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achaeans with one voice were for respecting the priest and taking the ransom that he offered; but not so agamemnon, who spoke fiercely to him and sent him roughly away. "old man," said he, "let me not find you tarrying about our ships, nor yet coming hereafter. your sceptre of the god and your wreath shall profit you nothing. i will not free her. she shall grow old in my house at argos far from her own home, busying herself with her loom and visiting my couch; so go, and do not provoke me or it shall be the worse for you."
the old man feared him and obeyed. not a word he spoke, but went by the shore of the sounding sea and prayed apart to king apollo whom lovely leto had borne. "hear me," he cried, "o god of the silver bow, that protectest chryse and holy cilla and rulest tenedos with thy might, hear me oh thou of sminthe. if i have ever decked your temple with garlands, or burned your thigh-bones in fat of bulls or goats, grant my prayer, and let your arrows avenge these my tears upon the danaans."
thus did he pray, and apollo heard his prayer. he came down furious from the summits of olympus, with his bow and his quiver upon his shoulder, and the
