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all that is his and all that may come to him — 

 even though he shottld promise me gifts in num- 

 ber as the sand, yet he shall not persuade me. 

 And so you have my answer." 



And Ajax and Ulysses arose, and went back 

 sorrowfully to their own tents. But old Phoinix 

 stayed with his one-time pupil Achilles. 



FOURTH HEAT THE FIERCE FIGHT 



On the next day, and the next, and the next, the 

 battle raged fiercely about the camp and the ships 

 of the Greeks; but Achilles and his Myrmidons 

 stayed quietly in their tents, and neither gave aid 

 to their countrymen nor embarked on their ships 

 to return to their native land. On the third day, 

 however, Patroclus went out unarmed to see how 

 things were faring with his friends. It was a 

 sad tale that he brought back to Achilles. 



" The bravest of the Greeks," said he, " are 

 lying among the ships smitten and wounded. 

 Everywhere the men of Troy press upon them; 

 they have broken over the wall into the camp, and 

 they are even throwing fire into the ships. If 

 thou withhold thy help longer, surely thou art 

 without pity — thou canst not be the son of Peleus 



