Smooth, broad, flat and motionless she carried, like the Wooden Horse of troy, a thousand dangers in the depths of her placidity.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
Unlike the many medieval redactors of the troy story, however, he does not assume the historian's liberty of selection and combination from a variety of sources.
"Early Theories of Translation"
Flora Ross Amos
A similar objection to the employment of a "plain" style in telling the troy story was made, it will be remembered, in the early fifteenth century by Wyntoun.
"Early Theories of Translation"
Flora Ross Amos