At contra Argyripae pravum decus (inclita namque semina ab Oenea ductoris stirpe trahebat Aetoli: Dasio fuit haud ignobile nomen) laetus opum, sed clauda fides; seseque calenti addiderat Poeno, Latiae diffisus habenae' is, volvens veterum memorata antiqua parentum, longo miles ait, quateret cum Teucria bello Pergama, et ad muros staret sine sanguine Mavors, sollicitis Calchas (nam sic fortissimus heros poscenti socero saepe inter pocula Dauno narrabat memori Diomedes condita mente)' sed Calchas Danais, nisi clausum ex sedibus arcis armisonae curent simulacrum avellere divae, non umquam affirmat Therapnaeis Ilion armis cessurum, aut Ledae rediturum nomen Amyclas.
There was one dissenting voice. This was Dasius, the glory and the shame of Argyripab'a man of noble birth, who traced his origin to Diomede, son of Oeneus and king of Aetolia. A wealthy man but a faithless ally, he had joined himself to fiery Hannibal, distrusting the rule of Rome. Thus he spoke, recalling the tradition of former generations: When an army carried on a long campaign against the citadel of Troy and warfare halted bloodless before the walls, Calchasc explained their difficulty. (The brave hero Diomede had kept the tale in mind and often told it, when Daunus, his father-in-law, asked to hear it over their wine.) Calchas assured the Greeks that, unless they could contrive to carry off the image of the Warrior Goddessd from the shrine in the citadel that guarded it, Ilium would never yield to the army of Sparta, nor would Ledas childa return to Amyclae.
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