Book I

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Hearing the prayer of the venerable priest, many of the chiefs were moved to pity, and they advised that his request should be granted, but Agamemnon angrily refused.

[Illustration: APOLLO.

_Berlin Museum._]

He dismissed The priest with scorn, and added threatening words:-- "Old man, let me not find thee loitering here, Beside the roomy ships, or coming back Hereafter, lest the fillet thou dost bear And scepter of thy god protect thee not. This maiden I release not till old age Shall overtake her in my Argive home, Far from her native country."

BRYANT, _Iliad_,