WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.080 --> 00:00:05.599 Book eighteen. Thus then did they fight as it were 2 00:00:05.719 --> 00:00:10.480 a flaming fire. Meanwhile, the fleet runner Antilochus, who had 3 00:00:10.519 --> 00:00:13.800 been sent as messenger, reached Achilles, and found him sitting 4 00:00:13.839 --> 00:00:16.600 by his tall ships and boding that which was indeed 5 00:00:16.679 --> 00:00:21.399 too surely true. Alas said he to himself, in the 6 00:00:21.399 --> 00:00:25.480 heaviness of his heart. Why are the Achaeans again scouring 7 00:00:25.519 --> 00:00:29.239 the plane and flocking towards the ships? Heaven grant the 8 00:00:29.239 --> 00:00:31.559 gods be not now bringing that sorrow upon me of 9 00:00:31.600 --> 00:00:35.119 which my mother Thetis spoke, saying that while I was 10 00:00:35.200 --> 00:00:39.439 yet alive, the bravest of the Myrmidons should fall before 11 00:00:39.479 --> 00:00:42.640 the Trojans and see the light of the sun. No 12 00:00:42.719 --> 00:00:47.240 longer I fear the brave son of Menoetius has fallen 13 00:00:47.320 --> 00:00:50.399 through his own daring. And yet I bade him return 14 00:00:50.439 --> 00:00:52.280 to the ships as soon as he had driven back 15 00:00:52.320 --> 00:00:55.280 those that were bringing fire against them, and not join 16 00:00:55.399 --> 00:00:59.000 battle with Hector. As he was thus pondering, the son 17 00:00:59.039 --> 00:01:01.719 of Nestor came up to him and told his sad tale, 18 00:01:02.079 --> 00:01:08.120 weeping bitterly. The while Alas, he cried, son of noble Pelias, 19 00:01:08.400 --> 00:01:11.760 I bring you bad tidings. Would indeed that they were untrue. 20 00:01:12.280 --> 00:01:15.040 Patroclus has fallen, and a fight is raging about his 21 00:01:15.159 --> 00:01:20.239 naked body, for Hector holds his armor. A dark cloud 22 00:01:20.239 --> 00:01:24.040 of grief fell upon Achilles as he listened. He filled 23 00:01:24.040 --> 00:01:27.000 both hands with dust from off the ground and poured 24 00:01:27.000 --> 00:01:31.000 it over his head, disfiguring his comely face and letting 25 00:01:31.000 --> 00:01:34.799 the refuse settle over his shirt so fair and new. 26 00:01:35.319 --> 00:01:38.319 He flung himself down, all huge and hugely at full length, 27 00:01:38.840 --> 00:01:42.840 and tore his hair with his hands. The bondswomen whom 28 00:01:42.840 --> 00:01:46.439 Achilles and Patroclus had taken captives, screamed aloud for grief, 29 00:01:47.000 --> 00:01:50.400 beating their breasts and with their limbs, failing them for sorrow. 30 00:01:51.680 --> 00:01:55.079 Antilochus bent over him the while weeping and holding both 31 00:01:55.120 --> 00:01:57.599 his hands as he lay groaning, for he feared that 32 00:01:57.640 --> 00:02:01.200 he might plunge a knife into his own throat. Then 33 00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:04.000 Achilles gave a loud cry, and his mother heard him, 34 00:02:04.200 --> 00:02:06.159 as she was sitting in the depths of the sea 35 00:02:06.840 --> 00:02:11.039 by the old man, her father. Whereon she screamed, and 36 00:02:11.159 --> 00:02:13.599 all the goddesses daughters of Nereus, that dwelt at the 37 00:02:13.599 --> 00:02:17.400 bottom of the sea came gathering round her. There were 38 00:02:17.479 --> 00:02:24.759 Glauce Thalia and simadoch Nesiah, Speo Thoe and dark Eyed Harley, Simatho, 39 00:02:25.159 --> 00:02:30.800 Actaea and Limnoria, meliti Iira Amphitho and Agave, Doto and 40 00:02:30.840 --> 00:02:37.120 Proto Ferusa and Dynamene Dexamine, Amphinome and Callianeera, Doris Panape 41 00:02:37.280 --> 00:02:43.199 and the famous sceneymph Galatea, Nemertes, Apseudes and Calianassa. There 42 00:02:43.240 --> 00:02:47.840 were also Clemene Ianeia and Nyanassa, Mayerra Orethuia and Amethea 43 00:02:48.319 --> 00:02:51.199 of the Lovely Locks, with other Nereids who dwell in 44 00:02:51.240 --> 00:02:55.159 the depths of the sea. The crystal cave was filled 45 00:02:55.159 --> 00:02:58.599 with their multitude, and they all beat their breasts while 46 00:02:58.680 --> 00:03:04.280 Thetis led them in their life. Meant listen, she cried, sisters, 47 00:03:04.639 --> 00:03:07.759 daughters of Nereus, that you may hear the burden of 48 00:03:07.800 --> 00:03:12.639 my