Sinon

, a son of Sisyphus, who accompanied the Greeks to the Trojan war, and there distinguished himself by his cunning and fraud, and his intimacy with Uly es. When the Greeks had fabricated the famous wooden horse, Sinon went to Troy with his hands bound behind his back, and by the most solemn protestations, a ured Priam that the Greeks were gone from Asia, and that they had been ordered to sacrifice one of their soldiers, to render the wind favourable to their return, and that because the lot had fallen upon him, at the instigation of Uly es, he had fled away from their camp, not to be cruelly immolated. These false a ertions were immediately credited by the Trojans, and Sinon advised Priam to bring into his city the wooden horse which the Greeks had left behind them, and to consecrate it to Minerva. His advice was followed, and Sinon in the night, to complete his perfidy, opened the side of the horse, from which i ued a number of armed Greeks, who surprised the Trojans, and pillaged their city. Dares Phrygius. — Homer , Ody ey , bk. 8 , li. 492 ; bk. 11 , li. 521 .— Virgil , Æneid , bk. 2 , li. 79 , . — Pausanias , bk. 10 , ch. 27 .— Quintus Smyrnæus , bk. 12 , .