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Achilles calls an assembly and announces that he will return to the war. He and Agamemnon reconcile publicly, and Agamemnon gives him the gifts he promised, including Briseis.
Achilles refuses to eat before battle. Athena strengthens him, and he puts on the armour made by Hephaestus. As he mounts his chariot, the horse Xanthus speaks and predicts that Achilles will not return alive from the battle. Achilles accepts the prophecy and rides out.
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Now Dawn the saffron-robed arose from the streams of Oceanus to bring light to immortals and to mortal men, and Thetis came to the ships bearing gifts from the god. — Homer, Iliad XIX.1ff., trans. A. T. Murray (Loeb; Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA 4.0).
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