Note 1543 — Chapter VI · THE ALPS.
W. (William) Falconer translation
This disgusting brutality however is no more barbarous than the intention put by Homer into the mouth of Agamemnon, “the king of men,” which Scholiasts have in vain endeavoured to soften or excuse—
τῶν μήτις ὑπεκφύγοι αἰπὺν ὄλεθρον, χεῖράς θ’ ἡμετέρας· μηδ’ ὅντινα γαστέρι μήτηρ κοῦρον ἐόντα φέροι, μηδ’ ὃς φύγοι· ἀλλ’ ἅμα πάντες Ἰλίου ἐξαπολοίατ’, ἀκήδεστοι καὶ ἄφαντοι. Iliad vi. 57-60.