Iliad 2 call to war

"Friends and confederates! with attentive ear

Receive my words, and credit what you hear.

Late as I slumber'd in the shades of night,

A dream divine appear'd before my sight;

Whose visionary form like Nestor came,

The same in habit, and in mien the same.⁸⁰

The heavenly phantom hover'd o'er my head,

'And, dost thou sleep, O Atreus' son? (he said)

n      The divine is insighted to help marshel the binding guild that is banding together, its a wake up call.  It reinforces that divine visions portray divine guildance to this endevour, the will of the gods is being fulfiled and all will be done to make sure of it.

Ill fits a chief who mighty nations guides,

Directs in council, and in war presides;

To whom its safety a whole people owes,

To waste long nights in indolent repose.

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Monarch, awake! 'tis Jove's command I bear,

n     With both wcare of the people he is vested to protect and make prosperous and the divine who guilds that will is this leader declared to be one with. 

Thou and thy glory claim his heavenly care.

In just array draw forth the embattled train,

And lead the Grecians to the dusty plain;

E'en now, O king! 'tis given thee to destroy

The lofty towers of wide-extended Troy.

For now no more the gods with fate contend,

At Juno's suit the heavenly factions end.

Destruction hangs o'er yon devoted wall,

And nodding Ilion waits the impending fall.

This hear observant, and the gods obey!'

The vision spoke, and pass'd in air away.

Now, valiant chiefs! since heaven itself alarms,

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Unite, and rouse the sons of Greece to arms.

But first, with caution, try what yet they dare,

Worn with nine years of unsuccessful war.

To move the troops to measure back the main,

Be mine; and yours the province to detain."

--Declared is the bind between the leader and the bands banding together to be unified through this conflict  It is a call to war, unity, nation  and success .  It was time to  through off the ill luck of the past , ill luck that occuring during a time when this new unity called tohetjer as one speaks did not exist.

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