{"book": 6, "line": 1, "greek": "Τρώων δʼ οἰώθη καὶ Ἀχαιῶν φύλοπις αἰνή·", "en": "So the dread din of Trojans and Achaeans was left to itself;"}
{"book": 6, "line": 2, "greek": "πολλὰ δʼ ἄρʼ ἔνθα καὶ ἔνθʼ ἴθυσε μάχη πεδίοιο", "en": "and this way and that the battle swayed across the plain"}
{"book": 6, "line": 3, "greek": "ἀλλήλων ἰθυνομένων χαλκήρεα δοῦρα", "en": "as they aimed their bronze-pointed spears at one another,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 4, "greek": "μεσσηγὺς Σιμόεντος ἰδὲ Ξάνθοιο ῥοάων.", "en": "midway between the streams of Simois and Xanthus."}
{"book": 6, "line": 5, "greek": "Αἴας δὲ πρῶτος Τελαμώνιος ἕρκος Ἀχαιῶν", "en": "Ajax first, Telamon's son, wall of the Achaeans,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 6, "greek": "Τρώων ῥῆξε φάλαγγα, φόως δʼ ἑτάροισιν ἔθηκεν,", "en": "broke a Trojan company and made light for his companions,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 7, "greek": "ἄνδρα βαλὼν ὃς ἄριστος ἐνὶ Θρῄκεσσι τέτυκτο", "en": "striking the man who was best among the Thracians,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 8, "greek": "υἱὸν Ἐϋσσώρου Ἀκάμαντʼ ἠΰν τε μέγαν τε.", "en": "Acamas, Eussorus' son, tall and brave."}
{"book": 6, "line": 9, "greek": "τόν ῥʼ ἔβαλε πρῶτος κόρυθος φάλον ἱπποδασείης,", "en": "He struck him first on the ridge of his horsehair helmet,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 10, "greek": "ἐν δὲ μετώπῳ πῆξε, πέρησε δʼ ἄρʼ ὀστέον εἴσω", "en": "and the bronze point fixed in his forehead and drove"}
{"book": 6, "line": 11, "greek": "αἰχμὴ χαλκείη· τὸν δὲ σκότος ὄσσε κάλυψεν.", "en": "inside the bone; and darkness covered his eyes."}
{"book": 6, "line": 12, "greek": "Ἄξυλον δʼ ἄρʼ ἔπεφνε βοὴν ἀγαθὸς Διομήδης", "en": "And Diomedes, good at the war-cry, killed Axylus,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 13, "greek": "Τευθρανίδην, ὃς ἔναιεν ἐϋκτιμένῃ ἐν Ἀρίσβῃ", "en": "Teuthras' son, who lived in well-built Arisbe,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 14, "greek": "ἀφνειὸς βιότοιο, φίλος δʼ ἦν ἀνθρώποισι.", "en": "a man rich in substance, and a friend to all mankind:"}
{"book": 6, "line": 15, "greek": "πάντας γὰρ φιλέεσκεν ὁδῷ ἔπι οἰκία ναίων.", "en": "living in his house by the road, he welcomed all comers."}
{"book": 6, "line": 16, "greek": "ἀλλά οἱ οὔ τις τῶν γε τότʼ ἤρκεσε λυγρὸν ὄλεθρον", "en": "But not one of them stood before him then to beat off wretched destruction,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 17, "greek": "πρόσθεν ὑπαντιάσας, ἀλλʼ ἄμφω θυμὸν ἀπηύρα", "en": "meeting the enemy for him; Diomedes took the life of both,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 18, "greek": "αὐτὸν καὶ θεράποντα Καλήσιον, ὅς ῥα τόθʼ ἵππων", "en": "the man himself and his aide Calesius, who was then"}
{"book": 6, "line": 19, "greek": "ἔσκεν ὑφηνίοχος· τὼ δʼ ἄμφω γαῖαν ἐδύτην.", "en": "his charioteer; and the two of them went under the earth."}
{"book": 6, "line": 20, "greek": "Δρῆσον δʼ Εὐρύαλος καὶ Ὀφέλτιον ἐξενάριξε·", "en": "And Euryalus killed Dresus and Opheltius,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 21, "greek": "βῆ δὲ μετʼ Αἴσηπον καὶ Πήδασον, οὕς ποτε νύμφη", "en": "and went after Aesepus and Pedasus, whom once the water-nymph"}
{"book": 6, "line": 22, "greek": "νηῒς Ἀβαρβαρέη τέκʼ ἀμύμονι Βουκολίωνι.", "en": "Abarbarea bore to blameless Bucolion."}
{"book": 6, "line": 23, "greek": "Βουκολίων δʼ ἦν υἱὸς ἀγαυοῦ Λαομέδοντος", "en": "Bucolion was proud Laomedon's son,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 24, "greek": "πρεσβύτατος γενεῇ, σκότιον δέ ἑ γείνατο μήτηρ·", "en": "eldest born, though his mother bore him in darkness:"}
{"book": 6, "line": 25, "greek": "ποιμαίνων δʼ ἐπʼ ὄεσσι μίγη φιλότητι καὶ εὐνῇ,", "en": "shepherding his flocks he lay with the nymph in love,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 26, "greek": "ἣ δʼ ὑποκυσαμένη διδυμάονε γείνατο παῖδε.", "en": "and she conceived, and bore him twin sons —"}
{"book": 6, "line": 27, "greek": "καὶ μὲν τῶν ὑπέλυσε μένος καὶ φαίδιμα γυῖα", "en": "and Mecisteus' son unstrung the strength and the shining limbs"}
{"book": 6, "line": 28, "greek": "Μηκιστηϊάδης καὶ ἀπʼ ὤμων τεύχεʼ ἐσύλα.", "en": "of both, and stripped the armor from their shoulders."}
{"book": 6, "line": 29, "greek": "Ἀστύαλον δʼ ἄρʼ ἔπεφνε μενεπτόλεμος Πολυποίτης·", "en": "And Polypoetes steadfast in battle killed Astyalus;"}
{"book": 6, "line": 30, "greek": "Πιδύτην δʼ Ὀδυσεὺς Περκώσιον ἐξενάριξεν", "en": "and Odysseus cut down Pidytes of Percote"}
