Epitome

He also took Lesbos [*](Compare Hom. Il. 9.129; Dictys Cretensis ii.16.) and Phocaea, then Colophon, and Smyrna, and Clazomenae, and Cyme; and afterwards Aegialus and Tenos, the so-called Hundred Cities; then, in order, Adramytium and Side; then Endium, and Linaeum, and Colone. He took also Hypoplacian Thebes[*](Compare Hom. Il. 2.691; Hom. Il. 6.397.) and Lyrnessus,[*](It was at the sack of Lyrnessus that Achilles captured his concubine Briseis after slaying her husband. See Hom. Il. 2.688ff., Hom. Il. 19.60; Hom. Il. 19. 291ff.; Hom. Il. 20.92; Hom. Il. 20.191ff. Compare Dictys Cretensis ii.17.) and further Antandrus, and many other cities.

A period of nine years having elapsed, allies came to join the Trojans:[*](With the following list of the Trojans and their allies, compare Hom. Il. 2.816-877.) from the surrounding cities,

from Zelia, Pandarus, son of Lycaon; from Adrastia, Adrastus and Amphius, sons of Merops; from Arisbe, Asius, son of Hyrtacus; from Larissa, Hippothous, son of Pelasgus;[*](Compare Hom. Il. 2.842ff., where the poet describes Hippothous as the son of the Pelasgian Lethus. Apollodorus, misunderstanding the passage, has converted the adjective Pelasgian into a noun Pelasgus.) from Mysia, Chromius[*](Homer calls him Chromis (Hom. Il. 2.858).) and Ennomus, sons of Arsinous; of the Alizones, Odius and Epistrophus, sons of Mecisteus; of the Phrygians, Phorcys and Ascanius, sons of Aretaon; of the Maeonians, Mesthles and Antiphus, sons of Talaemenes; of the Carians, Nastes and Amphimachus, sons of Nomion; of the Lycians, Sarpedon, son of Zeus, and Glaucus, son of Hippolochus.

Achilles did not go forth to the war, because he was angry on account of Briseis,---the daughter of Chryses the priest.[*](Compare Hom. Il. 1.1ff. From this point Apollodorus follows the incidents of the Trojan war as related by Homer.) Therefore the barbarians