sorrows. Alas woe is me, woe in that I 49 00:03:12.680 --> 00:03:16.919 have borne the most glorious of offspring. I bore him 50 00:03:17.039 --> 00:03:21.520 fair and strong, hero among heroes, and he shot up 51 00:03:21.639 --> 00:03:25.280 as a sapling. I tendered him as a plant in 52 00:03:25.360 --> 00:03:28.120 a goodly garden, and sent him with his ships to 53 00:03:28.120 --> 00:03:31.479 Ilius to fight the Trojans. But never shall I welcome 54 00:03:31.560 --> 00:03:34.680 him back to the house of Pelias, so long as 55 00:03:34.680 --> 00:03:36.560 he lives to look upon the light of the sun. 56 00:03:36.840 --> 00:03:39.680 He is in heaviness, and though I go to him, 57 00:03:39.759 --> 00:03:44.919 I cannot help him. Nevertheless, I will go that I 58 00:03:44.960 --> 00:03:47.479 may see my dear son and learn what sorrow has 59 00:03:47.520 --> 00:03:50.439 befallen him, though he is still holding aloof from battle. 60 00:03:51.319 --> 00:03:54.280 She left the cave as she spoke, while the others followed, 61 00:03:54.319 --> 00:03:58.000 weeping after, and the waves opened a path before them. 62 00:03:58.240 --> 00:04:01.120 When they reached the rich plain of Troy, they came 63 00:04:01.199 --> 00:04:03.240 up out of the sea in a long line onto 64 00:04:03.240 --> 00:04:06.039 the sands. At the place where the ships of the 65 00:04:06.120 --> 00:04:09.439 Mirmidons were drawn up in close order round the tents 66 00:04:09.439 --> 00:04:12.960 of Achilles. His mother went up to him as he 67 00:04:13.039 --> 00:04:17.040 lay groaning. She laid her hand upon his head and 68 00:04:17.120 --> 00:04:22.000 spoke piteously, saying, my son, why are you thus weeping? 69 00:04:22.680 --> 00:04:26.480 What sorrow has now befallen you? Tell me, hide it 70 00:04:26.519 --> 00:04:30.120 not from me. Surely Jove has granted you the prayer 71 00:04:30.160 --> 00:04:32.959 you made him when you lifted up your hands and 72 00:04:33.000 --> 00:04:35.360 besought him that the Achaeans might all of them be 73 00:04:35.480 --> 00:04:38.199 pent up at their ships, and threw it bitterly in 74 00:04:38.279 --> 00:04:44.560 that you were no longer with them, Achilles groaned and answered, Mother, 75 00:04:45.600 --> 00:04:49.360 Olympian Jove has indeed vouchsafed me the fulfillment of my prayer. 76 00:04:50.199 --> 00:04:52.839 But what boots it to me? Seeing that my dear 77 00:04:52.959 --> 00:04:56.920 comrade Petroclus has fallen, he whom I valued more than 78 00:04:56.959 --> 00:05:00.959 all others and loved as dearly as my own life. 79 00:05:01.000 --> 00:05:04.240 I have lost him. I and Hector, when he had 80 00:05:04.319 --> 00:05:08.319 killed him, stripped the wondrous armor, so glorious to behold, 81 00:05:08.560 --> 00:05:11.079 which the gods gave to Pelias when they laid you 82 00:05:11.120 --> 00:05:14.279 in the couch of a mortal man. Would that you 83 00:05:14.319 --> 00:05:17.360 were still dwelling among the immortal sea nymphs, and that 84 00:05:17.439 --> 00:05:22.439 Pelias had taken to himself some mortal bride. For now 85 00:05:22.560 --> 00:05:25.279 you shall have grief infinite by reason of the death 86 00:05:25.319 --> 00:05:29.000 of that son, whom you can never welcome home. Nay, 87 00:05:29.360 --> 00:05:33.000 I will not live nor go about among mankind unless 88 00:05:33.000 --> 00:05:35.959 Hector fall by my spear and thus pay me for 89 00:05:36.000 --> 00:05:42.079 having slain Patroclus, son of Menoetius. Thetis wept and answered, then, 90 00:05:42.120 --> 00:05:45.399 my son, is your end near at hand? For your 91 00:05:45.399 --> 00:05:48.079 own death awaits you full soon after that of Hector. 92 00:05:50.800 --> 00:05:54.800 Then said Achilles, in his great grief, I would die 93 00:05:54.879 --> 00:05:59.600 here and now in that I could not save my comrade. 