{"book": 6, "line": 31, "greek": "ἔγχεϊ χαλκείῳ, Τεῦκρος δʼ Ἀρετάονα δῖον.", "en": "with his bronze spear, and Teucer brilliant Aretaon."}
{"book": 6, "line": 32, "greek": "Ἀντίλοχος δʼ Ἄβληρον ἐνήρατο δουρὶ φαεινῷ", "en": "Antilochus, Nestor's son, took Ablerus with his shining spear,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 33, "greek": "Νεστορίδης, Ἔλατον δὲ ἄναξ ἀνδρῶν Ἀγαμέμνων·", "en": "and the lord of men Agamemnon took Elatus,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 34, "greek": "ναῖε δὲ Σατνιόεντος ἐϋρρείταο παρʼ ὄχθας", "en": "who lived by the banks of fair-flowing Satnioeis"}
{"book": 6, "line": 35, "greek": "Πήδασον αἰπεινήν. Φύλακον δʼ ἕλε Λήϊτος ἥρως", "en": "in steep Pedasus. And the hero Leïtus caught Phylacus"}
{"book": 6, "line": 36, "greek": "φεύγοντʼ· Εὐρύπυλος δὲ Μελάνθιον ἐξενάριξεν.", "en": "as he ran; and Eurypylus cut down Melanthius."}
{"book": 6, "line": 37, "greek": "Ἄδρηστον δʼ ἄρʼ ἔπειτα βοὴν ἀγαθὸς Μενέλαος", "en": "Then Menelaus, good at the war-cry, took Adrestus"}
{"book": 6, "line": 38, "greek": "ζωὸν ἕλʼ· ἵππω γάρ οἱ ἀτυζομένω πεδίοιο", "en": "alive: for his two horses, bolting across the plain,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 39, "greek": "ὄζῳ ἔνι βλαφθέντε μυρικίνῳ ἀγκύλον ἅρμα", "en": "fouled in a tamarisk branch, snapped the curved chariot"}
{"book": 6, "line": 40, "greek": "ἄξαντʼ ἐν πρώτῳ ῥυμῷ αὐτὼ μὲν ἐβήτην", "en": "at the pole's tip, and themselves ran on"}
{"book": 6, "line": 41, "greek": "πρὸς πόλιν, ᾗ περ οἱ ἄλλοι ἀτυζόμενοι φοβέοντο,", "en": "toward the city, where the rest were bolting in panic,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 42, "greek": "αὐτὸς δʼ ἐκ δίφροιο παρὰ τροχὸν ἐξεκυλίσθη", "en": "while he rolled from the car beside the wheel,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 43, "greek": "πρηνὴς ἐν κονίῃσιν ἐπὶ στόμα· πὰρ δέ οἱ ἔστη", "en": "face-down in the dust on his mouth. And beside him stood"}
{"book": 6, "line": 44, "greek": "Ἀτρεΐδης Μενέλαος ἔχων δολιχόσκιον ἔγχος.", "en": "Atreus' son Menelaus, holding his long-shadowed spear."}
{"book": 6, "line": 45, "greek": "Ἄδρηστος δʼ ἄρʼ ἔπειτα λαβὼν ἐλίσσετο γούνων·", "en": "Then Adrestus clasped his knees and begged him:"}
{"book": 6, "line": 46, "greek": "ζώγρει Ἀτρέος υἱέ, σὺ δʼ ἄξια δέξαι ἄποινα·", "en": "\"Take me alive, son of Atreus — and take a worthy ransom."}
{"book": 6, "line": 47, "greek": "πολλὰ δʼ ἐν ἀφνειοῦ πατρὸς κειμήλια κεῖται", "en": "Many treasures lie stored in my rich father's house,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 48, "greek": "χαλκός τε χρυσός τε πολύκμητός τε σίδηρος,", "en": "bronze, and gold, and iron worked with much labor:"}
{"book": 6, "line": 49, "greek": "τῶν κέν τοι χαρίσαιτο πατὴρ ἀπερείσιʼ ἄποινα", "en": "out of these my father would gladden you with ransom past counting"}
{"book": 6, "line": 50, "greek": "εἴ κεν ἐμὲ ζωὸν πεπύθοιτʼ ἐπὶ νηυσὶν Ἀχαιῶν.", "en": "if he learned I was alive by the ships of the Achaeans.\""}
{"book": 6, "line": 51, "greek": "ὣς φάτο, τῷ δʼ ἄρα θυμὸν ἐνὶ στήθεσσιν ἔπειθε·", "en": "So he spoke, and was moving the heart in his chest;"}
{"book": 6, "line": 52, "greek": "καὶ δή μιν τάχʼ ἔμελλε θοὰς ἐπὶ νῆας Ἀχαιῶν", "en": "and soon he would have given him to his aide to lead down"}
{"book": 6, "line": 53, "greek": "δώσειν ᾧ θεράποντι καταξέμεν· ἀλλʼ Ἀγαμέμνων", "en": "to the Achaeans' swift ships. But Agamemnon"}
{"book": 6, "line": 54, "greek": "ἀντίος ἦλθε θέων, καὶ ὁμοκλήσας ἔπος ηὔδα·", "en": "came running to meet him, and cried out his word:"}
{"book": 6, "line": 55, "greek": "ὦ πέπον ὦ Μενέλαε, τί ἢ δὲ σὺ κήδεαι οὕτως", "en": "\"Soft-hearted Menelaus! Why do you care so tenderly"}
{"book": 6, "line": 56, "greek": "ἀνδρῶν; ἦ σοὶ ἄριστα πεποίηται κατὰ οἶκον", "en": "for men? Were such fine things done in your house"}
{"book": 6, "line": 57, "greek": "πρὸς Τρώων; τῶν μή τις ὑπεκφύγοι αἰπὺν ὄλεθρον", "en": "by Trojans? Let not one of them escape sheer destruction"}
{"book": 6, "line": 58, "greek": "χεῖράς θʼ ἡμετέρας, μηδʼ ὅν τινα γαστέρι μήτηρ", "en": "and our hands — not even the boy his mother carries"}
{"book": 6, "line": 59, "greek": "κοῦρον ἐόντα φέροι, μηδʼ ὃς φύγοι, ἀλλʼ ἅμα πάντες", "en": "in her womb, not even he: let all of them together"}
{"book": 6, "line": 60, "greek": "Ἰλίου ἐξαπολοίατʼ ἀκήδεστοι καὶ ἄφαντοι.", "en": "perish out of Ilion, unmourned, and leave no trace.\""}
