ODYSSEUS
Not so, but just men before all the Greeks.
AGAMEMNON
You bid me then permit these funeral rites?
ODYSSEUS
Even so: for I myself shall come to this.
AGAMEMNON
Alike in all things each works for himself.
ODYSSEUS
And for whom should I work, if not myself?
AGAMEMNON
Let it be known then as your doing, not mine.
ODYSSEUS
So be it. At least you will have acted nobly.
AGAMEMNON
Nay, but of this be certain, that to thee
Willingly would I grant a greater boon.
Yet he, in that world as in this, shall be
Most hateful to me. But act as you deem fit.
[Exit Agamemnon.]
CHORUS
After such proof, Odysseus, a fool only
Could say that inborn wisdom was not thine.
ODYSSEUS
Let Teucer know that I shall be henceforth
His friend, no less than I was once his foe.
And I will join in burying this dead man,
And share in all due rites, omitting none
Which mortal men to noblest heroes owe.
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