94 00:05:59.639 --> 00:06:02.759 He has fallen far from home, and in his hour 95 00:06:02.800 --> 00:06:05.160 of need, my hand was not there to help him. 96 00:06:06.439 --> 00:06:10.000 What is there for me? Return to my own land? 97 00:06:10.120 --> 00:06:13.480 I shall not, and I have brought no saving, neither 98 00:06:13.519 --> 00:06:16.319 to Patroclus nor to my other comrades, of whom so 99 00:06:16.480 --> 00:06:20.120 many have been slain by mighty Hector. I stay here 100 00:06:20.160 --> 00:06:23.680 by my ships, a bootless burden upon the earth, I 101 00:06:24.120 --> 00:06:27.759 who in fight have no peer among the Achaeans, though 102 00:06:27.759 --> 00:06:32.720 in council there are better than I. Therefore perish strife, 103 00:06:32.759 --> 00:06:36.519 both from among gods and men, and anger, wherein even 104 00:06:36.519 --> 00:06:40.000 a righteous man will harden his heart, which rises up 105 00:06:40.040 --> 00:06:42.600 in the soul of a man like smoke, and the 106 00:06:42.680 --> 00:06:46.279 taste thereof is sweeter than drops of honey. Even so 107 00:06:46.560 --> 00:06:51.040 has Agamemnon angered me, And yet so be it, For 108 00:06:51.160 --> 00:06:54.240 it is over, I will force my soul into subjection. 109 00:06:54.360 --> 00:06:58.439 As I needs must, I will go. I will pursue Hector, 110 00:06:58.480 --> 00:07:01.399 who has slain him whom I loved so dearly, and 111 00:07:01.480 --> 00:07:04.040 will then abide my doom when it may please Jove 112 00:07:04.120 --> 00:07:08.000 and the other gods to send it, even Hercules, the 113 00:07:08.000 --> 00:07:11.399 best beloved of Jove. Even he could not escape the 114 00:07:11.439 --> 00:07:14.920 hand of death, But fate and Juno's fierce anger laid 115 00:07:15.000 --> 00:07:18.199 him low, as I too shall lie when I am dead, 116 00:07:18.439 --> 00:07:22.199 if a like doom awaits me till then I will 117 00:07:22.240 --> 00:07:26.040 win fame and will bid Trojan and Dardanian women wring 118 00:07:26.160 --> 00:07:29.399 tears from their tender cheeks with both their hands in 119 00:07:29.480 --> 00:07:33.439 the grievousness of their great sorrow. Thus shall they know 120 00:07:33.920 --> 00:07:36.480 that he who has held aloof so long will hold 121 00:07:36.519 --> 00:07:40.480 aloof no longer. Hold me not back. Therefore, in the 122 00:07:40.519 --> 00:07:44.920 love you bear me, for you shall not move me. Then, 123 00:07:45.199 --> 00:07:50.399 silver footed Thetis answered, my son, what you have said 124 00:07:50.480 --> 00:07:54.160 is true. It is well to save your comrades from destruction. 125 00:07:54.759 --> 00:07:57.079 But your armor is in the hands of the Trojans. 126 00:07:57.879 --> 00:08:02.120 Hector bears it in triumph upon his own shops. Full well, 127 00:08:02.160 --> 00:08:04.800 I know that his vaunts shall not be lasting, for 128 00:08:04.839 --> 00:08:08.319 his end is close at hand. Go not, however, into 129 00:08:08.360 --> 00:08:12.000 the press of battle, till you see me return hither tomorrow, 130 00:08:12.079 --> 00:08:14.800 at break of day, I shall be here and will 131 00:08:14.800 --> 00:08:19.519 bring you goodly armour from King Vulcan. On this she 132 00:08:19.600 --> 00:08:22.600 left her brave son, and as she turned away, she 133 00:08:22.639 --> 00:08:26.160 said to the sea nymphs. Her sisters dive into the 134 00:08:26.160 --> 00:08:28.439 bosom of the sea and go to the house of 135 00:08:28.480 --> 00:08:33.159 the old sea god my father tell him everything. As 136 00:08:33.200 --> 00:08:36.240 for me, I will go to the cunning workman Vulcan 137 00:08:36.279 --> 00:08:39.600 on high Olympus and ask him to provide my son 138 00:08:39.679 --> 00:08:43.919 with a suit of splendid armor. When she had so said, 139 00:08:44.600 --> 00:08:48.559 they dived forthwith beneath the waves, while silver footed Thetis 140 00:08:48.840 --> 00:08:51.000 went her way, that she might bring the armor for 141 00:08:51.080 --> 00:08:55.759 her son. Thus then did her feet bear the goddess 142 00:08:55.799 --> 00:08:59.279 to Olympus. And meanwhile the Achaeans were flying with loud 143 00:08:59.360 --> 00:09:02.559 cries before murderous Hector, till they reached the ships and 144 00:09:02.600 --> 00:09:05.519 the hellespont, And they could not draw the body of 145 00:09:05.559 --> 00:09:08.399 Mars's servant Petroclus out of reach of the weapons that 146 00:09:08.440 --> 00:09:11.600 were showered upon him, for Hector, son of Priam, with 147 00:09:11.639 --> 00:09:14.320 his host and horsemen, had again caught up to him 148 00:09:14.360 --> 00:09:18.039 like the flame of a fiery furnace. Thrice did brave 149 00:09:18.120 --> 00:09:20.919 Hector seize him by the feet, striving with might and 150 00:09:21.000 --> 00:09:24.200 main to draw him away, and calling loudly on the Trojans. 