Sinon

), Aeneas recounts how Sinon was found outside Troy after the rest of the Greek army had sailed away, and brought to Priam by shepherds.

He told them that the horse was made too big for the Trojans to move it into their city, because if they did they would be invincible to later Achaean invasion.

This scene is in neither the Iliad nor the Odyssey but is in the Aeneid; it is central to the perspective Virgil builds, in support of the actual Roman sentiment, of the Greeks as cunning, deceitful, and treacherous.

The reader later finds out that it was Sinon who started the fire signal that drew the Trojans to the Greek camp.

[8] In Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy poem Inferno (Canto 30), Sinon is seen in the Tenth Bolgia of Hell's Circle of Fraud where, along with other Falsifiers of words, he is condemned to suffer a burning fever for all eternity.

[9] For instance in Cymberline, act III scene IV: and Sinon’s weepingDid scandal many a holy tear, took pity