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  • Look what happened to that counselor of Agamemnon's.†   (source)
  • When you could not make Achilles and Agamemnon listen?†   (source)
  • Proud Agamemnon, leader of the host, brittle as badly tempered iron.†   (source)
  • Achilles becomes angry with his leader, Agamemnon, withdraws his support from the Greeks, only rejoining the battle when the consequences of his action have destroyed his best friend, Patroclus.†   (source)
  • Their Trojan War is the Civil War, of course, and the murder at the gates is of the illegitimate son by his brother, not of the returning husband (Agamemnon) by his faithless wife (Clytemnestra), although she is invoked in the mulatto slave, Clytie.†   (source)
  • At its core, it's the story of a man who goes berserk because his stolen war bride is confiscated, acted out against a background of wholesale slaughter, the whole of which is taking place because another man, Menelaus (brother of Agamemnon) has had his wife stolen by Paris, half brother of Hector.†   (source)
  • Agamemnon, forced by divine order and by public 70 How TO READ LITERATURL LIKE A PROFESSOR sentiment to return his concubine to her father, retaliates against the person who most publicly sided against him, Achilles, by taking his concubine, Briseis.†   (source)
  • There would be other glories, I thought, and when Agamemnon's man came to collect me I pretended to be mad.†   (source)
  • Odysseus had endless patience for Agamemnon's caprice, but with those beneath him he could be harsh as winter storms.†   (source)
  • We would visit the Lion Gate of Mycenae, where Agamemnon's heirs ruled, and the walls of Troy, their stones chilled by winds from ice-peaked Ida.†   (source)
  • He said Agamemnon was the worst commander he had ever seen, but he thought he could use him to make a name for himself.†   (source)
  • There he saw many of the souls he had known in life, Ajax, Agamemnon, and with them Achilles, once Best of the Greeks, who chose an early death as payment for eternal fame.†   (source)
  • Ajax and Agamemnon would have battered at Troy's locked gates until they died, but it was I who thought of the trick of the giant horse, and I spun the story that convinced the Trojans to pull it inside.†   (source)
  • Or she'll observe, just after I've told her a story from the Iliad: 'You know, when you come to think of it, Agamemnon and that lot were nothing but a bunch of ruffians from the Gorbals, only with fancy names!'†   (source)
  • …mortal affront and right about the brother-in-law because if he hadn't been a demon his children wouldn't have needed protection from him and she wouldn't have had to go out there and be betrayed by the old meat and find instead of a widowed Agamemnon to her Cassandra an ancient stiff-jointed Pyramus to her eager though untried Thisbe who could approach her in this unbidden April's compounded demonry and suggest that they breed together for test and sample and if it was a boy they…†   (source)
  • It comes in the chorus of the Agamemnon.†   (source)
  • Elizabeth gave a piercing shriek, and the black of Agamemnon's face changed to a muddy white.†   (source)
  • The Agamemnon of Aeschylus is based on this legend.†   (source)
  • Amory, lately I reread Aeschylus and there in the divine irony of the "Agamemnon" I find the only answer to this bitter age—all the world tumbled about our ears, and the closest parallel ages back in that hopeless resignation.†   (source)
  • As one of a boarding-party from the Agamemnon he had received a cut slantwise along one temple and cheek, leaving a long scar like a streak of dawn's light falling athwart the dark visage.†   (source)
  • He was an Agamemnon man; some two years prior to the time of this story having served under Nelson, when but Sir Horatio, in that ship immortal in naval memory, and which, dismantled and in part broken up to her bare ribs, is seen a grand skeleton in Haydon's etching.†   (source)