{"book": 6, "line": 61, "greek": "ὣς εἰπὼν ἔτρεψεν ἀδελφειοῦ φρένας ἥρως", "en": "So speaking the hero turned his brother's mind,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 62, "greek": "αἴσιμα παρειπών· ὃ δʼ ἀπὸ ἕθεν ὤσατο χειρὶ", "en": "for his urging was of things due; and Menelaus pushed"}
{"book": 6, "line": 63, "greek": "ἥρωʼ Ἄδρηστον· τὸν δὲ κρείων Ἀγαμέμνων", "en": "the hero Adrestus back with his hand, and the lord Agamemnon"}
{"book": 6, "line": 64, "greek": "οὖτα κατὰ λαπάρην· ὃ δʼ ἀνετράπετʼ, Ἀτρεΐδης δὲ", "en": "stabbed him in the flank; he doubled over, and Atreus' son"}
{"book": 6, "line": 65, "greek": "λὰξ ἐν στήθεσι βὰς ἐξέσπασε μείλινον ἔγχος.", "en": "set a heel on his chest and pulled out the ash spear."}
{"book": 6, "line": 66, "greek": "Νέστωρ δʼ Ἀργείοισιν ἐκέκλετο μακρὸν ἀΰσας·", "en": "Then Nestor called to the Argives with a far-carrying shout:"}
{"book": 6, "line": 67, "greek": "ὦ φίλοι ἥρωες Δαναοὶ θεράποντες Ἄρηος", "en": "\"Friends, Danaan heroes, squires of Ares —"}
{"book": 6, "line": 68, "greek": "μή τις νῦν ἐνάρων ἐπιβαλλόμενος μετόπισθε", "en": "let no man now hang back for spoils,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 69, "greek": "μιμνέτω ὥς κε πλεῖστα φέρων ἐπὶ νῆας ἵκηται,", "en": "to reach the ships carrying the biggest load:"}
{"book": 6, "line": 70, "greek": "ἀλλʼ ἄνδρας κτείνωμεν· ἔπειτα δὲ καὶ τὰ ἕκηλοι", "en": "let us kill men. Afterward, at your ease,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 71, "greek": "νεκροὺς ἂμ πεδίον συλήσετε τεθνηῶτας.", "en": "you will strip the corpses dead across the plain.\""}
{"book": 6, "line": 72, "greek": "ὣς εἰπὼν ὄτρυνε μένος καὶ θυμὸν ἑκάστου.", "en": "So speaking he stirred the fury and heart of every man."}
{"book": 6, "line": 73, "greek": "ἔνθά κεν αὖτε Τρῶες ἀρηϊφίλων ὑπʼ Ἀχαιῶν", "en": "Then once more the Trojans, under the Achaeans dear to Ares,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 74, "greek": "Ἴλιον εἰσανέβησαν ἀναλκείῃσι δαμέντες,", "en": "would have climbed back into Ilion, broken by their own cowardice,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 75, "greek": "εἰ μὴ ἄρʼ Αἰνείᾳ τε καὶ Ἕκτορι εἶπε παραστὰς", "en": "had not Helenus, Priam's son, far the best of bird-readers,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 76, "greek": "Πριαμίδης Ἕλενος οἰωνοπόλων ὄχʼ ἄριστος·", "en": "come and stood by Aeneas and Hector:"}
{"book": 6, "line": 77, "greek": "Αἰνεία τε καὶ Ἕκτορ, ἐπεὶ πόνος ὔμμι μάλιστα", "en": "\"Aeneas and Hector — since on you two above all rests"}
{"book": 6, "line": 78, "greek": "Τρώων καὶ Λυκίων ἐγκέκλιται, οὕνεκʼ ἄριστοι", "en": "the labor of the Trojans and Lycians, because for every venture"}
{"book": 6, "line": 79, "greek": "πᾶσαν ἐπʼ ἰθύν ἐστε μάχεσθαί τε φρονέειν τε,", "en": "you are the best men, for fighting and for counsel:"}
{"book": 6, "line": 80, "greek": "στῆτʼ αὐτοῦ, καὶ λαὸν ἐρυκάκετε πρὸ πυλάων", "en": "make your stand here; go everywhere and hold the army"}
{"book": 6, "line": 81, "greek": "πάντῃ ἐποιχόμενοι πρὶν αὖτʼ ἐν χερσὶ γυναικῶν", "en": "before the gates, before they run and fall"}
{"book": 6, "line": 82, "greek": "φεύγοντας πεσέειν, δηΐοισι δὲ χάρμα γενέσθαι.", "en": "into their women's arms, and become a joy to our enemies."}
{"book": 6, "line": 83, "greek": "αὐτὰρ ἐπεί κε φάλαγγας ἐποτρύνητον ἁπάσας,", "en": "Then, when you have set all the companies moving,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 84, "greek": "ἡμεῖς μὲν Δαναοῖσι μαχησόμεθʼ αὖθι μένοντες,", "en": "we will hold here and fight the Danaans,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 85, "greek": "καὶ μάλα τειρόμενοί περ· ἀναγκαίη γὰρ ἐπείγει·", "en": "hard-pressed though we are: necessity drives."}
{"book": 6, "line": 86, "greek": "Ἕκτορ ἀτὰρ σὺ πόλιν δὲ μετέρχεο, εἰπὲ δʼ ἔπειτα", "en": "But you, Hector — go to the city, and speak there"}
{"book": 6, "line": 87, "greek": "μητέρι σῇ καὶ ἐμῇ· ἣ δὲ ξυνάγουσα γεραιὰς", "en": "to your mother and mine: let her gather the older women"}
{"book": 6, "line": 88, "greek": "νηὸν Ἀθηναίης γλαυκώπιδος ἐν πόλει ἄκρῃ", "en": "at grey-eyed Athena's temple on the city's height,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 89, "greek": "οἴξασα κληῗδι θύρας ἱεροῖο δόμοιο", "en": "and open with her key the doors of the holy house,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 90, "greek": "πέπλον, ὅς οἱ δοκέει χαριέστατος ἠδὲ μέγιστος", "en": "and the robe that seems to her the loveliest and amplest"}
