The wrath do thou sing, O goddess, of Peleus* son,
\chilles, that baneful wrath which brought countless
voes upon the Achaeans, and sent forth to Hades nany valiant souls of warriors, and made themselves to be a spoil for dogs and all manner of birds ; and thus the will of Zeus was being brought to fulfilment ; �sing thou thereof from the time when ^ at the first there parted in strife Atreus' son, king of men, and goodly Achilles. Who then of the gods was it that brought these two together to contend ? The son of Leto and ?,eus ; for he in wrath against the king roused iiroughout the host an evil pestilence, and the folk ere perishing, for that upon the man Chryses, his riest, had the son of Atreus wrought dishonour. i�r he had come to the switt ships of the Achaeans I free his daughter, and he bore with him ransom tst counting ; and in his hands he held the fillets Apollo, that smiteth afar,^ on a staff of gold, and