Chryses : in Iliad, a priest of Apollo, on the island of Sminthus. His daughter Chryseis was kidnapped by Achilles & awarded to Agamemnon as his share of the spoils.
... only to take the reviewer's quotation of Lattimore's rendering of the first line of Homer's famous passage in the Iliad about the descent of Apollo to avenge the Greeks' insult to his high-priest Chryses: Be de kat' oulumpoio karenon choömenos ker. Lattimore writes: And strode down along the pinnacles of Olympos, angered in his heart... Sri Aurobindo, in the course of discussing ...
... of simplicity and splendour: Silent he walked by the shore of the many-rumoured ocean. 2 1 Pp. 5-6. 8 2 Letters, p. 47. Page 127 Haunted by the mute sorrow of Chryses, Apollo's high-priest, listening to the ocean's roar, Sri Aurobindo makes Achilles say in his message through Talthybius: Day after day I walked at dawn and in blush of the sunset, Far by ...
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