Iliad

And now as Dawn rose from her couch beside Tithonos, harbinger of light alike to mortals and immortals, Zeus sent fierce Discord with the ensign of war in her hands to the ships of the Achaeans. She took her stand by the huge black hull of Odysseus' ship which was middlemost of all, so that her voice might carry farthest on either side, on the one hand towards the tents of Ajax son of Telamon, and on the other towards those of Achilles - for these two heroes, well-assured of their own strength, had valorously drawn up their ships at the two ends of the line. There she took her stand, and raised a cry both loud and shrill that filled the Achaeans with courage, giving them heart to fight resolutely and with all their might, so that they had rather stay there and do battle than go home in their ships.

Ἠὼς δʼ ἐκ λεχέων παρʼ ἀγαυοῦ Τιθωνοῖο

ὄρνυθʼ, ἵνʼ ἀθανάτοισι φόως φέροι ἠδὲ βροτοῖσι·

Ζεὺς δʼ Ἔριδα προΐαλλε θοὰς ἐπὶ νῆας Ἀχαιῶν

ἀργαλέην, πολέμοιο τέρας μετὰ χερσὶν ἔχουσαν.

στῆ δʼ ἐπʼ Ὀδυσσῆος μεγακήτεϊ νηῒ μελαίνῃ,

ἥ ῥʼ ἐν μεσσάτῳ ἔσκε γεγωνέμεν ἀμφοτέρωσε,

ἠμὲν ἐπʼ Αἴαντος κλισίας Τελαμωνιάδαο

ἠδʼ ἐπʼ Ἀχιλλῆος, τοί ῥʼ ἔσχατα νῆας ἐΐσας

εἴρυσαν ἠνορέῃ πίσυνοι καὶ κάρτεϊ χειρῶν

ἔνθα στᾶσʼ ἤϋσε θεὰ μέγα τε δεινόν τε

ὄρθιʼ, Ἀχαιοῖσιν δὲ μέγα σθένος ἔμβαλʼ ἑκάστῳ

καρδίῃ ἄληκτον πολεμίζειν ἠδὲ μάχεσθαι.

τοῖσι δʼ ἄφαρ πόλεμος γλυκίων γένετʼ ἠὲ νέεσθαι

ἐν νηυσὶ γλαφυρῇσι φίλην ἐς πατρίδα γαῖαν.

The son of Atreus shouted aloud and bade the Argives gird themselves for battle while he put on his armor. First he girded his goodly greaves about his legs, making them fast with ankle clasps of silver; and about his chest he set the breastplate which Cinyras had once given him as a guest-gift. There had been a report [ kleos ] abroad, reaching as far as Cyprus , that the Achaeans were about to sail for Troy ,

Ἀτρεΐδης δʼ ἐβόησεν ἰδὲ ζώννυσθαι ἄνωγεν

Ἀργείους· ἐν δʼ αὐτὸς ἐδύσετο νώροπα χαλκόν.

κνημῖδας μὲν πρῶτα περὶ κνήμῃσιν ἔθηκε

καλὰς ἀργυρέοισιν ἐπισφυρίοις ἀραρυίας·

δεύτερον αὖ θώρηκα περὶ στήθεσσιν ἔδυνε,

τόν ποτέ οἱ Κινύρης δῶκε ξεινήϊον εἶναι.

πεύθετο γὰρ Κύπρον δὲ μέγα κλέος οὕνεκʼ Ἀχαιοὶ

and therefore he gave it to the king. It had ten courses of dark lapis lazuli, twelve of gold, and ten of tin. There were serpents of lapis lazuli that reared themselves up towards the neck, three upon either side, like the rainbows which the son of Kronos has set in heaven as a sign to mortal men. About his shoulders he threw his sword, studded with bosses of gold; and the scabbard was of silver with a chain of gold wherewith to hang it. He took moreover the richly-equipped shield that covered his body when he was in battle - fair to see, with ten circles of bronze running all round see, wit it. On the body of the shield there were twenty bosses of white tin, with another of dark lapis lazuli in the middle: this last was made to show a Gorgon's head, fierce and grim, with Rout and Panic on either side. The band for the arm to go through was of silver, on which there was a writhing snake of lapis lazuli with three heads that sprang from a single neck, and went in and out among one another. On his head Agamemnon set a helmet, with a peak before and behind, and four plumes of horse-hair that nodded menacingly above it; then he grasped two redoubtable bronze-shod spears, and the gleam of his armor shot from him as a flame into the firmament, while Hera and Athena thundered in honor of the king of rich Mycenae .

ἐς Τροίην νήεσσιν ἀναπλεύσεσθαι ἔμελλον·

τοὔνεκά οἱ τὸν δῶκε χαριζόμενος βασιλῆϊ.

τοῦ δʼ ἤτοι δέκα οἶμοι ἔσαν μέλανος κυάνοιο,

δώδεκα δὲ χρυσοῖο καὶ εἴκοσι κασσιτέροιο·

κυάνεοι δὲ δράκοντες ὀρωρέχατο προτὶ δειρὴν

τρεῖς ἑκάτερθʼ ἴρισσιν ἐοικότες, ἅς τε Κρονίων

ἐν νέφεϊ στήριξε, τέρας μερόπων ἀνθρώπων.

ἀμφὶ δʼ ἄρʼ ὤμοισιν βάλετο ξίφος· ἐν δέ οἱ ἧλοι

χρύσειοι πάμφαινον, ἀτὰρ περὶ κουλεὸν ἦεν

ἀργύρεον χρυσέοισιν ἀορτήρεσσιν ἀρηρός.

ἂν δʼ ἕλετʼ ἀμφιβρότην πολυδαίδαλον ἀσπίδα θοῦριν

καλήν, ἣν πέρι μὲν κύκλοι δέκα χάλκεοι ἦσαν,

ἐν δέ οἱ ὀμφαλοὶ ἦσαν ἐείκοσι κασσιτέροιο

λευκοί, ἐν δὲ μέσοισιν ἔην μέλανος κυάνοιο.

τῇ δʼ ἐπὶ μὲν Γοργὼ βλοσυρῶπις ἐστεφάνωτο

δεινὸν δερκομένη, περὶ δὲ Δεῖμός τε Φόβος τε.

τῆς δʼ ἐξ ἀργύρεος τελαμὼν ἦν· αὐτὰρ ἐπʼ αὐτοῦ

κυάνεος ἐλέλικτο δράκων, κεφαλαὶ δέ οἱ ἦσαν

τρεῖς ἀμφιστρεφέες ἑνὸς αὐχένος ἐκπεφυυῖαι.

κρατὶ δʼ ἐπʼ ἀμφίφαλον κυνέην θέτο τετραφάληρον

ἵππουριν· δεινὸν δὲ λόφος καθύπερθεν ἔνευεν.

εἵλετο δʼ ἄλκιμα δοῦρε δύω κεκορυθμένα χαλκῷ

ὀξέα· τῆλε δὲ χαλκὸς ἀπʼ αὐτόφιν οὐρανὸν εἴσω

λάμπʼ· ἐπὶ δʼ ἐγδούπησαν Ἀθηναίη τε καὶ Ἥρη

τιμῶσαι βασιλῆα πολυχρύσοιο Μυκήνης.

Every man now left his horses in charge of his charioteer to hold them in proper order [ kosmos ] by the trench, while he went into battle on foot clad in full armor, and a mighty uproar rose on high into the dawning. The chiefs were armed and at the trench before the horses got there, but these came up presently. The son of Kronos sent a portent of evil sound about their host, and the dew fell red with blood, for he was about to send many a brave man hurrying down to Hades.

ἡνιόχῳ μὲν ἔπειτα ἑῷ ἐπέτελλεν ἕκαστος

ἵππους εὖ κατὰ κόσμον ἐρυκέμεν αὖθʼ ἐπὶ τάφρῳ,

αὐτοὶ δὲ πρυλέες σὺν τεύχεσι θωρηχθέντες

ῥώοντʼ· ἄσβεστος δὲ βοὴ γένετʼ ἠῶθι πρό.

φθὰν δὲ μέγʼ ἱππήων ἐπὶ τάφρῳ κοσμηθέντες,

ἱππῆες δʼ ὀλίγον μετεκίαθον· ἐν δὲ κυδοιμὸν

ὦρσε κακὸν Κρονίδης, κατὰ δʼ ὑψόθεν ἧκεν ἐέρσας

αἵματι μυδαλέας ἐξ αἰθέρος, οὕνεκʼ ἔμελλε

πολλὰς ἰφθίμους κεφαλὰς Ἄϊδι προϊάψειν.

The Trojans, on the other side upon the rising slope of the plain, were gathered round great Hektor, noble Polydamas, Aeneas who was honored in the district [ dêmos ] of the Trojans like an immortal, and the three sons of Antenor - Polybos, Agenor,

Τρῶες δʼ αὖθʼ ἑτέρωθεν ἐπὶ θρωσμῷ πεδίοιο

Ἕκτορά τʼ ἀμφὶ μέγαν καὶ ἀμύμονα Πουλυδάμαντα

Αἰνείαν θʼ, ὃς Τρωσὶ θεὸς ὣς τίετο δήμῳ,

τρεῖς τʼ Ἀντηνορίδας Πόλυβον καὶ Ἀγήνορα δῖον

and young Akamas, beauteous as a god. Hektor's round shield showed in the front rank, and as some baneful star that shines for a moment through a rent in the clouds and is again hidden beneath them; even so was Hektor now seen in the front ranks and now again in the hindermost, and his bronze armor gleamed like the lightning of aegis-bearing Zeus.

ἠΐθεόν τʼ Ἀκάμαντʼ ἐπιείκελον ἀθανάτοισιν.

Ἕκτωρ δʼ ἐν πρώτοισι φέρʼ ἀσπίδα πάντοσʼ ἐΐσην,

οἷος δʼ ἐκ νεφέων ἀναφαίνεται οὔλιος ἀστὴρ

παμφαίνων, τοτὲ δʼ αὖτις ἔδυ νέφεα σκιόεντα,

ὣς Ἕκτωρ ὁτὲ μέν τε μετὰ πρώτοισι φάνεσκεν,

ἄλλοτε δʼ ἐν πυμάτοισι κελεύων· πᾶς δʼ ἄρα χαλκῷ

λάμφʼ ὥς τε στεροπὴ πατρὸς Διὸς αἰγιόχοιο.

And now as a band of reapers mow swathes of wheat or barley upon a rich man's land, and the sheaves fall thick before them, even so did the Trojans and Achaeans fall upon one another; they were in no mood for yielding but fought like wolves, and neither side got the better of the other. Discord was glad as she beheld them, for she was the only god that went among them; the others were not there, but stayed quietly each in his own home among the dells and valleys of Olympus . All of them blamed the son of Kronos for wanting to Live victory to the Trojans, but father Zeus heeded them not: he held aloof from all, and sat apart in his all-glorious majesty, looking down upon the city of the Trojans, the ships of the Achaeans, the gleam of bronze, and alike upon the slayers and on the slain.

οἳ δʼ, ὥς τʼ ἀμητῆρες ἐναντίοι ἀλλήλοισιν

ὄγμον ἐλαύνωσιν ἀνδρὸς μάκαρος κατʼ ἄρουραν

πυρῶν ἢ κριθῶν· τὰ δὲ δράγματα ταρφέα πίπτει·

ὣς Τρῶες καὶ Ἀχαιοὶ ἐπʼ ἀλλήλοισι θορόντες

δῄουν, οὐδʼ ἕτεροι μνώοντʼ ὀλοοῖο φόβοιο.

ἴσας δʼ ὑσμίνη κεφαλὰς ἔχεν, οἳ δὲ λύκοι ὣς

θῦνον· Ἔρις δʼ ἄρʼ ἔχαιρε πολύστονος εἰσορόωσα·

οἴη γάρ ῥα θεῶν παρετύγχανε μαρναμένοισιν,

οἳ δʼ ἄλλοι οὔ σφιν πάρεσαν θεοί, ἀλλὰ ἕκηλοι

σφοῖσιν ἐνὶ μεγάροισι καθήατο, ἧχι ἑκάστῳ

δώματα καλὰ τέτυκτο κατὰ πτύχας Οὐλύμποιο.

πάντες δʼ ᾐτιόωντο κελαινεφέα Κρονίωνα

οὕνεκʼ ἄρα Τρώεσσιν ἐβούλετο κῦδος ὀρέξαι.

τῶν μὲν ἄρʼ οὐκ ἀλέγιζε πατήρ· ὃ δὲ νόσφι λιασθεὶς

τῶν ἄλλων ἀπάνευθε καθέζετο κύδεϊ γαίων

εἰσορόων Τρώων τε πόλιν καὶ νῆας Ἀχαιῶν

χαλκοῦ τε στεροπήν, ὀλλύντάς τʼ ὀλλυμένους τε.

