... and I in gloom and tribulation sore lived miserably on, lamenting loud my lost friend's blameless fall. A fool was I that kept not these lips closed; but I had vowed that if a conqueror home to Greece I came, I would avenge. Such words moved wrath, and were the first shock of my ruin; from that hour, Ulysses whispered slander and alarm; breathed doubt and malice into all men's ears, and darkl...