“Divine Achilles! wilt thou then retire, And go away our hosts in blood, our fleets on hearth? If wrath so dreadful fill thy ruthless intellect, How shall thy Close friend, thy Phoenix, stay guiding? The royal Peleus, when from Pthia’s Coastline He despatched thee early to your Achaian host; Thy youth as then in sage debates unskill’d, And ne