Now so long as the day waxed and it was still morning, their darts rained thick on one another and the people perished, but as the hour drew nigh when a woodsman working in some mountain forest will get his midday meal - for he has felled till his hands are weary; he is tired out, and must now have food - then the Danaans, by force of their striving [ aretê ], broke the battalions of the enemy with a cry that rang through all their ranks. Agamemnon led them on, and slew first Bienor, a leader of his people, and afterwards his comrade and charioteer Oileus, who sprang from his chariot and was coming full towards him; but Agamemnon struck him on the forehead with his spear; his bronze visor was of no avail against the weapon, which pierced both bronze and bone, so that his brains were battered in and he was killed in full fight.

ὄφρα μὲν ἠὼς ἦν καὶ ἀέξετο ἱερὸν ἦμαρ,

τόφρα μάλʼ ἀμφοτέρων βέλεʼ ἥπτετο, πῖπτε δὲ λαός·

ἦμος δὲ δρυτόμος περ ἀνὴρ ὁπλίσσατο δεῖπνον

οὔρεος ἐν βήσσῃσιν, ἐπεί τʼ ἐκορέσσατο χεῖρας

τάμνων δένδρεα μακρά, ἅδος τέ μιν ἵκετο θυμόν,

σίτου τε γλυκεροῖο περὶ φρένας ἵμερος αἱρεῖ,

τῆμος σφῇ ἀρετῇ Δαναοὶ ῥήξαντο φάλαγγας

κεκλόμενοι ἑτάροισι κατὰ στίχας· ἐν δʼ Ἀγαμέμνων

πρῶτος ὄρουσʼ, ἕλε δʼ ἄνδρα Βιάνορα ποιμένα λαῶν

αὐτόν, ἔπειτα δʼ ἑταῖρον Ὀϊλῆα πλήξιππον.

ἤτοι ὅ γʼ ἐξ ἵππων κατεπάλμενος ἀντίος ἔστη·

τὸν δʼ ἰθὺς μεμαῶτα μετώπιον ὀξέϊ δουρὶ

νύξʼ, οὐδὲ στεφάνη δόρυ οἱ σχέθε χαλκοβάρεια,

ἀλλὰ διʼ αὐτῆς ἦλθε καὶ ὀστέου, ἐγκέφαλος δὲ

ἔνδον ἅπας πεπάλακτο· δάμασσε δέ μιν μεμαῶτα.

Agamemnon stripped their shirts from off them and left them with their breasts all bare to lie where they had fallen. He then went on to kill Isos and Antiphos two sons of Priam, the one a bastard, the other born in wedlock; they were in the same chariot - the bastard driving, while noble Antiphos fought beside him. Achilles had once taken both of them prisoners in the glades of Ida, and had bound them with fresh withies as they were shepherding, but he had taken a ransom for them; now, however, Agamemnon son of Atreus smote Isos in the chest above the nipple with his spear, while he struck Antiphos hard by the ear and threw him from his chariot. Forthwith he stripped their goodly armor from off them and recognized them, for he had already seen them at ships when Achilles brought them in from Ida. As a lion fastens on the fawns of a hind and crushes them in his great jaws, robbing them of their tender life while he on his way back to his lair - the hind can do nothing for them even though she be close by, for she is in an agony of fear, and flies through the thick forest, sweating, and at her utmost speed before the mighty monster - so, no man of the Trojans could help Isos and Antiphos, for they were themselves fleeing panic before the Argives.

καὶ τοὺς μὲν λίπεν αὖθι ἄναξ ἀνδρῶν Ἀγαμέμνων

στήθεσι παμφαίνοντας, ἐπεὶ περίδυσε χιτῶνας·

αὐτὰρ ὃ βῆ Ἶσόν τε καὶ Ἄντιφον ἐξεναρίξων

υἷε δύω Πριάμοιο νόθον καὶ γνήσιον ἄμφω

εἰν ἑνὶ δίφρῳ ἐόντας· ὃ μὲν νόθος ἡνιόχευεν,

Ἄντιφος αὖ παρέβασκε περικλυτός· ὥ ποτʼ Ἀχιλλεὺς

Ἴδης ἐν κνημοῖσι δίδη μόσχοισι λύγοισι,

ποιμαίνοντʼ ἐπʼ ὄεσσι λαβών, καὶ ἔλυσεν ἀποίνων.

δὴ τότε γʼ Ἀτρεΐδης εὐρὺ κρείων Ἀγαμέμνων

τὸν μὲν ὑπὲρ μαζοῖο κατὰ στῆθος βάλε δουρί,

Ἄντιφον αὖ παρὰ οὖς ἔλασε ξίφει, ἐκ δʼ ἔβαλʼ ἵππων.

σπερχόμενος δʼ ἀπὸ τοῖιν ἐσύλα τεύχεα καλὰ

γιγνώσκων· καὶ γάρ σφε πάρος παρὰ νηυσὶ θοῇσιν

εἶδεν, ὅτʼ ἐξ Ἴδης ἄγαγεν πόδας ὠκὺς Ἀχιλλεύς.

ὡς δὲ λέων ἐλάφοιο ταχείης νήπια τέκνα

ῥηϊδίως συνέαξε λαβὼν κρατεροῖσιν ὀδοῦσιν

ἐλθὼν εἰς εὐνήν, ἁπαλόν τέ σφʼ ἦτορ ἀπηύρα·

ἣ δʼ εἴ πέρ τε τύχῃσι μάλα σχεδόν, οὐ δύναταί σφι

χραισμεῖν· αὐτὴν γάρ μιν ὑπὸ τρόμος αἰνὸς ἱκάνει·

καρπαλίμως δʼ ἤϊξε διὰ δρυμὰ πυκνὰ καὶ ὕλην

σπεύδουσʼ ἱδρώουσα κραταιοῦ θηρὸς ὑφʼ ὁρμῆς·

ὣς ἄρα τοῖς οὔ τις δύνατο χραισμῆσαι ὄλεθρον

Τρώων, ἀλλὰ καὶ αὐτοὶ ὑπʼ Ἀργείοισι φέβοντο.

Then King Agamemnon took the two sons of Antimakhos, Peisandros and brave Hippolokhos. It was Antimakhos who had been foremost in preventing Helen's being restored to Menelaos, for he was largely bribed by Alexander; and now Agamemnon took his two sons, both in the same chariot, trying to bring their horses to a stand - for they had lost hold of the reins and the horses were mad with fear. The son of Atreus sprang upon them like a lion, and the pair besought him from their chariot. "Take us alive," they cried, "son of Atreus, and you shall receive a great ransom for us. Our father Antimakhos has great store of gold, bronze, and wrought iron, and from this he will satisfy you with a very large ransom should he hear of our being alive at the ships of the Achaeans."

αὐτὰρ ὃ Πείσανδρόν τε καὶ Ἱππόλοχον μενεχάρμην

υἱέας Ἀντιμάχοιο δαΐφρονος, ὅς ῥα μάλιστα

χρυσὸν Ἀλεξάνδροιο δεδεγμένος ἀγλαὰ δῶρα

οὐκ εἴασχʼ Ἑλένην δόμεναι ξανθῷ Μενελάῳ,

τοῦ περ δὴ δύο παῖδε λάβε κρείων Ἀγαμέμνων

εἰν ἑνὶ δίφρῳ ἐόντας, ὁμοῦ δʼ ἔχον ὠκέας ἵππους·

ἐκ γάρ σφεας χειρῶν φύγον ἡνία σιγαλόεντα,

τὼ δὲ κυκηθήτην· ὃ δʼ ἐναντίον ὦρτο λέων ὣς

Ἀτρεΐδης· τὼ δʼ αὖτʼ ἐκ δίφρου γουναζέσθην·

ζώγρει Ἀτρέος υἱέ, σὺ δʼ ἄξια δέξαι ἄποινα·

πολλὰ δʼ ἐν Ἀντιμάχοιο δόμοις κειμήλια κεῖται

χαλκός τε χρυσός τε πολύκμητός τε σίδηρος,

τῶν κέν τοι χαρίσαιτο πατὴρ ἀπερείσιʼ ἄποινα,

εἰ νῶϊ ζωοὺς πεπύθοιτʼ ἐπὶ νηυσὶν Ἀχαιῶν.

With such piteous words and tears did they beseech the king, but they heard no pitiful answer in return. "If," said Agamemnon, "you are sons of Antimakhos, who once at a council of Trojans proposed that Menelaos and Odysseus, who had come to you as envoys, should be killed and not suffered to return, you shall now pay for the foul iniquity of your father."

ὣς τώ γε κλαίοντε προσαυδήτην βασιλῆα

μειλιχίοις ἐπέεσσιν· ἀμείλικτον δʼ ὄπʼ ἄκουσαν·

εἰ μὲν δὴ Ἀντιμάχοιο δαΐφρονος υἱέες ἐστόν,

ὅς ποτʼ ἐνὶ Τρώων ἀγορῇ Μενέλαον ἄνωγεν

ἀγγελίην ἐλθόντα σὺν ἀντιθέῳ Ὀδυσῆϊ

αὖθι κατακτεῖναι μηδʼ ἐξέμεν ἂψ ἐς Ἀχαιούς,

νῦν μὲν δὴ τοῦ πατρὸς ἀεικέα τίσετε λώβην.

As he spoke he felled Peisandros from his chariot to the earth, smiting him on the chest with his spear, so that he lay face uppermost upon the ground. Hippolokhos fled, but him too did Agamemnon smite; he cut off his hands and his head - which he sent rolling in among the crowd as though it were a ball. There he let them both lie, and wherever the ranks were thickest thither he flew, while the other Achaeans followed. Foot soldiers drove the foot soldiers of the foe in rout before them, and slew them; horsemen did the like by horsemen, and the thundering tramp of the horses raised a cloud of dust from off the plain. King Agamemnon followed after, ever slaying them and cheering on the Achaeans. As when some mighty forest is all ablaze- the eddying gusts whirl fire in all directions till the thickets shrivel and are consumed before the blast of the flame - even so fell the heads of the fleeing Trojans before Agamemnon son of Atreus, and many a noble pair of steeds drew an empty chariot along the highways of war, for lack of drivers who were lying on the plain, more useful now to vultures than to their wives.

ἦ, καὶ Πείσανδρον μὲν ἀφʼ ἵππων ὦσε χαμᾶζε

δουρὶ βαλὼν πρὸς στῆθος· ὃ δʼ ὕπτιος οὔδει ἐρείσθη.

Ἱππόλοχος δʼ ἀπόρουσε, τὸν αὖ χαμαὶ ἐξενάριξε

χεῖρας ἀπὸ ξίφεϊ τμήξας ἀπό τʼ αὐχένα κόψας,

ὅλμον δʼ ὣς ἔσσευε κυλίνδεσθαι διʼ ὁμίλου.

τοὺς μὲν ἔασʼ· ὃ δʼ ὅθι πλεῖσται κλονέοντο φάλαγγες,

τῇ ῥʼ ἐνόρουσʼ, ἅμα δʼ ἄλλοι ἐϋκνήμιδες Ἀχαιοί.

πεζοὶ μὲν πεζοὺς ὄλεκον φεύγοντας ἀνάγκῃ,

ἱππεῖς δʼ ἱππῆας· ὑπὸ δέ σφισιν ὦρτο κονίη

ἐκ πεδίου, τὴν ὦρσαν ἐρίγδουποι πόδες ἵππων

χαλκῷ δηϊόωντες· ἀτὰρ κρείων Ἀγαμέμνων

αἰὲν ἀποκτείνων ἕπετʼ Ἀργείοισι κελεύων.

ὡς δʼ ὅτε πῦρ ἀΐδηλον ἐν ἀξύλῳ ἐμπέσῃ ὕλῃ,

πάντῃ τʼ εἰλυφόων ἄνεμος φέρει, οἳ δέ τε θάμνοι

πρόρριζοι πίπτουσιν ἐπειγόμενοι πυρὸς ὁρμῇ·

ὣς ἄρʼ ὑπʼ Ἀτρεΐδῃ Ἀγαμέμνονι πῖπτε κάρηνα

Τρώων φευγόντων, πολλοὶ δʼ ἐριαύχενες ἵπποι

κείνʼ ὄχεα κροτάλιζον ἀνὰ πτολέμοιο γεφύρας

ἡνιόχους ποθέοντες ἀμύμονας· οἳ δʼ ἐπὶ γαίῃ

κείατο, γύπεσσιν πολὺ φίλτεροι ἢ ἀλόχοισιν.