{"book": 6, "line": 91, "greek": "εἶναι ἐνὶ μεγάρῳ καί οἱ πολὺ φίλτατος αὐτῇ,", "en": "in the hall, and far the dearest to herself,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 92, "greek": "θεῖναι Ἀθηναίης ἐπὶ γούνασιν ἠϋκόμοιο,", "en": "let her lay it on the knees of lovely-haired Athena,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 93, "greek": "καί οἱ ὑποσχέσθαι δυοκαίδεκα βοῦς ἐνὶ νηῷ", "en": "and vow to sacrifice to her in the temple twelve heifers,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 94, "greek": "ἤνις ἠκέστας ἱερευσέμεν, αἴ κʼ ἐλεήσῃ", "en": "yearlings, never goaded, if she will pity"}
{"book": 6, "line": 95, "greek": "ἄστύ τε καὶ Τρώων ἀλόχους καὶ νήπια τέκνα,", "en": "the town, and the Trojans' wives, and their little children —"}
{"book": 6, "line": 96, "greek": "ὥς κεν Τυδέος υἱὸν ἀπόσχῃ Ἰλίου ἱρῆς", "en": "if she will hold back Tydeus' son from holy Ilion,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 97, "greek": "ἄγριον αἰχμητὴν κρατερὸν μήστωρα φόβοιο,", "en": "that wild spearman, that strong machine of rout,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 98, "greek": "ὃν δὴ ἐγὼ κάρτιστον Ἀχαιῶν φημι γενέσθαι.", "en": "who I say has proved the strongest of the Achaeans."}
{"book": 6, "line": 99, "greek": "οὐδʼ Ἀχιλῆά ποθʼ ὧδέ γʼ ἐδείδιμεν ὄρχαμον ἀνδρῶν,", "en": "Not even Achilles, that leader of men, ever made us fear so,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 100, "greek": "ὅν πέρ φασι θεᾶς ἐξέμμεναι· ἀλλʼ ὅδε λίην", "en": "who they say was born of a goddess; but this man"}
{"book": 6, "line": 101, "greek": "μαίνεται, οὐδέ τίς οἱ δύναται μένος ἰσοφαρίζειν.", "en": "rages beyond measure, and no one can match his fury.\""}
{"book": 6, "line": 102, "greek": "ὣς ἔφαθʼ, Ἕκτωρ δʼ οὔ τι κασιγνήτῳ ἀπίθησεν.", "en": "So he spoke, and Hector did not disobey his brother."}
{"book": 6, "line": 103, "greek": "αὐτίκα δʼ ἐξ ὀχέων σὺν τεύχεσιν ἆλτο χαμᾶζε,", "en": "At once he leapt in his armor from the chariot to the ground,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 104, "greek": "πάλλων δʼ ὀξέα δοῦρα κατὰ στρατὸν ᾤχετο πάντῃ", "en": "and shaking his two sharp spears went everywhere through the army,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 105, "greek": "ὀτρύνων μαχέσασθαι, ἔγειρε δὲ φύλοπιν αἰνήν.", "en": "driving men to fight, and woke the dread din of battle."}
{"book": 6, "line": 106, "greek": "οἳ δʼ ἐλελίχθησαν καὶ ἐναντίοι ἔσταν Ἀχαιῶν·", "en": "And they wheeled about and stood to face the Achaeans;"}
{"book": 6, "line": 107, "greek": "Ἀργεῖοι δʼ ὑπεχώρησαν, λῆξαν δὲ φόνοιο,", "en": "and the Argives gave ground and left off their killing:"}
{"book": 6, "line": 108, "greek": "φὰν δέ τινʼ ἀθανάτων ἐξ οὐρανοῦ ἀστερόεντος", "en": "they thought some immortal had come down from the starry sky"}
{"book": 6, "line": 109, "greek": "Τρωσὶν ἀλεξήσοντα κατελθέμεν, ὡς ἐλέλιχθεν.", "en": "to stand by the Trojans, so suddenly they wheeled."}
{"book": 6, "line": 110, "greek": "Ἕκτωρ δὲ Τρώεσσιν ἐκέκλετο μακρὸν ἀΰσας·", "en": "And Hector called to the Trojans with a far-carrying shout:"}
{"book": 6, "line": 111, "greek": "Τρῶες ὑπέρθυμοι τηλεκλειτοί τʼ ἐπίκουροι", "en": "\"High-hearted Trojans, and you far-famed allies —"}
{"book": 6, "line": 112, "greek": "ἀνέρες ἔστε φίλοι, μνήσασθε δὲ θούριδος ἀλκῆς,", "en": "be men, my friends; remember your rushing courage,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 113, "greek": "ὄφρʼ ἂν ἐγὼ βείω προτὶ Ἴλιον, ἠδὲ γέρουσιν", "en": "while I go up to Ilion and tell"}
{"book": 6, "line": 114, "greek": "εἴπω βουλευτῇσι καὶ ἡμετέρῃς ἀλόχοισι", "en": "the elders of the council and our wives"}
{"book": 6, "line": 115, "greek": "δαίμοσιν ἀρήσασθαι, ὑποσχέσθαι δʼ ἑκατόμβας.", "en": "to pray to the divine ones, and vow them hecatombs.\""}
{"book": 6, "line": 116, "greek": "ὣς ἄρα φωνήσας ἀπέβη κορυθαίολος Ἕκτωρ·", "en": "So speaking Hector of the flashing helmet went;"}
{"book": 6, "line": 117, "greek": "ἀμφὶ δέ μιν σφυρὰ τύπτε καὶ αὐχένα δέρμα κελαινὸν", "en": "and against his ankles and his neck the black oxhide beat,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 118, "greek": "ἄντυξ ἣ πυμάτη θέεν ἀσπίδος ὀμφαλοέσσης.", "en": "the rim that ran outermost on his bossed shield."}
{"book": 6, "line": 119, "greek": "Γλαῦκος δʼ Ἱππολόχοιο πάϊς καὶ Τυδέος υἱὸς", "en": "Now Glaucus, Hippolochus' son, and Tydeus' son"}
{"book": 6, "line": 120, "greek": "ἐς μέσον ἀμφοτέρων συνίτην μεμαῶτε μάχεσθαι.", "en": "came together in the space between, raging to fight."}
