hat you know well already? We went to Thebe the strong city of Eetion, sacked it, and brought hither the spoil. The sons of the Achaeans shared it duly among themselves, and chose lovely Chryseis as the meed of Agamemnon; but Chryses, priest of Apollo, came to the ships of the Achaeans to free his daughter, and brought with him a great ransom: moreover he bore in his hand the sceptre of Apollo, wreathed with a suppliant's wreath, and he besought the Achaeans, but most of all the two sons of Atreus who were their chiefs.
"On this the rest of the Achaeans with one voice were for respecting the priest and taking the ransom that he offered; but not so Agamemnon, who spoke fiercely to him and sent him roughly away. So he went back in anger, and Apollo, who loved him dearly, heard his prayer. Then the god sent a deadly dart upon the Argives, and the people died thick on one another, for the arrows went everywhither among the wide host of the Achaeans. At last a seer in the fulness of his knowledge declared to us the oracles of Apollo, and I was myself first to say that we should appease him. Whereon the son of Atreus rose in anger, and threatened that which he has since done. The Achaeans are now taking the girl in a ship to Chryse, and sending gifts of sacrifice to the god; but the heralds have just taken from my tent the daughter of Briseus, whom the Achaeans had awarded to myself.
dna ,gnik rieht fo yam yeht yoj tahw paer yam yeht taht ,erohs-aes eht no hsirep dna ,spihs rieht fo snrets eht ta ni demmeh eb snaeahcA eht teL .snajorT eht ot ruoccus evig mih dib dna ,seenk sih psalc ,siht lla fo mih dnimer ,mih ot ,neht ,oG .mih dnib ton did dna ,diarfa erew sdog rehto eht ,nrutaS fo nos eht ediseb suoirolg-lla taes sih koot eh erofereht nehw ;rehtaf sih naht neve regnorts si eh rof ,noeageA nem tub ,suerairB llac sdog mohw retsnom dednah-derdnuh eht supmylO ot gnillac yb mih dereviled ohw ,sseddog ,uoy saw tI .sdnob ni mih tup evah dluow avreniM sallaP dna ,enutpeN ,onuJ htiw ,srehto eht nehw ,niur morf nrutaS fo nos eht devas slatrommi eht fo enola uoy taht ni yrolg uoy draeh I evah esuoh s'rehtaf ym ni semittfO .evoJ fo dia eht erolpmi ,deed ro drow ni ecivres mih enod reve evah uoy fi dna ,supmylO ot oG .elba era uoy fi ,erofereht ,nos evarb ruoy pleH"
