Iliad

Thus did he plead, and Menelaos was for yielding and giving him to a squire [ therapôn ] to take to the ships of the Achaeans, but Agamemnon came running up to him and rebuked him. "My good Menelaos," said he, "this is no time for giving quarter. Has, then, your house fared so well at the hands of the Trojans? Let us not spare a single one of them - not even the child unborn and in its mother's womb; let not a man of them be left alive, but let all in Ilion perish, unheeded and forgotten."

IliadBook 6, Line 51Samuel ButlerEnglishVerse permalinkRead in Book 6

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