[362] morti quoque reddita praeda: i.e. the power of Achilles will be shown by the fact that he continues even after death to make the Trojans his prey. Polyxena, daughter of Priam, in the course of the siege betrothed on pretence of peace to Achilles, was at the capture of the city sacrificed to his manes by Pyrrhus; cf. Ov. Met. 13.439ff.; Serv. on Verg. A. 3.321; Hyg. Fab. 110; Eur. Hec. 37ff.; Eur. Hec. 521ff.
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