When Polydoros was born, the son of Priam by Hekube, they gave him to their daughter Ilione to be raised. She was the wife of Polymnestor, King of the Thracians, and she raised him as her own son; she furthermore raised Deipylos, whom she had borne by Polymnestor, as though he were her brother, so that if anything should happen to either one, she would present the other to her parents. 2. But since the Achaians wished to extirpate the descendants of Priam after the capture of Troy, they threw Astyanax, the son of Hektor and Andromache, from the wall, and sent ambassadors to Polymnestor, who promised him Agamemnon’s daughter Elektra in marriage and a great quantity of gold on condition that he kill Polydoros, the son of Priam. 3. Polymnestor did not reject the words of the ambassadors, and unknowingly slew his son Deipylos, thinking that he had killed Polydoros, the son of Priam. 4. Polydorus, however, went to the oracle of Apollo to inquire about his parents, and the response to him was that his homeland had been burned, his father slain, and his mother held in servitude. 5. When thence he returned and saw that it was not as the oracle responded... that he was the son of Polymnestor, he asked his sister Ilione why the prophecies had spoken otherwise; his sister revealed the truth to him, and at her suggestion he first blinded Polymnestor, and then killed him.