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Here on the monarch's speech Achilles broke,

And furious, thus, and interrupting spoke:

"Tyrant, I well deserved thy galling chain,

To live thy slave, and still to serve in vain,

Should I submit to each unjust decree:—

Command thy vassals, but command not me.

Seize on Briseis, whom the Grecians doom'd

My prize of war, yet tamely see resumed;

And seize secure; no more Achilles draws

His conquering sword in any woman's cause.

The gods command me to forgive the past:

But let this first invasion be the last:

For know, thy blood, when next thou darest invade,

Shall stream in vengeance on my reeking blade."

At this they ceased: the stern debate expired:

The chiefs in sullen majesty retired.

Here praising Achilles the orator protests with his hoped voice that his servility to the system cannot go without reward of at least the freedom of selfdom and just choice.  Winning  the siege of Briseis and a prize of war which was love and yet the freedom of earnestness is the freedom gotten by victory, if such exist.  His conquering is just that any women would find him fair

The judgement is divine by blessing of Gods and the forgiveness of the past hoping to find a wife or future is more blessed that looking constantly of the hell of the past that got such an Orpheus to this place at last. Know the blade of justice falls if you try to invade what was substantiated now by peaceful accord.  This rezoning blade is the metaphor of that which would cut or start the battle: It means war will ensure and a just one.

With this the debate ended and all retired from it,

What a thought to end the day with?