490 then the two Ajaxes, and Diomedes, and sixth, Odysseus, whose wily cunning could rival that of Zeus. And Menelaus, the master of the war cry, came to join his brother without needing to be called. He knew what Agamemnon had been doing. These leaders formed a circle round the bull, 410 and took some barley grains, and Agamemnon spoke in their midst. “Almighty Zeus, great god of dark clouds, god in heaven, before sunset, 500 before the shadows come, may I hurl down the hall of Priam, blacken it with smoke, and set his gates ablaze with deadly fire, and let my spear slice Hector’s shirt to
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