Zeus drew Hektor away from the darts and dust, with the carnage and din of battle; but the son of Atreus sped onwards, calling out lustily to the Danaans. They flew on by the tomb [ sêma ] of old Ilos, son of Dardanos , in the middle of the plain, and past the place of the wild fig-tree making always for the city - the son of Atreus still shouting, and with hands all bedrabbled in gore; but when they had reached the Scaean gates and the oak tree, there they halted and waited for the others to come up.

Ἕκτορα δʼ ἐκ βελέων ὕπαγε Ζεὺς ἔκ τε κονίης

ἔκ τʼ ἀνδροκτασίης ἔκ θʼ αἵματος ἔκ τε κυδοιμοῦ·

Ἀτρεΐδης δʼ ἕπετο σφεδανὸν Δαναοῖσι κελεύων.

οἳ δὲ παρʼ Ἴλου σῆμα παλαιοῦ Δαρδανίδαο

μέσσον κὰπ πεδίον παρʼ ἐρινεὸν ἐσσεύοντο

ἱέμενοι πόλιος· ὃ δὲ κεκλήγων ἕπετʼ αἰεὶ

Ἀτρεΐδης, λύθρῳ δὲ παλάσσετο χεῖρας ἀάπτους.

ἀλλʼ ὅτε δὴ Σκαιάς τε πύλας καὶ φηγὸν ἵκοντο,

Meanwhile the Trojans kept on fleeing over the middle of the plain like a herd cows maddened with fright when a lion has attacked them in the dead of night - he springs on one of them, seizes her neck in the grip of his strong teeth and then laps up her blood and gorges himself upon her entrails - even so did King Agamemnon son of Atreus pursue the foe, ever slaughtering the hindmost as they fled pell-mell before him. Many a man was flung headlong from his chariot by the hand of the son of Atreus, for he wielded his spear with fury.

ἔνθʼ ἄρα δὴ ἵσταντο καὶ ἀλλήλους ἀνέμιμνον.

οἳ δʼ ἔτι κὰμ μέσσον πεδίον φοβέοντο βόες ὥς,

ἅς τε λέων ἐφόβησε μολὼν ἐν νυκτὸς ἀμολγῷ

πάσας· τῇ δέ τʼ ἰῇ ἀναφαίνεται αἰπὺς ὄλεθρος·

τῆς δʼ ἐξ αὐχένʼ ἔαξε λαβὼν κρατεροῖσιν ὀδοῦσι

πρῶτον, ἔπειτα δέ θʼ αἷμα καὶ ἔγκατα πάντα λαφύσσει·

ὣς τοὺς Ἀτρεΐδης ἔφεπε κρείων Ἀγαμέμνων

αἰὲν ἀποκτείνων τὸν ὀπίστατον· οἳ δʼ ἐφέβοντο.

πολλοὶ δὲ πρηνεῖς τε καὶ ὕπτιοι ἔκπεσον ἵππων

Ἀτρεΐδεω ὑπὸ χερσί· περὶ πρὸ γὰρ ἔγχεϊ θῦεν.

But when he was just about to reach the high wall and the city, the father of gods and men came down from heaven and took his seat, thunderbolt in hand, upon the crest of many-fountained Ida. He then told Iris of the golden wings to carry a message for him. "Go," said he, "fleet Iris, and speak thus to Hektor - say that so long as he sees Agamemnon heading his men and making havoc of the Trojan ranks, he is to keep aloof and bid the others bear the brunt of the battle, but when Agamemnon is wounded either by spear or arrow, and takes to his chariot, then will I grant him strength to slay till he reach the ships and night falls at the going down of the sun."

ἀλλʼ ὅτε δὴ τάχʼ ἔμελλεν ὑπὸ πτόλιν αἰπύ τε τεῖχος

ἵξεσθαι, τότε δή ῥα πατὴρ ἀνδρῶν τε θεῶν τε

Ἴδης ἐν κορυφῇσι καθέζετο πιδηέσσης

οὐρανόθεν καταβάς· ἔχε δʼ ἀστεροπὴν μετὰ χερσίν.

Ἶριν δʼ ὄτρυνε χρυσόπτερον ἀγγελέουσαν·

βάσκʼ ἴθι Ἶρι ταχεῖα, τὸν Ἕκτορι μῦθον ἐνίσπες·

ὄφρʼ ἂν μέν κεν ὁρᾷ Ἀγαμέμνονα ποιμένα λαῶν

θύνοντʼ ἐν προμάχοισιν ἐναίροντα στίχας ἀνδρῶν,

τόφρʼ ἀναχωρείτω, τὸν δʼ ἄλλον λαὸν ἀνώχθω

μάρνασθαι δηΐοισι κατὰ κρατερὴν ὑσμίνην.

αὐτὰρ ἐπεί κʼ ἢ δουρὶ τυπεὶς ἢ βλήμενος ἰῷ

εἰς ἵππους ἅλεται, τότε οἱ κράτος ἐγγυαλίξω

κτείνειν εἰς ὅ κε νῆας ἐϋσσέλμους ἀφίκηται

δύῃ τʼ ἠέλιος καὶ ἐπὶ κνέφας ἱερὸν ἔλθῃ.

Iris hearkened and obeyed. Down she went to strong Ilion from the crests of Ida, and found Hektor son of Priam standing by his chariot and horses. Then she said, "Hektor son of Priam, peer of gods in counsel, father Zeus has sent me to bear you this message - so long as you see Agamemnon heading his men and making havoc of the Trojan ranks, you are to keep aloof and bid the others bear the brunt of the battle, but when Agamemnon is wounded either by spear or arrow, and takes to his chariot, then will Zeus grant you strength to slay till you reach the ships, and till night falls at the going down of the sun."

ὣς ἔφατʼ, οὐδʼ ἀπίθησε ποδήνεμος ὠκέα Ἶρις,

βῆ δὲ κατʼ Ἰδαίων ὀρέων εἰς Ἴλιον ἱρήν.

εὗρʼ υἱὸν Πριάμοιο δαΐφρονος Ἕκτορα δῖον

ἑσταότʼ ἔν θʼ ἵπποισι καὶ ἅρμασι κολλητοῖσιν·

ἀγχοῦ δʼ ἱσταμένη προσέφη πόδας ὠκέα Ἶρις·

Ἕκτορ υἱὲ Πριάμοιο Διὶ μῆτιν ἀτάλαντε

Ζεύς με πατὴρ προέηκε τεῒν τάδε μυθήσασθαι.

ὄφρʼ ἂν μέν κεν ὁρᾷς Ἀγαμέμνονα ποιμένα λαῶν

θύνοντʼ ἐν προμάχοισιν, ἐναίροντα στίχας ἀνδρῶν,

τόφρʼ ὑπόεικε μάχης, τὸν δʼ ἄλλον λαὸν ἄνωχθι

μάρνασθαι δηΐοισι κατὰ κρατερὴν ὑσμίνην.

αὐτὰρ ἐπεί κʼ ἢ δουρὶ τυπεὶς ἢ βλήμενος ἰῷ

εἰς ἵππους ἅλεται, τότε τοι κράτος ἐγγυαλίξει

κτείνειν, εἰς ὅ κε νῆας ἐϋσσέλμους ἀφίκηαι

δύῃ τʼ ἠέλιος καὶ ἐπὶ κνέφας ἱερὸν ἔλθῃ.

When she had thus spoken Iris left him, and Hektor sprang full armed from his chariot to the ground, brandishing his spear as he went about everywhere among the host, cheering his men on to fight, and stirring the dread strife of battle. The Trojans then wheeled round, and again met the Achaeans, while the Argives on their part strengthened their battalions. The battle was now in array and they stood face to face with one another, Agamemnon ever pressing forward in his eagerness to be ahead of all others.

ἣ μὲν ἄρʼ ὣς εἰποῦσʼ ἀπέβη πόδας ὠκέα Ἶρις,

Ἕκτωρ δʼ ἐξ ὀχέων σὺν τεύχεσιν ἆλτο χαμᾶζε,

πάλλων δʼ ὀξέα δοῦρα κατὰ στρατὸν ᾤχετο πάντῃ

ὀτρύνων μαχέσασθαι, ἔγειρε δὲ φύλοπιν αἰνήν.

οἳ δʼ ἐλελίχθησαν καὶ ἐναντίοι ἔσταν Ἀχαιῶν,

Ἀργεῖοι δʼ ἑτέρωθεν ἐκαρτύναντο φάλαγγας.

ἀρτύνθη δὲ μάχη, στὰν δʼ ἀντίοι· ἐν δʼ Ἀγαμέμνων

πρῶτος ὄρουσʼ, ἔθελεν δὲ πολὺ προμάχεσθαι ἁπάντων.

Tell me now you Muses that dwell in the mansions of Olympus, who, whether of the Trojans or of their allies, was first to face Agamemnon? It was Iphidamas son of Antenor, a man both brave and of great stature, who was brought up in fertile Thrace the mother of sheep. Kissês, his mother's father, brought him up in his own house when he was a child - Kissês, father to fair Theano. When he reached manhood, Kissês would have kept him there, and was for giving him his daughter in marriage, but as soon as he had married, he went away from the bride chamber, looking for glory [ kleos ] from the Achaeans. He came with twelve ships: these he had left at Perkote and had come on by land to Ilion . He it was that now met Agamemnon son of Atreus. When they were close up with one another, the son of Atreus missed his aim, and Iphidamas hit him on the belt below the cuirass and then flung himself upon him, trusting to his strength of arm; the belt, however, was not pierced, nor nearly so, for the point of the spear struck against the silver and was turned aside as though it had been lead: King Agamemnon caught it from his hand, and drew it towards him with the fury of a lion; he then drew his sword, and killed Iphidamas by striking him on the neck. So there the poor young man lay, sleeping a sleep as it were of bronze, killed in the defense of his fellow-citizens, far from his wedded wife, of whom he had had no joy [ kharis ] though he had given much for her: he had given a hundred-head of cattle down, and had promised later on to give a thousand sheep and goats mixed, from the countless flocks of which he was possessed. Agamemnon son of Atreus then despoiled him, and carried off his armor into the host of the Achaeans.

ἔσπετε νῦν μοι Μοῦσαι Ὀλύμπια δώματʼ ἔχουσαι

ὅς τις δὴ πρῶτος Ἀγαμέμνονος ἀντίον ἦλθεν

ἢ αὐτῶν Τρώων ἠὲ κλειτῶν ἐπικούρων.

Ἰφιδάμας Ἀντηνορίδης ἠΰς τε μέγας τε

ὃς τράφη ἐν Θρῄκῃ ἐριβώλακι μητέρι μήλων·

Κισσῆς τόν γʼ ἔθρεψε δόμοις ἔνι τυτθὸν ἐόντα

μητροπάτωρ, ὃς τίκτε Θεανὼ καλλιπάρῃον·

αὐτὰρ ἐπεί ῥʼ ἥβης ἐρικυδέος ἵκετο μέτρον,

αὐτοῦ μιν κατέρυκε, δίδου δʼ ὅ γε θυγατέρα ἥν·

γήμας δʼ ἐκ θαλάμοιο μετὰ κλέος ἵκετʼ Ἀχαιῶν

σὺν δυοκαίδεκα νηυσὶ κορωνίσιν, αἵ οἱ ἕποντο.

τὰς μὲν ἔπειτʼ ἐν Περκώτῃ λίπε νῆας ἐΐσας,

αὐτὰρ ὃ πεζὸς ἐὼν ἐς Ἴλιον εἰληλούθει·

ὅς ῥα τότʼ Ἀτρεΐδεω Ἀγαμέμνονος ἀντίον ἦλθεν.

οἳ δʼ ὅτε δὴ σχεδὸν ἦσαν ἐπʼ ἀλλήλοισιν ἰόντες,

Ἀτρεΐδης μὲν ἅμαρτε, παραὶ δέ οἱ ἐτράπετʼ ἔγχος,

Ἰφιδάμας δὲ κατὰ ζώνην θώρηκος ἔνερθε

νύξʼ, ἐπὶ δʼ αὐτὸς ἔρεισε βαρείῃ χειρὶ πιθήσας·

οὐδʼ ἔτορε ζωστῆρα παναίολον, ἀλλὰ πολὺ πρὶν

ἀργύρῳ ἀντομένη μόλιβος ὣς ἐτράπετʼ αἰχμή.

καὶ τό γε χειρὶ λαβὼν εὐρὺ κρείων Ἀγαμέμνων

ἕλκʼ ἐπὶ οἷ μεμαὼς ὥς τε λίς, ἐκ δʼ ἄρα χειρὸς

σπάσσατο· τὸν δʼ ἄορι πλῆξʼ αὐχένα, λῦσε δὲ γυῖα.

