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A prophet then, inspired by heaven,
arose,
And points the crime, and thence
derives the woes:
Myself the first the assembled
chiefs incline
To avert the vengeance of the power
divine;
Then rising in his wrath, the
monarch storm'd;
Incensed he threaten'd, and his
threats perform'd:
The fair Chryseis to her sire was
sent,
With offer'd gifts to make the god
relent;
But now he seized Briseis' heavenly
charms,
And of my valour's prize defrauds my
arms,
Defrauds the votes of all the
Grecian train;63
And service, faith, and justice,
plead in vain.
Here Briseis' story is told, the narrator
becomes impassionate concerning the force return of either female. The harmarcia here is the belief that if you
are good illness does not befall you, this is like the Norwegian myths
concerning hero ends mad illness as a punishment for people who are not good.
Even leans to that do not want to use medicine as was the case with some last
epos. The narrator attests that he and
his people were just and law abiding, that no offence was made towards the heavens
and appeasement was made with the return of eth prizes to make sure the gods
are pleased and feel vindicated for what even the Greeks did that they are not
currently aware of and hence have the plague end. The fact that the prize and hero victors are
in love deepens the pain of eth pathos of their plight. Only heaven could stop such a blessed and
promising union between prize and victor hero.
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