fleet returned in company With my brave men, revolving, as I went, A thousand projects in my thought. I reached My galley by the sea, and we prepared Our evening meal. The hallowed night came down, And there upon the ocean-beach we slept. But when the rosy-fingered Morn appeared, The daughter of the Dawn, we drew our ships To the great deep, and raised the masts and spread The sails; the crews, all entering, took their seats Upon the benches, ranged in order due, And beat the foaming water with their oars. Again to Egypt’s coast I brought the fleet, And to the river that descends from Jove, And there I offered chosen hecatombs; And having thus appeased the gods, I reared A tomb to Agamemnon, that his fame Might never die. When this was done I sailed For home; the gods bestowed a favoring wind. But now remain thou till the eleventh day, Or till the twelfth, beneath my roof, and then Will I dismiss thee with munificent gifts— Three steeds, a polished chariot, and a cup Of price, with which to pour, from day to day, Wine to the gods in memory of me.”
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