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Rh fury at losing his own slave. There and then Achilles swore he would fight no more for that shameless Agamemnon, not until the slaughter broke against his own ships. The Greeks would turn to him in their hour of need, and call to him in vain, and then they would be sorry, who witnessed his disgrace and just stood by.

Now, as Hector and his men mauled the Greeks without mercy, that hour had come. Now Agamemnon bitterly rued his madness. He gnashed his teeth and cried tears of blood to see his friends cut down, no help in sight. Twice he had sent urgent envoys, his fellow nobles, the men Achilles loved the best, to beg his help with promises of gold and 103