151 00:09:25.039 --> 00:09:28.279 And thrice did the two Ajaxes, clothed in valor as 152 00:09:28.320 --> 00:09:31.720 with a garment beat him from off the body, but 153 00:09:31.799 --> 00:09:34.399 all undaunted, he would now charge into the thick of 154 00:09:34.399 --> 00:09:36.960 the fight. And now again he would stand still and 155 00:09:37.039 --> 00:09:42.080 cry aloud, but he would give no ground as upland shepherds. 156 00:09:42.080 --> 00:09:45.960 That cannot chase some famished lion from a carcass. Even so, 157 00:09:46.159 --> 00:09:49.240 could not the two Ajaxes scare Hector, son of Priam, 158 00:09:49.440 --> 00:09:53.360 from the body of Patroclus. And now he would even 159 00:09:53.360 --> 00:09:57.480 have dragged it off and have won imperishable glory, had 160 00:09:57.480 --> 00:10:00.039 not Iris fleet as the wind winged her way a 161 00:10:00.399 --> 00:10:03.519 messenger from Olympus to the son of Pelias, and bidden 162 00:10:03.600 --> 00:10:07.840 him arm. She came secretly, without the knowledge of Jove 163 00:10:07.960 --> 00:10:11.480 and of the other gods, for Juno sent her. And 164 00:10:11.559 --> 00:10:14.840 when she had got close to him, she said, up, 165 00:10:15.200 --> 00:10:21.200 son of Pelias, mightiest of all mankind, rescue Patroclus, about 166 00:10:21.240 --> 00:10:24.519 whom this fearful fight is now raging by the ships. 167 00:10:25.279 --> 00:10:28.600 Men are killing one another, the Danaans in defense of 168 00:10:28.639 --> 00:10:31.320 the dead body, while the Trojans are trying to hale 169 00:10:31.360 --> 00:10:36.080 it away and take it to wind Ilius. Hector is 170 00:10:36.120 --> 00:10:38.960 the most furious of them all. He is for cutting 171 00:10:39.039 --> 00:10:41.240 the head from the body and fixing it on the 172 00:10:41.279 --> 00:10:45.120 stakes of the wall up then, and bide here no 173 00:10:45.200 --> 00:10:48.960 longer shrink from the thought that Petroclus may become meat 174 00:10:49.080 --> 00:10:52.440 for the dogs of Troy. Shame on you should his 175 00:10:52.440 --> 00:10:57.559 body suffer any kind of outrage. And Achilles said, Iris, 176 00:10:58.080 --> 00:10:59.759 which of the gods was it that sent you to 177 00:10:59.799 --> 00:11:05.120 me me? Iris answered it was Juno, the royal spouse 178 00:11:05.159 --> 00:11:08.120 of Jove. But the son of Saturn does not know 179 00:11:08.200 --> 00:11:11.159 of my coming, nor yet does any other of the 180 00:11:11.200 --> 00:11:15.360 immortals who dwell on the snowy summits of Olympus. Then 181 00:11:15.480 --> 00:11:19.039 fleet Achilles answered her, saying, how can I go up 182 00:11:19.039 --> 00:11:23.240 into the battle? They have my armor? My mother forbade 183 00:11:23.279 --> 00:11:25.919 me to arm till I should see her come, for 184 00:11:26.039 --> 00:11:29.200 she promised to bring me goodly armour from Vulcan. I 185 00:11:29.279 --> 00:11:31.879 know no man whose arms I can put on, save 186 00:11:31.960 --> 00:11:35.279 only the shield of Ajax, son of Telemann, and he 187 00:11:35.399 --> 00:11:38.159 surely must be fighting in the front rank and wielding 188 00:11:38.159 --> 00:11:44.360 his spear about the body of dead Patroclus, Iris said, 189 00:11:44.679 --> 00:11:48.039 we know that your armor has been taken, But go 190 00:11:48.240 --> 00:11:51.440 as you are, Go to the deep trench and show 191 00:11:51.480 --> 00:11:54.759 yourself before the Trojans that they may fear you and 192 00:11:54.879 --> 00:11:59.399 cease fighting. Thus will the fainting sons of the Achaeans 193 00:11:59.639 --> 00:12:03.320 gain some brief breathing time, which in battle may hardly 194 00:12:03.360 --> 00:12:08.840 be Iris left him when she had so spoken, But Achilles, 195 00:12:09.240 --> 00:12:13.720 dear to jove, arose, and Minerva flung her tasseled aegis 196 00:12:13.840 --> 00:12:17.279 round his strong shoulders. She crowned his head with a 197 00:12:17.279 --> 00:12:20.440 halo of golden cloud, from which she kindled a glow 198 00:12:20.559 --> 00:12:24.600 of gleaming fire, as the smoke that goes up into 199 00:12:24.639 --> 00:12:27.639 heaven from some city that is being beleaguered on an 200 00:12:27.679 --> 00:12:31.360 island far out at