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 * Achilles, the swift-footed, answered thus:

"Fear nothing, but speak boldly out whate'er Thou knowest, and declare the will of Heaven. For by Apollo, dear to Jove, whom thou, Calchas, dost pray to, when thou givest forth The sacred oracles to men of Greece, No man, while yet I live, and see the light Of day, shall lay a violent hand on thee Among our roomy ships; no man of all   The Grecian armies, though thou name the name Of Agamemnon, whose high boast it is To stand in power and rank above them all."
 * Encouraged thus, the blameless seer went on:

"'T is not neglected vows or hecatombs That move him, but the insult shown his priest, Whom Agamemnon spurned, when he refused To set his daughter free, and to receive Her ransom. Therefore sends the archer-god These woes, and still will send them on the Greeks,  Nor ever will withdraw his heavy hand From our destruction, till the dark-eyed maid Freely, and without ransom, be restored To her beloved father, and with her A sacred hecatomb to Chrysa sent.  So may we haply pacify the god."
 * Thus having said, the augur took his seat.

And then the hero-son of Atreus rose, Wide-ruling Agamemnon, greatly chafed. His gloomy heart was full of wrath, his eyes