ὣς ὃ μὲν αὖθι πεσὼν κοιμήσατο χάλκεον ὕπνον

οἰκτρὸς ἀπὸ μνηστῆς ἀλόχου, ἀστοῖσιν ἀρήγων,

κουριδίης, ἧς οὔ τι χάριν ἴδε, πολλὰ δʼ ἔδωκε·

πρῶθʼ ἑκατὸν βοῦς δῶκεν, ἔπειτα δὲ χίλιʼ ὑπέστη

αἶγας ὁμοῦ καὶ ὄϊς, τά οἱ ἄσπετα ποιμαίνοντο.

δὴ τότε γʼ Ἀτρεΐδης Ἀγαμέμνων ἐξενάριξε,

βῆ δὲ φέρων ἀνʼ ὅμιλον Ἀχαιῶν τεύχεα καλά.

When noble Koön, Antenor's eldest son, saw this, the grief [ penthos ] made his eyes sore at the sight of his fallen brother. Unseen by Agamemnon he got beside him, spear in hand, and wounded him in the middle of his arm below the elbow, the point of the spear going right through the arm. Agamemnon was convulsed with pain, but still not even for this did he leave off struggling and fighting, but grasped his spear that flew as fleet as the wind, and sprang upon Koön who was trying to drag off the body of his brother - his father's son - by the foot, and was crying for help to all the bravest of his comrades; but Agamemnon struck him with a bronze-shod spear and killed him as he was dragging the dead body through the press of men under cover of his shield: he then cut off his head, standing over the body of Iphidamas. Thus did the sons of Antenor meet their fate at the hands of the son of Atreus, and go down into the house of Hades.

τὸν δʼ ὡς οὖν ἐνόησε Κόων ἀριδείκετος ἀνδρῶν

πρεσβυγενὴς Ἀντηνορίδης, κρατερόν ῥά ἑ πένθος

ὀφθαλμοὺς ἐκάλυψε κασιγνήτοιο πεσόντος.

στῆ δʼ εὐρὰξ σὺν δουρὶ λαθὼν Ἀγαμέμνονα δῖον,

νύξε δέ μιν κατὰ χεῖρα μέσην ἀγκῶνος ἔνερθε,

ἀντικρὺ δὲ διέσχε φαεινοῦ δουρὸς ἀκωκή.

ῥίγησέν τʼ ἄρʼ ἔπειτα ἄναξ ἀνδρῶν Ἀγαμέμνων·

ἀλλʼ οὐδʼ ὧς ἀπέληγε μάχης ἠδὲ πτολέμοιο,

ἀλλʼ ἐπόρουσε Κόωνι ἔχων ἀνεμοτρεφὲς ἔγχος.

ἤτοι ὃ Ἰφιδάμαντα κασίγνητον καὶ ὄπατρον

ἕλκε ποδὸς μεμαώς, καὶ ἀΰτει πάντας ἀρίστους·

τὸν δʼ ἕλκοντʼ ἀνʼ ὅμιλον ὑπʼ ἀσπίδος ὀμφαλοέσσης

οὔτησε ξυστῷ χαλκήρεϊ, λῦσε δὲ γυῖα·

τοῖο δʼ ἐπʼ Ἰφιδάμαντι κάρη ἀπέκοψε παραστάς.

ἔνθʼ Ἀντήνορος υἷες ὑπʼ Ἀτρεΐδῃ βασιλῆϊ

πότμον ἀναπλήσαντες ἔδυν δόμον Ἄϊδος εἴσω.

As long as the blood still welled warm from his wound Agamemnon went about attacking the ranks of the enemy with spear and sword and with great handfuls of stone, but when the blood had ceased to flow and the wound grew dry, the pain became great. As the sharp pangs which the Eileithuiai, goddesses of childbirth, daughters of Hera and dispensers of cruel pain, send upon a woman when she is in labor- even so sharp were the pangs of the son of Atreus. He sprang on to his chariot, and bade his charioteer drive to the ships, for he was in great agony. With a loud clear voice he shouted to the Danaans, "My friends, princes and counselors of the Argives, defend the ships yourselves, for Zeus has not suffered me to fight the whole day through against the Trojans."

αὐτὰρ ὃ τῶν ἄλλων ἐπεπωλεῖτο στίχας ἀνδρῶν

ἔγχεΐ τʼ ἄορί τε μεγάλοισί τε χερμαδίοισιν,

ὄφρά οἱ αἷμʼ ἔτι θερμὸν ἀνήνοθεν ἐξ ὠτειλῆς.

αὐτὰρ ἐπεὶ τὸ μὲν ἕλκος ἐτέρσετο, παύσατο δʼ αἷμα,

ὀξεῖαι δʼ ὀδύναι δῦνον μένος Ἀτρεΐδαο.

ὡς δʼ ὅτʼ ἂν ὠδίνουσαν ἔχῃ βέλος ὀξὺ γυναῖκα

δριμύ, τό τε προϊεῖσι μογοστόκοι Εἰλείθυιαι

Ἥρης θυγατέρες πικρὰς ὠδῖνας ἔχουσαι,

ὣς ὀξεῖʼ ὀδύναι δῦνον μένος Ἀτρεΐδαο.

ἐς δίφρον δʼ ἀνόρουσε, καὶ ἡνιόχῳ ἐπέτελλε

νηυσὶν ἔπι γλαφυρῇσιν ἐλαυνέμεν· ἤχθετο γὰρ κῆρ.

ἤϋσεν δὲ διαπρύσιον Δαναοῖσι γεγωνώς·

ὦ φίλοι Ἀργείων ἡγήτορες ἠδὲ μέδοντες

ὑμεῖς μὲν νῦν νηυσὶν ἀμύνετε ποντοπόροισι

φύλοπιν ἀργαλέην, ἐπεὶ οὐκ ἐμὲ μητίετα Ζεὺς

εἴασε Τρώεσσι πανημέριον πολεμίζειν.

With this the charioteer turned his horses towards the ships, and they flew forward nothing loath. Their chests were white with foam and their bellies with dust, as they drew the wounded king out of the battle.

ὣς ἔφαθʼ, ἡνίοχος δʼ ἵμασεν καλλίτριχας ἵππους

νῆας ἔπι γλαφυράς· τὼ δʼ οὐκ ἀέκοντε πετέσθην·

ἄφρεον δὲ στήθεα, ῥαίνοντο δὲ νέρθε κονίῃ

τειρόμενον βασιλῆα μάχης ἀπάνευθε φέροντες.

When Hektor saw Agamemnon quit the field, he shouted to the Trojans and Lycians saying, "Trojans, Lycians, and Dardanian warriors, be men, my friends, and acquit yourselves in battle bravely; their best man has left them, and Zeus has granted me a great triumph; charge the foe with your chariots that. you may win still greater glory."

Ἕκτωρ δʼ ὡς ἐνόησʼ Ἀγαμέμνονα νόσφι κιόντα

Τρωσί τε καὶ Λυκίοισιν ἐκέκλετο μακρὸν ἀΰσας·

Τρῶες καὶ Λύκιοι καὶ Δάρδανοι ἀγχιμαχηταὶ

ἀνέρες ἔστε φίλοι, μνήσασθε δὲ θούριδος ἀλκῆς.

οἴχετʼ ἀνὴρ ὤριστος, ἐμοὶ δὲ μέγʼ εὖχος ἔδωκε

Ζεὺς Κρονίδης· ἀλλʼ ἰθὺς ἐλαύνετε μώνυχας ἵππους

ἰφθίμων Δαναῶν, ἵνʼ ὑπέρτερον εὖχος ἄρησθε.

With these words he put heart and soul into them all, and as a huntsman hounds his dogs on against a lion or wild boar, even so did Hektor, peer of Ares, hound the proud Trojans on against the Achaeans. Full of hope he plunged in among the foremost, and fell on the fight like some fierce tempest that swoops down upon the sea, and lashes its deep violet waters [ pontos ] into fury.

ὣς εἰπὼν ὄτρυνε μένος καὶ θυμὸν ἑκάστου.

ὡς δʼ ὅτε πού τις θηρητὴρ κύνας ἀργιόδοντας

σεύῃ ἐπʼ ἀγροτέρῳ συῒ καπρίῳ ἠὲ λέοντι,

ὣς ἐπʼ Ἀχαιοῖσιν σεῦε Τρῶας μεγαθύμους

Ἕκτωρ Πριαμίδης βροτολοιγῷ ἶσος Ἄρηϊ.

αὐτὸς δʼ ἐν πρώτοισι μέγα φρονέων ἐβεβήκει,

ἐν δʼ ἔπεσʼ ὑσμίνῃ ὑπεραέϊ ἶσος ἀέλλῃ,

ἥ τε καθαλλομένη ἰοειδέα πόντον ὀρίνει.

What, then is the full tale of those whom Hektor son of Priam killed in the hour of triumph which Zeus then granted him? First Asaios, Autonoos, and Opites; Dolops son of Klytios, Opheltios and Agelaos; Aisymnos, Orus and Hipponoos steadfast in battle; these chieftains of the Achaeans did Hektor slay, and then he fell upon the rank and file. As when the west wind hustles the clouds of the white south and beats them down with the fierceness of its fury - the waves of the sea roll high, and the spray is flung aloft in the rage of the wandering wind - even so thick were the heads of them that fell by the hand of Hektor.

ἔνθα τίνα πρῶτον, τίνα δʼ ὕστατον ἐξενάριξεν

Ἕκτωρ Πριαμίδης, ὅτε οἱ Ζεὺς κῦδος ἔδωκεν;

Ἀσαῖον μὲν πρῶτα καὶ Αὐτόνοον καὶ Ὀπίτην

καὶ Δόλοπα Κλυτίδην καὶ Ὀφέλτιον ἠδʼ Ἀγέλαον

Αἴσυμνόν τʼ Ὦρόν τε καὶ Ἱππόνοον μενεχάρμην.

τοὺς ἄρʼ ὅ γʼ ἡγεμόνας Δαναῶν ἕλεν, αὐτὰρ ἔπειτα

πληθύν, ὡς ὁπότε νέφεα Ζέφυρος στυφελίξῃ

ἀργεστᾶο Νότοιο βαθείῃ λαίλαπι τύπτων·

πολλὸν δὲ τρόφι κῦμα κυλίνδεται, ὑψόσε δʼ ἄχνη

σκίδναται ἐξ ἀνέμοιο πολυπλάγκτοιο ἰωῆς·

ὣς ἄρα πυκνὰ καρήαθʼ ὑφʼ Ἕκτορι δάμνατο λαῶν.

All had then been lost and no help for it, and the Achaeans would have fled pell-mell to their ships, had not Odysseus cried out to Diomedes, "Son of Tydeus, what has happened to us that we thus forget our prowess? Come, my good man, stand by my side and help me, we shall be shamed for ever if Hektor takes the ships."

ἔνθά κε λοιγὸς ἔην καὶ ἀμήχανα ἔργα γένοντο,

καί νύ κεν ἐν νήεσσι πέσον φεύγοντες Ἀχαιοί,

εἰ μὴ Τυδεΐδῃ Διομήδεϊ κέκλετʼ Ὀδυσσεύς·

Τυδεΐδη τί παθόντε λελάσμεθα θούριδος ἀλκῆς;

ἀλλʼ ἄγε δεῦρο πέπον, παρʼ ἔμʼ ἵσταο· δὴ γὰρ ἔλεγχος

ἔσσεται εἴ κεν νῆας ἕλῃ κορυθαίολος Ἕκτωρ.

And Diomedes answered, "Come what may, I will stand firm; but we shall have scant joy of it, for Zeus is minded to give victory to the Trojans rather than to us."

τὸν δʼ ἀπαμειβόμενος προσέφη κρατερὸς Διομήδης·

ἤτοι ἐγὼ μενέω καὶ τλήσομαι· ἀλλὰ μίνυνθα

ἡμέων ἔσσεται ἦδος, ἐπεὶ νεφεληγερέτα Ζεὺς

Τρωσὶν δὴ βόλεται δοῦναι κράτος ἠέ περ ἡμῖν.

With these words he struck Thymbraios from his chariot to the ground, smiting him in the left breast with his spear, while Odysseus killed Molion who was his squire [ therapôn ]. These they let lie, now that they had stopped their fighting; the two heroes then went on playing havoc with the foe, like two wild boars that turn in fury and rend the hounds that hunt them. Thus did they turn upon the Trojans and slay them, and the Achaeans were thankful to have breathing time in their flight from Hektor.

ἦ καὶ Θυμβραῖον μὲν ἀφʼ ἵππων ὦσε χαμᾶζε

δουρὶ βαλὼν κατὰ μαζὸν ἀριστερόν· αὐτὰρ Ὀδυσσεὺς

ἀντίθεον θεράποντα Μολίονα τοῖο ἄνακτος.

