And if the story of Palamedes is true, the
most sensible of the Greeks and the best of them in
other ways stands convicted of having, through envy,
framed a plot and an ambush to trap a kinsman and
a friend, who had sailed away from home to front
the same peril as he Odysseus trapped Palamedes by getting a forged letter
from Priam hidden in his tent and then pretending to
discover it. ; so true is it that to err in this
direction is inborn in all mankind.