Then he went to rouse his brother, who was by far the most powerful of the Achaeans, and was honoured by the people as though he were a god.

He found him by the stern of his ship already putting his goodly array about his shoulders, and right glad was he that his brother had come.
Menelaus spoke first.

"Why," said he, "my dear brother, are you thus arming?
Are you going to send any of our comrades to exploit the Trojans?
I greatly fear that no one will do you this service, and spy upon the enemy alone in the dead of night.

It will be a deed of great daring." And King Agamemnon answered, "Menelaus, we both of us need shrewd counsel to save the Argives and our ships, for Jove has changed his mind, and inclines towards Hector's sacrifices rather than ours.

I never saw nor heard tell of any man as having wrought such ruin in one day as Hector has now wrought against the sons of the Achaeans--and that too of his own unaided self, for he is son neither to god nor goddess.