sea. All day long do men 201 00:12:31.440 --> 00:12:34.600 sally from the city and fight their hardest, And at 202 00:12:34.600 --> 00:12:36.759 the going down of the sun, the line of beacon 203 00:12:36.799 --> 00:12:40.799 fires blazes forth, flaring high, for those that dwell near 204 00:12:40.840 --> 00:12:43.799 them to behold, if so be, that they may come 205 00:12:43.840 --> 00:12:46.960 with their ships and sucker them. Even so did the 206 00:12:47.039 --> 00:12:49.480 light flare from the head of Achilles as he stood 207 00:12:49.519 --> 00:12:53.399 by the trench going beyond the wall. But he did 208 00:12:53.399 --> 00:12:56.279 not join the Achaeans, for he heeded the charge which 209 00:12:56.320 --> 00:12:59.840 his mother laid upon him. There did he stand and 210 00:13:00.039 --> 00:13:05.039 shout aloud. Minerva also raised her voice from Afar and 211 00:13:05.080 --> 00:13:09.360 spread terror unspeakable among the Trojans, ringing as the note 212 00:13:09.360 --> 00:13:12.799 of a trumpet that sounds alarm, Then the foe is 213 00:13:12.799 --> 00:13:15.879 at the gates of a city. Even so brazen was 214 00:13:15.919 --> 00:13:18.679 the voice of the son of Iachus, And when the 215 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:23.159 Trojans heard its clarion tones, they were dismayed. The horses 216 00:13:23.159 --> 00:13:26.440 turned back with their chariots, for they boded mischief, and 217 00:13:26.480 --> 00:13:29.399 their drivers were awe struck by the steady flame which 218 00:13:29.440 --> 00:13:31.720 the gray eyed goddess had kindled above the head of 219 00:13:31.759 --> 00:13:35.799 the great son of Pelias. Thrice did Achilles raise his 220 00:13:35.879 --> 00:13:39.120 loud cry as he stood by the trench. And thrice 221 00:13:39.399 --> 00:13:42.840 were the Trojans and their brave allies thrown into confusion, 222 00:13:43.879 --> 00:13:47.840 whereon twelve of their noblest champions fell beneath the wheels 223 00:13:47.879 --> 00:13:53.120 of their chariots and perished by their own spears. The Achaeans, 224 00:13:53.159 --> 00:13:55.840 to their great joy, then drew Petroclus out of reach 225 00:13:55.879 --> 00:13:58.720 of the weapons and laid him on a litter. His 226 00:13:58.799 --> 00:14:02.120 comrades stood mourning round him, and among them fleet Achilles, 227 00:14:02.440 --> 00:14:05.320 who wept bitterly as he saw his true comrade lying 228 00:14:05.399 --> 00:14:08.320 dead upon his bier. He had sent him out with 229 00:14:08.360 --> 00:14:12.120 horses and chariots into battle, but his return he was 230 00:14:12.159 --> 00:14:17.039 not to welcome. Then Juno sent the busy sun loth 231 00:14:17.240 --> 00:14:20.919 though he was into the waters of Oceanus. So he 232 00:14:21.000 --> 00:14:24.080 set and the Achaeans had rest from the tug and 233 00:14:24.159 --> 00:14:27.799 turmoil of war. Now the Trojans, when they had come 234 00:14:27.840 --> 00:14:30.960 out of the fight, unyoked their horses and gathered in 235 00:14:31.000 --> 00:14:35.519 assembly before preparing their supper. They kept their feet, nor 236 00:14:35.519 --> 00:14:38.519 would any dare to sit down, for fear had fallen 237 00:14:38.600 --> 00:14:41.480 upon them all. Because Achilles had shown himself, after having 238 00:14:41.519 --> 00:14:46.480 held aloof so long from battle. Polydamas, son of Panthous, 239 00:14:46.559 --> 00:14:49.759 was first to speak, a man of judgment, who alone 240 00:14:49.799 --> 00:14:53.720 among them could look both before and after. He was 241 00:14:53.759 --> 00:14:56.480 comrade to Hector, and they had been born upon the 242 00:14:56.519 --> 00:15:00.720 same night with all sincerity and goodwill theref for he 243 00:15:00.799 --> 00:15:05.080 addressed them, Thus, look to it well, my friends, I 244 00:15:05.120 --> 00:15:07.360 would urge you to go back now to your city, 245 00:15:07.799 --> 00:15:10.519 and not wait here by the ships till morning, for 246 00:15:10.600 --> 00:15:14.240 we are far from our walls. So long as this 247 00:15:14.320 --> 00:15:17.759 man was at enmity with Agamemnon, the Achaeans were easier 248 00:15:17.759 --> 00:15:20.240 to deal with, and I would have gladly camped by 249 00:15:20.240 --> 00:15:23.519 the ships in the hope of taking them. But now 250 00:15:23.559 --> 00:15:26.519 I go in great fear of the fleet, son of Pelias. 