Sunday, January 8, 2017

Iliad 2 ossessen retort



"Ye gods! what wonders has Ulysses wrought!
What fruits his conduct and his courage yield!
Great in the council, glorious in the field.
Generous he rises in the crown's defence,
To curb the factious tongue of insolence,
Such just examples on offenders shown,
Sedition silence, and assert the throne."


Ulysses in his greater wisdom chastises the Greeks of Agamemnon for saying anything but the good will of Jove and the throne has occurred, to say they did do the good will and cause the outcome of the divine is sudition.

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