τοὺς μὲν ἔπειτʼ εἴασαν, ἐπεὶ πολέμου ἀπέπαυσαν·

τὼ δʼ ἀνʼ ὅμιλον ἰόντε κυδοίμεον, ὡς ὅτε κάπρω

ἐν κυσὶ θηρευτῇσι μέγα φρονέοντε πέσητον·

ὣς ὄλεκον Τρῶας πάλιν ὀρμένω· αὐτὰρ Ἀχαιοὶ

ἀσπασίως φεύγοντες ἀνέπνεον Ἕκτορα δῖον.

They then took two princes with their chariot, the two sons of Merops of Perkote, who excelled in the arts of divination all others from the district [ dêmos ]. He had forbidden his sons to go to the war, but they would not obey him, for fate lured them to their fall. Diomedes son of Tydeus deprived them both of their life-breath [ psukhê ] and stripped them of their armor, while Odysseus killed Hippodamos and Hypeirochos.

ἔνθʼ ἑλέτην δίφρόν τε καὶ ἀνέρε δήμου ἀρίστω

υἷε δύω Μέροπος Περκωσίου, ὃς περὶ πάντων

ᾔδεε μαντοσύνας, οὐδὲ οὓς παῖδας ἔασκε

στείχειν ἐς πόλεμον φθισήνορα· τὼ δέ οἱ οὔ τι

πειθέσθην· κῆρες γὰρ ἄγον μέλανος θανάτοιο.

τοὺς μὲν Τυδεΐδης δουρικλειτὸς Διομήδης

θυμοῦ καὶ ψυχῆς κεκαδὼν κλυτὰ τεύχεʼ ἀπηύρα·

Ἱππόδαμον δʼ Ὀδυσεὺς καὶ Ὑπείροχον ἐξενάριξεν.

And now the son of Kronos as he looked down from Ida ordained that neither side should have the advantage, and they kept on killing one another. The son of Tydeus speared Agastrophos son of Paeon in the hip-joint with his spear. His chariot was not at hand for him to fly with, so blindly confident had he been. His squire [ therapôn ] was in charge of it at some distance and he was fighting on foot among the foremost until he lost his life. Hektor soon marked the havoc Diomedes and Odysseus were making, and bore down upon them with a loud cry, followed by the Trojan ranks; brave Diomedes was dismayed when he saw them, and said to Odysseus who was beside him, "Great Hektor is bearing down upon us and we shall be undone; let us stand firm and wait his onset."

ἔνθά σφιν κατὰ ἶσα μάχην ἐτάνυσσε Κρονίων

ἐξ Ἴδης καθορῶν· τοὶ δʼ ἀλλήλους ἐνάριζον.

ἤτοι Τυδέος υἱὸς Ἀγάστροφον οὔτασε δουρὶ

Παιονίδην ἥρωα κατʼ ἰσχίον· οὐ δέ οἱ ἵπποι

ἐγγὺς ἔσαν προφυγεῖν, ἀάσατο δὲ μέγα θυμῷ.

τοὺς μὲν γὰρ θεράπων ἀπάνευθʼ ἔχεν, αὐτὰρ ὃ πεζὸς

θῦνε διὰ προμάχων, εἷος φίλον ὤλεσε θυμόν.

Ἕκτωρ δʼ ὀξὺ νόησε κατὰ στίχας, ὦρτο δʼ ἐπʼ αὐτοὺς

κεκλήγων· ἅμα δὲ Τρώων εἵποντο φάλαγγες.

τὸν δὲ ἰδὼν ῥίγησε βοὴν ἀγαθὸς Διομήδης,

αἶψα δʼ Ὀδυσσῆα προσεφώνεεν ἐγγὺς ἐόντα·

νῶϊν δὴ τόδε πῆμα κυλίνδεται ὄβριμος Ἕκτωρ·

ἀλλʼ ἄγε δὴ στέωμεν καὶ ἀλεξώμεσθα μένοντες.

He poised his spear as he spoke and hurled it, nor did he miss his mark. He had aimed at Hektor's head near the top of his helmet, but bronze was turned by bronze, and Hektor was untouched, for the spear was stayed by the visored helm made with three plates of metal, which Phoebus Apollo had given him. Hektor sprang back with a great bound under cover of the ranks; he fell on his knees and propped himself

ἦ ῥα, καὶ ἀμπεπαλὼν προΐει δολιχόσκιον ἔγχος

καὶ βάλεν, οὐδʼ ἀφάμαρτε τιτυσκόμενος κεφαλῆφιν,

ἄκρην κὰκ κόρυθα· πλάγχθη δʼ ἀπὸ χαλκόφι χαλκός,

οὐδʼ ἵκετο χρόα καλόν· ἐρύκακε γὰρ τρυφάλεια

τρίπτυχος αὐλῶπις, τήν οἱ πόρε Φοῖβος Ἀπόλλων.

Ἕκτωρ δʼ ὦκʼ ἀπέλεθρον ἀνέδραμε, μίκτο δʼ ὁμίλῳ,

with his brawny hand leaning on the ground, for darkness had fallen on his eyes. The son of Tydeus having thrown his spear dashed in among the foremost fighters, to the place where he had seen it strike the ground; meanwhile Hektor recovered himself and springing back into his chariot mingled with the crowd, by which means he saved his life. But Diomedes made at him with his spear and said, "Dog, you have again got away though death was close on your heels. Phoebus Apollo, to whom I ween you pray ere you go into battle, has again saved you, nevertheless I will meet you and make and end of you hereafter, if there is any god who will stand by me too and be my helper. For the present I must pursue those I can lay hands on."

στῆ δὲ γνὺξ ἐριπὼν καὶ ἐρείσατο χειρὶ παχείῃ

γαίης· ἀμφὶ δὲ ὄσσε κελαινὴ νὺξ ἐκάλυψεν.

ὄφρα δὲ Τυδεΐδης μετὰ δούρατος ᾤχετʼ ἐρωὴν

τῆλε διὰ προμάχων, ὅθι οἱ καταείσατο γαίης

τόφρʼ Ἕκτωρ ἔμπνυτο, καὶ ἂψ ἐς δίφρον ὀρούσας

ἐξέλασʼ ἐς πληθύν, καὶ ἀλεύατο κῆρα μέλαιναν.

δουρὶ δʼ ἐπαΐσσων προσέφη κρατερὸς Διομήδης·

ἐξ αὖ νῦν ἔφυγες θάνατον κύον· ἦ τέ τοι ἄγχι

ἦλθε κακόν· νῦν αὖτέ σʼ ἐρύσατο Φοῖβος Ἀπόλλων

ᾧ μέλλεις εὔχεσθαι ἰὼν ἐς δοῦπον ἀκόντων.

ἦ θήν σʼ ἐξανύω γε καὶ ὕστερον ἀντιβολήσας,

εἴ πού τις καὶ ἔμοιγε θεῶν ἐπιτάρροθός ἐστι.

νῦν αὖ τοὺς ἄλλους ἐπιείσομαι, ὅν κε κιχείω.

As he spoke he began stripping the spoils from the son of Paeon, but Alexander husband of lovely Helen aimed an arrow at him, leaning against a pillar of the monument which men had raised to Ilos son of Dardanos , a ruler in days of old. Diomedes had taken the cuirass from off the breast of Agastrophos, his heavy helmet also, and the shield from off his shoulders, when Paris drew his bow and let fly an arrow that sped not from his hand in vain, but pierced the flat of Diomedes' right foot, going right through it and fixing itself in the ground. Thereon Paris with a hearty laugh sprang forward from his hiding-place, and taunted him saying, "You are wounded - my arrow has not been shot in vain; would that it had hit you in the belly and killed you, for thus the Trojans, who fear you as goats fear a lion, would have had a truce from evil."

ἦ, καὶ Παιονίδην δουρὶ κλυτὸν ἐξενάριζεν.

αὐτὰρ Ἀλέξανδρος Ἑλένης πόσις ἠϋκόμοιο

Τυδεΐδῃ ἔπι τόξα τιταίνετο ποιμένι λαῶν,

στήλῃ κεκλιμένος ἀνδροκμήτῳ ἐπὶ τύμβῳ

Ἴλου Δαρδανίδαο, παλαιοῦ δημογέροντος.

ἤτοι ὃ μὲν θώρηκα Ἀγαστρόφου ἰφθίμοιο

αἴνυτʼ ἀπὸ στήθεσφι παναίολον ἀσπίδα τʼ ὤμων

καὶ κόρυθα βριαρήν· ὃ δὲ τόξου πῆχυν ἄνελκε

καὶ βάλεν, οὐδʼ ἄρα μιν ἅλιον βέλος ἔκφυγε χειρός,

ταρσὸν δεξιτεροῖο ποδός· διὰ δʼ ἀμπερὲς ἰὸς

ἐν γαίῃ κατέπηκτο· ὃ δὲ μάλα ἡδὺ γελάσσας

ἐκ λόχου ἀμπήδησε καὶ εὐχόμενος ἔπος ηὔδα·

βέβληαι οὐδʼ ἅλιον βέλος ἔκφυγεν· ὡς ὄφελόν τοι

νείατον ἐς κενεῶνα βαλὼν ἐκ θυμὸν ἑλέσθαι.

οὕτω κεν καὶ Τρῶες ἀνέπνευσαν κακότητος,

οἵ τέ σε πεφρίκασι λέονθʼ ὡς μηκάδες αἶγες.

Diomedes all undaunted answered, "Archer, you who without your bow are nothing, slanderer and seducer, if you were to be tried in single combat fighting in full armor, your bow and your arrows would serve you in little stead. Vain is your boast in that you have scratched the sole of my foot. I care no more than if a girl or some silly boy had hit me. A worthless coward can inflict but a light wound; when I wound a man though I but graze his skin it is another matter, for my weapon will lay him low.

τὸν δʼ οὐ ταρβήσας προσέφη κρατερὸς Διομήδης·

τοξότα λωβητὴρ κέρᾳ ἀγλαὲ παρθενοπῖπα

εἰ μὲν δὴ ἀντίβιον σὺν τεύχεσι πειρηθείης,

οὐκ ἄν τοι χραίσμῃσι βιὸς καὶ ταρφέες ἰοί·

νῦν δέ μʼ ἐπιγράψας ταρσὸν ποδὸς εὔχεαι αὔτως.

οὐκ ἀλέγω, ὡς εἴ με γυνὴ βάλοι ἢ πάϊς ἄφρων·

κωφὸν γὰρ βέλος ἀνδρὸς ἀνάλκιδος οὐτιδανοῖο.

ἦ τʼ ἄλλως ὑπʼ ἐμεῖο, καὶ εἴ κʼ ὀλίγον περ ἐπαύρῃ,

His wife will tear her cheeks for grief and his children will be fatherless: there will he rot, reddening the earth with his blood, and vultures, not women, will gather round him."

ὀξὺ βέλος πέλεται, καὶ ἀκήριον αἶψα τίθησι.

τοῦ δὲ γυναικὸς μέν τʼ ἀμφίδρυφοί εἰσι παρειαί,

παῖδες δʼ ὀρφανικοί· ὃ δέ θʼ αἵματι γαῖαν ἐρεύθων

πύθεται, οἰωνοὶ δὲ περὶ πλέες ἠὲ γυναῖκες.

Thus he spoke, but Odysseus came up and stood over him. Under this cover he sat down to draw the arrow from his foot, and sharp was the pain he suffered as he did so. Then he sprang on to his chariot and bade the charioteer drive him to the ships, for he was sick at heart.

ὣς φάτο, τοῦ δʼ Ὀδυσεὺς δουρικλυτὸς ἐγγύθεν ἐλθὼν

ἔστη πρόσθʼ· ὃ δʼ ὄπισθε καθεζόμενος βέλος ὠκὺ

ἐκ ποδὸς ἕλκʼ, ὀδύνη δὲ διὰ χροὸς ἦλθʼ ἀλεγεινή.

ἐς δίφρον δʼ ἀνόρουσε, καὶ ἡνιόχῳ ἐπέτελλε

νηυσὶν ἔπι γλαφυρῇσιν ἐλαυνέμεν· ἤχθετο γὰρ κῆρ.

Odysseus was now alone; not one of the Argives stood by him, for they were all panic-stricken. "Alas," said he to himself in his dismay, "what will become of me? It is ill if I turn and flee before these odds, but it will be worse if I am left alone and taken prisoner, for the son of Kronos has struck the rest of the Danaans with panic. But why talk to myself in this way? Well do I know that though cowards quit the field, a hero, whether he wound or be wounded, must stand firm and hold his own."

