nd all the sons of the Greeks shouted, admiring the words
of horse-breaking Diomede: and then Agamemnon, king of men, thus
addressed Idaeus:

"Idaeus, thou thyself hearest, indeed, the sentiments of the Greeks, how
they answer thee; and such also pleases me. But concerning the dead, I
grudge not that [you] should burn them; for there is no grudge towards
the dead bodies, when they are dead, hastily to perform their obsequies
with fire:[263] but let loud-resounding Jove, the husband of Juno, be
witness of the treaties."

[Footnote 263: Literally, "to appease [the dead]."]

Thus having said, he raised his sceptre to all the gods. But Idaeus
returned to sacred Ilium. And the Trojans and Dardanians all sat
assembled in council, expecting when Idaeus might return. He came, and
declared his message, standing in the midst of them. But they prepared
themselves very speedily for both purposes, some to carry away the
bodies, and others to gather wood. The Greeks also on the other side
hastened from their well-benched ships, some to carry away the bodies,
and others to collect wood.

Then, indeed, the sun freshly struck the fields [with its rays],
ascending heaven from the calmly-flowing, deep-moving ocean. But they
met one another. Then was it difficult to distinguish each man [amongst
the slain]; but washing off with water the bloody gore, and pouring over
them warm tears, they placed them upon the chariots; nor did mighty
Priam suffer them to give way to grief. In silence, therefore, they
heaped the bodies on the pile, grieving at heart. But when they had
burned them in the fire, they returned to sacred Ilium. In like manner
also, on the other side, the well-greaved Greeks heaped the bodies on
the pile, grieving in their heart; and having burned them with fire,
they returned to the hollow ships. And when it was not yet morning, but
still twilight, then a chosen band of Greeks arose about the pile; and
going out from the plain, they made around it one common tomb, and near
it they built a wall and lofty towers, a bulwark of their ships and of
themselves. In them they made well-fitted gates, that through them there
might be a passage for the chariots. Without they dug a deep ditch, near
it, broad and large, and in it fixed palisades. Thus the long-haired
Greeks on their part laboured.

But the gods on the contrary sitting beside the thundering Jove, were
admiring the mighty work of the brazen-mailed Greeks; but to them
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