Iliad 1 more of the tale

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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.