To less and less away
The Argeians' flowery prime:
And when a remedy more grave and grand
Than aught before—yea, for the storm and dearth—
The prophet to the foremost in command
Shrieked forth, as cause of this
Adducing Artemis,
So that the Atreidai striking staves on earth
Could not withhold the tear)—
Then did the king, the elder, speak this clear.