Brutus Iulius Trois Page 08

Brutus Iulius Trois page 08 Suddenly stillness all sounds silenced the last pirate slain. From the bowels of the Tireme came cheers that grew louder From men newly freed from their enslavement to the Thracian oars Phyrgians, Scythians, Mysians and Lycians all hittite clansmen, kinsmen and allies of the Trojan tribes also were heard loud laudations from the surviving Phoenicians with softer lamentations for those they had lost. The Phoenician Teresh, the purple merchant of Tyre swore blood brotherhood to Brutus binding the Trojans to the Sea people in perpetuity giving his twelfth son Tursha to squire the Trojan Tursha terrified in the sea battle had hidden in the hold praying to Mercury the patron of merchants Brutus renamed the boy Turonus and proclaimed him a Trojan Brutus sent this new nephew to tend to Imogen In the sad sea green eyes of this foster child Imogen saw echos of her own recent woes comforting him she found comfort herself. When the Trojan siege had ended by trickery When the city was sacked and the Palladium taken The Greeks left a land salted with blood and bone The Greeks left a desolated city with defiled temples The Greeks left cursed with their own profane deeds. The Greeks left the Trojan traitor Antenor king with nothing to rule To abate the Greek curses caused by Locrian Ajax's vile deeds The Pythia at Delphi declared a thousand years of atonement with two Locrian priestesses sent as sacrifices to Troy sent to serve Minerva's temple in Troy, bearing the Ajaxian curse. As the oracle demanded Diomedes returned the Palladium to Aeneas Then did all Greek suffering cease, Ulysees returned home. Hesione's son Teucer founded a new Salamis in Cyprus. When Antenor rebuilt Troy's walls, Neptune shook them down sending waves that washed away fields, salting the gardens again. Apollo plagued Antenor with mice which ate the harvest to the seed. Scamander's golden spring lambs, sickened and died Afraid of what Minerva would do if they killed the Locrian Scapegoats Antenor and his sons soon abandoned Troy to the Phyrgians They sailed off seeking shelter far from this thrice cursed homeland