. Lescheos says that Priam was not killed on the hearth of the God of the Courtyard, but that he was dragged from the altar and made short work of by Neoptolemus at his own door. As for Hecuba, Stesichorus, in The Sack of Ilium, represents her as conveyed to Lycia by Apollo. Lescheos says that Axion was a son of Priam, and was slain by Eurypylus, son of Euaemon. Agenor, according to the same poet, was butchered by Neoptolemus ; and thus it would appear that Agenor’s son Echeclus was slaughtered by Achilles, but Agenor himself by Neoptolemus. Sinon, a comrade of Ulysses, and Anchialus are bringing out the corpse of Laomedon. Another dead man is painted, Eresus by name. But no poet, so far as we know, has sung of the fate of Eresus and Laomedon.
The house of Antenor is seen with a leopard’s skin hung over the entrance, as a sign to the Greeks to spare the house. Theano is painted with her children, Glaucus being seated on a corselet composed of back-piece and breast-piece, and Eurymachus on a rock. Beside Eurymachus stands Antenor, and next Antenor is his daughter Crino, with a baby in her arms. The expression on all their faces is sorrowful. Servants are putting a coffer and other gear upon an ass; and on the ass is seated a little child. At this part of the picture there is also a couplet of Simonides :— Polygnotus, a Thasian by birth, son of Aglaophon Painted the sack of Ilium’s citadel.
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