  • While the old man's eccentricities, sometimes bordering on the ursine, repelled the juniors, Billy, undeterred thereby, revering him as a salt hero, would make advances, never passing the old Agamemnon man without a salutation marked by that respect which is seldom lost on the aged however crabbed at times or whatever their station in life.†   (source)
  • Agamemnon, king of the heroes, flings to earth Elatos, born in the rocky city which is laved by the sounding river Satnois.†   (source)
  • Agamemnon could not be got to show in his classical tunic, but stood in the background with Aegisthus and others of the performers of the little play.†   (source)
  • Gringoire hid his face between his two hands, not being so fortunate as to have a mantle with which to veil his head, like Agamemnon of Timantis.†   (source)
  • Holla! you Agamemnon! where are you?†   (source)
  • "Oh! mon cher Juge! mon ami!" cried a smothered voice," praise be God, I live; vill you, Mister Agamemnon, be pleas come down ici, and help me on my leg?"†   (source)
  • No sooner had the two sleighs approached within speaking distance, than the driver of this fantastic equipage shouted aloud "Draw up in the quarry—draw up, thou king of the Greeks; draw into the quarry, Agamemnon, or I shall never be able to pass you.†   (source)
  • "The next thing, I trust, will be to learn to drive," said the Judge, who bad busied himself in throwing the buck, together with several other articles of baggage, from his own sleigh into the snow; "here are seats for you all, gentlemen; the evening grows piercingly cold, and the hour approaches for the service of Mr. Grant; we will leave friend Jones to repair the damages, with the assistance of Agamemnon, and hasten to a warm fire.†   (source)
  • While speaking, the stock was slowly rising in Richard's right hand, and the lash drawing through his left, in the scientific manner with which drummers apply the cat; and Agamemnon, after turning each side of himself toward his master, and finding both equally unwilling to remain there, fairly gave in.†   (source)
  • Then to his crier, Talthybios, Agamemnon entrusted the beautiful caldron.†   (source)
  • So when Agamemnon dismisses the priest roughly, Apollo visits plague on the Greeks.†   (source)
  • Agamemnon hailed him, saying: "Nestor, son of Nelelis, pride of Akhaians!†   (source)
  • As long as that man raged at royal Agamemnon, we could fight the Akhaians with advantage.†   (source)
  • In the commander's hut Lord Marshal Agamemnon sacrificed a five-year ox to the overlord of heaven.†   (source)
  • And Agamemnon at a first glimpse in scathing speech rebuked him: "Baffling!†   (source)
  • They spilt their offerings and drank their fill, then briskly left the hut of Agamemnon.†   (source)
  • In Book II, Zeus sends a deceptive dream to lure Agamemnon into a mass attack.†   (source)
  • Agamemnon strikes at the very principles governing this war and making it an affair of honor.†   (source)
  • Promptly Lord Agamemnon and Odysseus, master of stratagems, arose.†   (source)
  • No one will show contempt for what I say, surely not Agamemnon, our commander.†   (source)
  • When they came near each other, Agamemnon thrust but missed as the haft turned in his hand.†   (source)
  • Then Agamemnon stole her back, out of my hands, as though I were some vagabond held cheap.†   (source)
  • On their side, the Akhaians conducted Aias in his pride of victory to Agamemnon.†   (source)
  • Lord Agamemnon, do not deprive him of the girl, renounce her.†   (source)
  • You don't yet know what Agamemnon means.†   (source)
  • Then Agamemnon said: "God send you're right, dear Menelaos!†   (source)
  • Believe me, I do not take this ill from the Lord Marshal Agamemnon.†   (source)
  • But high and clear they heard a shout from Agamemnon: "Hold on, Argives!†   (source)
  • Lord Marshal Agamemnon gave consent, so the bronze-shod spear went to Meriones.†   (source)
  • Then Agamemnon speared him in the flank, and he fell backward.†   (source)
  • Afterward, Agamemnon, you'll be more just to others, too.†   (source)
