[694] τάχα: Achilles is reconciled with Agamemnon, goes forth to battle, and kills Hector, on the 27th day of the action of the Iliad, five days after the events narrated in this Second Book. In other passages his inactivity is called long, cf. “Ἀχιλλεὺς ι ἐξεφάνη, δηρὸν δὲ μάχης ἐπέπαυτ̓ ἀλεγεινῆς Τ” 45 f., 18.125, 248.
695-710. The forces of Protesilaus.