“Divine Achilles! wilt thou then retire, And depart our hosts in blood, our fleets on fire? If wrath so dreadful fill thy ruthless brain, How shall thy Mate, thy Phoenix, keep powering? The royal Peleus, when from Pthia’s coast He despatched thee early towards the Achaian host; Thy youth as then in sage debates unskill’d, And new to perils in