aeneid, 2 haiku-laocoon

conor fugere
ille est decipere
anguEs vicisse

[he] tries to escape
he is trapped
the snakes have killed him

(i wasnt sure if ithad to be 5-7-5 in english too, so i only did it in latin. i originally had it in english too but the words didnt work out right. so im not sure if i did it right)

Aeneid, book 2, question

There are elements of Sinon's story that made his lie very believable to the Trojans.
For example, he started out by saying that he was a Greek man whos father was an enemy of Odysseus. In reality, however, and what the Trojans obviously didn't know, was that Odysseus was feeding information to Sinon, telling him what to say to make the story believable.
A second piece of evidence that proves that Sinon makes his story believable is when he tells the Trojans that in order to escape Minerva's wrath (after her temple was destroyed by Ulysses), and as an offering to her, they must accept the Trojan horse inside their city walls. If they don't, their city will be destroyed and Minerva will not allow them to return home via a safe route. However, if they do install the horse inside their walls, Minerva will be on their side and they will have victory over the Greeks.
Now in reality, Sinon was trying to persuade the Trojans to allow the horse inside their city for his own devious and selfish benefit - or more for all the people inside the horse's benefit. It was quite brilliant of Odysseus to come up with this plan with Sinon to get the horse inside the city. Without it, it probably wouldn't have worked any other way. These are a few examples of how Sinon made elements of his story believable for the Trojans.