  • Not yet have I heard the voice of Agamemnon, either, shouting out of his hateful skull.†   (source)
  • King Agamemnon, calling the Argives in the chariots' wake, pressed on, slaughtering.†   (source)
  • My dear fellow, Menoitios made your duty doubly clear when he sent you from Phthia to Agamemnon!†   (source)
  • He thought it best to send to Agamemnon that same night a fatal dream.†   (source)
  • The son of Atreus, ruler of the great plain, Agamemnon, rose, furious.†   (source)
  • They turned, and Agamemnon led them forward.†   (source)
  • Agamemnon ordered out mules and men from every hut to forage firewood.†   (source)
  • Lord Marshal Agamemnon answered him: "You hit hard, and the blow comes home, Odysseus.†   (source)
  • In the absence of Akhilleus, Agamemnon, Menelaos, Odysseus, and Aias are singled out.†   (source)
  • I'll make it straight through all the camp until I reach the ship of Agamemnon.†   (source)
  • Lord Agamemnon made reply: "Believe me, sir, once more you win us all with your proposals here.†   (source)
  • On hearing this, the Marshal Agamemnon made the troops disperse at once to their own ships.†   (source)
  • But Agamemnon refuses and the two leading Akhaians fall to fighting.†   (source)
  • Concerned for them, he said: "Lord Agamemnon, princes of Akhaia, think of our losses.†   (source)
  • Rule with me equally, share half my honor, but do not ask my help for Agamemnon.†   (source)
  • But when his blood no longer flowed, and the gash dried, then rays of pain lacerated Agamemnon.†   (source)
  • The Lord Marshal Agamemnon answered: "Stay in their company.†   (source)
  • Afterward, you direct us, Agamemnon, by right of royal power.†   (source)
  • And Marshal Agamemnon exulted to see him slash the Trojan ranks with shots from his tough bow.†   (source)
  • Let King Agamemnon learn his folly in holding cheap the best of the Akhaians!†   (source)
  • Even so in pursuit was Agamemnon, forever killing laggards as they fled.†   (source)
  • Now Agamemnon stripped his corpse and bore amid the Akhaian host his beautiful armor.†   (source)
  • With arms held wide to heaven, Agamemnon prayed in the name of all: "O Father Zeus!†   (source)
  • He lies now by the beaked seagoing ships in anger at Lord Marshal Agamemnon.†   (source)
  • But when the rest returned round Agamemnon, voices and trampling feet awoke the sleeper.†   (source)
  • Agamemnon's harangue reached all his troops: "Shame, shame, you pack of dogs, you only looked well.†   (source)
  • At this each put his mark upon a stone and dropped it in the helmet of Agamemnon.†   (source)
  • They closed up ranks for action hand to hand and Agamemnon strove to outstrip them all.†   (source)
  • But now, amid the slim seagoing ships he lay alone and raged at Agamemnon, marshal of the army.†   (source)
  • See how the lord of the great plains, Agamemnon, humiliated me!†   (source)
  • Tell them your anger against Agamemnon is over and done with!†   (source)
  • Agamemnon, king of Mykene, and Menelaos, king of nearby Sparta, are the sons of Atreus.†   (source)
  • Then down he sat, and fury filled Agamemnon, looking across at him.†   (source)
  • Not one thing have I against you: Agamemnon is the man who sent you for Briseis.†   (source)
  • Agamemnon is willing to return the girl, but he insists he cannot go without a prize.†   (source)
  • Heaven-dwelling Muses of Olympos, . tell me who first, among allies or Trojans, braved Agamemnon?†   (source)
  • But tell me, Muse, of all the men and horses who were the finest, under Agamemnon?†   (source)
  • If you Will relent, Agamemnon will match this change of heart with gifts.†   (source)
  • The daughter of Agamemnon, son of Atreus, I will not take in marriage.†   (source)
  • Now the emissaries arrived at Agamemnon's lodge.†   (source)
  • Agamemnon answered:"Not that way will I be gulled, brave as you are, Akhilleus.†   (source)
  • The sun would have gone down upon their weeping had not Akhilleus quickly turned and said to Agamemnon: "Sir, troops act at once on your command.†   (source)
