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Homer, The Odyssey (ed. Samuel Butler, Based on public domain edition, revised by Timothy Power and Gregory Nagy.), Scroll 24, line 2 (search)
"Happy [olbios] son
of Peleus," answered the ghost [psukhê] of
Agamemnon, "for having died at Troy far from Argos, while the bravest
of the Trojans and the Achaeans fell round you fighting for your
body. There you lay in the whirling clouds of dust, all huge and
hugely, heedless now of your chivalry. We fought the whole of the
livelong day, nor should we ever have left off if Zeus had not sent a
gale to stay us. Then, when we had borne you to the ships out of the
fray, we laid you on your bed and cleansed your fair skin with warm
water and with ointments. The Danaans tore their hair and wept
bitterly round about you. Your mother, when she heard, came with her
immortal nymphs from out of the sea, and the sound of a great wailing
went forth over the waters so that the Achaeans quaked for fear. They
would have fled panic-stricken to their ships had not wise old Nestor
whose counsel was ever truest checked them saying, ‘Hold,
Argives, flee not sons of the Achaeans, this is his mother com