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bristling. So gladdened was thy soul, Menelaus, within thy heart." 

 Compare also II. 2: 147 ff.: "And even as when the west wind cometh 

 to stir a deep cornfield with violent blast, and the ears bow down, so was 

 all the assembly stirred." 



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And to Ferood his brother chiefs came up 



To counsel; Gudurz and Zoarrah came, 



And Feraburz, who ruled the Persian host 



Second, and was the uncle of the King; 



These came and counsell'd, and then Gudurz said. 



This counsel scene is similar to that in II. 2 : 403 ff . : " Agamemnon .... 

 called the elders, the princes of the Achaean host, Nestor first and king 

 Idomeneus, and then the two Aiantes and Tydeus' son, and sixthly 

 Odysseus peer of Zeus in counsel. And Menelaus of the loud war-cry 

 came to him, unbidden, for he knew in his heart, how his brother toiled." 



— Aloof he sits 

 And sullen, and has pitch'd his tents apart. 



Haply he will forget his wrath and fight. 



The phraseology brings to mind the picture of Ajax in the lower world, 

 Ody. 11:543 ff. : "Only the spirit of Ajax, son of Telamon, held aloof, 

 still angry at the victory I gained in the contest at the ships for the arms 



of Achilles To him I spoke in gentle words and said: 'Ajax, 



son of gallant Telamon, will you not, even in death, forget your wrath 

 about the accursed armor ?' " 

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He spake: and Peran-Wisa turn'd and strode 

 Back through the opening squadrons to his tent. 



Compare Ody. n : 538 ff. : " So I spoke, and the spirit of the swift-footed 

 Aeacides departed with long strides across the fields of Asphodel." 

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But through the anxious Persians Gudurz ran, 



And cross'd the camp which lay behind, and reach'd, 



Out on the sands beyond it, Rustum's tents. 



And Gudurz enter'd Rustum's tent and found 

 Rustum; .... 