οἰώθη δʼ Ὀδυσεὺς δουρὶ κλυτός, οὐδέ τις αὐτῷ

Ἀργείων παρέμεινεν, ἐπεὶ φόβος ἔλλαβε πάντας·

ὀχθήσας δʼ ἄρα εἶπε πρὸς ὃν μεγαλήτορα θυμόν·

ὤ μοι ἐγὼ τί πάθω; μέγα μὲν κακὸν αἴ κε φέβωμαι

πληθὺν ταρβήσας· τὸ δὲ ῥίγιον αἴ κεν ἁλώω

μοῦνος· τοὺς δʼ ἄλλους Δαναοὺς ἐφόβησε Κρονίων.

ἀλλὰ τί ἤ μοι ταῦτα φίλος διελέξατο θυμός;

οἶδα γὰρ ὅττι κακοὶ μὲν ἀποίχονται πολέμοιο,

ὃς δέ κʼ ἀριστεύῃσι μάχῃ ἔνι τὸν δὲ μάλα χρεὼ

ἑστάμεναι κρατερῶς, ἤ τʼ ἔβλητʼ ἤ τʼ ἔβαλʼ ἄλλον.

While he was thus in two minds, the ranks of the Trojans advanced and hemmed him in, and bitterly did they come to me it. As hounds and lusty youths set upon a wild boar that sallies from his lair whetting his white tusks - they attack him from every side and can hear the gnashing of his jaws, but for all his fierceness they still hold their ground - even so furiously did the Trojans attack Odysseus. First he sprang spear in hand upon Deiopites and wounded him on the shoulder with a downward blow; then he killed Thoon and Ennomos. After these he struck Chersidamas in the loins under his shield as he had just sprung down from his chariot; so he fell in the dust and clutched the earth in the hollow of his hand. These he let lie, and went on to wound Charops son of Hippasus, brother to noble Sokos. Sokos, hero that he was, made all speed to help him, and when he was close to Odysseus he said, "Far-famed Odysseus, insatiable of craft and toil [ ponos ], this day you shall either boast of having killed both the sons of Hippasus and stripped them of their armor, or you shall fall before my spear."

εἷος ὃ ταῦθʼ ὥρμαινε κατὰ φρένα καὶ κατὰ θυμόν,

τόφρα δʼ ἐπὶ Τρώων στίχες ἤλυθον ἀσπιστάων,

ἔλσαν δʼ ἐν μέσσοισι, μετὰ σφίσι πῆμα τιθέντες.

ὡς δʼ ὅτε κάπριον ἀμφὶ κύνες θαλεροί τʼ αἰζηοὶ

σεύωνται, ὃ δέ τʼ εἶσι βαθείης ἐκ ξυλόχοιο

θήγων λευκὸν ὀδόντα μετὰ γναμπτῇσι γένυσσιν,

ἀμφὶ δέ τʼ ἀΐσσονται, ὑπαὶ δέ τε κόμπος ὀδόντων

γίγνεται, οἳ δὲ μένουσιν ἄφαρ δεινόν περ ἐόντα,

ὥς ῥα τότʼ ἀμφʼ Ὀδυσῆα Διῒ φίλον ἐσσεύοντο

Τρῶες· ὃ δὲ πρῶτον μὲν ἀμύμονα Δηϊοπίτην

οὔτασεν ὦμον ὕπερθεν ἐπάλμενος ὀξέϊ δουρί,

αὐτὰρ ἔπειτα Θόωνα καὶ Ἔννομον ἐξενάριξε.

Χερσιδάμαντα δʼ ἔπειτα καθʼ ἵππων ἀΐξαντα

δουρὶ κατὰ πρότμησιν ὑπʼ ἀσπίδος ὀμφαλοέσσης

νύξεν· ὃ δʼ ἐν κονίῃσι πεσὼν ἕλε γαῖαν ἀγοστῷ.

τοὺς μὲν ἔασʼ, ὃ δʼ ἄρʼ Ἱππασίδην Χάροπʼ οὔτασε δουρὶ

αὐτοκασίγνητον εὐηφενέος Σώκοιο.

τῷ δʼ ἐπαλεξήσων Σῶκος κίεν ἰσόθεος φώς,

στῆ δὲ μάλʼ ἐγγὺς ἰὼν καί μιν πρὸς μῦθον ἔειπεν

ὦ Ὀδυσεῦ πολύαινε δόλων ἆτʼ ἠδὲ πόνοιο

σήμερον ἢ δοιοῖσιν ἐπεύξεαι Ἱππασίδῃσι

τοιώδʼ ἄνδρε κατακτείνας καὶ τεύχεʼ ἀπούρας,

ἤ κεν ἐμῷ ὑπὸ δουρὶ τυπεὶς ἀπὸ θυμὸν ὀλέσσῃς.

With these words he struck the shield of Odysseus. The spear went through the shield and passed on through his richly wrought cuirass, tearing the flesh from his side, but Pallas Athena did not suffer it to pierce the entrails of the hero. Odysseus knew that his hour [ telos ] was not yet come, but he gave ground and said to Sokos, "Wretch, you shall now surely die. You have stayed me from fighting further with the Trojans, but you shall now fall by my spear, yielding glory to myself, and your life-breath [ psukhê ] to Hades of the noble steeds."

ὣς εἰπὼν οὔτησε κατʼ ἀσπίδα πάντοσʼ ἐΐσην.

διὰ μὲν ἀσπίδος ἦλθε φαεινῆς ὄβριμον ἔγχος,

καὶ διὰ θώρηκος πολυδαιδάλου ἠρήρειστο,

πάντα δʼ ἀπὸ πλευρῶν χρόα ἔργαθεν, οὐδʼ ἔτʼ ἔασε

Παλλὰς Ἀθηναίη μιχθήμεναι ἔγκασι φωτός.

γνῶ δʼ Ὀδυσεὺς ὅ οἱ οὔ τι τέλος κατακαίριον ἦλθεν,

ἂψ δʼ ἀναχωρήσας Σῶκον πρὸς μῦθον ἔειπεν·

ἆ δείλʼ ἦ μάλα δή σε κιχάνεται αἰπὺς ὄλεθρος.

ἤτοι μέν ῥʼ ἔμʼ ἔπαυσας ἐπὶ Τρώεσσι μάχεσθαι·

σοὶ δʼ ἐγὼ ἐνθάδε φημὶ φόνον καὶ κῆρα μέλαιναν

ἤματι τῷδʼ ἔσσεσθαι, ἐμῷ δʼ ὑπὸ δουρὶ δαμέντα

εὖχος ἐμοὶ δώσειν, ψυχὴν δʼ Ἄϊδι κλυτοπώλῳ.

Sokos had turned in flight, but as he did so, the spear struck him in the back midway between the shoulders, and went right through his chest. He fell heavily to the ground and Odysseus vaunted over him saying, "O Sokos, son of Hippasus tamer of horses, the outcome [ telos ] of death has been too quick for you and you have not escaped him: poor wretch, not even in death shall your father and mother close your eyes, but the ravening vultures shall enshroud you with the flapping of their dark wings and devour you. Whereas even though I fall the Achaeans will give me my due rites of burial."

ἦ, καὶ ὃ μὲν φύγαδʼ αὖτις ὑποστρέψας ἐβεβήκει,

τῷ δὲ μεταστρεφθέντι μεταφρένῳ ἐν δόρυ πῆξεν

ὤμων μεσσηγύς, διὰ δὲ στήθεσφιν ἔλασσε,

δούπησεν δὲ πεσών· ὃ δʼ ἐπεύξατο δῖος Ὀδυσσεύς·

ὦ Σῶχʼ Ἱππάσου υἱὲ δαΐφρονος ἱπποδάμοιο

φθῆ σε τέλος θανάτοιο κιχήμενον, οὐδʼ ὑπάλυξας.

ἆ δείλʼ οὐ μὲν σοί γε πατὴρ καὶ πότνια μήτηρ

ὄσσε καθαιρήσουσι θανόντι περ, ἀλλʼ οἰωνοὶ

ὠμησταὶ ἐρύουσι, περὶ πτερὰ πυκνὰ βαλόντες.

αὐτὰρ ἔμʼ, εἴ κε θάνω, κτεριοῦσί γε δῖοι Ἀχαιοί.

So saying he drew Sokos' heavy spear out of his flesh and from his shield, and the blood welled forth when the spear was withdrawn so that he was much dismayed. When the Trojans saw that Odysseus was bleeding they raised a great shout and came on in a body towards him; he therefore gave ground, and called his comrades to come and help him. Thrice did he cry as loudly as man can cry, and thrice did brave Menelaos hear him; he turned, therefore, to Ajax who was close beside him and said, "Ajax, noble son of Telamon, leader of your people, the cry of Odysseus rings in my ears, as though the Trojans had cut him off and were worsting him while he is single-handed. Let us make our way through the throng; it will be well that we defend him; I fear he may come to harm for all his valor if he be left without support, and the Danaans would miss him sorely."

ὣς εἰπὼν Σώκοιο δαΐφρονος ὄβριμον ἔγχος

ἔξω τε χροὸς ἕλκε καὶ ἀσπίδος ὀμφαλοέσσης·

αἷμα δέ οἱ σπασθέντος ἀνέσσυτο, κῆδε δὲ θυμόν.

Τρῶες δὲ μεγάθυμοι ὅπως ἴδον αἷμʼ Ὀδυσῆος

κεκλόμενοι καθʼ ὅμιλον ἐπʼ αὐτῷ πάντες ἔβησαν.

αὐτὰρ ὅ γʼ ἐξοπίσω ἀνεχάζετο, αὖε δʼ ἑταίρους.

τρὶς μὲν ἔπειτʼ ἤϋσεν ὅσον κεφαλὴ χάδε φωτός,

τρὶς δʼ ἄϊεν ἰάχοντος ἄρηι φίλος Μενέλαος.

αἶψα δʼ ἄρʼ Αἴαντα προσεφώνεεν ἐγγὺς ἐόντα·

Αἶαν διογενὲς Τελαμώνιε κοίρανε λαῶν

ἀμφί μʼ Ὀδυσσῆος ταλασίφρονος ἵκετʼ ἀϋτὴ

τῷ ἰκέλη ὡς εἴ ἑ βιῴατο μοῦνον ἐόντα

Τρῶες ἀποτμήξαντες ἐνὶ κρατερῇ ὑσμίνῃ.

ἀλλʼ ἴομεν καθʼ ὅμιλον· ἀλεξέμεναι γὰρ ἄμεινον.

δείδω μή τι πάθῃσιν ἐνὶ Τρώεσσι μονωθεὶς

ἐσθλὸς ἐών, μεγάλη δὲ ποθὴ Δαναοῖσι γένηται.

He led the way and mighty Ajax went with him. The Trojans had gathered round Odysseus like ravenous mountain jackals round the carcass of some horned stag that has been hit with an arrow - the stag has fled at full speed so long as his blood was warm and his strength has lasted, but when the arrow has overcome him, the savage jackals devour him in the shady glades of the forest. Then some daimôn sends a fierce lion thither, whereon the jackals flee in terror and the lion robs them of their prey - even so did Trojans many and brave gather round crafty Odysseus, but the hero stood at bay and kept them off with his spear. Ajax then came up with his shield before him like a wall, and stood hard by, whereon the Trojans fled in all directions. Menelaos took Odysseus by the hand, and led him out of the press while his squire [ therapôn ] brought up his chariot, but Ajax rushed furiously on the Trojans and killed Doryklos, a bastard son of Priam; then he wounded Pandokos, Lysandros, Pyrasus, and Pylartes; as some swollen torrent comes rushing in full flood from the mountains on to the plain, big with the rain of heaven - many a dry oak and many a pine does it engulf, and much mud does it bring down and cast into the sea - even so did brave Ajax chase the foe furiously over the plain, slaying both men and horses.

ὣς εἰπὼν ὃ μὲν ἦρχʼ, ὃ δʼ ἅμʼ ἕσπετο ἰσόθεος φώς.

