Agamemnon will make you great amends if you will forgive him; listen, and I will tell you what he has said in his tent that he will give you.

He will give you seven tripods that have never yet been on the fire, and ten talents of gold; twenty iron cauldrons, and twelve strong horses that have won races and carried off prizes.

Rich indeed both in land and gold is he who has as many prizes as these horses have won for Agamemnon.

Moreover he will give you seven excellent workwomen, Lesbians, whom he chose for himself, when you took Lesbos--all of surpassing beauty.

He will give you these, and with them her whom he erewhile took from you, the daughter of Briseus, and he will swear a great oath, he has never gone up into her couch nor been with her after the manner of men and women.