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126 The Destruction of Troy.
sembly: a very mighty youth was he; and he spake words
there to Anterior and to those who were at one 1 with him.
„It were meeter for you," saith he, „that you should spur on
the host and go before them to fight against our foes on be-
half of your country and your fatherland and your city." After
Amphimachus had completed these words, Aeneas son of An-
chises arose and uttered a gentle answer to Amphimachus.
„My son," saith he, „better were peace and goodwill than tin-
peace and quarrelling."
1764. Then Priam himself arose and said: „Who are you,
I indeed," saith he, „a-seeking peace and quiet/lt is through you
hath come every evil that hath been done here. Ye were the
leaders whom I sent to the Greeks. I sent one of the twain to
demand my sister for me from the kings of the Greeks. When
he came back with disgrace and refusal from all the kings of
rthe Greeks he was persuading and pressing us (?) to deliver
battle to the Greeks. Ohl^comrades, moreover, it is he, together
with Alexander, that wrecked the island Cythera, and brought
thereout Helen and the booty besides. Therefore the peace is
not to be sought for 2 by you. Let your mind, however, be
towards this, that you may be 3 ready when the trumpet shall
sound — going to the gates to give fierce, hard battle to the
Greeks — to rout your enemies or to die yourselves!"
1777. Now when the utterance of these words had ended
every one went home. So Priam entered the palace and his
son was called to him, to wit, Amphimachus, and he said
to him „I fear," saith he, „that the folk who are enjoining
the peace will betray the city. Wherefore it is right to slay
them before they finish that design." He was certain that un-
less the city was betrayed he would be victorious in battle over
his enemies, and would put them to flight. This is the counsel
that Priam formed: his most valiant soldiers were collected
1 Lit. in his unity.
2 iarata is obviously corrupt, read perhaps iarrthi.
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J For corbat I read corbad.