gre I, 215-218215 τὴν δ᾽ ἀπαμειβόμενος προσέφη πόδας ὠκὺς Ἀχιλλεύς:
‘χρὴ μὲν σφωΐτερόν γε θεὰ ἔπος εἰρύσσασθαι
καὶ μάλα περ θυμῷ κεχολωμένον: ὧς γὰρ ἄμεινον:
ὅς κε θεοῖς ἐπιπείθηται μάλα τ᾽ ἔκλυον αὐτοῦ.
Tr. Leontius Pilatus, 1362 (1462), p. 137vHanc autem retribuens · affatus est pediuelox achilles
Oportet me certe melius dea verbum eligere
Et valde me licet iratum · sic enim melius
Qui et diis obedit multum audiebant eum
Tr. A.T. Murray, 1924In answer to her spoke swift-footed Achilles: [215] “It is necessary, goddess, to observe the words of you two, however angered a man be in his heart, for is it better so. Whoever obeys the gods, to him do they gladly give ear.”
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Setting the scene, the rage of Achilles, Chryses and his daughter taken by Agamemnon, his denial to send her back and the pestilence sent by Apollo l.1-56
