Pershing and his French allies had agreed to launch a general attack on the 1st of November.

潘兴和他的法国盟友同意在 11 月 1 日发动总攻。

Within two days, that general attacked the Union Army. The attack began without enough planning. It was based on false information. It was a disaster.

两天之内，那位将军袭击了联邦军。在没有充分计划的情况下，战争就开始了。行动依据的是虚假的情报，这真是一场灾难。

Yet Homer is teacher of all the Greeks, and the legitimacy of the claims of Book III needs to be extended into a more general attack on Homer and the tragic poets.

然而，荷马是所有希腊人的老师，第三卷主张的合法性需要扩展为对荷马和悲剧诗人的更普遍的攻击。