201rising with difficulty and demanding no small resources; and together with the trident-bearing father of the swelling deep he puts on mortal form and builds walls for the Phrygian tyrant, having bargained for gold in return for the ramparts. 205The work was standing: the king denies the payment and, as a crowning act of treachery, adds perjury to his lying words. 207'You will not go unpunished,' said the ruler of the sea, and he tilted all his waters towards the shores of greedy Troy, filled the land until it took the form of a sea, swept away the farmers' wealth and buried the fields beneath the waves. 211Nor is this punishment enough: the king's daughter too is demanded for a monster of the sea; 212when she was chained to the hard rocks, Alcides sets her free and claims the promised reward, the horses agreed on, and, when the payment for so great a labour was refused, he captures the twice-perjured walls of conquered Troy.
216Nor did Telamon, a partner in the campaign, come away without honour, and he wins Hesione, given to him. 217For Peleus was famous for his goddess wife: and he was not prouder of his grandfather's name than of his father-in-law's, since to be the grandson of Jupiter had fallen to more than one, but a goddess for a wife had fallen to him alone.