εὗρον ἔπειτʼ Ὀδυσῆα Διῒ φίλον· ἀμφὶ δʼ ἄρʼ αὐτὸν

Τρῶες ἕπονθʼ ὡς εἴ τε δαφοινοὶ θῶες ὄρεσφιν

ἀμφʼ ἔλαφον κεραὸν βεβλημένον, ὅν τʼ ἔβαλʼ ἀνὴρ

ἰῷ ἀπὸ νευρῆς· τὸν μέν τʼ ἤλυξε πόδεσσι

φεύγων, ὄφρʼ αἷμα λιαρὸν καὶ γούνατʼ ὀρώρῃ·

αὐτὰρ ἐπεὶ δὴ τόν γε δαμάσσεται ὠκὺς ὀϊστός,

ὠμοφάγοι μιν θῶες ἐν οὔρεσι δαρδάπτουσιν

ἐν νέμεϊ σκιερῷ· ἐπί τε λῖν ἤγαγε δαίμων

σίντην· θῶες μέν τε διέτρεσαν, αὐτὰρ ὃ δάπτει·

ὥς ῥα τότʼ ἀμφʼ Ὀδυσῆα δαΐφρονα ποικιλομήτην

Τρῶες ἕπον πολλοί τε καὶ ἄλκιμοι, αὐτὰρ ὅ γʼ ἥρως

ἀΐσσων ᾧ ἔγχει ἀμύνετο νηλεὲς ἦμαρ.

Αἴας δʼ ἐγγύθεν ἦλθε φέρων σάκος ἠΰτε πύργον,

στῆ δὲ παρέξ· Τρῶες δὲ διέτρεσαν ἄλλυδις ἄλλος.

ἤτοι τὸν Μενέλαος ἀρήϊος ἔξαγʼ ὁμίλου

χειρὸς ἔχων, εἷος θεράπων σχεδὸν ἤλασεν ἵππους.

Αἴας δὲ Τρώεσσιν ἐπάλμενος εἷλε Δόρυκλον

Πριαμίδην νόθον υἱόν, ἔπειτα δὲ Πάνδοκον οὖτα,

οὖτα δὲ Λύσανδρον καὶ Πύρασον ἠδὲ Πυλάρτην.

ὡς δʼ ὁπότε πλήθων ποταμὸς πεδίον δὲ κάτεισι

χειμάρρους κατʼ ὄρεσφιν ὀπαζόμενος Διὸς ὄμβρῳ,

πολλὰς δὲ δρῦς ἀζαλέας, πολλὰς δέ τε πεύκας

ἐσφέρεται, πολλὸν δέ τʼ ἀφυσγετὸν εἰς ἅλα βάλλει,

ὣς ἔφεπε κλονέων πεδίον τότε φαίδιμος Αἴας,

Hektor did not yet know what Ajax was doing, for he was fighting on the extreme left of the battle by the banks of the river Skamandros, where the carnage was thickest and the war-cry loudest round Nestor and brave Idomeneus. Among these Hektor was making great slaughter with his spear and furious driving, and was destroying the ranks that were opposed to him; still the Achaeans would have given no ground, had not Alexander husband of lovely Helen stayed the prowess of Machaon shepherd of his people, by wounding him in the right shoulder with a triple-barbed arrow. The Achaeans were in great fear that as the fight had turned against them the Trojans might take him prisoner,

δαΐζων ἵππους τε καὶ ἀνέρας· οὐδέ πω Ἕκτωρ

πεύθετʼ, ἐπεί ῥα μάχης ἐπʼ ἀριστερὰ μάρνατο πάσης

ὄχθας πὰρ ποταμοῖο Σκαμάνδρου, τῇ ῥα μάλιστα

ἀνδρῶν πῖπτε κάρηνα, βοὴ δʼ ἄσβεστος ὀρώρει

Νέστορά τʼ ἀμφὶ μέγαν καὶ ἀρήϊον Ἰδομενῆα.

Ἕκτωρ μὲν μετὰ τοῖσιν ὁμίλει μέρμερα ῥέζων

ἔγχεΐ θʼ ἱπποσύνῃ τε, νέων δʼ ἀλάπαζε φάλαγγας·

οὐδʼ ἄν πω χάζοντο κελεύθου δῖοι Ἀχαιοὶ

εἰ μὴ Ἀλέξανδρος Ἑλένης πόσις ἠϋκόμοιο

παῦσεν ἀριστεύοντα Μαχάονα ποιμένα λαῶν,

ἰῷ τριγλώχινι βαλὼν κατὰ δεξιὸν ὦμον.

τῷ ῥα περίδεισαν μένεα πνείοντες Ἀχαιοὶ

and Idomeneus said to Nestor, "Nestor son of Neleus, honor to the Achaean name, mount your chariot at once; take Machaon with you and drive your horses to the ships as fast as you can. A physician is worth more than several other men put together, for he can cut out arrows and spread healing herbs."

μή πώς μιν πολέμοιο μετακλινθέντος ἕλοιεν.

αὐτίκα δʼ Ἰδομενεὺς προσεφώνεε Νέστορα δῖον·

ὦ Νέστορ Νηληϊάδη μέγα κῦδος Ἀχαιῶν

ἄγρει σῶν ὀχέων ἐπιβήσεο, πὰρ δὲ Μαχάων

βαινέτω, ἐς νῆας δὲ τάχιστʼ ἔχε μώνυχας ἵππους·

ἰητρὸς γὰρ ἀνὴρ πολλῶν ἀντάξιος ἄλλων

Nestor horseman of Gerene did as Idomeneus had counseled; he at once mounted his chariot, and Machaon son of the famed physician Asklepios went with him. He lashed his horses and they flew onward nothing loath towards the ships, as though of their own free will.

ἰούς τʼ ἐκτάμνειν ἐπί τʼ ἤπια φάρμακα πάσσειν.

ὣς ἔφατʼ, οὐδʼ ἀπίθησε Γερήνιος ἱππότα Νέστωρ.

αὐτίκα δʼ ὧν ὀχέων ἐπεβήσετο, πὰρ δὲ Μαχάων

βαῖνʼ Ἀσκληπιοῦ υἱὸς ἀμύμονος ἰητῆρος·

μάστιξεν δʼ ἵππους, τὼ δʼ οὐκ ἀέκοντε πετέσθην

νῆας ἔπι γλαφυράς· τῇ γὰρ φίλον ἔπλετο θυμῷ.

Then Kebriones seeing the Trojans in confusion said to Hektor from his place beside him, "Hektor, here are we two fighting on the extreme wing of the battle, while the other Trojans are in pell-mell rout, they and their horses. Ajax son of Telamon is driving them before him; I know him by the breadth of his shield: let us turn our chariot and horses thither, where horse and foot are fighting most desperately, and where the cry of battle is loudest."

Κεβριόνης δὲ Τρῶας ὀρινομένους ἐνόησεν

Ἕκτορι παρβεβαώς, καί μιν πρὸς μῦθον ἔειπεν·

Ἕκτορ νῶϊ μὲν ἐνθάδʼ ὁμιλέομεν Δαναοῖσιν

ἐσχατιῇ πολέμοιο δυσηχέος· οἳ δὲ δὴ ἄλλοι

Τρῶες ὀρίνονται ἐπιμὶξ ἵπποι τε καὶ αὐτοί.

Αἴας δὲ κλονέει Τελαμώνιος· εὖ δέ μιν ἔγνων·

εὐρὺ γὰρ ἀμφʼ ὤμοισιν ἔχει σάκος· ἀλλὰ καὶ ἡμεῖς

κεῖσʼ ἵππους τε καὶ ἅρμʼ ἰθύνομεν, ἔνθα μάλιστα

ἱππῆες πεζοί τε κακὴν ἔριδα προβαλόντες

ἀλλήλους ὀλέκουσι, βοὴ δʼ ἄσβεστος ὄρωρεν.

With this he lashed his goodly steeds, and when they felt the whip they drew the chariot full speed among the Achaeans and Trojans, over the bodies and shields of those that had fallen: the axle was bespattered with blood, and the rail round the car was covered with splashes both from the horses' hoofs and from the tires of the wheels. Hektor tore his way through and flung himself into the thick of the fight, and his presence threw the Danaans into confusion, for his spear was not long idle; nevertheless though he went among the ranks with sword and spear, and throwing great stones, he avoided Ajax son of Telamon, for Zeus would have been angry with him if he had fought a better man than himself.

ὣς ἄρα φωνήσας ἵμασεν καλλίτριχας ἵππους

μάστιγι λιγυρῇ· τοὶ δὲ πληγῆς ἀΐοντες

ῥίμφʼ ἔφερον θοὸν ἅρμα μετὰ Τρῶας καὶ Ἀχαιοὺς

στείβοντες νέκυάς τε καὶ ἀσπίδας· αἵματι δʼ ἄξων

νέρθεν ἅπας πεπάλακτο καὶ ἄντυγες αἳ περὶ δίφρον,

ἃς ἄρʼ ἀφʼ ἱππείων ὁπλέων ῥαθάμιγγες ἔβαλλον

αἵ τʼ ἀπʼ ἐπισσώτρων. ὃ δὲ ἵετο δῦναι ὅμιλον

ἀνδρόμεον ῥῆξαί τε μετάλμενος· ἐν δὲ κυδοιμὸν

ἧκε κακὸν Δαναοῖσι, μίνυνθα δὲ χάζετο δουρός.

αὐτὰρ ὃ τῶν ἄλλων ἐπεπωλεῖτο στίχας ἀνδρῶν

ἔγχεΐ τʼ ἄορί τε μεγάλοισί τε χερμαδίοισιν,

Αἴαντος δʼ ἀλέεινε μάχην Τελαμωνιάδαο.

Then father Zeus from his high throne struck fear into the heart of Ajax, so that he stood there dazed and threw his shield behind him- looking fearfully at the throng of his foes as though he were some wild beast, and turning hither and thither but crouching slowly backwards.

Ζεὺς δὲ πατὴρ Αἴανθʼ ὑψίζυγος ἐν φόβον ὦρσε·

στῆ δὲ ταφών, ὄπιθεν δὲ σάκος βάλεν ἑπταβόειον,

τρέσσε δὲ παπτήνας ἐφʼ ὁμίλου θηρὶ ἐοικὼς

ἐντροπαλιζόμενος ὀλίγον γόνυ γουνὸς ἀμείβων.

As peasants with their hounds chase a lion from their stockyard, and watch by night to prevent his carrying off the pick of their herd - he makes his greedy spring, but in vain, for the darts from many a strong hand fall thick around him, with burning brands that scare him for all his fury, and when morning comes he slinks foiled and angry away - even so did Ajax, sorely against his will, retreat angrily before the Trojans, fearing for the ships of the Achaeans. Or as some lazy ass that has had many a cudgel broken about his back, when he into a field begins eating the grain - boys beat him but he is too many for them, and though they lay about with their sticks they cannot hurt him; still when he has had his fill they at last drive him from the field - even so did the Trojans and their allies pursue great Ajax, ever smiting the middle of his shield with their darts. Now and again he would turn and show fight, keeping back the battalions of the Trojans, and then he would again retreat; but he prevented any of them from making his way to the ships. Single-handed he stood midway between the Trojans and Achaeans: the spears that sped from their hands stuck some of them in his mighty shield, while many, though thirsting for his blood, fell to the ground ere they could reach him to the wounding of his fair flesh.

ὡς δʼ αἴθωνα λέοντα βοῶν ἀπὸ μεσσαύλοιο

ἐσσεύαντο κύνες τε καὶ ἀνέρες ἀγροιῶται,

οἵ τέ μιν οὐκ εἰῶσι βοῶν ἐκ πῖαρ ἑλέσθαι

πάννυχοι ἐγρήσσοντες· ὃ δὲ κρειῶν ἐρατίζων

ἰθύει, ἀλλʼ οὔ τι πρήσσει· θαμέες γὰρ ἄκοντες

ἀντίον ἀΐσσουσι θρασειάων ἀπὸ χειρῶν

καιόμεναί τε δεταί, τάς τε τρεῖ ἐσσύμενός περ·

ἠῶθεν δʼ ἀπὸ νόσφιν ἔβη τετιηότι θυμῷ·

ὣς Αἴας τότʼ ἀπὸ Τρώων τετιημένος ἦτορ

ἤϊε πόλλʼ ἀέκων· περὶ γὰρ δίε νηυσὶν Ἀχαιῶν.

ὡς δʼ ὅτʼ ὄνος παρʼ ἄρουραν ἰὼν ἐβιήσατο παῖδας

νωθής, ᾧ δὴ πολλὰ περὶ ῥόπαλʼ ἀμφὶς ἐάγῃ,

κείρει τʼ εἰσελθὼν βαθὺ λήϊον· οἳ δέ τε παῖδες

τύπτουσιν ῥοπάλοισι· βίη δέ τε νηπίη αὐτῶν·

σπουδῇ τʼ ἐξήλασσαν, ἐπεί τʼ ἐκορέσσατο φορβῆς·

ὣς τότʼ ἔπειτʼ Αἴαντα μέγαν Τελαμώνιον υἱὸν

Τρῶες ὑπέρθυμοι πολυηγερέες τʼ ἐπίκουροι

νύσσοντες ξυστοῖσι μέσον σάκος αἰὲν ἕποντο.

