Eurybates
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Sep 5, 2026
Joshua ChristensenNARRATOR
Thus did they busy themselves through the host.
Joshua ChristensenNARRATOR
But Agamemnon did not forget the threat that he had made Achilles, and called his trusty messengers and squires, Talthybius and Eurybates.
Joshua ChristensenNARRATOR
Go, said he, to the tent of Achilles, son of Peleus.
Joshua ChristensenNARRATOR
Take Briseis by the hand and bring her hither.
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Ulysses knew the voice of that goddess.
Joshua ChristensenNARRATOR
He flung his cloak from him and set off to run.
Joshua ChristensenNARRATOR
His servant, Eurybates, a man of Ithaca who waited on him, took charge of the cloak, whereon Ulysses went straight up to Agamemnon and received from him his ancestral imperishable staff.
Joshua ChristensenNARRATOR
With this, he went about among the ships of the Achaeans.
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Leaning then on his sceptre he addressed the Argives.
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'My friends,' he said, 'heroes, servants of Mars, the hand of heaven has been laid heavily upon me.
Joshua ChristensenNARRATOR
Cruel Jove gave me his solemn promise that I should sack the city of Priam before returning, but he has played me false, and is now bidding me go ingloriously back to Argos with the loss of much people.
Joshua ChristensenNARRATOR
Such is the will of Jove, who has laid many a proud city in the dust, as he will yet lay others, for his power is above all.
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Joshua ChristensenNARRATOR
The attendants brought on the oath offerings and mixed the wine in the mixing bowls.
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They poured water over the hands of the chieftains, and the son of Atreus drew the dagger that hung by his sword and cut wool from the lambs' heads.
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This the menservants gave about among the Trojan and Achaean princes, and the son of Atreus lifted up his hands in prayer.
Joshua ChristensenNARRATOR
Father Jove, he cried, that rulest in Ida, most glorious in power, and thou, O son, that seest and givest ear to all things, earth and rivers, and ye who in the realms below chastise the soul of him that has broken his oath, witness these rites and guard them, that they be not vain.
speaker_1NARRATOR
the friendly waves may perhaps waft me over to the athenian shore and my unburied remains may there meet your unexpecting eyes though more hard-hearted than iron or adamant here even than yourself you will in pity say alas phyllis you ought not to have followed me thus oft i thirst after poisons oft resolve to pierce my heart and perish by a bloody death sometimes i think of tying a silken knot upon that neck round which you have so often twined your treacherous arms it is fixed i must repair my ruined honour by a speedy death when the mind is once determined it is easy to choose the mode of dying you shall be marked upon my tomb as the cruel cause of my death and handed down to posterity in these or similar lines phyllis died by the cruelty of demophaon a faithful mistress by a perfidious guest he was the barbarous cause she herself gave the fatal blow And of Phyllis to the Mophon.
speaker_2NARRATOR
to achilles the letter which you now read in broken greek written by a foreign hand comes from captive whatever blots you observe were occasioned by my tears but even tears are often more prevalent than words if it may be allowed to complain a little of my lord and husband i have a few causes of complaint against you who are both I do not blame you that I was so tamely delivered up to the king when demanded, and yet even in that point you are not altogether without blame, for no sooner was I demanded by Eurybates and Talthybius than I was delivered up to be carried away by those military heralds.
speaker_2NARRATOR
Each, regarding the other with a look of surprise, inquired in whispers, Where is there so famed love? I might have been detained somewhat longer.
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Delay of misery would have been grateful.