will speak in the way it seems best to my mind, and no one shall have in his mind any thought that is better than this one 105 that I have in my mind either now or long before now ever since that day, illustrious, when you went from the shelter of angered Achilleus, taking by force the girl Briseis against the will of the rest of us, since I for my part urged you strongly not to, but you, giving way to your proud heart’s 110 anger, dishonored a great man, one whom the immortals
