Then a young man called Sinon stood up and said that he would risk himself and take the chance that the Trojans might disbelieve him, and burn him alive.
Had he fought in the front ranks, the Trojans would have known him; but there were many brave fighters who would not have dared to do what Sinon undertook.
But Sinon said: "Miserable man that I am, whom the Greeks hate and the Trojans are eager to slay!
Certainly, none of the Greeks did anything more courageous, yet Sinon had not been considered brave.
Sinon looked round upon them, while some were saying that he ought to be tortured with fire to make him tell all the truth about the horse.
It is not improbable that it may have become so on being adopted from the work of Virgil: “Come what may of it, as Sinon said.
Sinon likewise opened a secret door that was in the great Horse, and the chiefs issued forth therefrom, and opened the gates of the city, slaying those that kept watch.
The crafty Odysseus had left behind his trusty friend Sinon with full instructions as to his course of action.
Hardly had the crafty Sinon ceased speaking when the Trojans, with one accord, urged that the wooden horse should be brought into their city without delay.
When all slept the traitor Sinon slipped out from the turret of the palace where the king had assigned him a lodging, and crouching in the shadow climbed the hill of the citadel.
This seemed to all a sign from heaven to confirm what Sinonhad told them.
At midnight Sinon released the captive Greeks from the wooden steed, and, joined by their companions, who had noiselessly returned, they swarmed all over the undefended city.
In the Ilion Persis, or Sack of Troy, by Arctinus, in two books, we find the Trojans hesitating whether to convey the wooden steed into their city, and discover the immortal tales of the traitor Sinon and that of Laocoon.
Thou, Troy, preserved, to Sinon faithful stay, If true the tale I tell, if large the price I pay.
Within the gates, proud Sinon throws about The flames; and foes for entrance press without, With thousand others, whom I fear to name, More than from Argos or Mycenae came.
When sleep had locked his fetters everywhere Through Troy on folk fulfilled of wine and meat, Then Sinon lifted high a blazing torch To show the Argive men the splendour of fire.
The Sinon before Priam is an instance of it in a really fine work of Claude's, but the most gross examples are in the works of Salvator.
But Sinon said: 'Miserable man that I am, whom the Greeks hate and the Trojans are eager to slay!
Chaucer again alludes [377] toSinon in the House of Fame, i.
Grekissch hors Synon,' which makes Sinon the name of the horse; and this odd blunder is retained in the editions by Wright, Bell, and Morris.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sinon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
