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  1. He presents the death of their comrades at the hands of Polyphemus as evidence of Odysseus’s imprudence: “thanks to [Odysseus’s] rashness they died too!” (10. 482). Though Odysseus checks his anger and restores calm, the unrest illustrates the holes in his authority.

  2. I pray you by Zeus and Themis, who is the beginning and the end of councils, [do not] hold back, my friends, and leave me singlehanded - unless it be that my brave father Odysseus did some wrong to the Achaeans which you would now avenge on me, by aiding and abetting these suitors.

  3. "Alas," said he to himself in the heaviness of his heart, "if I go within the gates, Polydamas will be the first to heap reproach upon me, for it was he that urged me to lead the Trojans back to the city on that awful night when Achilles again came forth against us.

  4. It was mere glibness of speech, mere verbal cunning, trying to unnerve me with fright, to make me lose strength and courage. You’ll get no chance to pierce my back as I flee, so, if the gods allow you, drive it through my chest as I attack, dodge my bronze spear if you can. I pray it lodges deep in your flesh!

  5. Nay, if even in the house of Hades men forget their dead, yet will I even there remember my dear comrade. But come, singing our song of victory, ye sons of the Achaeans, let us go back to the hollow ships and bring thither this corpse.

  6. Then they traced the compass of the barrow and set forth the foundations thereof round about the pyre, and forthwith they piled the up-piled earth. And when they had piled the barrow, they set them to go back again.

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  8. home.ubalt.edu · ntygfit · ai_01_pursuing_famehomer iliad 22 - UBalt

    Polydamas will be first to heap disgrace on me— he was the one who urged me to lead our Trojans back to Ilium just last night, the disastrous night Achilles rose in arms like a god. But did I give way? Not at all. And how much better it would have been! Now my army's ruined, thanks to my own reckless pride, I would die of shame to face the ...

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