sic segnes heroes eunt campumque patentem, qui medius portus celsamque interiacet urbem, alterno sermone terunt; prior occupat acer Tydides: Qua nunc verum ratione paramus scrutari? namque ambiguo sub pectore pridem verso, quid imbelles thyrsos mercatus et aera urbibus in mediis Baccheaque terga mitrasque huc tuleris varioque aspersas nebridas auro? hisne gravem Priamo Phrygibusque armabis Achillem? Illi subridens Ithacus paulum ore remisso: Haec tibi, virginea modo si Lycomedis in aula est fraude latens, ultro confessum in proelia ducent Peliden; tu cuncta citus de puppe memento ferre, ubi tempus erit, clipeumque his iungere donis, qui pulcher signis auroque asperrimus astat;
Even so the heroes walk slowly and pass in converse the open plain that lies between the harbour and the lofty town. Tydeus lively son begins the dialogue: How do we now set about probing the truth? For I have long been pondering in perplexity why you bought in the towns these unwarlike wands and cymbals and Bacchic hides  and headbands and fawnskins variously sprayed with gold. Will you arm Achilles, bane to Priam and Troy, with these? The Ithacans face relaxed a little and he answers him with a smile: These, look you, will draw Peleus son to the war, freely confessing, if indeed he is fraudulently hiding in Lycomedes virgin hall. You must be sure to bring them all quickly from the boat when the time comes and to add a shield to these gifts, standing beautified with reliefs and rough with much gold
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