251 00:15:27.240 --> 00:15:29.399 He is so daring that he will never bide here 252 00:15:29.440 --> 00:15:31.720 on the plain where on the Trojans and Achaeans fight 253 00:15:31.799 --> 00:15:35.039 with equal valor. But he will try to storm our 254 00:15:35.080 --> 00:15:38.720 city and carry off our women. Do then as I say, 255 00:15:39.159 --> 00:15:42.200 and let us retreat, For this is what will happen. 256 00:15:43.360 --> 00:15:45.559 The darkness of night will for a time stay the 257 00:15:45.600 --> 00:15:48.399 sun of Pelias. But if he find us here in 258 00:15:48.440 --> 00:15:51.279 the morning, when he sallies forth in full armor, we 259 00:15:51.320 --> 00:15:54.879 shall have knowledge of him in good, earnest glad. Indeed 260 00:15:54.919 --> 00:15:57.360 will he be who can escape and get back to Ilius. 261 00:15:57.759 --> 00:16:00.559 And many a Trojan will become meat for dogs and vultures. 262 00:16:00.600 --> 00:16:03.360 May I never live to hear it. If we do 263 00:16:03.440 --> 00:16:06.399 as I say, little though we may like it, we 264 00:16:06.440 --> 00:16:09.039 shall have strength in council during the night, and the 265 00:16:09.080 --> 00:16:11.840 great gates with the doors that close them, will protect 266 00:16:11.879 --> 00:16:14.919 the city. At dawn we can arm and take our 267 00:16:14.960 --> 00:16:17.960 stand on the walls. He will then ruin it. If 268 00:16:17.960 --> 00:16:20.559 he sallies from the ships to fight us. He will 269 00:16:20.600 --> 00:16:22.759 go back when he has given his horses their fill 270 00:16:22.799 --> 00:16:25.840 of being driven all withers under our walls, and will 271 00:16:25.840 --> 00:16:27.679 be in no mind to try and force his way 272 00:16:27.720 --> 00:16:31.039 into the city. Neither will he ever sack it, dogs 273 00:16:31.039 --> 00:16:36.080 shall devour him ere he do so. Hector looked fiercely 274 00:16:36.120 --> 00:16:40.679 at him and answered, Polydamus, your words are not to 275 00:16:40.720 --> 00:16:42.919 my liking in that you bid us go back and 276 00:16:42.960 --> 00:16:46.039 be pent within the city. Have you not had enough 277 00:16:46.039 --> 00:16:49.399 of being cooped up behind walls? In the old days? 278 00:16:49.679 --> 00:16:52.159 The city of Priam was famous the whole world over 279 00:16:52.279 --> 00:16:55.440 for its wealth of gold and bronze. But our treasures 280 00:16:55.480 --> 00:16:58.320 are wasted out of our houses, and much goods have 281 00:16:58.360 --> 00:17:01.919 been sold away to Phrygia and Meonia. For the hand 282 00:17:01.919 --> 00:17:06.240 of Jove has been laid heavily upon us. Now therefore, 283 00:17:06.920 --> 00:17:09.519 that the son of scheming Saturn has vouchsafed me to 284 00:17:09.559 --> 00:17:11.920 win glory here and to hem. The Achaeans in at 285 00:17:11.960 --> 00:17:15.440 their ships, prate no more in this fool's wise. Among 286 00:17:15.519 --> 00:17:19.400 the people, you will have no man with you. It 287 00:17:19.440 --> 00:17:23.279 shall not be. Do all of you as I now say. 288 00:17:23.319 --> 00:17:26.119 Take your suppers in your companies throughout the host, and 289 00:17:26.240 --> 00:17:29.160 keep your watches, and be wakeful, every man of you. 290 00:17:30.200 --> 00:17:33.559 If any trojan is uneasy about his possessions, let him 291 00:17:33.599 --> 00:17:37.359 gather them and give them out among the people. Better, 292 00:17:37.440 --> 00:17:41.720 let these rather than the Achaeans have them. At daybreak, 293 00:17:41.759 --> 00:17:44.640 we will arm and fight about the ships. Granted that 294 00:17:44.680 --> 00:17:47.519 Achilles has again come forward to defend them, let it 295 00:17:47.519 --> 00:17:50.799 be as he will, but it shall go hard with him. 296 00:17:51.119 --> 00:17:53.359 I shall not shun him, but will fight him to 297 00:17:53.480 --> 00:17:56.519 fall or conquer. The god of war deals out like 298 00:17:56.599 --> 00:17:59.160 measure to all, and the slayer may yet be slain. 