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114 The Destruction of Troy.
left for him in the midst of the battle, so that for a spearcast
from him there was none of his foes upon it. That attack of
his was not . . , to make a sword-land and a warlike fold and
a battle -wall of corpses around him amidst his foes in such
wise that foes were between them and his own people. Then
he attacked the band of the soldiers among whem was Diomede,
and he put them to flight. 1
Thereafter he attacked the band
of the kings with Agamemnon: he routed them and slew a
king among them. He is mad then and falls 2 upon them like
a wolf among sheep till he pressed them before him as far as
the camp. In that wise, then, were they battling for the space
of thirty days. Many thirties, many forties, many fifties, many
hundreds, many thousands of them fell at that season.
1437. Now when Agamemnon saw that a vast host of his
people had fallen, and that of (his) host there was not the
material for battling against the Trojans by reason of the de-
struction of his people, he sent to ask of Priam a truce to
the end of six months. So all his leaders were invited to Priam,
and he told them that men had come from the Greeks to ask
a half-year's truce. That, however, was not readily got from the
Trojans and Troilus; nevertheless they granted it at Priam's en-
treaty. Thereafter the envoys of the Greeks came to the camp.
After the granting of the truce every one buried his friend and his
companion, and moreover the wounded folk, namely, Diomede and
Menelaus, were tended by Agamemnon. Then the Trojans did the
same, to wit, they buried their dead, they healed their wounded.
1499. Now the Grecian kings took counsel 3 as to how
they should prevail on Achilles to come into the battle, because,
except him, there was found no hero with them who could \
withstand Troilus. So they persuaded Agamemnon himself to
come and invite Achilles. Then Achilles besought Agamemnon
that he should not make war, but that it should be peace; for
,peace is letter than lucky warfare' „If, however, ye fare
' " Lit. so that D. was among them, and he put hunting on them, cf. 1416.
2 Lit. plies himself.
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Lit. there was a counsel with (apud) the Grecian kings.