1. Agammemnon said, "I was wrong,
you chided me rightly, I do not deny it.

2. For a brat we nurtured and increased
is a curse to whoever matches our army.

3. I raised Thersites until he was impudent to me
and prayed for the sin to be forgiven.

4. I will reward him with precious gifts and you are all
witnesses to my words in this crowded assembly.

5. Seven tables that have not seen fire,
and twenty shining basins for display.

6. Of gold ten heavy shards
and the best steeds that win repeated races.

7. Twelve bays, slick haired, will win them
as two treasures in the swift, recurring race.

8. Treasures which if attained by any lord
will raise him above the complaint of a pauper.

9. And seven fair robes shaped and woven
from sheer linen in Lesbos attained seamlessly.

10. Once they were mine, at the time
when he turned on them with a destroying spear.

11. So too Briseis I vow weighed down
that I never imagined having her close.

12. Let him keep these gifts of mine today, even if
we take Ilium by fated decree.

13. Twenty beauties, neither sallow nor pale, to fill a ship
and at dividing the captives with the lot he will gain

14. Twenty fair ones he chooses himself
the finest of the choicest.

15. And once we return to fertile Argos,
he will be my honored in-law.

16. I have three daughters: Chrysothemis,
Laodice, and Iphianassa for him to choose.

17. And I am no miser in brides-price and will increase it
beyond what anyone since time began has found.

18. I will settle her in the house of Peleus and above that
seven citadels on an age-old height.

19. Cardamyle of the bright flowers, and Ire,
Euneepa, and fair-ankled Credea

20. and lovely Ifea, Phila and fair-ankled Credea
and lovely Ifea like a fruitful vine

21. before the cliffs where all are engulfed in the sea
who will free him of grave, perilous troubles

22. and bring him the full tribute imposed.
Spoils of war and cattle beyond number—

23. these are my gifts. Let him yield and then come."
So every angry man except Acesimus was pleased.

24. For this the people said he was far from evil report.
"Enough rage since I was greatest in rank

25. and lived many days that he may yield and shorten sail.