Iliad 2 solemn assembling

With words like these the troops Ulysses ruled,

The loudest silenced, and the fiercest cool'd.

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Back to the assembly roll the thronging train,

Desert the ships, and pour upon the plain.

Murmuring they move, as when old ocean roars,

And heaves huge surges to the trembling shores;

The groaning banks are burst with bellowing sound,

The rocks remurmur and the deeps rebound.

At length the tumult sinks, the noises cease,

And a still silence lulls the camp to peace.

n After ascertaining that the situation with troy is a lose, too many foreign powers are using it to maintain their power, and some might say corruption,  by maintaining and reinforcing the Trojan regime.  The silence and the murmuring is the sign iof the great anhos the forces feel concerning the dilemma that is forthwith.  The assembly gathering is as solemn as nature reflects and their people experience.