Iliad

Meanwhile Achilles went about everywhere among the tents, and bade his Myrmidons put on their armor. Even as fierce ravening wolves that are feasting upon a horned stag which they have killed upon the mountains, and their jaws are red with blood - they go in a pack to lap water from the clear spring with their long thin tongues; and they reek of blood and slaughter; they know not what fear is, for it is hunger drives them - even so did the leaders and counselors of the Myrmidons gather round the good squire [ therapôn ] of the fleet descendant of Aiakos, and among them stood Achilles himself cheering on both men and horses.

IliadBook 16, Line 155Samuel ButlerEnglishVerse permalinkRead in Book 16

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