The army
thus in sacred rites engaged,
Atrides
still with deep resentment raged.
To wait
his will two sacred heralds stood,
Talthybius
and Eurybates the good.
"Haste
to the fierce Achilles' tent (he cries),
Thence
bear Briseis as our royal prize:
Submit he
must; or if they will not part,
Ourself in arms shall tear her from his
heart."
The
unwilling heralds act their lord's commands;
Pensive
they walk along the barren sands:
Arrived,
the hero in his tent they find,
With
gloomy aspect on his arm reclined.
At awful
distance long they silent stand,
Loth to
advance, and speak their hard command;
Decent
confusion! This the godlike man
Perceived, and thus with accent mild began:
The army had
retird to sacred not war maneuvers. Thus they were peacefully in prayer. Atrtedes was still chrged up as Briseis leaves. The people heralding teh return keep pensive
vigil demanding teh prize return and the king bow his authority to thiers,
these not teh first seem the enemies that are trying to undermine the ancient Greeks victory and prize, submit to thy, I do not think so, you should have
nothing to do wirthis...
We have already comented that Briseis’ people not her were part of the
biological warfare.
I have a
suspicion there are going to be fetalities later amongst these people, we will
seee later in the tale what is going on.
“Submit
he must; or if they will not part,
Ourself in arms shall tear her from his
heart."
They really declare power over the ruler as if they
have the strength to force the issue.
Though sacred Talthybius and Eurybates are
reflecting the sentiments of those they represent ( though you might not bevel this the work has edited itself twice to point this out)
They two heralds are reflecting sentiments that get
a lot of people connected to teh rpize in trouble, the prize is more than the
female but teh authority of teh victory that caused the attempt to court her,
sje is on teh rulers side though obedient to teh necessity to try to stop the
desease plagueing teh Ancient Greeks.
The rulers heralds are reluctant to act as they empathise with teh plight of teh ruler, Atredes, and those heart broken by
events, including those suffering teh plagues.
They are with proper propriety towards the ruler and act slow allowing
proper semblance and propriety to rule the authority of their hands and what
they need to do.\
For the ruler is holy and divine and a good one,
thus this extra heartache and sacrifice to save his people is felt and appreciated with the solemn grace of admirers and friends who feel for him and
everyone else respectfully. Godlike was
substituted by teh spirit of this tale to explain, that they did not see him
as a God but more godlike like a saint, goodly some might say, they spoke mildly rather than harshly as what he did
was appropriate to his commission.
from : https://www.gutenberg.org/files/6130/6130-h/6130-h.html#toc5
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