I have the power to proclaim the augury of triumph given on their wayto princely men—since my ageσύμφυτος αἰών, literally life that has grown with me,time of life, here old age, as the Scholiast takes it; cf. Mrs. Barbauld, Life. We’ve been long together.still breathes Persuasion upon me from the gods, the strength of song—how the twin-throned command of the Achaeans,the single-minded captains of Hellas’ youth, with avenging spear and arm against the Teucrian land, was sent off by the inspiring omen appearing to the kings of the ships—kingly birds,