Diomed and Ulysses, two of the Grecian heroes, contrived to convey the Palladium away, and Troy was taken. […] He was accounted the son of Venus and Bacchus; and his image, a most hideous mis-shapen figure, was set up to frighten away birds and thieves. […] Echo pined away with grief for the loss of Narcissus, but being immortal preserved her voice, repeating every sound which reached her. […] To hew the beams of adamant away. […] Echo was so afflicted at the treatment she received from Narcissus, that she pined entirely away, nothing of her remaining but her voice.