“Divine Achilles! wilt thou then retire, And depart our hosts in blood, our fleets on hearth? If wrath so dreadful fill thy ruthless mind, How shall thy friend, thy Phoenix, remain driving? The royal Peleus, when from Pthia’s Coastline He despatched thee early into the Achaian host; Thy youth as then in sage debates unskill’d, And new to peri