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Why, what dress in place of this will you assume?
Dolon
One that fits my task and furtive steps.
Chorus Leader
One should ever learn wisdom from the wise; tell me, what will be your equipment?
Dolon
I will fasten a wolf-skin about my back, and over my head put the brute’s gaping jaws;
then fitting its fore-feet to ny hands and its hind-feet to my legs, I will go on all-fours in imitation of a wolf’s gait to puzzle the enemy, when I approach their trenches and barriers round the ships. Rut whenever I come to a deserted spot,
I will walk on two feet; such is the ruse I have decided on.
Chorus Leader
May Hermes, Maia’s child, escort you safely there and back, prince of tricksters as he is! You know what you have to do; good luck is all you need now.
Dolon
I shall return in safety, and bring to you the head of Odysseus
when I have slain him, or the son of Tydeus, and with this clear proof before you you shall assert that Dolon went to the Argive fleet; for, before the dawn, I will come back home with bloodstained hand. Exit Dolon.
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Chorus
Lord of Thymbra and of Delos, who haunt
your temple in Lycia, Apollo, O divine head, come with all your archery, appear this night, and by your guidance save this man,
and aid the Dardanians, O almighty god whose hands in days of old built the walls of Troy.
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Chorus
May he come to the ships! May he reach the army of Hellas and spy it out, then turn again and reach the altars of his father’s
home in Ilium!
May he mount the chariot drawn by Phthia’s horses, when our master has sacked Achaea’s camp,
those horses that the sea-god gave to Peleus, son of Aeacus.
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Chorus
For he alone had heart enough for home and country to go and spy on the naval station; I admire
his spirit; how few stout hearts there are, when on the sea the sunlight dies and the city labors in the surge.
Phrygia yet has left a valiant few, and bold hearts in the battle’s press; it is only Mysia’s sons who scorn us as allies.
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Chorus
Which of the Achaeans will the earth-treading murderer slay
in their beds, as he pretends to be a four-footed beast on the ground? May he lay Menelaus low, slay Agamemnon and bring his head
to Helen’s hands, causing her to lament her evil kinsman, who has come against my city, against the land of Troy with his army of a thousand ships.
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Messenger
Lord, in days to come may it be mine
to bring my masters such news as I am bearing to you now.
Hector
Often the rustic mind is afflicted with dullness; so you have probably come to this ill-suited place to tell your master, in armor, about the sheep! Do you not know my palace or my father’s throne,
where you should carry your tale when you have prospered with your flocks?
Messenger
Dull we herdsmen are; I do not dispute it. But none the less I bring joyful news to you.
Hector
Cease your tale of how the sheep-fold fares; I have battles to fight and spears to wield.
Messenger
The very things of which I, too, came to tell you; for a chieftain of a countless army is on his way to join you as your friend and ally of this land.
Hector
His country? and the home that he has left?
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