So talked the multitude. Ulysses then, Holding the sceptre, rose, and by his side The blue-eyed Pallas, in a herald’s form, Commanded silence, that the Argive host⁠— The mightiest and the meanest⁠—might attend To what should now be said, and calmly weigh The counsel given them. With a prudent art Ulysses framed his speech, and thus he spake:⁠—