Neoptolemus. The son of Achilles. Neoptolemus was reared in Scyros, in the pa]ace of Lycomedes, and was brought from thence by Ulysses, because it had been prophesied that Neoptolemus and Philoctetes were necessary for the capture of Troy. At Troy Neoptolemus showed himself worthy of his great father. He was one of the heroes concealed in the wooden horse. At the capture of the city he killed Priam, and sacrificed Polyxena to the spirit of his father.
