The Embassy to Achilles
Agamemnon’s Proposal to raise the siege opposed by Diomed and Nestor—A council—Ulysses, Ajax, and Phoenix sent to Achilles to request a reconciliation—Their reception, their persuasions, and their ill success.
The Trojans thus kept watch; while through the night The power of Flight, companion of cold Fear, Wrought on the Greeks, and all their bravest men Were bowed beneath a sorrow hard to bear. As when two winds upturn the fishy deep— The north wind and the west, that suddenly Blow from the Thracian coast; the black waves rise At once, and fling the sea-weed to the shore— Thus were the Achaians troubled in their hearts.