{"book": 6, "line": 121, "greek": "οἳ δʼ ὅτε δὴ σχεδὸν ἦσαν ἐπʼ ἀλλήλοισιν ἰόντε,", "en": "And when they were close, advancing on one another,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 122, "greek": "τὸν πρότερος προσέειπε βοὴν ἀγαθὸς Διομήδης·", "en": "Diomedes, good at the war-cry, spoke to him first:"}
{"book": 6, "line": 123, "greek": "τίς δὲ σύ ἐσσι φέριστε καταθνητῶν ἀνθρώπων;", "en": "\"Who are you, brave friend, of mortal men?"}
{"book": 6, "line": 124, "greek": "οὐ μὲν γάρ ποτʼ ὄπωπα μάχῃ ἔνι κυδιανείρῃ", "en": "I have never seen you in the battle where men win glory"}
{"book": 6, "line": 125, "greek": "τὸ πρίν· ἀτὰρ μὲν νῦν γε πολὺ προβέβηκας ἁπάντων", "en": "before this; yet now you have come out far in front of all"}
{"book": 6, "line": 126, "greek": "σῷ θάρσει, ὅ τʼ ἐμὸν δολιχόσκιον ἔγχος ἔμεινας·", "en": "in your daring, to stand my long-shadowed spear."}
{"book": 6, "line": 127, "greek": "δυστήνων δέ τε παῖδες ἐμῷ μένει ἀντιόωσιν.", "en": "Unhappy are the fathers whose sons face my fury!"}
{"book": 6, "line": 128, "greek": "εἰ δέ τις ἀθανάτων γε κατʼ οὐρανοῦ εἰλήλουθας,", "en": "But if you are some immortal come down from the sky —"}
{"book": 6, "line": 129, "greek": "οὐκ ἂν ἔγωγε θεοῖσιν ἐπουρανίοισι μαχοίμην.", "en": "I will not fight with heavenly gods."}
{"book": 6, "line": 130, "greek": "οὐδὲ γὰρ οὐδὲ Δρύαντος υἱὸς κρατερὸς Λυκόοργος", "en": "No — even Dryas' son, strong Lycurgus,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 131, "greek": "δὴν ἦν, ὅς ῥα θεοῖσιν ἐπουρανίοισιν ἔριζεν·", "en": "did not live long, who strove with heavenly gods:"}
{"book": 6, "line": 132, "greek": "ὅς ποτε μαινομένοιο Διωνύσοιο τιθήνας", "en": "he once chased the nurses of raving Dionysus"}
{"book": 6, "line": 133, "greek": "σεῦε κατʼ ἠγάθεον Νυσήϊον· αἳ δʼ ἅμα πᾶσαι", "en": "down the holy mountain of Nysa; and all together"}
{"book": 6, "line": 134, "greek": "θύσθλα χαμαὶ κατέχευαν ὑπʼ ἀνδροφόνοιο Λυκούργου", "en": "they flung their sacred wands to the ground, as man-slaughtering"}
{"book": 6, "line": 135, "greek": "θεινόμεναι βουπλῆγι· Διώνυσος δὲ φοβηθεὶς", "en": "Lycurgus beat them with an ox-goad; and Dionysus in terror"}
{"book": 6, "line": 136, "greek": "δύσεθʼ ἁλὸς κατὰ κῦμα, Θέτις δʼ ὑπεδέξατο κόλπῳ", "en": "dived under the salt sea's wave, and Thetis took him,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 137, "greek": "δειδιότα· κρατερὸς γὰρ ἔχε τρόμος ἀνδρὸς ὁμοκλῇ.", "en": "frightened, to her bosom: for a strong trembling held him"}
{"book": 6, "line": 138, "greek": "τῷ μὲν ἔπειτʼ ὀδύσαντο θεοὶ ῥεῖα ζώοντες,", "en": "at the man's shouting. But the gods who live at ease were angered"}
{"book": 6, "line": 139, "greek": "καί μιν τυφλὸν ἔθηκε Κρόνου πάϊς· οὐδʼ ἄρʼ ἔτι δὴν", "en": "at Lycurgus, and Cronos' son struck him blind; nor did he"}
{"book": 6, "line": 140, "greek": "ἦν, ἐπεὶ ἀθανάτοισιν ἀπήχθετο πᾶσι θεοῖσιν·", "en": "live long after, hated by all the immortal gods."}
{"book": 6, "line": 141, "greek": "οὐδʼ ἂν ἐγὼ μακάρεσσι θεοῖς ἐθέλοιμι μάχεσθαι.", "en": "I would not choose to fight the blessed gods."}
{"book": 6, "line": 142, "greek": "εἰ δέ τίς ἐσσι βροτῶν οἳ ἀρούρης καρπὸν ἔδουσιν,", "en": "But if you are a mortal, one of those who eat the fruit of the field,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 143, "greek": "ἆσσον ἴθʼ ὥς κεν θᾶσσον ὀλέθρου πείραθʼ ἵκηαι.", "en": "come closer — and come the sooner to the borders of destruction.\""}
{"book": 6, "line": 144, "greek": "τὸν δʼ αὖθʼ Ἱππολόχοιο προσηύδα φαίδιμος υἱός·", "en": "Then Hippolochus' shining son addressed him:"}
{"book": 6, "line": 145, "greek": "Τυδεΐδη μεγάθυμε τί ἢ γενεὴν ἐρεείνεις;", "en": "\"Great-hearted son of Tydeus — why ask my lineage?"}
{"book": 6, "line": 146, "greek": "οἵη περ φύλλων γενεὴ τοίη δὲ καὶ ἀνδρῶν.", "en": "As the generation of leaves, so is the generation of men."}
{"book": 6, "line": 147, "greek": "φύλλα τὰ μέν τʼ ἄνεμος χαμάδις χέει, ἄλλα δέ θʼ ὕλη", "en": "The wind pours some leaves to the ground, and others the forest"}
{"book": 6, "line": 148, "greek": "τηλεθόωσα φύει, ἔαρος δʼ ἐπιγίγνεται ὥρη·", "en": "grows in their fullness when the season of spring comes on:"}
{"book": 6, "line": 149, "greek": "ὣς ἀνδρῶν γενεὴ ἣ μὲν φύει ἣ δʼ ἀπολήγει.", "en": "so with the generations of men — one grows, one dies away."}
{"book": 6, "line": 150, "greek": "εἰ δʼ ἐθέλεις καὶ ταῦτα δαήμεναι ὄφρʼ ἐῢ εἰδῇς", "en": "But if you wish to hear even this, and to know"}
{"book": 6, "line": 151, "greek": "ἡμετέρην γενεήν, πολλοὶ δέ μιν ἄνδρες ἴσασιν·", "en": "my lineage — many men know it already:"}
