...they in turn may know the taste of ill. If I could rid the city of this present curse and restore it to its old security, I should indeed feel deep gratitude towards the gods. But, as for sacking Argos and the pasture-lands of Hellas with the spear, it is no such easy task as you say. Do they not say that here came the greatest chiefs of Hellas? Yes, and I do not scorn them; I have enough to ...