Poems by Richard Finneran

A translation of Aeneid II.195-198

By such deceits and cunning
lying Sinon was believed,
and we of Troy were captured,
by false tears of his deceived,
whom neither Diomedes 
nor Achilles could have claimed,
nor ten years, nor a thousand
ships, the Trojans to have tamed.

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All poems copyright © Richard Finneran 2010.