Achilles tells of Niobe, who once boasted she had more children than Leto, mother of Apollo and Artemis
You are ACHILLES. Niobe's six children were shot by Leto's two children, to avenge the insult to their mother. She wept for nine days, but on the tenth the gods buried them, and she made up her mind to eat. "Let us eat now; you can weep later." You share a meal, pleased with each other's company. At last Priam asks for a bed - he has not slept since Hector died. Achilles tells him he must sleep outside the hut.

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