et iam Argiva phalanx instructis navibus ibat a Tenedo, tacitae per amica silentia lunae litora nota petens, flammas cum regia puppis extulerat, fatisque deum defensus iniquis inclusos utero Danaos et pinea furtim laxat claustra Sinon.
And now the Argive host, with marshalled ships, was moving from Tenedos, amid the friendly silence of the mute moon, seeking the well-known shores, when the royal galley had raised the beacon light'and Sinon, shielded by the gods malign doom, stealthily sets free from the barriers of pine the Danaans shut within the womb.