The men watched the vessel come alongside with their hopes swelling. That ram! That beautiful wooden satyr!…
Then Odysseus, who had arrived in the meantime, dressed in his Sunday armour and stood beside Diomedes, was heard to shout:
“Those are not Syrians, i***t, they are Paphians…” And in his voice Talthyvios perceived more disappointment because they were not Syrians, than because there was only one Paphian ship.
All who heard felt betrayed for the same reason. The disappointment stirred up the aroused would-be lovers who began, one by one at first, then all together, to break the silence that had enveloped them for so long, swearing and bawling that it was high time the stupid war ended so that they could return to their homes, and that Menelaus could remain a cuckold and Agamemnon c
