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The Achaean leaders hold a night council. Nestor suggests sending someone to spy on the Trojans, and Diomedes volunteers with Odysseus.
The Trojan side has also sent Dolon. The two Achaeans catch him, force him to reveal the camp’s layout, and kill him. They then enter the camp of the Thracian king Rhesus, kill him and his men, and drive off his white horses. The book is a self-contained adventure and a study of the intelligence that complements brute force.
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Now beside their ships all the other chieftains of the host of the Achaeans were slumbering the whole night through, overcome of soft sleep, but Agamemnon, son of Atreus, shepherd of the host, was not holden of sweet sleep, so many things debated he in mind. — Homer, Iliad X.1ff., trans. A. T. Murray (Loeb; Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA 4.0).
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