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than unpeace and unfriendship, and to have the heroes of the
two countries falling (in fight).
1396. When Agamemnon was told of Achilles' stern refusal
of the fighting, unto him all the other leaders were invited to
take counsel as to what they should do, whether it should be
what Achilles had said, to wit, peace and friendship, or whether
it should be warfare and quarrel as they had begun. He asked
them in the assembly what the mind of each of them chose.
Then, truly, his brother Menelaus besought him to hearten the
soldiers to the fighting, and not to relinquish Troy. Menelaus also
said that neither dread nor fear of the city was needful, for there
was no hero like Hector guarding it then, as there had been
before. Then said Ulysses and Diomede that Hector had not
been mightier than Troilus (was) in deeds of valour and prow-
ess. „However, it is not in order to refuse the fighting that
we declare that," say they. Then did Calchas declare to them
out of Apollo's prophecy, that they should not desert the land of
Troy, for that the fall of Troy was nearer to them than anything.
1410. Now when the end of this truce arrived, Agamem-
non and Menelaus, Diomede, Ulysses and Ajax fared towards
the fight. The Trojans, too, went on the other side with Troilus,
with Aeneas, with Helenus etc. The two battle-lines attacked
(each other) mightily and passionately. As to Troilus, however,
he went forward to the battalion of the Greeks. He began
to deliver a savage, fearful attack on the hosts. He wounded
Menelaus in the first line of battle. Then he mightily hunted
the hosts until they came to the camp. On the morrow Troilus
and Alexander went before the host of the Trojans. Agamem-
non, however, and Diomede and Ulysses and Nestor and Ajax
son of Telamon and Menelaus come before the battalions of
the Greeks. It is doubtful, then, if they left any one in the
camp save Achilles with his household and his host. Bitter,
insooth, was the kind of slaughter that they both inflicted.
No one there endured little (?) from another. " Troilus was
furious, and he gave a goal towards the Greeks, in such wise
that he was in the middle of the host. A champion's site was
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