emple with garlands, or burned your thigh-bones in fat of bulls or goats, grant my prayer, and let your arrows avenge these my tears upon the Danaans."
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Thus did he pray, and Apollo heard his prayer. He came down furious from the summits of Olympus, with his bow and his quiver upon his shoulder, and the arrows rattled on his back with the rage that trembled within him. He sat himself down away from the ships with a face as dark as night, and his silver bow rang death as he shot his arrow in the midst of them. First he smote their mules and their hounds, but presently he aimed his shafts at the people themselves, and all day long the pyres of the dead were burning.
For nine whole days he shot his arrows among the people, but upon the tenth day Achilles called them in assembly—moved thereto by Juno, who saw the Achaeans in their death-throes and had compassion upon them. Then, when they were got together, he rose and spoke among them.
"Son of Atreus," said he, "I deem that we should now turn roving home if we would escape destruction, for we are being cut down by war and pestilence at once. Let us ask some priest or prophet, or some reader of dreams (for dreams, too, are of Jove) who can tell us why Phoebus Apollo is so angry, and say whether it is for some vow that we have broken, or hecatomb that we have not offered, and whether he will accept the savour of lambs and goats without blemish, so as to take away the plague from us."
—:suht meht desserdda eh lliwdoog dna ytirecnis lla htiW .mih deripsni dah ollopA subeohP hcihw htiw sgniysehporp eht hguorht ,suilI ot teelf rieht htiw snaeahcA eht dediug dah ohw saw ti eH .kaeps ot esor ,emoc ot dna tneserp tsap sgniht wenk ohw ,srugua fo tsesiw ,rotsehT fo nos sahclaC dna ,nwod tas eh sdrow eseht htiW
".em tcetorp lliw uoy on ro rehtehw ,erofereht ,redisnoC .ti dekaerw sah eh llit egnever esrun tey lliw ,won erusaelpsid sih wollaws eh fi ohw ,gnik a fo regna eht tsniaga dnats tonnac nam nialp A .noitcejbus ni era snaeahcA eht lla mohw ot ,thgim htiw sevigrA eht selur ohw eno dneffo llahs I taht wonk I rof ,deed dna drow ni ylitraeh em yb dnats lliw uoy taht raews dna tsrif redisnoc tub ;os od erofereht lliw I ,ollopA gniK fo regna eht tuoba uoy llet em dib uoy ,nevaeh fo devol ,sellihcA"