{"book": 6, "line": 152, "greek": "ἔστι πόλις Ἐφύρη μυχῷ Ἄργεος ἱπποβότοιο,", "en": "there is a city, Ephyra, in a fold of horse-pasturing Argos,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 153, "greek": "ἔνθα δὲ Σίσυφος ἔσκεν, ὃ κέρδιστος γένετʼ ἀνδρῶν,", "en": "and there lived Sisyphus, craftiest of men —"}
{"book": 6, "line": 154, "greek": "Σίσυφος Αἰολίδης· ὃ δʼ ἄρα Γλαῦκον τέκεθʼ υἱόν,", "en": "Sisyphus, Aeolus' son; and he fathered a son, Glaucus,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 155, "greek": "αὐτὰρ Γλαῦκος τίκτεν ἀμύμονα Βελλεροφόντην·", "en": "and Glaucus fathered blameless Bellerophon."}
{"book": 6, "line": 156, "greek": "τῷ δὲ θεοὶ κάλλός τε καὶ ἠνορέην ἐρατεινὴν", "en": "To him the gods gave beauty and lovely manhood;"}
{"book": 6, "line": 157, "greek": "ὤπασαν· αὐτάρ οἱ Προῖτος κακὰ μήσατο θυμῷ,", "en": "but Proetus plotted evil against him in his heart,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 158, "greek": "ὅς ῥʼ ἐκ δήμου ἔλασσεν, ἐπεὶ πολὺ φέρτερος ἦεν,", "en": "and drove him out of the land of the Argives — being far"}
{"book": 6, "line": 159, "greek": "Ἀργείων· Ζεὺς γάρ οἱ ὑπὸ σκήπτρῳ ἐδάμασσε.", "en": "the stronger: for Zeus had bowed them under his scepter."}
{"book": 6, "line": 160, "greek": "τῷ δὲ γυνὴ Προίτου ἐπεμήνατο δῖʼ Ἄντεια", "en": "For Proetus' wife, brilliant Anteia, was mad"}
{"book": 6, "line": 161, "greek": "κρυπταδίῃ φιλότητι μιγήμεναι· ἀλλὰ τὸν οὔ τι", "en": "to lie with him in secret love; but she could not"}
{"book": 6, "line": 162, "greek": "πεῖθʼ ἀγαθὰ φρονέοντα δαΐφρονα Βελλεροφόντην.", "en": "move right-minded, war-minded Bellerophon."}
{"book": 6, "line": 163, "greek": "ἣ δὲ ψευσαμένη Προῖτον βασιλῆα προσηύδα·", "en": "So she lied to King Proetus:"}
{"book": 6, "line": 164, "greek": "τεθναίης ὦ Προῖτʼ, ἢ κάκτανε Βελλεροφόντην,", "en": "'Die yourself, Proetus — or kill Bellerophon,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 165, "greek": "ὅς μʼ ἔθελεν φιλότητι μιγήμεναι οὐκ ἐθελούσῃ.", "en": "who wanted to lie with me in love, and I unwilling.'"}
{"book": 6, "line": 166, "greek": "ὣς φάτο, τὸν δὲ ἄνακτα χόλος λάβεν οἷον ἄκουσε·", "en": "So she spoke, and anger took hold of the king at what he heard."}
{"book": 6, "line": 167, "greek": "κτεῖναι μέν ῥʼ ἀλέεινε, σεβάσσατο γὰρ τό γε θυμῷ,", "en": "He shrank from killing him — his heart stood in awe of that —"}
{"book": 6, "line": 168, "greek": "πέμπε δέ μιν Λυκίην δέ, πόρεν δʼ ὅ γε σήματα λυγρὰ", "en": "but he sent him to Lycia, and gave him baneful signs,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 169, "greek": "γράψας ἐν πίνακι πτυκτῷ θυμοφθόρα πολλά,", "en": "scratching in a folded tablet many life-destroying marks,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 170, "greek": "δεῖξαι δʼ ἠνώγειν ᾧ πενθερῷ ὄφρʼ ἀπόλοιτο.", "en": "and told him to show it to his wife's father: that he might perish."}
{"book": 6, "line": 171, "greek": "αὐτὰρ ὁ βῆ Λυκίην δὲ θεῶν ὑπʼ ἀμύμονι πομπῇ.", "en": "So he went to Lycia, under the gods' blameless escort."}
{"book": 6, "line": 172, "greek": "ἀλλʼ ὅτε δὴ Λυκίην ἷξε Ξάνθόν τε ῥέοντα,", "en": "And when he came to Lycia and the flowing Xanthus,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 173, "greek": "προφρονέως μιν τῖεν ἄναξ Λυκίης εὐρείης·", "en": "the lord of wide Lycia honored him with a ready heart:"}
{"book": 6, "line": 174, "greek": "ἐννῆμαρ ξείνισσε καὶ ἐννέα βοῦς ἱέρευσεν.", "en": "nine days he feasted him, and slaughtered nine oxen."}
{"book": 6, "line": 175, "greek": "ἀλλʼ ὅτε δὴ δεκάτη ἐφάνη ῥοδοδάκτυλος Ἠὼς", "en": "But when the tenth rosy-fingered Dawn appeared,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 176, "greek": "καὶ τότε μιν ἐρέεινε καὶ ᾔτεε σῆμα ἰδέσθαι", "en": "then he questioned him, and asked to see the token,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 177, "greek": "ὅττί ῥά οἱ γαμβροῖο πάρα Προίτοιο φέροιτο.", "en": "whatever it was he brought from his son-in-law Proetus."}
{"book": 6, "line": 178, "greek": "αὐτὰρ ἐπεὶ δὴ σῆμα κακὸν παρεδέξατο γαμβροῦ,", "en": "And when he had received his son-in-law's evil token,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 179, "greek": "πρῶτον μέν ῥα Χίμαιραν ἀμαιμακέτην ἐκέλευσε", "en": "first he ordered him to kill the raging Chimaera —"}
{"book": 6, "line": 180, "greek": "πεφνέμεν· ἣ δʼ ἄρʼ ἔην θεῖον γένος οὐδʼ ἀνθρώπων,", "en": "a thing of divine stock, not of men:"}
