Iliad two act heroic to task lawful virtue

For while around we gazed with wondering eyes,

And trembling sought the powers with sacrifice,

Full of his god, the reverend Chalcas cried,⁹⁰

'Ye Grecian warriors! lay your fears aside.

This wondrous signal Jove himself displays,

Of long, long labours, but eternal praise.

As many birds as by the snake were slain,

So many years the toils of Greece remain;

But wait the tenth, for Ilion's fall decreed:'

Thus spoke the prophet, thus the Fates succeed.

n  HERE THE SPEACHER POINTS OUT THAT DUE TO THE SNAKE OF CORRUPTION THE GRACEANS HAVE MUCH WORK AGEAD OF THEM NOMATTER WHAT.

Obey, ye Grecians! with submission wait,

Nor let your flight avert the Trojan fate."

He said: the shores with loud applauses sound,

The hollow ships each deafening shout rebound.

Then Nestor thus—"These vain debates forbear,

Ye talk like children, not like heroes dare.

Where now are all your high resolves at last?

Your leagues concluded, your engagements past?

Vow'd with libations and with victims then,

Now vanish'd like their smoke: the faith of men!

While useless words consume the unactive hours,

No wonder Troy so long resists our powers.

n  STOP POUTING AND ACTING LIKE VICTEMS SEE YOURSELVES GRACEANS LIKE HEROES WHO MUST DUE TASK TO SLAY THE SNAKE OF CORRUPTION AND REMOVE TROY FROM ITS GRIPS.\

  This is the avail of just power and course.