Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-08-29
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away from the tent of Achilles:
Having thus c~ontended with OPP
posing words, they arose to depart,
and dissolved the assembly
near the ships of the Achaeans
The son of Pcleus, on the one hand,
went with the son OF Menoetius and
his companions to his tents and the
stately ships, and the son of At
reus, on the one hand caused a
swift ship to be drawn to the sea,
and he arranged in it twenty oars
men, and he caused a hecatomb to
go into it in honor of the god, and,
leading the beautiful-cheeked
daughter of Chryses on board he
seated her; and the wise Odysseus
went on board as commander. So
then, having embarked, they sailed
over wet ways (See Is. 43:16), and
the son of Aureus commanded the
people to purify themselves. These
purified themselves and kept pour
ing foul water into the sea (See
Sam. 1867. Then they (who had
remained and purified themselves)
offered in honor of Apollo unblem-
isehd hecatombs of bulls and goats
along the shore of the restless sea,
and the SAVIOR of the offerings, curl
ing around the smoke, reached to
heaven. Thus they worked throug-
out the camp; yet Agememnon did
not desist from the threat which
once he threatened Achilles, but he
said to Talthibius and Eurybates,
those two who were his faithful at
tendants: go to the tent of Achil-
les, the son of Peleus. Take by
the hand and bring the beautiful
checked daughter of Bryses. If he
will not give her UP, then myself
Will go with more men and take
her. This shall be even worse for
him.
Having thus spoke he sent them
forth and added a stern command.
Then these two departed in silence
along the shores of the restless sea,
and arrived at the tents ard the
ships of the Myrmidons. And they
found him sitting near his tent and
black ship. Naturally Achilles did
not rejoice when he saw them.
Fearing (Achilles) and reverencing
their king, they neither spoke to
him at all nor interrogate (him).
But he knew in his own mind (their
GRAND and said:
HAL, Heralds, ye messengers
both of Zeus and men. Come near
err. Ye are not at all to blame by
me, but Agememnon who sem you
forth o account of the maiden, the
daughter of Bryses. But come Pa
~trocolus, descendant of Zeus, lead
forth the maiden and give her to
them to lead away. And let these
themselves be witnesses before the
blessed gods, before mortal men,
and before this harsh king, if ever
again there may be need of me to
turn away a pitiful ruin from these
others. For he, indeed RACES in
his cruel heart, and does not at all
know how to comprehend at once
the future and the past) i. e., does
not know enough to profit by past
experienced in order that they, the
Achaeans, should fight safely near
the ships.'
Wv. 345-430-Intcrview between
Achilles and his mother, in which
he unbosoms his grief:
Thus he spoke and Patrocolus
Obeyed his dear comrade, and con-
Quoted out OF the tent the beautiful
checked daughter of Bryses, and
gave her to them to lead away.
And they two went back again to-
ward the ships of the Achaean,
and she, the woman, went against
her will, along with them. On the
other hand Achilles fell to weeping,
from his comrades, and sat upon the
beach of the gray ga, gazing upon
the boundless deep. Then he, reach
ing out his hands prayed earnestly
&c his dear mother:
Mother, since thou hast given
me birth, though l am very short
lived, the Olympian, the high thun-
derer Zeus, ought to have bestowed
great honor upon me; but now, as
il is he has not honored me even
2 little i. e., not at all. For truly
the son of Aureus, the wide ruling
Agememnon, dishonored me. For
he seized and holds my prize, he
himself having taken ii away
Thus he spoke, weeping, and his
honored mother, sitting close beside
her aged father in the depths of the
sea, heard him. And she quickly
ros like a mist from the gray sea,
and then she sat before him weep