And makes him speak out a word which were better unsaid.
And Odysseus upbraids Thersites (I. ii. 246):—
Thou babbling fool Therites, prompt of speech,
Restrain thy tongue.
And Ajax speaks, blaming Idomeneus (I. xxiii. 478):—
But thou art ever hasty in thy speech.
And ill becomes thee this precipitance
And while the armies are entering the fight (I. iii. 2-8):—
With noise and clarmor, as a flight of birds,
The men of Troy advanced,
On th'other side the Greeks in silence mov'd.
Clamor is barbaric, silence is Greek. Therefore he has represented the most prudent man as restrained, in speech. And Odysseus exhorts his son (O. xvi. 300):—
If in very truth thou art my son and of our blood, then let
no man hear that Odysseus is come home; neither let Laertes
know it nor the swineherd nor any of the household nor
Penelope herself.
And again he exhorts him (O. xix. 42):—