Ulysses, swift Ajax, and the valiant son of Phyleus. But if any one
going, would call godlike Ajax, and king Idomeneus; for their ships are
the farthest off,[343] and by no means near at hand. But I will chide
Menelaus, dear and respected though he be, nor will I conceal, even if
thou shouldst be displeased with me, since thus he sleeps, and has
permitted thee alone to labour. For now ought he to labour, supplicating
among all the chiefs, for a necessity, no longer tolerable, invades us."

[Footnote 339: AEsch. Ag. 12: [Greek: Eyt' an de nuktiplankton
endroson t' echo Einen oneirois ouk episkopoumenen Emen, phothos
gar anth' opnou parastatei].]

[Footnote 340: Cicero ad Attic, ix. 6: "Non angor, sed ardeo
dolore; [Greek: oude moi etor empedon, all' alalyktemai]. Non
sum, inquam, mihi crede, mentis compos."]

[Footnote 341: Observe the zeugma, which has been imitated by
Hor. Od. III. 4, 11: "Ludo fatigatumque somno." Compare the
learned dissertation on this subject by D'Orville on Chariton,
iv. 4, p. 440, sqq. ed. Lips.]

[Footnote 342: AEsch. Sept. c. Th. 28: [Greek: Legei megisten
proszalen Achaida Nukinegoreisthai kopithouleyein polei].]

[Footnote 343: Soph. Aj. 3: [Greek: Kai nun epi skenais se
nautikais oro Aiantos, entha taxin eschaten echei].]

But him Agamemnon, king of men, in turn addressed: "Old man, at other
times I would even bid thee blame him, for he is frequently remiss, and
is not willing to labour, yielding neither to sloth, nor thoughtlessness
of mind, but looking to me, and awaiting my commencement. But now he
arose long before me, and stood beside me; him I have sent before to
call those whom thou seekest. But let us go, and we shall find them
before the gates among the guards; for there I bade them be assembled."

But him the Gerenian knight Nestor then answered: "If so, none of the
Greeks will be angry, nor disobey when he may exhort or give orders to
any."

Thus saying, he put on his tunic around his breast, and beneath his
shining feet he placed the beautiful sandals, and fastened about him his
purple cloak with a clasp, double, ample;[344] and the shaggy pile was
thick upon it: and he seized a doughty spear, pointed with sharp brass.
He proceeded first to the ships of the brazen-mailed Achaeans; then the
Gerenian knight Nestor, vociferating, aroused from his sleep Ulysses,
equal to Jove in counsel. But the voice immediately penetrated his mind,