Now Juno, large-eyed and august, bade set The never-wearied sun; unwillingly He sank into the ocean streams. Then paused The noble Greeks from that ferocious strife, Deadly in equal measure to both hosts. The Trojans also paused, and from their cars Unharnessed the fleet steeds, and ere they took Their evening meal assembled to consult. Standing they held the council; no man cared To sit, for all were trembling from the hour When, long a stranger to the bloody field, Achilles showed himself again. And now The son of Panthoüs, wise Polydamas, Began to speak. Beyond the rest he saw Things past and things to come, and he had been Hector’s companion, born in the same night, Mighty in speech as Hector with the spear. With prudent admonitions thus he spake:⁠—