And to recall our gifts and reapportion befits not—

Yield you the maiden to-day to the god, and we, the Achæans,

Three or four times over will compensate it, if ever

Zeus the capture accord of the well-walled Ilian city.’

And with words of reply the King Agamemnon addressed him:

‘Think not, great as you are, O god-resembling Achilles,

Thus to dissimulate and evade me with a profession;

Is it that you desire to enjoy your prize, and to let me

Sit empty-handed here, and mine you bid me surrender—

Doubtless, if the noble Achæans find me another