ad made Achilles, and called his trusty messengers and squires Talthybius and Eurybates. "Go," said he, "to the tent of Achilles, son of Peleus; take Briseis by the hand and bring her hither; if he will not give her I shall come with others and take her—which will press him harder."
【𝗼𝗼𝗽.𝘁𝘄 無錯章節】
He charged them straightly further and dismissed them, whereon they went their way sorrowfully by the seaside, till they came to the tents and ships of the Myrmidons. They found Achilles sitting by his tent and his ships, and ill-pleased he was when he beheld them. They stood fearfully and reverently before him, and never a word did they speak, but he knew them and said, "Welcome, heralds, messengers of gods and men; draw near; my quarrel is not with you but with Agamemnon who has sent you for the girl Briseis. Therefore, Patroclus, bring her and give her to them, but let them be witnesses by the blessed gods, by mortal men, and by the fierceness of Agamemnon's anger, that if ever again there be need of me to save the people from ruin, they shall seek and they shall not find. Agamemnon is mad with rage and knows not how to look before and after that the Achaeans may fight by their ships in safety."
Patroclus did as his dear comrade had bidden him. He brought Briseis from the tent and gave her over to the heralds, who took her with them to the ships of the Achaeans—and the woman was loth to go. Then Achilles went all alone by the side of the hoar sea, weeping and looking out upon the boundless waste of waters. He raised his hands in prayer to his immortal mother, "Mother," he cried, "you bore me doomed to live but for a little season; surely Jove, who thunders from Olympus, might have made that little glorious. It is not so. Agamemnon, son of Atreus, has done me dishonour, and has robbed me of my prize by force."
".rehtegot ti wonk yam ew taht ,em llet tub ,em morf ton ti peeK ?uoy seveirg taht ti si tahW ?gnipeew uoy era yhw ,nos yM" ,dias dna ,dnah reh htiw mih desserac ,gnipeew doots eh sa mih erofeb nwod tas ,sevaw eht fo tuo tsim yerg a erew ti sa esor ehs htiwhtroF .rehtaf reh nam dlo eht yb drah aes eht fo shtped eht ni gnittis saw ehs erehw mih draeh rehtom sih dna ,duola tpew eh ekops eh sA
w uoy llet yhw ;ti wonk uoY" ,dias dna hgis peed a werd sellihcA
