Then, rising from that strife of words, the twain Dissolved the assembly at the Grecian fleet. Pelides to his tents and well manned ships Went with Patroclus and his warrior friends, While Agamemnon bade upon the sea Launch a swift barque with twenty chosen men To ply the oar, and put a hecatomb Upon it for the god. He thither led The fair-cheeked maid Chryseis; the command He gave to wise Ulysses; forth they went, Leader and crew, upon their watery path. Meanwhile, he bade the camp be purified; And straight the warriors purified the camp, And, casting the pollutions to the waves, They burned to Phoebus chosen hecatombs Of bulls and goats beside the barren main, From which the savor rose in smoke to heaven.

So was the host employed. But not the less Did Agamemnon persevere to urge His quarrel with Pelides; and he thus Addressed Talthybius and Eurybates. His heralds and his faithful ministers:⁠—