  • A girl, his prize from the Akhaians, Agamemnon took out of his hands to make his own, and ah, he pined with burning heart!†   (source)
  • The attentive soldiers acted on his words, while Diomedes, Odysseus, and Agamemnon, wounded as they were, kept all in order.†   (source)
  • Now Lord Marshal Agamemnon has been highhanded with him, has commandeered and holds his prize of war.†   (source)
  • And Agamemnon, marshal of the army, turned at once, telling his criers to send out shrill and clear to all Akhaian troops the call to battle.†   (source)
  • And Marshal Agamemnon abandoned Bienor and Oileus with glistening bare chests when he had stripped them.†   (source)
  • Behind Nestor in backing up Agamemnon is Odysseus, whose character conforms to the brave, eloquent, and successful warrior that he is in The Odyssey.†   (source)
  • Then Marshal Agamemnon took the life of Elatos, whose home had been in PMasos upon the height near Satnioeis river.†   (source)
  • Let the Lord Marshal Agamemnon bring his gifts to the assembly ground where all may see them; may your heart be warmed.†   (source)
  • Now it was he who tackled Agamemnon.†   (source)
  • And Nestor, Earl of Gerenia, charioteer, replied: "Agamemnon, I too could wish I were that man who killed the great Ereuthalion.†   (source)
  • Agamemnon proceeded to launch a ship, assigned her twenty oarsmen, loaded beasts for sacrifice to the god, then set aboard Khryseis in her loveliness.†   (source)
  • Here, let me wager a tripod or a caldron and appoint Agamemnon arbiter between the two of us as to which team is first.†   (source)
  • If one should see you here as the dark night runs on, he would report it to the Lord Marshal Agamemnon.†   (source)
  • Surveying these, Lord Agamemnon, marshal of fighting men, in urgent speech rebuked them: "Son of Peteos whom the gods reared!†   (source)
  • So boldly Thersites baited Marshal Agamemnon, till at his side, abruptly, Odysseus halted, glaring, and grimly said: "You spellbinder!†   (source)
  • But Agamemnon gets things off course by deciding first to test the troops' morale with a bit of reverse psychology.†   (source)
  • Agamemnon deferred to Nestor most, of all his peers; so in his guise the dream spoke to the dreamer: "Sleeping, son of Atreus, tamer of horses?†   (source)
  • For your sake the old master-charioteer, Peleus, made provision that I should come, that day he gave you godspeed out of Phthia to go with Agamemnon.†   (source)
  • In that hour no one could have perceived in Agamemnon a moment's torpor or malingering, but fiery ardor for the battle-test that brings honor to men.†   (source)
  • Then Agamemnon fitted on his brow a helmet double-ridged, with four white crests of horsehair nodding savagely above it.†   (source)
  • It is not true, as Akhilleus charges, that Agamemnon shirks battle; he can fight well, but is subject to repeated moods of doubt and vacillation.†   (source)
  • We've no lack of generous feasts this evening—in the lodge of Agamemnon first, and now with you, good fare and plentiful each time.†   (source)
  • Agamemnon at the same time dispatched Talthybios to the ships, bidding him bring a sheep as well, and he obeyed.†   (source)
  • Diomedes, Tydeus' rugged son, was shot-Odysseus and Agamemnon, the great spearman, have spear wounds; Eurypylos took an arrow shot deep in his thigh.†   (source)
  • Now his sons were caught by Agamemnon.†   (source)
  • Approaching him, the crier said: "This way, son of AsHepios: you are called by Agamemnon to examine Menelaos, the co-commander.†   (source)
  • And the Lord Marshal Agamemnon answered: "Glad I am to hear you, son of Laertes, finding the right word at the right time for all these matters.†   (source)
  • To see the wolfishness of Agamemnon?†   (source)
  • Never otherwise had Agamemnon stung me through and through; never would he have been so empty-headed as to defy my will and take the girl!†   (source)
