Friday, November 4, 2016

Ikiad 2 resolved to asbondon reform efforts of troy


"Peace, factious monster, born to vex the state,

With wrangling talents form'd for foul debate:

Curb that impetuous tongue, nor rashly vain,

And singly mad, asperse the sovereign reign.

Have we not known thee, slave! of all our host,

The man who acts the least, upbraids the most?

Think not the Greeks to shameful flight to bring,

Nor let those lips profane the name of king.

For our return we trust the heavenly powers;

Be that their care; to fight like men be ours.

But grant the host with wealth the general load,

Except detraction, what hast thou bestow'd?

Suppose some hero should his spoils resign,

Art thou that hero, could those spoils be thine?

Gods! let me perish on this hateful shore,

And let these eyes behold my son no more;

If, on thy next offence, this hand forbear

To strip those arms thou ill deserv'st to wear,

Expel the council where our princes meet,

And send thee scourged and howling through the fleet."

 

Here the orator is resolving himself to leave,  the unfriendly shores beckon them to leave.

Their reward is the retreat, but it was the will of godz to lose here and return their gaze towards the east.  The project is not to fix troy but to found a new regime free of the corruption of the old system and those who defile civilisation by defending the system to maintain their corruption  They do not want to rectify  system proposed or the virtueous reforms it offers.

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