![]() ![]() Thus joyful Troy maintain’d the watch of night While fear, pale comrade of inglorious flight, And heaven-bred horror, on the Grecian part, Sat on each face, and sadden’d every heart. The scene lies on the sea-shore, the station of the Grecian ships. This book, and the next following, take up the space of one night, which is the twenty-seventh from the beginning of the poem. The ambassadors return unsuccessfully to the camp, and the troops betake themselves to sleep. ![]() They make, each of them, very moving and pressing speeches, but are rejected with roughness by Achilles, who notwithstanding retains Phoenix in his tent. Ulysses and Ajax are made choice of, who are accompanied by old Phoenix. Agamemnon pursues this advice, and Nestor further prevails upon him to send ambassadors to Achilles, in order to move him to a reconciliation. He orders the guard to be strengthened, and a council summoned to deliberate what measures are to be followed in this emergency. ![]() Diomed opposes this, and Nestor seconds him, praising his wisdom and resolution. Agamemnon, after the last day’s defeat, proposes to the Greeks to quit the siege, and return to their country. ![]()
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