  • Begin it when the two men first contending broke with one another— the Lord Marshal Agamemnon, Atreus' son, and Prince Akhilleus.†   (source)
  • Taking Agamemnon on the flank he hit his arm below the elbow: straight through skin and tendon passed the bright spearpoint.†   (source)
  • Call it proved and true beyond a doubt that Agamemnon, Lord of the Great Plains, caused this by contempt shown to Akhilleus.†   (source)
  • At first by a discus throw he had been outrun, but then he caught up fast, helped by the valor of Agamemnon's mare, silken-coated Aithe.†   (source)
  • It gladdened Agamemnon, who said to him: "I wish you had the same force in your legs as in your fighting heart; I wish your strength were whole again.†   (source)
  • And soon he would have set the ships ablaze—had-not a thought from Hera come to Agamemnon, to rouse himself and rally his Akhaians.†   (source)
  • My dear lad, how rightly in your case your father, Peleus, put it in his farewell, sending you out from Phthia to take ship with Agamemnon!†   (source)
  • The javelin-throwers advanced: first Agamemnon, ruler of the great plains, then Meriones, lieutenant to Idomeneus.†   (source)
  • They halted and sank down in their tracks, while Agamemnon brought to a halt Akhaians in their armor.†   (source)
  • But, Agamemnon, let your anger cool.†   (source)
  • Yet you bleat on, ' defaming the Lord Marshal Agamemnon because our Danaan veterans award him plentiful gifts of war.†   (source)
  • Then Nestor spoke: "Excellency, Lord Marshal Agamemnon, we shall do well to tarry here no longer, we officers, in our circle.†   (source)
  • Now the Lord Marshal Agamemnon spoke amid the armies: "Give me your attention, Trojans, Dardans, and allies; beyond question, Menelaos is victorious.†   (source)
  • Though Menelaos has suffered the insult that caused the war, the expedition is led by Agamemnon because he can marshal the biggest force.†   (source)
  • Akhilleus answered: "Excellency, Lord Marshal Agamemnon, make the gifts if you are keen to—gifts are due; or keep them.†   (source)
  • To this the noble Teukros answered: "Agamemnon, excellency, I am doing all I can; no point in promising things to cheer me on.†   (source)
  • To this Lord Nestor of Gerenia replied: "Lord Marshal of the army, Agamemnon, this time the gifts you offer Lord Akhilleus are not to be despised.†   (source)
  • They'd fill the gullies with dead men soon, in flight up through the plain, if Agamemnon were on good terms with me.†   (source)
  • But as he pulled the corpse to the Trojan side Agamemnon sent home his polished spear and mortally wounded him under his shield.†   (source)
  • Now Agamemnon, marshal of the army, looked and shuddered to see the dark blood flowing from the wound, and Menelaos himself went cold.†   (source)
  • Agamemnon answered: "You and I must have some plan of action, Menelaos, and a good one, too—some plan to keep the troops and ships from ruin.†   (source)
  • Then Agamemnon, the Lord Marshal, answered: "Sir, there is nothing false in your account of my blind errors.†   (source)
  • When all the food lay ready, when the soldiers turned from work, they feasted to their hearts' content, and Lord Agamemnon, ruler of the great plains, gave Aias the long marrowy cuts of chine.†   (source)
  • Scholars have duly pored over these verses and can correct Christopher Marlowe: Helens face launched exactly 1,186 ships, with Agamemnon's hundred the most.†   (source)
  • His shield hit hard by Agamemnon's thrust could not withstand the spearhead, but the point drove through his belt low down and crumpled him, with clang of arms upon him.†   (source)
  • It is the man of prayer whom Agamemnon treated with contempt: he kept his daughter, spurned his gifts: for that man's sake the Archer visited grief upon us and will again.†   (source)
  • They made their way to the forefront and sat down, and last behind them entered the Lord Marshal Agamemnon, favoring his wound: he too had taken a slash, from Antenor's son, Koon.†   (source)
