When the sharing comes, your share is far the largest, and I, forsooth, must go back to my ships, take what I can get and be thankful, when my labour of fighting is done.

Now, therefore, I shall go back to Phthia; it will be much better for me to return home with my ships, for I will not stay here dishonoured to gather gold and substance for you." And Agamemnon answered, "Fly if you will, I shall make you no prayers to stay you.

I have others here who will do me honour, and above all Jove, the lord of counsel.

There is no king here so hateful to me as you are, for you are ever quarrelsome and ill-affected.

What though you be brave?
Was it not heaven that made you so?
Go home, then, with your ships and comrades to lord it over the Myrmidons.