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Literal Translation. 109
beautiful lady, to wit, Polyxena, he gave love and fondness
and affection to her. Then began to be peace without fighting
(as men were) awaiting the lady's betrothal to him.
1282. Now he felt sore that Agamemnon was put out of
his kingship and that Palamedes was reigning, because there
was nothing that Agamemnon would not do for him.
1284. Then Achilles sent a messenger, i. o. servus Trojanus,
to speak with Hecuba, namely, that Polyxena should be given
to him and that he would go to his country with his Myr-
midons along with him; and he declared that if he went,
every king and every leader of all the Greeks would go home.
Hecuba said that that thing she would like, if Priam liked it.
She asked Priam if it seemed good to him. „That cannot be,"
saith Priam — not, however, that he is bad of birth; for
though he should go to his home with his Myrmidons, the
leaders of the Greeks besides would not go." It seemed evil
to him to give his daughter to an unknown stranger who would
fare forthwith to his territory and his land. Then Achilles
sent the same servant to ask of Hecuba what counsel she and
Priam had given. 1 Hecuba declared to him Priam's counsel.
1297. Now when the messenger had related to Achilles
his tidings and his goings, he (Achilles) was lamenting and
bewailing greatly throughout the leaguer, and he said: „Great
the folly", saith he, „that is done here, namely, to collect the
valiant champions and hardy heroes of Asia and of Europe,
so that they have been a-smiting and slaughtering each other
because of one woman." Grievous it seemed to him, then, that
the children of the kings and the captains and the nobles should
perish and fade through that cause, and peasants and mean
races should become great after them. Better were peace there,
and friendship and good will, and that each should go to his
own land.
1306. Thereafter, then, the truces expired. Palamedes came
with his hosts and with his multitudes outside the camp so
Lit. made.