ying men,[71] slept all the
night: but Jove sweet sleep possessed not; but he was pondering in his
mind how he might honour Achilles, and destroy many at the ships of the
Greeks. But this device appeared best to him in his mind, to send a
fatal dream[72] to Agamemnon, the son of Atreus. And addressing him, he
spoke winged words:

"Haste away, pernicious dream, to the swift ships of the Greeks. Going
into the tent of Agamemnon, son of Atreus, utter very accurately
everything as I shall command thee. Bid him arm the long-haired
Achaeans[73] with all their array; for now perhaps he may[74] take the
wide-wayed city of the Trojans; for the immortals who possess the
Olympian mansions no longer think dividedly, for Juno, supplicating,
hath bent all [to her will]. And woes are impending over the Trojans."

Thus he spake: and the dream[75] accordingly departed, as soon as it
heard the mandate. And quickly it came to the swift ships of the Greeks,
and went unto Agamemnon, the son of Atreus. But him it found sleeping in
his tent, and ambrosial slumber was diffused around. And he stood over
his head, like unto Nestor, the son of Neleus, him, to wit, whom
Agamemnon honoured most of the old men. To him assimilating himself, the
divine dream addressed him:

[Footnote 71: See Anthon, who observes that "fighting from on
horseback was not practised in the Homeric times."]

[Footnote 72: Some would personify Oneirus, as god of dreams.]

[Footnote 73: Observe the distinction, for the Abantes, ver. 542,
and the Thracians, iv. 533, wore their hair differently.]

[Footnote 74: [Greek: ken] limits the assertion to _probability_,
so that Jupiter does not utter a _direct_ falsehood.]

[Footnote 75: In defence of this cheating conduct of Jove, at
which Plato was much scandalized, Coleridge, p. 154, observes:
"The [Greek: oulos oneiros] was a lying spirit, which the father
of gods and men had a supreme right to commission for the purpose
of working out his ultimate will."]

"Sleepest thou, son of the warrior, horse-taming Atreus? It becomes not
a counsel-giving man, to whom the people have been intrusted, and to
whom so many things are a care, to sleep all the night. But now quickly
attend to me; for I am a messenger to thee from Jove, who, although far
distant, greatly regards and pities thee. He orders thee to arm the
long-haired Greeks with all their array, for now mayest thou take the
wide-wayed cit