Αἴας δʼ ἄλλοτε μὲν μνησάσκετο θούριδος ἀλκῆς

αὖτις ὑποστρεφθείς, καὶ ἐρητύσασκε φάλαγγας

Τρώων ἱπποδάμων· ὁτὲ δὲ τρωπάσκετο φεύγειν.

πάντας δὲ προέεργε θοὰς ἐπὶ νῆας ὁδεύειν,

αὐτὸς δὲ Τρώων καὶ Ἀχαιῶν θῦνε μεσηγὺ

ἱστάμενος· τὰ δὲ δοῦρα θρασειάων ἀπὸ χειρῶν

ἄλλα μὲν ἐν σάκεϊ μεγάλῳ πάγεν ὄρμενα πρόσσω,

πολλὰ δὲ καὶ μεσσηγύ, πάρος χρόα λευκὸν ἐπαυρεῖν,

ἐν γαίῃ ἵσταντο λιλαιόμενα χροὸς ἆσαι.

Now when Eurypylos the brave son of Euaemon saw that Ajax was being overpowered by the rain of arrows, he went up to him and hurled his spear. He struck Apisaon son of Phausios in the liver below the midriff, and laid him low. Eurypylos sprang upon him, and stripped the armor from his shoulders; but when Alexander saw him, he aimed an arrow at him which struck him in the right thigh; the arrow broke, but the point that was left in the wound dragged on the thigh; he drew back, therefore, under cover of his comrades to save his life, shouting as he did so to the Danaans, "My friends, princes and counselors of the Argives, rally to the defense of Ajax who is being overpowered, and I doubt whether he will come out of the fight alive. Hither, then, to the rescue of great Ajax son of Telamon."

τὸν δʼ ὡς οὖν ἐνόησʼ Εὐαίμονος ἀγλαὸς υἱὸς

Εὐρύπυλος πυκινοῖσι βιαζόμενον βελέεσσι,

στῆ ῥα παρʼ αὐτὸν ἰών, καὶ ἀκόντισε δουρὶ φαεινῷ,

καὶ βάλε Φαυσιάδην Ἀπισάονα ποιμένα λαῶν

ἧπαρ ὑπὸ πραπίδων, εἶθαρ δʼ ὑπὸ γούνατʼ ἔλυσεν·

Εὐρύπυλος δʼ ἐπόρουσε καὶ αἴνυτο τεύχεʼ ἀπʼ ὤμων.

τὸν δʼ ὡς οὖν ἐνόησεν Ἀλέξανδρος θεοειδὴς

τεύχεʼ ἀπαινύμενον Ἀπισάονος, αὐτίκα τόξον

ἕλκετʼ ἐπʼ Εὐρυπύλῳ, καί μιν βάλε μηρὸν ὀϊστῷ

δεξιόν· ἐκλάσθη δὲ δόναξ, ἐβάρυνε δὲ μηρόν.

ἂψ δʼ ἑτάρων εἰς ἔθνος ἐχάζετο κῆρʼ ἀλεείνων,

ἤϋσεν δὲ διαπρύσιον Δαναοῖσι γεγωνώς·

ὦ φίλοι Ἀργείων ἡγήτορες ἠδὲ μέδοντες

στῆτʼ ἐλελιχθέντες καὶ ἀμύνετε νηλεὲς ἦμαρ

Αἴανθʼ, ὃς βελέεσσι βιάζεται, οὐδέ ἕ φημι

φεύξεσθʼ ἐκ πολέμοιο δυσηχέος· ἀλλὰ μάλʼ ἄντην

ἵστασθʼ ἀμφʼ Αἴαντα μέγαν Τελαμώνιον υἱόν.

Even so did he cry when he was wounded; thereon the others came near, and gathered round him, holding their shields upwards from their shoulders so as to give him cover. Ajax then made towards them, and turned round to stand at bay as soon as he had reached his men.

ὣς ἔφατʼ Εὐρύπυλος βεβλημένος· οἳ δὲ παρʼ αὐτὸν

πλησίοι ἔστησαν σάκεʼ ὤμοισι κλίναντες

δούρατʼ ἀνασχόμενοι· τῶν δʼ ἀντίος ἤλυθεν Αἴας.

στῆ δὲ μεταστρεφθείς, ἐπεὶ ἵκετο ἔθνος ἑταίρων.

Thus then did they fight as it were a flaming fire. Meanwhile the mares of Neleus, all in a lather with sweat, were bearing Nestor out of the fight, and with him Machaon shepherd of his people. Achilles saw and took note, for he was standing on the stern of his ship watching the hard stress [ ponos ] and struggle of the fight. He called from the ship to his comrade Patroklos, who heard him in the tent and came out looking like Ares himself - here indeed was the beginning of the ill that presently befell him. "Why," said he, "Achilles do you call me? what do you what do you want with me?" And Achilles answered, "Noble son of Menoitios, man after my own heart, I take it that I shall now have the Achaeans praying at my knees, for they are in great straits; go, Patroklos, and ask Nestor who is that he is bearing away wounded from the field; from his back I should say it was Machaon son of Asklepios, but I could not see his face for the horses went by me at full speed."

ὣς οἳ μὲν μάρναντο δέμας πυρὸς αἰθομένοιο·

Νέστορα δʼ ἐκ πολέμοιο φέρον Νηλήϊαι ἵπποι

ἱδρῶσαι, ἦγον δὲ Μαχάονα ποιμένα λαῶν.

τὸν δὲ ἰδὼν ἐνόησε ποδάρκης δῖος Ἀχιλλεύς·

ἑστήκει γὰρ ἐπὶ πρυμνῇ μεγακήτεϊ νηῒ

εἰσορόων πόνον αἰπὺν ἰῶκά τε δακρυόεσσαν.

αἶψα δʼ ἑταῖρον ἑὸν Πατροκλῆα προσέειπε

φθεγξάμενος παρὰ νηός· ὃ δὲ κλισίηθεν ἀκούσας

ἔκμολεν ἶσος Ἄρηϊ, κακοῦ δʼ ἄρα οἱ πέλεν ἀρχή.

τὸν πρότερος προσέειπε Μενοιτίου ἄλκιμος υἱός·

τίπτέ με κικλήσκεις Ἀχιλεῦ; τί δέ σε χρεὼ ἐμεῖο;

τὸν δʼ ἀπαμειβόμενος προσέφη πόδας ὠκὺς Ἀχιλλεύς·

δῖε Μενοιτιάδη τῷ ἐμῷ κεχαρισμένε θυμῷ

νῦν ὀΐω περὶ γούνατʼ ἐμὰ στήσεσθαι Ἀχαιοὺς

λισσομένους· χρειὼ γὰρ ἱκάνεται οὐκέτʼ ἀνεκτός.

ἀλλʼ ἴθι νῦν Πάτροκλε Διῒ φίλε Νέστορʼ ἔρειο

ὅν τινα τοῦτον ἄγει βεβλημένον ἐκ πολέμοιο·

ἤτοι μὲν τά γʼ ὄπισθε Μαχάονι πάντα ἔοικε

τῷ Ἀσκληπιάδῃ, ἀτὰρ οὐκ ἴδον ὄμματα φωτός·

ἵπποι γάρ με παρήϊξαν πρόσσω μεμαυῖαι.

Patroklos did as his dear comrade had bidden him, and set off running by the ships and tents of the Achaeans.

ὣς φάτο, Πάτροκλος δὲ φίλῳ ἐπεπείθεθʼ ἑταίρῳ,

βῆ δὲ θέειν παρά τε κλισίας καὶ νῆας Ἀχαιῶν.

When Nestor and Machaon had reached the tents of the son of Neleus, they dismounted, and an esquire [ therapôn ], Eurymedon, took the horses from the chariot. The pair then stood in the breeze by the seaside to dry the sweat from their shirts, and when they had so done they came inside and took their seats. Fair Hekamede, whom Nestor had had awarded to him from Tenedos when Achilles took it, mixed them a mess; she was daughter of wise Arsinoos, and the Achaeans had given her to Nestor because he excelled all of them in counsel. First she set for them a fair and well-made table that had feet of lapis lazuli;

οἳ δʼ ὅτε δὴ κλισίην Νηληϊάδεω ἀφίκοντο,

αὐτοὶ μέν ῥʼ ἀπέβησαν ἐπὶ χθόνα πουλυβότειραν,

ἵππους δʼ Εὐρυμέδων θεράπων λύε τοῖο γέροντος

ἐξ ὀχέων· τοὶ δʼ ἱδρῶ ἀπεψύχοντο χιτώνων

στάντε ποτὶ πνοιὴν παρὰ θῖνʼ ἁλός· αὐτὰρ ἔπειτα

ἐς κλισίην ἐλθόντες ἐπὶ κλισμοῖσι κάθιζον.

τοῖσι δὲ τεῦχε κυκειῶ ἐϋπλόκαμος Ἑκαμήδη,

τὴν ἄρετʼ ἐκ Τενέδοιο γέρων, ὅτε πέρσεν Ἀχιλλεύς,

θυγατέρʼ Ἀρσινόου μεγαλήτορος, ἥν οἱ Ἀχαιοὶ

ἔξελον οὕνεκα βουλῇ ἀριστεύεσκεν ἁπάντων.

ἥ σφωϊν πρῶτον μὲν ἐπιπροΐηλε τράπεζαν

on it there was a vessel of bronze and an onion to give relish to the drink, with honey and cakes of barley-meal. There was also a cup of rare workmanship which the old man had brought with him from home, studded with bosses of gold; it had four handles, on each of which there were two golden doves feeding, and it had two feet to stand on. Any one else would hardly have been able to lift it from the table when it was full, but Nestor could do so quite easily. In this the woman, as fair as a goddess, mixed them a mess with Pramnian wine; she grated goat's milk cheese into it with a bronze grater, threw in a handful of white barley-meal, and having thus prepared the mess she bade them drink it. When they had done so and had thus quenched their thirst, they fell talking with one another, and at this moment Patroklos appeared at the door.

καλὴν κυανόπεζαν ἐΰξοον, αὐτὰρ ἐπʼ αὐτῆς

χάλκειον κάνεον, ἐπὶ δὲ κρόμυον ποτῷ ὄψον,

ἠδὲ μέλι χλωρόν, παρὰ δʼ ἀλφίτου ἱεροῦ ἀκτήν,

πὰρ δὲ δέπας περικαλλές, ὃ οἴκοθεν ἦγʼ ὁ γεραιός,

χρυσείοις ἥλοισι πεπαρμένον· οὔατα δʼ αὐτοῦ

τέσσαρʼ ἔσαν, δοιαὶ δὲ πελειάδες ἀμφὶς ἕκαστον

χρύσειαι νεμέθοντο, δύω δʼ ὑπὸ πυθμένες ἦσαν.

ἄλλος μὲν μογέων ἀποκινήσασκε τραπέζης

πλεῖον ἐόν, Νέστωρ δʼ ὁ γέρων ἀμογητὶ ἄειρεν.

ἐν τῷ ῥά σφι κύκησε γυνὴ ἐϊκυῖα θεῇσιν

οἴνῳ Πραμνείῳ, ἐπὶ δʼ αἴγειον κνῆ τυρὸν

κνήστι χαλκείῃ, ἐπὶ δʼ ἄλφιτα λευκὰ πάλυνε,

πινέμεναι δʼ ἐκέλευσεν, ἐπεί ῥʼ ὥπλισσε κυκειῶ.

τὼ δʼ ἐπεὶ οὖν πίνοντʼ ἀφέτην πολυκαγκέα δίψαν

μύθοισιν τέρποντο πρὸς ἀλλήλους ἐνέποντες,

Πάτροκλος δὲ θύρῃσιν ἐφίστατο ἰσόθεος φώς.

When the old man saw him he sprang from his seat, seized his hand, led him into the tent, and bade him take his place among them; but Patroklos stood where he was and said, "Noble sir, I may not stay, you cannot persuade me to come in; he that sent me is not one to be trifled with, and he bade me ask who the wounded man was whom you were bearing away from the field. I can now see for myself that he is Machaon shepherd of his people. I must go back and tell Achilles. You, sir, know what a terrible man he is, and how ready to blame even where no blame should lie."

τὸν δὲ ἰδὼν ὁ γεραιὸς ἀπὸ θρόνου ὦρτο φαεινοῦ,

ἐς δʼ ἄγε χειρὸς ἑλών, κατὰ δʼ ἑδριάασθαι ἄνωγε.

Πάτροκλος δʼ ἑτέρωθεν ἀναίνετο εἶπέ τε μῦθον·

οὐχ ἕδος ἐστὶ γεραιὲ διοτρεφές, οὐδέ με πείσεις.

αἰδοῖος νεμεσητὸς ὅ με προέηκε πυθέσθαι