"it wasn't me!"
argirios zias
argirioszias at hotmail.com
Wed Sep 12 20:35:37 CDT 2001
Fun to dance to that one, "it wasn't me!"
But he got caught red handed en el Bano.
Anonymity & the Insanity Defense
Then Agamemnon spoke, rising in his place, and not going into the
middle of the assembly. "Danaan heroes," said he, "servants of Mars, it
is well to listen when a man stands up to speak, and it is not seemly to
interrupt him, or it will go hard even with a practised speaker. Who can
either hear or speak in an uproar? Even the finest orator will be
disconcerted by it. I will expound to the son of Peleus, and do you
other
Achaeans heed me and mark me well. Often have the Achaeans spoken
to me of this matter and upbraided me, but it was not I that did it:
Jove,
and Fate, and Erinys that walks in darkness struck me mad when we
were assembled on the day that I took from Achilles the meed that had
been awarded to him. What could I do? All things are in the hand of
heaven, and Folly, eldest of Jove's daughters, shuts men's eyes to their
destruction. She walks delicately, not on the solid earth, but hovers
over
the heads of men to make them stumble or to ensnare them.
Iliad.19
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