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cil summoned to deliberate what measures
are to be followed in this emergency.
Agamemnon pursues this advice, and
Nestor further prevails upon him to send
ambassadors to Achilles, in order to
move him to a reconciliation. Ulysses
and Ajax are made choice of, who are accompanied
by old Phoenix. They make,
each of them, very moving and pressing
speeches, but are rejected with roughness
by Achilles, who notwithstanding retains
Phoenix in his tent. The ambassadors return
unsuccessfully to the camp, and the
troops betake themselves to sleep.
This book, and the next following, take
up the space of one night, which is the
twenty-seventh from the beginning of the
poem. The scene lies on the sea-shore,
the station of the Grecian ships.
Thus joyful Troy maintain'd the
watch of night;