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T H E
H I S T O R Y
OF THE
DESTRUCTION OF TROY.
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C H A P. I.
How Troy was the first Time destroyed by Hercules, for Leomedon's refusing to give him the Horses he promised, upon slaying a Sea Monster, delivering Exione, his Daugh- ter, from Destruction, and freeing the Land from a Plague, &c.
TROY, a famous city in Lesser Asia, was first founded by Dardanus, who made himself king of it, and all the coun- try, for three hundred miles lying round it, being then ,called the Dardan kingdom, rom the name of its founder. But after she had flourished twenty-nine years, much enlarging its borders, he left it to his son Illius, for which reason it is, by Homer and other poets, often called Illium; but it had he name of Troy from Tross, the succeed-
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