Task of office for the city.[[329]]

Agam. First Argos, and the Gods who guard the land,

'Tis right to greet; to them in part I owe

This my return, and vengeance that I took

On Priam's city. Not on hearsay proof

Judging the cause, with one consent the Gods

Cast in their votes into the urn of blood

For Ilion's ruin and her people's death;

[*]I' the other urn Hope touched the rim alone,

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