vengeance you should have taken long ago. It is just
what would please the Ithacan, and earn a large reward
from the sons of Atreus!’[126]
“This makes us burn, indeed, to explore and inquire into 15
the reason of his tale, not knowing that crime could be so
monstrous, and Pelasgian art so cunning. He resumes, in
faltering tones, spoken from his false heart:—
“‘Often have the Danaans designed to turn their back
on Troy and accomplish a retreat, and abandon the war 20
that had wearied them so long; and would they had done