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Chryses's ransom

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Chryses's ransom
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The ransom repeatedly offered for Chryseis.

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great ransom

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Chryses brings a great ransom to free his daughter.

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“to free his daughter, and had brought with him a great ransom”

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“had brought with him a great ransom”

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Book 1 · Passage 2

And which of the gods was it that set them on to quarrel? It was the son of Jove and Leto; for he was angry with the king and sent a pestilence upon the host to plague the people, because the son of Atreus had dishonoured Chryses his priest. Now Chryses had come to the ships of the Achaeans to free his daughter, and had brought with him a great ransom: moreover he bore in his hand the sceptre of Apollo wreathed with a suppliant’s wreath, and he besought the Achaeans, but most of all the two sons of Atreus, who were their chiefs.