Lines 77 - 89: Sinon describes joining the war with Palamedes ✅

'cuncta equidem tibi, rex, fuerit quodcumque, fatebor vera,'           

‘I will indeed confess to you king the whole truth, whatever will come of it,’

inquit; 'neque me Argolica de gente negabo.

he said, ‘and I will not deny that I am from a Greek family.

hoc primum; nec, si miserum Fortuna Sinonem,

This is first; if Fortune has made Sinon wretched,

finxit, vanum etiam mendacemque improba finget.              

she, cruel, will not also make him untrustworthy and a liar.

fando aliquod si forte tuas pervenit ad aures

If by chance in speech there has reached your ears

Belidae nomen Palamedis et incluta fama,

the name of Palamedes son of Belus and his renowned glory in legend,

gloria, quem falsa sub proditione Pelasgi,

whom the Pelasgians, under a false charge of treachery,

insontem infando indicio, quia bella vetabat,

an unspeakable charge, because he opposed the war,

demisere neci, nunc cassum lumine lugent:

sent innocent to his death, now they mourn him, bereft of the light:

illi me comitem et consanguinitate propinquum,

to him as a companion and blood relative,

pauper in arma pater primis huc misit ab annis.

my father, a poor man, sent me hither in arms in my earliest adult years.

dum stabat regno incolumis regumque vigebat

While he stood unchallenged in his kingship and flourished

conciliis, et nos aliquod nomenque decusque/gessimus.

in the councils of the kings, we too bore both some name and respect.