{"book": 6, "line": 181, "greek": "πρόσθε λέων, ὄπιθεν δὲ δράκων, μέσση δὲ χίμαιρα,", "en": "in front a lion, behind a serpent, in the middle a she-goat,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 182, "greek": "δεινὸν ἀποπνείουσα πυρὸς μένος αἰθομένοιο,", "en": "breathing out the terrible fury of blazing fire."}
{"book": 6, "line": 183, "greek": "καὶ τὴν μὲν κατέπεφνε θεῶν τεράεσσι πιθήσας.", "en": "And he killed her, trusting the portents of the gods."}
{"book": 6, "line": 184, "greek": "δεύτερον αὖ Σολύμοισι μαχέσσατο κυδαλίμοισι·", "en": "Second, he fought the far-famed Solymi:"}
{"book": 6, "line": 185, "greek": "καρτίστην δὴ τήν γε μάχην φάτο δύμεναι ἀνδρῶν.", "en": "the hardest battle of men, he said, he ever entered."}
{"book": 6, "line": 186, "greek": "τὸ τρίτον αὖ κατέπεφνεν Ἀμαζόνας ἀντιανείρας.", "en": "Third, he cut down the Amazons, the match of men."}
{"book": 6, "line": 187, "greek": "τῷ δʼ ἄρʼ ἀνερχομένῳ πυκινὸν δόλον ἄλλον ὕφαινε·", "en": "And as he came back the king wove him another close-set trap:"}
{"book": 6, "line": 188, "greek": "κρίνας ἐκ Λυκίης εὐρείης φῶτας ἀρίστους", "en": "choosing the best men out of wide Lycia"}
{"book": 6, "line": 189, "greek": "εἷσε λόχον· τοὶ δʼ οὔ τι πάλιν οἶκον δὲ νέοντο·", "en": "he set an ambush; and they never came home again —"}
{"book": 6, "line": 190, "greek": "πάντας γὰρ κατέπεφνεν ἀμύμων Βελλεροφόντης.", "en": "blameless Bellerophon killed them all."}
{"book": 6, "line": 191, "greek": "ἀλλʼ ὅτε δὴ γίγνωσκε θεοῦ γόνον ἠῢν ἐόντα", "en": "But when the king came to know he was the brave son of a god,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 192, "greek": "αὐτοῦ μιν κατέρυκε, δίδου δʼ ὅ γε θυγατέρα ἥν,", "en": "he kept him there, and gave him his daughter,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 193, "greek": "δῶκε δέ οἱ τιμῆς βασιληΐδος ἥμισυ πάσης·", "en": "and gave him half of all his kingly honor;"}
{"book": 6, "line": 194, "greek": "καὶ μέν οἱ Λύκιοι τέμενος τάμον ἔξοχον ἄλλων", "en": "and the Lycians cut him a precinct beyond all others,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 195, "greek": "καλὸν φυταλιῆς καὶ ἀρούρης, ὄφρα νέμοιτο.", "en": "fine land for orchard and plowland, to enjoy."}
{"book": 6, "line": 196, "greek": "ἣ δʼ ἔτεκε τρία τέκνα δαΐφρονι Βελλεροφόντῃ", "en": "And she bore three children to war-minded Bellerophon:"}
{"book": 6, "line": 197, "greek": "Ἴσανδρόν τε καὶ Ἱππόλοχον καὶ Λαοδάμειαν.", "en": "Isander, and Hippolochus, and Laodameia."}
{"book": 6, "line": 198, "greek": "Λαοδαμείῃ μὲν παρελέξατο μητίετα Ζεύς,", "en": "By Laodameia Zeus the counselor lay,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 199, "greek": "ἣ δʼ ἔτεκʼ ἀντίθεον Σαρπηδόνα χαλκοκορυστήν.", "en": "and she bore godlike Sarpedon of the bronze helmet."}
{"book": 6, "line": 200, "greek": "ἀλλʼ ὅτε δὴ καὶ κεῖνος ἀπήχθετο πᾶσι θεοῖσιν,", "en": "But when even Bellerophon came to be hated by all the gods,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 201, "greek": "ἤτοι ὃ κὰπ πεδίον τὸ Ἀλήϊον οἶος ἀλᾶτο", "en": "he wandered alone across the Aleian plain,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 202, "greek": "ὃν θυμὸν κατέδων, πάτον ἀνθρώπων ἀλεείνων·", "en": "eating out his heart, shunning the trodden paths of men;"}
{"book": 6, "line": 203, "greek": "Ἴσανδρον δέ οἱ υἱὸν Ἄρης ἆτος πολέμοιο", "en": "and his son Isander was killed by Ares insatiate of war"}
{"book": 6, "line": 204, "greek": "μαρνάμενον Σολύμοισι κατέκτανε κυδαλίμοισι·", "en": "as he fought the far-famed Solymi;"}
{"book": 6, "line": 205, "greek": "τὴν δὲ χολωσαμένη χρυσήνιος Ἄρτεμις ἔκτα.", "en": "and his daughter — Artemis of the golden reins killed her in anger."}
{"book": 6, "line": 206, "greek": "Ἱππόλοχος δέ μʼ ἔτικτε, καὶ ἐκ τοῦ φημι γενέσθαι·", "en": "But Hippolochus fathered me: from him I claim my birth."}
{"book": 6, "line": 207, "greek": "πέμπε δέ μʼ ἐς Τροίην, καί μοι μάλα πόλλʼ ἐπέτελλεν", "en": "He sent me to Troy, and he charged me strictly"}
{"book": 6, "line": 208, "greek": "αἰὲν ἀριστεύειν καὶ ὑπείροχον ἔμμεναι ἄλλων,", "en": "always to be the best, and to hold my head above all others,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 209, "greek": "μηδὲ γένος πατέρων αἰσχυνέμεν, οἳ μέγʼ ἄριστοι", "en": "and not to shame the stock of my fathers, who were far the best"}
{"book": 6, "line": 210, "greek": "ἔν τʼ Ἐφύρῃ ἐγένοντο καὶ ἐν Λυκίῃ εὐρείῃ.", "en": "in Ephyra, and in wide Lycia."}
{"book": 6, "line": 211, "greek": "ταύτης τοι γενεῆς τε καὶ αἵματος εὔχομαι εἶναι.", "en": "Of this lineage and this blood I claim to be.\""}
