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The Iliad 2.182–189

The Iliad 2.182–189
But himself he went straight to Agamemnon, son of Atreus, and received at his hand the staff of his fathers, imperishable ever, and therewith went his way along the ships of the brazen-coated Achaeans.
ὣς φάθʼ, δὲ ξυνέηκε θεᾶς ὄπα φωνησάσης, βῆ δὲ θέειν, ἀπὸ δὲ χλαῖναν βάλε· τὴν δὲ κόμισσε κῆρυξ Εὐρυβάτης Ἰθακήσιος ὅς οἱ ὀπήδει· αὐτὸς δʼ Ἀτρεΐδεω Ἀγαμέμνονος ἀντίος ἐλθὼν δέξατό οἱ σκῆπτρον πατρώϊον ἄφθιτον αἰεί· σὺν τῷ ἔβη κατὰ νῆας Ἀχαιῶν χαλκοχιτώνων. ὅν τινα μὲν βασιλῆα καὶ ἔξοχον ἄνδρα κιχείη τὸν δʼ ἀγανοῖς ἐπέεσσιν ἐρητύσασκε παραστάς·
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