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But Agamemnon was wroth, and bade him depart and not come again,

lest the staff and chaplets of the God should be of no avail to

him-the daughter of Chryses should not be released, he said-she

should grow old with him in Argos. And then he told him to go

away and not to provoke him, if he intended to get home

unscathed. And the old man went away in fear and silence, and,

when he had left the camp, he called upon Apollo by his many

names, reminding him of everything which he had done pleasing to

him, whether in building his temples, or in offering sacrifice,

and praying that his good deeds might be returned to him, and

that the Achaeans might expiate his tears by the arrows of the

god,'-and so on. In this way the whole becomes simple narrative.

I understand, he said.

Or you may suppose the opposite case-that the intermediate

passages are omitted, and the dialogue only left.

That also, he said, I understand; you mean, for example, as in

tragedy.