Part 19

THE END OF THE NINTH BOOK.

[1] Diomed takes fit time to answer his wrong done by Agamemnon in the fourth book.

THE TENTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ILIADS

THE ARGUMENT

Th’ Atrides, watching, wake the other peers, And (in the fort, consulting of their fears) Two kings they send, most stout, and honour’d most, For royal scouts, into the Trojan host; Who meeting Dolon, Hector’s bribed spy, Take him, and learn how all the quarters lie. He told them, in the Thracian regiment Of rich king Rhesus, and his royal tent, Striving for safety; but they end his strife, And rid poor Dolon of a dang’rous life, Then with digressive wiles they use their force On Rhesus’ life, and take his snowy horse.

ANOTHER ARGUMENT

Kappa the night exploits applies: Rhesus’ and Dolon’s tragedies.