  • Arkadians able in war had thronged to go aboard, for the Lord Marshal Agamemnon lent those ships in which they crossed the winedark sea, as they had none, nor knowledge of seafaring.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile the troops heard Agamemnon groan, holding his brother's hand, and heard him say, so that they groaned as well: "The truce I made was death for you, dear brother!†   (source)
  • He took as escort sons of illustrious Nestor: Phyleus' son Meges, Thoas, and Meriones, and the son of Kreion, Lykomedes, and Melanippos, to Agamemnon's quarters.†   (source)
  • Akhilleus explains that the plunder has already been divided and so he urges Agamemnon to take the long view—he'll be compensated many times over when Troy falls.†   (source)
  • Odious to Akhilleus this man was, and to Odysseus, having yapped at both, but this time he berated Agamemnon— at whom in fact the troops were furious— lifting his voice and jeering: "Agamemnon!†   (source)
  • Still fresh in manhood they embarked in the black shipss for the wild horse country of Ilion, to gain vengeance for the Atreidai, Agamemnon and Menelaos.†   (source)
  • Comparable to the throes a writhing woman suffers in hard labor sent by the goddesses of Travail, Hera's daughters, Twisters, mistresses of pangs, the anguish throbbed in Agamemnon now.†   (source)
  • In my mind's eye I see some arrogant Trojan on the grave of Menelaos, the great and famous man, leaping to say: 'Let Agamemnon's anger in every case come out like this!†   (source)
  • Now the Lord Marshal Agamemnon said: "Diomedes, my own right arm, you name your own companion; take the one you want, the best of those whose hands are up.†   (source)
  • Hippolokhos leapt, but Agamemnon caught him on the ground with one sword-cut, then slashed his arms away and sent him rolling out amid the melee like a round mortar stone.†   (source)
  • When everyone had crowded in, Akhilleus, the great battlefield runner, rose and said: "Agamemnon, was it better for us in any way, when we were sore at heart, to waste ourselves in strife over a girl?†   (source)
  • Agamemnon angered him, so he made a burning wind of plague rise in the army: rank and file sickened and died for the ill their chief had done in despising a man of prayer.†   (source)
  • Earl Nestor of Gerenia answered: "Lord Marshal of the army, Agamemnon, Zeus the Profound will not achieve for Hektor all that the man imagines now, or hopes for.†   (source)
  • Well, we could promise, and fulfill it, too, to give you Agamemnon's loveliest daughter brought out of Argos for you as your bride— if you would join to plunder Troy.†   (source)
  • Both were driving a single chariot, when the shining reins ran out of their limp hands, and panic shook them: Agamemnon, bounding like a lion, faced them.†   (source)
  • But now the son of Peleus turned on Agamemnon and lashed out at him, letting his anger ride in execration: "Sack of wine, you with your cur's eyes and your antelope heart!†   (source)
  • After Diomedes came the Atreidai, Agamemnon and Menelaos, and then the two named Aias, jacketed with brawn; then came Idomeneus and his lieutenant Meriones, peer of Enyalios, the god of slaughter.†   (source)
  • Not if his gifts outnumbered the sea sands or all the dust grains in the world could Agamemnon ever appease me—not till he pays me back full measure, pain for pain, dishonor for dishonor.†   (source)
  • In his isolation from the warrior band, Akhilleus has come to see that heroic prizes are no compensation for mortality: Agamemnon's gifts are "an honor I can live without.†   (source)
  • What I am going to say is not a trifle to toss aside: marshal the troops by nations and then again by clans, Lord Agamemnon, clan in support of clan, nation of nation.†   (source)
  • He tossed his cloak to be picked up by his lieutenant, Eurybates of Ithaka, and wheeling close to the silent figure of Agamemnon relieved him of his great dynastic staff, then ran on toward the ships.†   (source)
