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74 The Destruction of Troy.
That is Antenor's embassy.
295. So all his sons were summoned to Priam, and all
his leaders, and all his kings and his soldiers. Moreover then
Antenor was called to him, and Anchises and Aeneas and
Ucalegon and Panthous and Lampades. So when all the leaders
had come to the assembly, Priam uttered a speech of admo-
nition to them after they arrived. „I sent", saith Priam,
..Antenor from me on an embassy into the lands of the Greeks,
to bid my boon (?) from the Greeks after they had tormented
me. I sent (him) for this especially, to know whether my sister
would be delivered to me out of the bondage. Not only, however,
was she not delivered out of her bondage, but they made
a mockery of mo myself and of all the Trojans. This, then,
is what I desire — hosts and armies to march into Greece to
seek Hesione perforce since she cannot be got by consent or
for friendship (Or may be they might be thankful to cast her
from them in exchange for the booty that would be carried
out of Greece), so that the troops of the Trojans may no longer
be mocked by the Greeks." Then Priam urgently besought his
sons, and encouraged them to be chieftains in collecting every-
thing, in completing 1
(?) the preparation of a host and an army.
Though much he encouraged every one, much more ho encouraged
Hector. Him answered Hector — he is the man who
(always) spoke first in the meeting and in the assembly of the
Trojans — and said. „I", saith he, „am (that) one of the
Trojans who would be most faine to avenge my grandsire and
to do what Priam wishes, even though I should fall thereby.
Howbeit I dread that deed begun, unless ye carry it to the
end, and unless it is completed and brought into port; and
the greater is your shame if ye begin and do not complete it.
Because the Greeks are more numerous than ye are: multitu-
dinous arc their hosts and their peoples and their armies from
every side throughout the whole of Europe. And even though
it were only a single folk or a single tribe of Greeks, ye have
Lit. 'in putting an end (or head) ou.