He spake, and Priam, shuddering, heard and bade The attendants yoke the horses to his car. Soon were they yoked; he mounted first and drew The reins; Antenor took a place within The sumptuous car, and through the Scaean gates They guided the fleet coursers toward the field.

Now when the twain had come where lay the hosts Of Trojans and Achaians, down they stepped Upon the teeming earth, and went among The assembled armies. Quickly, as they came, Rose Agamemnon, king of men, and next Uprose the wise Ulysses. To the spot The illustrious heralds brought the sacred things That bind a treaty, and with mingled wine They filled a chalice, and upon the hands Of all the kings poured water. Then the son Of Atreus drew a dagger which he wore Slung by his sword’s huge sheath, and clipped away The forelocks of the lambs, and parted them Among the Trojan and Achaian chiefs, And stood with lifted hands and prayed aloud:⁠—