Note 11 — II
Reading edition
From the reproachful answer of Ulysses to Agamemnon, who had proposed an abandonment of their expedition. This is one of the ‘tonic’ passages of the Iliad, so I quote it:
Ah, unworthy king, some other inglorious army
Should’st thou command, not rule over us, whose portion for ever
Zeus hath made it, from youth right up to age, to be winding
Skeins of grievous wars, till every soul of us perish.
Iliad, xiv. 84.