Go home, then, with your ships and comrades to lord it over the Myrmidons. I care neither for you nor for your anger; and thus will I do: since Phoebus Apollo is taking Chryseis from me, I shall send her with my ship and my followers, but I shall come to your tent and take your own prize Briseis, that you may learn how much stronger I am than you are, and that another may fear to set himself up as equal or comparable with me."
He charged them straightly further and dismissed them, whereon they went their way sorrowfully by the seaside, till they came to the tents and ships of the Myrmidons. They found Achilles sitting by his tent and his ships, and ill-pleased he was when he beheld them.
Whether
myrmidons of Justice, specially sent down from London, would be lying in ambush behind the gate?
Show me where she is."--At which last words the door flew open, and in came Squire Western, with his parson and a set of
myrmidons at his heels.
He told him, moreover, that other persons whose houses had been burnt, had for a time lost sight of their children or their relatives, but had, in every case, within his knowledge, succeeded in discovering them; that his complaint should be remembered, and fully stated in the instructions given to the officers in command, and to all the inferior
myrmidons of justice; and that everything that could be done to help him, should be done, with a goodwill and in good faith.
The object of this new liking was not among his
myrmidons. He would be a valuable acquisition with such an assistant as Nancy, and must (thus Fagin argued) be secured without delay.
Mrs Jarley's back being then towards him, the military gentleman shook his forefinger as a sign that her
myrmidons were not to apprise her of his presence, and stealing up close behind her, tapped her on the neck, and cried playfully
Mentally, I have now committed a burglary under the meanest circumstances, and the
myrmidons of justice are at my heels.'
They say the
Myrmidons returned home safely under Achilles' son Neoptolemus; so also did the valiant son of Poias, Philoctetes.
21: Concerning the
Myrmidons Hesiod speaks thus: `And she conceived and bare Aeacus, delighting in horses.
Sabin and his guest were sitting, and without even a glance at the former turned upon his
myrmidon.
Dods made no secret of the fact that he rates
Myrmidons highly after the Casamento gelding - named after Achilles' soldiers from Greek mythology - won on his debut over course and distance as a two-year-old.