Therefore
the innocent seer took courage and spoke to the Argives:
“Not for a
sacrifice, nor for a vow, does Apollo blame us.
Rather, he
blames us because of the priest Agamemnon dishonored—
he wouldn’t
free his daughter, nor would he take his ransom.
That’s why the
far-shooting archer has given us grief, and he still will;
97 nor will he
drive this shameful destruction away from the Argives
’til we
have given the bright-eyed girl to her loving father,
free,
without ransom, and driven a hundred sacred oxen
over to
Chryse; and having appeased him, perhaps we’ll persuade him.”
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