Iliad repent Greeks by blodd

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"With leave and honour enter our abodes,

Ye sacred ministers of men and gods!⁶⁰

I know your message; by constraint you came;

Not you, but your imperious lord I blame.

Patroclus, haste, the fair Briseis bring;

Conduct my captive to the haughty king.

But witness, heralds, and proclaim my vow,

Witness to gods above, and men below!

But first, and loudest, to your prince declare

(That lawless tyrant whose commands you bear),

Unmoved as death Achilles shall remain,

Though prostrate Greece shall bleed at every vein:

The raging chief in frantic passion lost,

Blind to himself, and useless to his host,

Unskill'd to judge the future by the past,

In blood and slaughter shall repent at last."

Ulysses or Odysseus is the admiral of the navy, thus wondering around on boats would be normal for him.

The character represents several admirals in the various tales of the iliad.    Though both Agamemnon and Ulysses might be one person and the name went back to represent those who are Ulysses and Agamemnon before the name was used.

The sycophant in this section shows that in the royal vet age reference to emissaries “ his exa;ted massage or the the holy king of that country”.  Thus sometimes the praise must be questioned as to the reality of it.  Here the messengers are granted presence as divinely blessed by gods and men ( people)_  Ulysses does not move but a threat to bleed Greece is made.  It seems the unruly Greeks who have gone agginst the council and the prize are now being ordained to be taught a lesson and quelled to propriety by the council and the ruling league.