The Earl of Derby’s translation, book 1, page 16, line 12, reads:

To whom the monarch, Agamemnon, thus:

“Oh, father, full of wisdom are thy words;

But this proud chief o’er all would domineer;

O’er all he seeks to rule, o’er all to reign,

To all dictate, which I will not bear,

Grant that the gods have giv’n him warlike might;

Gave they unbridled license to his tongue?”

To whom Achilles, interrupting thus:

“Coward and slave I might indeed be deemed,