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The Iliad

BOOK X
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He raised himself on his elbow and looked up at Agamemnon.

"Who is it," said he, "that goes thus about the host and the ships alone and in the dead of night, when men are sleeping?
Are you looking for one of your mules or for some comrade?
Do not stand there and say nothing, but speak.

What is your business ?" And Agamemnon answered, "Nestor, son of Neleus, honour to the Achaean name, it is I, Agamemnon son of Atreus, on whom Jove has laid labour and sorrow so long as there is breath in my body and my limbs carry me.
I am thus abroad because sleep sits not upon my eyelids, but my heart is big with war and with the jeopardy of the Achaeans.

I am in great fear for the Danaans.

I am at sea, and without sure counsel; my heart beats as though it would leap out of my body, and my limbs fail me.


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