Rise, great Atrides! and with courage sway;
We march to war, if thou direct the way.
But leave the few that dare resist thy laws,
The mean deserters of the Grecian cause,
To grudge the conquests mighty Jove prepares,
And view with envy our successful wars.
On that great day, when first the martial train,
Big with the fate of Ilion, plough'd the main,
Jove, on the right, a prosperous signal sent,
And thunder rolling shook the firmament.
Encouraged hence, maintain the glorious strife,
Till every soldier grasp a Phrygian wife,
n Lets ally with Phrygia
who justly maintains the same lands as us Rally the people and those who are
faithful to this task of bringing justice
to troy Which I note is different than that
of the gracean cries before. It is now
not down with troy and the old gracean way but bring justice to its powers and
the other heads of the dragon as our own powers. Use all means including jove to rally people
to this divinely necessary task of bring justice to all. This includes the Phrygians who we will marry/
ally with for the completion of this task,: Pari also marry hellen as representative
wife of alliance to bring justice to all, esp troy with [aris as the just
person insode helping reform the system.
n The use of marriage
to mean alliance is evident and hold great meaning in the iliad as it does in the
odyssey. It means alliance.
n Not even I mentioned
the reform of the old Graceans as just troy , so one can see why later scholars
reading earlier ones might have referred to the old Graceans as the troy that
was being assaulted with the necessity of chance to progress it past the snake
of corruption, which it hope to have slayed as part of its just bout to bring lawfulness
to all.
from :http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6130/6130-h/6130-h.html#toc16
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