his armor "long disused," and was about to rush forth to meet the foe,
but Hec'u-ba, his queen, persuaded him to take refuge with her in a
court of the palace in which were placed the altars of their gods.
Here he was shortly afterwards cruelly slain by Pyrrhus.

Thus Priam fell, and shared one common fate
With Troy in ashes, and his ruined state;
He, who the scepter of all Asia swayed,
Whom monarchs like domestic slaves obeyed.
DRYDEN, _AEneid_, BOOK II.

There being now no hope to save the city, the thoughts of AEneas
turned to his own home where he had left his father Anchises, his wife
Cre-u'sa (daughter of King Priam) and his son Iulus (also named
As-ca'ni-us). Making his way thither with the purpose of providing for
their safety, he espied Helen, the "common scourge of Greece and
Troy," sitting in the porch of the temple of the goddess Ves'ta.
Enraged at the sight of the woman who had been the cause of so many
woes to his country, AEneas was about to slay her on the spot, but at
that moment his mother Venus appeared to him in the midst of a bright
light.

Great in her charms, as when on gods above
She looks, and breathes herself into their love.
DRYDEN, _AEneid_, BOOK II.

Taking the hero by the hand as he was in the act of raising his sword
to strike Helen, the goddess thus rebuked him: "What is it that
excites your anger now, my son? Where is your regard for me? Have you
forgotten your father Anchises and your wife and little son? They