Sinon

a son of Sisyphus, who accompanied the Greeks to the ‘Trojan war, and there distinguished himself by his cunning 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 he had fled away from their camp, not to be cruelly immolated, for the purpose of rendering the wind propitious for their return. These false a ertions were credited, and Sinon advised Priam to bring into his city the wooden horse, and to consecrate it to Minerva. His advice was followed; and to complete his perfidy, he opened in the night the side of the horse, from which i ued a num- — ber of armed Greeks, who surprised the Tro~ — jans, and pillaged their city.