With wrathful words: "Go, get you gone, ye race

Of weaklings, bear away the honors due

My manes; loose your thankless ships, and sail

Across my seas. By no slight offering

Did ye aforetime stay Achilles' wrath;

And now a greater shall ye pay. Behold,

Polyxena, once pledged to me in life,195

Must by the hand of Pyrrhus to my shade

Be led, and with her blood my tomb bedew."

So spake Achilles and the realms of day