As Adrestus’s “pleas were moving the heart of Menelaus," Agamemnon intervenes and puts the matter this way:“So soft, dear brother, why? Why such concern for enemies? I suppose you got such tender loving care at home from the Trojans. Ah would to god not one of them could escape his sudden plunging death beneath our hands!No baby boy still in his mother’s belly, not even he escape—all Ilium blotted out,no tears for their lives, no markers for their graves!"It is shameful injustice, this mercy that Menelaus considers, or so Agamemnon assumes, and it is shame that turns his heart once again. “And the iron warrior brought his brother round—rough justice, fitting too.Menelaus shoved Adrestus back with a fist, powerful Agamemnon stabbed him in the flankand back on his side the fighter went, faceup.The son of Atreus dug a heel in his heaving chestand wrenched the ash spear out.” (Homer, 7//W 6.59,63-76)