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The goddess Pallas stands between Achilles and Agamemnon, stopping their fight. On the ground beside her is her shield (with the face of Medusa) and her owl. In the background are the Greek camp and a city
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tetrastichon.

Pectus in Atride[1] dum ferrum strinxit Achilles,
Continuit subitam docta Minerva manum:
Cur hoc? Nempe decet fortem qui caetera vincit,
Affectus proprios perdomuisse virum.

As Achilles draws his weapon, to plunge it into the breast of Atrides, wise Minerva restrains him with a sudden hand. Why? Because, clearly, it is right that a brave man who conquers everything else should tame his own emotions.

quatrain.

PallasarresteAchillés, qu’il ne tue
Agamenon des Grecz le puissant Roy:
Comme le sage à vaincre s’esvertue
Ses folzdesirs, pour fuyrdésarroy.

Notes:

1.  Atrides: Agamemnon (son of Atreus). The scene depicted is in the first book of the Iliad, and has frequently been the subject of this kind of allegorical reading.

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