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rest, then, both gods and horse-arraying men, slept all the night: but Jove sweet sleep possessed not; but he was pondering in his mind how he might honor Achilles, and destroy many at the ships of the Greeks. But this device appeared best to him in his mind, to send a fatal dream to Agamemnon, the son of Atreus. And addressing him, he spoke winged words:

"Haste away, pernicious dream, to the swift ships of the Greeks. Going into the tent of Agamemnon, son of Atreus, utter very accurately every thing as I shall command thee. Bid him arm the long-haired Achæns with all their array; for now perhaps he may take the wide-wayed city of the Trojans; for the immortals who possess the Olympian mansions no longer think dividedly, for Juno, supplicating, hath bent all [to her will]. And woes are impending over the Trojans."

Thus he spake: and the dream accordingly departed, as