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to your liking. You can take twenty Trojan women, the
loveliest after Helen herself. Then, when we reach Achaean
Argos, wealthiest of all lands, you shall be his son-in-law,
and he will show you like honour with his own dear son Or-
estes, who is being nurtured in all abundance. Agamemnon
has three daughters, Chrysothemis, Laodice, and Iphianas-
sa; you may take the one of your choice, freely and without
gifts of wooing, to the house of Peleus; he will add such
dower to boot as no man ever yet gave his daughter, and will
give you seven well-established cities, Cardamyle, Enope,
and Hire where there is grass; holy Pheras and the rich
meadows of Anthea; Aepea also, and the vine-clad slopes
of Pedasus, all near the sea, and on the borders of sandy
Pylos. The men that dwell there are rich in cattle and sheep;
they will honour you with gifts as though were a god, and
be obedient to your comfortable ordinances. All this will
he do if you will now forgo your anger. Moreover, though
you hate both him and his gifts with all your heart, yet pity
the rest of the Achaeans who are being harassed in all their
host; they will honour you as a god, and you will earn great
glory at their hands. You might even kill Hector; he will
come within your reach, for he is infatuated, and declares
that not a Danaan whom the ships have brought can hold
his own against him.’
Achilles answered, ‘Ulysses, noble son of Laertes, I
should give you formal notice plainly and in all fixity of
purpose that there be no more of this cajoling, from what-
soever quarter it may come. Him do I hate even as the gates
of hell who says one thing while he hides another in his

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