rolled more than ever.

"Chiefly when completed stood
This horse, compact of maple wood,
Fierce thunders, pealing in our ears,
Proclaimed the turmoil of the spheres."
CONINGTON, _AEneid_, BOOK II.

Then the Greeks sent a messenger to the shrine of Apollo to inquire
how they might obtain a safe passage to their country. The answer was
that the life of a Greek must be sacrificed on the altar of the god.
All were horror-stricken by this announcement, for each feared that
the doom might fall upon himself.

"Through every heart a shudder ran,
'Apollo's victim--who the man?'"
CONINGTON, _AEneid_, BOOK II.

The selection of the person to be the victim was left to Cal'chas, the
soothsayer, who fixed upon Sinon, and preparations were accordingly
made to sacrifice him on the altar of Apollo, but he contrived to
escape and conceal himself until the Grecian fleet had sailed.

"I fled, I own it, from the knife,
I broke my bands and ran for life,
And in a marsh lay that night
While they should sail, if sail they might."
CONINGTON, _AEneid_, BOOK II.

This was Sinon's story. The Trojans believed it and King Priam ordered