Book Ten

Agamemnon’s worried what could happen the next day
And can’t decide if they should stay and fight, or sail away
He wakes up all his leading men to meet and have a chat
They need a spy, Diomedes says “OK, I’ll do that”
He takes Odysseus, and goes to learn the Trojan plan
But outside in the darkness they can hear another man
Hector has sent Dolon out to spy upon the Greeks!
He’s captured and persuaded he’ll be alright if he speaks
“Hector’s holding council, but the camp’s unguarded, so
Thracian horses aren’t protected, now will you let me go?”
“Sorry”, says Diomedes “We’re safer if you’re dead”
And so he gets his sword out and he lops off Dolon’s head.
The camp’s unguarded, men asleep – what will the heroes do?
They kill some Thracians in their beds and steal the horses too.