  • So, too, it is the taking of Briseis that makes Akhilleus utter the fateful prayer that Agamemnon "may know his madness, / what he lost when he dishonored me, peerless among Akhaians."†   (source)
  • I saw him chase Argives with carnage to their own shipways, while we stood wondering, forbidden war by the great anger that Akhilleus bore Lord Agamemnon.†   (source)
  • Then let Idaios go at dawn among the decked ships, bearing the Atreidai, Agamemnon and Menelaos, report of what was said here by Alexandras because of whom this quarrel began.†   (source)
  • Lord Agamemnon answered: "All you say is fairly said, sir, but this man's ambition, remember, is to lead, to lord it over everyone, hold power over everyone, give orders to the rest of us!†   (source)
  • Now the Lord of the Great Plains, Agamemnon, hit one with a spear-cast in the chest above the nipple; the other, Antiphos, he struck with his long sword beside the ear, toppling him from his car.†   (source)
  • The Akhaian soldiers all roared "Aye!" to this, aroused by Diomedes' words, and Lord Agamemnon responded to Idaios: "Idaios, there by heaven you yourself have heard the Akhaians' answer!†   (source)
  • At last brave Diomedes, lord of the warcry, said: "Excellency, Lord Marshal of the army, Agamemnon, you never should have pled with him, or given so many gifts to him.†   (source)
  • Here is another point: ponder it well: best not confuse my heart with lamentation for Agamemnon, whom you must not honor; you would be hateful to me, dear as you are.†   (source)
  • Past the old tomb of Ilos in mid-plain the Trojans streamed, and past the wild figtree, fighting to reach the city; and Agamemnon followed with battlecries, attacking ever, bloodying his inexorable hands.†   (source)
  • The Lord Marshal Agamemnon, elated at the sight, said to Idomeneus in the warmest tones: "Idomeneus, you are a man I prize above all handlers of fast horses, whether in war or any labor, or at feasts whenever in their mixing bowls our peers prepare the wine reserved for counselors.†   (source)
  • Then the Lord Marshal Agamemnon answered: "Nestor, son of Neleus, pride of Akhaians, know me for Agamemnon, son of Atreus, plunged by Zeus into the worst trouble a man could know, for as long as I draw breath, as long as my own legs will carry me.†   (source)
  • Because to lose a prize is to lose face, Agamemnon reasserts his position by demanding Akhilleus' prize, "to show you here and now who is the stronger / and make the next man sick at heart—if any / think of claiming equal place with me.†   (source)
  • Your question, now: yes, I can answer it: that man is Agamemnon, son of Atreus, lord of the plains of Argos, ever both a good king and a formidable soldier— brother to the husband of a wanton . or was that life a dream?†   (source)
  • He made Iris of golden wings his herald, saying: "Away with you who walk the wind, tell this to Hektor: while he still can see Lord Marshal Agamemnon in the forefront, devastating the ranks, let him retire and call on other troops to fight, to bear the brunt of battle with his enemies.†   (source)
  • As Book III opens, the two armies have been brought on stage and the chief Greeks are highlighted in the teikhoskopia: we are prepared for a great clash that will make Agamemnon regret the absence of Akhilleus.†   (source)
  • Calling the dream he said: "Sinister Dream, go down amid the fast ships of Akhaia, enter Lord Agamemnon's quarters, tell him everything, point by point, as I command you: Let him prepare the long-haired carls of Akhaia to fight at once.†   (source)
  • Then Akhilleus, defiant of Agamemnon, told his guest: "Dear venerable sir, you'll sleep outside tonight, in case an Akhaian officer turns up, one of those men who are forever taking counsel with me— as well they may.†   (source)
  • Pure Dawn had reached Olympos' mighty side, heralding day for Zeus and all the gods, as Agamemnon, the Lord Marshal, met his clarion criers and directed them to call the unshorn,Akhaians to full assembly.†   (source)
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