David's letter to Joab. Uriah's death

14. sent it by the hand of Uriah So in the Greek story Proetus sent Bellerophon to Jobates with his own death-warrant. Cp. Hom. Il.VI. 168, 169.

"Slay him he would not, that his soul abhorred;

But to the father of his wife, the king

Of Lycia, sent him forth, with tokens charged

Of dire import, on folded tablets traced,

Poisoning the monarch's mind to work his death."

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