299 00:18:00.759 --> 00:18:04.359 Thus spoke Hector, and the Trojans, fools that they were 300 00:18:04.640 --> 00:18:07.799 shouted in applause, for Pallas Minerva had robbed them of 301 00:18:07.839 --> 00:18:12.079 their understanding. They gave ear to Hector with his evil counsel, 302 00:18:12.839 --> 00:18:15.720 but the wise words of Polydamus no man would heed. 303 00:18:16.960 --> 00:18:20.319 They took their supper throughout the host, and meanwhile through 304 00:18:20.359 --> 00:18:24.240 the whole night the Achaeans mourned. Patroclus, and the son 305 00:18:24.279 --> 00:18:27.599 of Pelias led them in their lament. He laid his 306 00:18:27.720 --> 00:18:31.039 murderous hands upon the breast of his comrade, groaning again 307 00:18:31.119 --> 00:18:34.039 and again. As a bearded lion when a man who 308 00:18:34.079 --> 00:18:36.319 was chasing deer has robbed him of his young in 309 00:18:36.359 --> 00:18:40.680 some dense forest. When the lion comes back, he is 310 00:18:40.720 --> 00:18:44.119 furious and searches Dingle and Dell to track the hunter. 311 00:18:44.160 --> 00:18:47.480 If he can find him, for he is mad with rage. 312 00:18:48.559 --> 00:18:51.319 Even so with many a side did Achilles speak among 313 00:18:51.319 --> 00:18:55.200 the mrmuduns, saying, alas vain were the words with which 314 00:18:55.200 --> 00:18:59.000 I cheered the hero Menoetius in his own house. I 315 00:18:59.079 --> 00:19:01.000 said that I would bring him, his brave son back 316 00:19:01.000 --> 00:19:04.119 again to a pois, after he had sacked Ilius and 317 00:19:04.200 --> 00:19:07.119 taken his share of the spoils. But Jove does not 318 00:19:07.240 --> 00:19:11.240 give all men their heart's desire the same. Soil shall 319 00:19:11.240 --> 00:19:13.559 be reddened here at Troy by the blood of us both, 320 00:19:13.880 --> 00:19:16.200 for I too shall never be welcomed home by the 321 00:19:16.279 --> 00:19:20.440 old knight Pelias, nor by my mother Thetis. But even 322 00:19:20.440 --> 00:19:24.640 in this place shall the earth cover me nevertheless, O Patroclus, 323 00:19:24.960 --> 00:19:27.240 Now that I am left behind you, I will not 324 00:19:27.359 --> 00:19:29.920 bury you till I have brought hither the head and 325 00:19:30.119 --> 00:19:34.000 armor of mighty Hector, who has slain you, twelve noble 326 00:19:34.039 --> 00:19:36.480 sons of Trojans. Will I behead before your bier to 327 00:19:36.559 --> 00:19:39.359 avenge you till I have done so. You shall lie 328 00:19:39.400 --> 00:19:41.920 as you are by the ships and fair women of 329 00:19:41.960 --> 00:19:44.720 Troy and Dardaness, whom we have taken with spear and 330 00:19:44.759 --> 00:19:47.880 strength of arm when we sacked men's goodly cities shall 331 00:19:47.920 --> 00:19:52.599 weep over you both night and day. Then Achilles told 332 00:19:52.640 --> 00:19:54.839 his men to set a large tripod upon the fire, 333 00:19:55.200 --> 00:19:57.960 that they might wash the clotted gore from off Patroclus. 334 00:19:58.440 --> 00:20:00.680 Thereon they set a tripod full of bus water onto 335 00:20:00.680 --> 00:20:03.519 a clear fire. They threw sticks onto it to make 336 00:20:03.519 --> 00:20:06.359 it blaze, and the water became hot as the flame 337 00:20:06.440 --> 00:20:09.880 played about the belly of the tripod. When the water 338 00:20:09.920 --> 00:20:13.000 in the cauldron was boiling, they washed the body, anointed 339 00:20:13.000 --> 00:20:15.759 it with oil, and closed its wounds with ointment that 340 00:20:15.839 --> 00:20:19.079 had been kept nine years. Then they laid it on 341 00:20:19.119 --> 00:20:21.559 a bier and covered it with a linen cloth from 342 00:20:21.599 --> 00:20:24.480 head to foot, and over this they laid a fair 343 00:20:24.559 --> 00:20:28.599 white robe. Thus, all night long did the Mermanduns gather 344 00:20:28.680 --> 00:20:32.759 round Achilles to mourn Patroclus. Then Jove said to Juno, 345 00:20:32.839 --> 00:20:37.039 his sister wife, So, Queen Juno, you have gained your 346 00:20:37.200 --> 00:20:40.960 end and have roused fleet Achilles. One would think that 347 00:20:41.000 --> 00:20:44.960 the Achaeans were of your own flesh and blood. And 348 00:20:45.039 --> 00:20:50.000 Juno answered, dread son of Saturn, why should you say 349 00:20:50.039 --> 00:20:53.480 this thing may not a man, though he be only 350 00:20:53.559 --> 00:20:56.640 mortal and knows less than we do, do what he 351 00:20:56.720 --> 00:21:00.839 can for another person, and