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the priest came and prayed that to them
the gods should grant to take Troy
and come safely home, but that they should accept the ransom and release his
daughter, out of reverence for the god, and when he had thus spoken the
others were of reverent mind and approved, but Agamemnon was angry and bade
him depart and not come again lest the scepter and the fillets of the god
should not avail him. And ere his daughter should be released, he said, she
would grow old in Argos with
himself, and he ordered him to be off and not vex him if he wished to get
home safe.
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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