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Author: aabacchus <ben@bvnf.space>
Date:   Thu, 30 Dec 2021 00:12:10 +0000

chapter 13

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@@ -382,7 +382,8 @@ huts, but to fight.”
 </p>
 
 <p>
-Then wise Meriones answered him again, saying: &ldquo;I have come to fetch a
+Then wise Meriones answered him again, saying: &ldquo;[Idomeneus, thou
+counsellor of the mail-clad Cretans,] I have come to fetch a
 spear, if perchance thou hast one left in the huts, for that which before I
 carried I have shivered in casting at the shield of proud Deiphobos.&rdquo;
 </p>
@@ -505,7 +506,7 @@ spear, and cast and smote him as he came proudly striding on, and the corslet
 of bronze that he wore availed not, but the lance struck in the midst of his
 belly. And he fell with a crash, and Idomeneus boasted over him, and lifted up
 his voice, saying: &ldquo;Othryoneus, verily I praise thee above all mortal
-men, if indeed thou shalt accomplish all that thou hast promised Priam, son of
+men, if indeed thou shalt accomplish all that thou hast promised to Priam, son of
 Dardanos, that promised thee again his own daughter. Yea, and we likewise would
 promise as much to thee, and fulfil it, and would give thee the fairest
 daughter of the son of Atreus, and bring her from Argos, and wed her to thee,
@@ -829,7 +830,7 @@ steadfast in close brunt of battle, seeing that they had no helmets of bronze,
 shadowy with horse-hair plumes, nor round shields, nor ashen spears, but
 trusting in bows and well-twisted slings of sheep&rsquo;s wool, they followed
 with him to Ilios. Therewith, in the war, they shot thick and fast, and brake
-the ranks of the Trojans. So the one party in front contended with the Trojans,
+the ranks of the Trojans. So the one party in front, with their well-dight arms contended with the Trojans,
 and with Hector arrayed in bronze, while the others from behind kept shooting
 from their ambush, and the Trojans lost all memory of the joy of battle, for
 the arrows confounded them.
@@ -859,7 +860,8 @@ aloof from battle.&rdquo;
 </p>
 
 <p>
-So spake Polydamas, and his safe counsel pleased Hector well, who spake to him
+So spake Polydamas, and his safe counsel pleased Hector well, who [straightaway
+sprang to earth from the chariot with his arms, and] spake to him
 winged words and said: &ldquo;Polydamas, do thou stay here all the best of the
 host, but I will go thither to face the war, and swiftly will return again,
 when I have straitly laid on them my commands.&rdquo;
@@ -905,7 +907,7 @@ Phalkes, and Orthaios, and godlike Polyphetes, and Palmys, and Askanios, and
 Morys, son of Hippotion, who had come in their turn, out of deep-soiled
 Askanie, on the morn before, and now Zeus urged them to fight. And these set
 forth like the blast of violent winds, that rushes earthward beneath the
-thunder of Zeus, and with marvellous din doth mingle with the salt sea, and
+thunder of father Zeus, and with marvellous din doth mingle with the salt sea, and
 therein are many swelling waves of the loud roaring sea, arched over and white
 with foam, some vanward, others in the rear; even so the Trojans arrayed in van
 and rear and shining with bronze, followed after their leaders.
@@ -923,7 +925,7 @@ Argives? We are in no wise ignorant of war, but by the cruel scourge of Zeus
 are we Achaians vanquished. Surely now thy heart hopes utterly to spoil the
 ships, but we too have hands presently to hold our own. Verily your peopled
 city will long ere that beneath our hands be taken and sacked. But for thee, I
-tell thee that the time is at hand, when thou shalt pray in thy flight to Zeus,
+tell thee that the time is at hand, when thou shalt pray in thy flight to father Zeus,
 and the other immortal gods, that thy fair-maned steeds may be fleeter than
 falcons: thy steeds that are to bear thee to the city, as they storm in dust
 across the plain.&rdquo;