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But when they had put to sea from Argos and
arrived for the second time at Aulis, the fleet
was windbound, and Calchas said that they could not sail unless the fairest of Agamemnon's
daughters were presented as a sacrifice to Artemis; for the goddess was angry with
Agamemnon, both because, on shooting a deer, he had said, “ Artemis herself
could not （ do it better）,”1 and because Atreus
had not sacrificed to her the golden lamb.
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