If I swear falsely may heaven visit me with all the penalties which it metes out to those who perjure themselves." He cut the boar's throat as he spoke, whereon Talthybius whirled it round his head, and flung it into the wide sea to feed the fishes.

Then Achilles also rose and said to the Argives, "Father Jove, of a truth you blind men's eyes and bane them.

The son of Atreus had not else stirred me to so fierce an anger, nor so stubbornly taken Briseis from me against my will.

Surely Jove must have counselled the destruction of many an Argive.

Go, now, and take your food that we may begin fighting." On this he broke up the assembly, and every man went back to his own ship.