shall not I foremost of 352 00:21:00.880 --> 00:21:04.359 all goddesses, both by descent and as wife to you, 353 00:21:04.480 --> 00:21:09.359 who reign in Heaven, devise evil for the Trojans if 354 00:21:09.359 --> 00:21:16.240 I am angry with them. Thus did they converse. Meanwhile, 355 00:21:16.319 --> 00:21:21.319 Thetis came to the house of Vulcan, imperishable star, bespangled, 356 00:21:22.200 --> 00:21:25.640 fairest of the abodes in Heaven, a house of bronze, 357 00:21:25.640 --> 00:21:29.799 wrought by the Lame God's own hands. She found him 358 00:21:29.799 --> 00:21:34.039 busy with his bellows, sweating and hard at work, for 359 00:21:34.119 --> 00:21:36.720 he was making twenty tripods that were to stand by 360 00:21:36.720 --> 00:21:39.319 the wall of his house, and he set wheels of 361 00:21:39.359 --> 00:21:41.720 gold under them, all that they might go of their 362 00:21:41.759 --> 00:21:45.359 own selves to the assemblies of the gods and come 363 00:21:45.440 --> 00:21:51.240 back again marvels indeed, to see they were finished, all 364 00:21:51.279 --> 00:21:54.480 but the ears of cunning workmanship, which yet remained to 365 00:21:54.480 --> 00:21:58.279 be fixed to them. These he was now fixing, and 366 00:21:58.359 --> 00:22:02.599 he was hammering at the rivet. While he was thus 367 00:22:02.640 --> 00:22:07.079 at work, silver footed, Thetis came to the house Carris 368 00:22:07.559 --> 00:22:11.119 of graceful headdress, wife to the far famed Lame God. 369 00:22:11.599 --> 00:22:14.079 Came towards her as soon as she saw her, and 370 00:22:14.119 --> 00:22:17.000 took her hand in her own, saying, why have you 371 00:22:17.079 --> 00:22:20.839 come to our house, thetis honored and ever welcome, for 372 00:22:20.920 --> 00:22:24.200 you do not visit as often. Come inside, and let 373 00:22:24.200 --> 00:22:28.279 me set refreshment before you. The goddess led the way 374 00:22:28.319 --> 00:22:31.359 as she spoke, and bade Thetis sit on a richly 375 00:22:31.400 --> 00:22:36.119 decorated seat inlaid with silver. There was a footstool also 376 00:22:36.200 --> 00:22:39.960 under her feet. Then she called Vulcan and said, Vulcan, 377 00:22:40.319 --> 00:22:44.200 come here. Thetis wants you. And the far famed lame 378 00:22:44.240 --> 00:22:47.720 god answered, then it is indeed an august and honored 379 00:22:47.720 --> 00:22:50.480 goddess who has come here. She it was that took 380 00:22:50.480 --> 00:22:52.599 care of me when I was suffering from the heavy fall, 381 00:22:52.599 --> 00:22:56.039 which I had through my cruel mother's anger. For she 382 00:22:56.039 --> 00:22:57.960 would have got rid of me because I was lame. 383 00:22:59.200 --> 00:23:01.640 It would have gone high hardly with me had not Uryinomy, 384 00:23:01.880 --> 00:23:05.440 daughter of the ever encircling waters of Oceanus, and Thetis 385 00:23:05.920 --> 00:23:09.880 taken me to their bosom. Nine years did I stay 386 00:23:09.880 --> 00:23:14.480 with them. And many beautiful works in bronze brooches, spiral armlets, 387 00:23:14.720 --> 00:23:17.720 cups and chains did I make for them in their cave, 388 00:23:18.200 --> 00:23:21.240 with the roaring waters of Oceanus foaming as they rushed 389 00:23:21.240 --> 00:23:24.519 ever past it, and no one knew neither of gods 390 00:23:24.519 --> 00:23:27.920 nor men, save only Thetis and Uryinomy, who took care 391 00:23:27.960 --> 00:23:31.279 of me. If then Thetis has come to my house, 392 00:23:31.519 --> 00:23:34.079 I must make her due requital for having saved me. 393 00:23:34.920 --> 00:23:38.839 Entertain her therefore with all hospitality, while I put by 394 00:23:38.839 --> 00:23:43.119 my bellows and all my tools on this The mighty 395 00:23:43.160 --> 00:23:46.519 monster hobbled off from his anvil, his thin legs plying 396 00:23:46.599 --> 00:23:49.720 lustily under him. He set the bellows away from the 397 00:23:49.759 --> 00:23:53.680 fire and gathered his tools into a silver chest. Then 398 00:23:53.720 --> 00:23:56.079 he took a sponge and washed his face and hands, 399 00:23:56.559 --> 00:24:00.200 his shaggy chest and brawny neck. He donned his shirt, 400 00:24:00.480 --> 00:24:04.920 grasped his strong staff, and limped towards the door. There 401 00:24:04.920 --> 00:24:08.160