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not sleep, on that night, their sound sleep. They had put their
great fear from them. They had avenged their sighs. They
had cast their weariness from them after overwhelming the
great soldier who had flung down their champions (and) laid
their heroes low.
1225. Now while Memnon was on the morrow gathering
the battle for the Greeks, Agamemnon sent messengers to
Priam to ask a truce to the end of two months, for burying
their dead, for tending their wounded. After this truce had
been granted by Priam, Hector was buried by him before
the gates of the city, and funeral games were held for him,
according to 1 the rites and the customs of the Trojans.
1231. While the truces were lasting Palamedes was complain-
ing greatly that Agamemnon had the kingship. So when Agamemnon
heard that, he declared that he would part from his
kingship if every one (so) wished. On the morrow, therefore, the
people are summoned to a council. Then Agamemnon declared that
he was not covetous about the kingship: he was willing though
he should abide therein, he was willing not to abide. Enough for
him only that the honourprice of the Trojans should be exacted.
So when Palamedes was boasting of his wisdom and his know-
ledge, of his valour and of his princeliness, the Greeks then
appointed him chief king over them all. So Palamedes assumed
the kingship and gave thanks to the Greeks. Howbeit, Achilles
was ill-pleased that a change of kings had been made by them.
1242. Howbeit, Palamedes took to fortifying the camp
and enlarging the trenches (?). Then he urged on the soldiers
to come boldly to fight against the Trojans and (especially)
against Deiphobus, son of Priam. So on the morrow the Trojans
and the Greeks meet on the battle-field. Then Sarpedon Lycius,
a Trojan, routed the Greeks and inflicted great slaughter
upon them. Tlepolemus Rhodius, a Greek, fights a fierce con-
test against Sarpedon, a Trojan. Now when Pheres son of
Admetus, a royal captain of Greeks, saw that Tlepolemus had
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