all the long while my husband was beneath Ilium’s walls. First and foremost, it is a terrible evil for a wife to sit forlorn at home, severed from her husband, always hearing many malignant rumors, and for one messenger after anotherto come bearing tidings of disaster, each worse than the last, and cry them to the household. And as for wounds, had my husband received so many as rumor kept pouring into the house, no net would have been pierced so full of holes as he. Or if he had died as often as reports claimed,then truly he might have had three bodies, a second Geryon,Geryon, a monster (here called three-bodied, but ordinarily three-headed) whose oxen were driven away from Spain by Heracles.and have boasted of having taken on him a triple cloak of earth ~~ample that above, of that below I speak not~~, one death for each different shape. Because of such malignant tales as these,