Then all the other Achaeans shouted assent, to respect the priest and to accept the splendid ransom; but it did not please Agamemnon, son of Atreus, in his heart, but he sent him off harshly and laid on him a harsh word:

The army agrees at once, in one word, epeuphēmēsan, “they all spoke well of it.” Then the line turns on all’ ouk, “but not.” Agamemnon stands alone against everyone, and Homer places his refusal in his thymos, the chest where feeling lives. It is not reasoned. It does not please him. Lines 24 and 25 each begin with “but”: all’ ouk, alla kakōs. Homer repeats these four lines later in the book (1.376–379), when Achilles tells the story to his mother.