And if the story of Palamedes is true, the most sensible of the Greeks and the best of them in other ways stands convicted of having, through envy, framed a plot and an ambush to trap a kinsman and a friend, who had sailed away from home to front the same peril as heOdysseus trapped Palamedes by getting a forged letter from Priam hidden in his tent and then pretending to discover it.; so true is it that to err in this direction is inborn in all mankind.