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Often appears with: tribal military organization · strategy and the aims of war · oaths and covenant · military discipline and training · justice as a virtue · divine signs · battle readiness
Usually: narrative (1) · censure (1) · exhortation (1)
Nestor condemns the talkers and urges Agamemnon to lead to battle, demanding the men divide by tribes, promises Jove’s signs, and warns that delay tests whether failure is heavenly or cowardice.
tenth shall take the town.’ This was what he said, and now it is all coming true. Stay here, therefore, all of you, till we take the city of Priam.” On this the Argives raised a shout, till the ships rang again with the uproar. Nestor, knight of Gerene, then addressed them. “Shame on you,” he cried, “to stay talking here like children, when you should fight like men. Where are our covenants now, an…