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“Not even if his gifts to me could match
the grains of dust and sand—not even then
would Agamemnon ever sway my heart. . . .”(9.495–97)

But Achilles adamantly rejects the offer, insisting that even an infinite number of gifts—as many as the sands of the sea—could never be adequate compensation for his original humiliation.”