ÂO friends! the chiefs and princes of the Greeks! Saturnian Jove hath in an evil snare Most cruelly entangled me. Sadly that assembly took Their seats and Agamemnon in the midst Rose, shedding tearsâ âas down a lofty rock, Darkening its face, a fountainâs waters flowâ â And, deeply sighing, thus addressed the Greeks:â â The king himself among the foremost gave The summons. As when two winds upturn the fishy deepâ â The north wind and the west, that suddenly Blow from the Thracian coast the black waves rise At once, and fling the sea-weed to the shoreâ â Thus were the Achaians troubled in their hearts.Ītrides, deeply grieving, walked the camp, And bade the clear-voiced heralds call by name To council all the chiefs, but not aloud. The Trojans thus kept watch while through the night The power of Flight, companion of cold Fear, Wrought on the Greeks, and all their bravest men Were bowed beneath a sorrow hard to bear. The Iliad - Book IX: The Embassy to AchillesĪgamemnonâs Proposal to raise the siege opposed by Diomed and Nestorâ â≊ councilâ âUlysses, Ajax, and Phoenix sent to Achilles to request a reconciliationâ âTheir reception, their persuasions, and their ill success.
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