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502-512. The allegory of the Suppliant Prayers. In the “Λιταί” Phoenix covertly alludes to Agamemnon, who, he suggests, is now penitent. Agamemnon was misguided and sinned, as in fact he himself confessed (l. 119), though not to Achilles. Now he makes full atonement. If Achilles will accept the atonement, he will be benefited thereby; if he spurns it, he will put himself in the wrong, becoming subject to the same sin of arrogance which before seized Agamemnon. And in his turn he will pay the penalty. The Prayers are appropriately called ‘daughters of Zeus,’ since Zeus is the god and protector of suppliants (Od. 9.270).
Selections from Homer's Iliad, with an introduction, notes, a short Homeric grammar, and a vocabulary. Allen Rogers Benner. New York. Irvington Publishers, Inc. 1903.
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