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ARGUMENT OF THE THIRD BOOK.

Homer

The armies meet. Paris throws out a challenge to the Grecian Princes.

Menelaus accepts it. The terms of the combat are adjusted solemnly by

Agamemnon on the part of Greece, and by Priam on the part of Troy. The

combat ensues, in which Paris is vanquished, whom yet Venus rescues.

Agamemnon demands from the Trojans a performance of the covenant.