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... voice of the trumpets afar and pawing the meadows. Over the sands Acirrous came to them running and toiling, Known from far off, for he ran unhelmeted. High on the hero Sunlike smiled the golden Achilles and into the tent-space Seized by the hand and brought him and seated. "War-shaft of Troezen, Whence was thy speed, Acirrous? Com'st thou, O friend, to my tent-side Spurred by thy eager will... Nestor, Odysseus Atlas-shouldered, Helmeted Ajax, his chin of the beast and his eyes of the dreamer. Over the sands they dispersed to their armies ranked by the Ocean.     But from the Argive front Acirrous loosed by Tydides Parted as hastens a shaft from the string and he sped on intently Swift where the beaches were bare or threading the gaps of the nations; Crossing Thebes and Epirus he passed... from a heart that is hollow? What say the banded princes of Greece to the single Achilles? Bringest thou flattery pale or an empty and futureless menace?" But to the strength of Pelides the hero Acirrous answered: "Response none make the Greeks to thy high-voiced message and challenge; Only their shout at thy side will reply when thou leapst into Troya. So have their chieftains willed and the wisdom ...