Ut placata fames epulis bis terque repostis, rex prior alloquitur paterisque hortatur Achivos: Invideo vestris, fateor, decora inclita gentis Argolicae, coeptis; utinam et mihi fortior aetas, quaeque fuit, Dolopas cum Scyria litora adortos perdomui, fregique vadis, quae signa triumphi vidistis celsa murorum in fronte, carinas! saltem si suboles, aptum quam mittere bello' nunc ipsi viresque meas et cara videtis pignora: quando novos dabit haec mihi turba nepotes? Dixerat, et sollers arrepto tempore Ulixes: Haut spernenda cupis; quis enim non visere gentes innumeras variosque duces atque agmina regum ardeat? omne simul roburque decusque potentis Europae meritos ultro iuravit in enses.
When appetite was assuaged with banquet twice and thrice renewed, the king first addresses the Achaeans, cheering them on with the wine bowl: Renowned ornaments of the Argive race, I envy your undertaking, I confess it. Would that my own age were sturdier, as it was when I thrashed the Dolopes as they assailed Scyros shores and broke them in the water'you have seen the tokens of that triumph high up on the walls, the keels. At least if I had offspring meet to send forth to war'but now you see for yourselves my strength and my dear children. When shall this throng give me new grandsons? He spoke, and wily Ulysses seized his moment: Not to be scorned is your desire. For who would not burn to see the countless peoples and the captains and the columns of kings? All the strength and glory of mighty Europe has together freely sworn allegiance to our just arms.
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