{"book": 6, "line": 212, "greek": "ὣς φάτο, γήθησεν δὲ βοὴν ἀγαθὸς Διομήδης·", "en": "So he spoke; and Diomedes, good at the war-cry, rejoiced."}
{"book": 6, "line": 213, "greek": "ἔγχος μὲν κατέπηξεν ἐπὶ χθονὶ πουλυβοτείρῃ,", "en": "He planted his spear in the earth that feeds so many"}
{"book": 6, "line": 214, "greek": "αὐτὰρ ὃ μειλιχίοισι προσηύδα ποιμένα λαῶν·", "en": "and spoke with honeyed words to the shepherd of the people:"}
{"book": 6, "line": 215, "greek": "ἦ ῥά νύ μοι ξεῖνος πατρώϊός ἐσσι παλαιός·", "en": "\"Why — then you are my guest-friend from our fathers' time!"}
{"book": 6, "line": 216, "greek": "Οἰνεὺς γάρ ποτε δῖος ἀμύμονα Βελλεροφόντην", "en": "For brilliant Oeneus once entertained blameless"}
{"book": 6, "line": 217, "greek": "ξείνισʼ ἐνὶ μεγάροισιν ἐείκοσιν ἤματʼ ἐρύξας·", "en": "Bellerophon in his halls, and kept him twenty days;"}
{"book": 6, "line": 218, "greek": "οἳ δὲ καὶ ἀλλήλοισι πόρον ξεινήϊα καλά·", "en": "and they gave one another fine gifts of friendship:"}
{"book": 6, "line": 219, "greek": "Οἰνεὺς μὲν ζωστῆρα δίδου φοίνικι φαεινόν,", "en": "Oeneus gave a war-belt bright with crimson,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 220, "greek": "Βελλεροφόντης δὲ χρύσεον δέπας ἀμφικύπελλον", "en": "and Bellerophon a golden two-handled cup —"}
{"book": 6, "line": 221, "greek": "καί μιν ἐγὼ κατέλειπον ἰὼν ἐν δώμασʼ ἐμοῖσι.", "en": "I left it in my house when I came away."}
{"book": 6, "line": 222, "greek": "Τυδέα δʼ οὐ μέμνημαι, ἐπεί μʼ ἔτι τυτθὸν ἐόντα", "en": "Tydeus I do not remember: I was still small"}
{"book": 6, "line": 223, "greek": "κάλλιφʼ, ὅτʼ ἐν Θήβῃσιν ἀπώλετο λαὸς Ἀχαιῶν.", "en": "when he left me, that time the Achaean host perished at Thebes."}
{"book": 6, "line": 224, "greek": "τὼ νῦν σοὶ μὲν ἐγὼ ξεῖνος φίλος Ἄργεϊ μέσσῳ", "en": "So now I am your dear guest-friend in the heart of Argos,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 225, "greek": "εἰμί, σὺ δʼ ἐν Λυκίῃ ὅτε κεν τῶν δῆμον ἵκωμαι.", "en": "and you are mine in Lycia, whenever I come to that country."}
{"book": 6, "line": 226, "greek": "ἔγχεα δʼ ἀλλήλων ἀλεώμεθα καὶ διʼ ὁμίλου·", "en": "Let us keep clear of each other's spears, even in the crush:"}
{"book": 6, "line": 227, "greek": "πολλοὶ μὲν γὰρ ἐμοὶ Τρῶες κλειτοί τʼ ἐπίκουροι", "en": "there are Trojans enough for me, and famed allies,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 228, "greek": "κτείνειν ὅν κε θεός γε πόρῃ καὶ ποσσὶ κιχείω,", "en": "to kill whomever a god delivers and my feet overtake,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 229, "greek": "πολλοὶ δʼ αὖ σοὶ Ἀχαιοὶ ἐναιρέμεν ὅν κε δύνηαι.", "en": "and Achaeans enough for you, to cut down whom you can."}
{"book": 6, "line": 230, "greek": "τεύχεα δʼ ἀλλήλοις ἐπαμείψομεν, ὄφρα καὶ οἵδε", "en": "And let us exchange armor with each other, so that these men too"}
{"book": 6, "line": 231, "greek": "γνῶσιν ὅτι ξεῖνοι πατρώϊοι εὐχόμεθʼ εἶναι.", "en": "may know we claim to be guest-friends from our fathers' time.\""}
{"book": 6, "line": 232, "greek": "ὣς ἄρα φωνήσαντε καθʼ ἵππων ἀΐξαντε", "en": "So the two spoke, and leapt down from their chariots"}
{"book": 6, "line": 233, "greek": "χεῖράς τʼ ἀλλήλων λαβέτην καὶ πιστώσαντο·", "en": "and took each other's hands and pledged their faith."}
{"book": 6, "line": 234, "greek": "ἔνθʼ αὖτε Γλαύκῳ Κρονίδης φρένας ἐξέλετο Ζεύς,", "en": "And then Zeus, Cronos' son, took Glaucus's wits away:"}
{"book": 6, "line": 235, "greek": "ὃς πρὸς Τυδεΐδην Διομήδεα τεύχεʼ ἄμειβε", "en": "he exchanged with Tydeus' son Diomedes armor"}
{"book": 6, "line": 236, "greek": "χρύσεα χαλκείων, ἑκατόμβοιʼ ἐννεαβοίων.", "en": "of gold for bronze — a hundred oxen's worth for nine."}
{"book": 6, "line": 237, "greek": "Ἕκτωρ δʼ ὡς Σκαιάς τε πύλας καὶ φηγὸν ἵκανεν,", "en": "Now when Hector came to the Scaean Gates and the oak,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 238, "greek": "ἀμφʼ ἄρα μιν Τρώων ἄλοχοι θέον ἠδὲ θύγατρες", "en": "the Trojans' wives and daughters came running around him,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 239, "greek": "εἰρόμεναι παῖδάς τε κασιγνήτους τε ἔτας τε", "en": "asking after sons and brothers and kinsmen"}
{"book": 6, "line": 240, "greek": "καὶ πόσιας· ὃ δʼ ἔπειτα θεοῖς εὔχεσθαι ἀνώγει", "en": "and husbands. And he told them to pray to the gods,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 241, "greek": "πάσας ἑξείης· πολλῇσι δὲ κήδεʼ ἐφῆπτο.", "en": "all of them, one after another: griefs hung over many."}
{"book": 6, "line": 242, "greek": "ἀλλʼ ὅτε δὴ Πριάμοιο δόμον περικαλλέʼ ἵκανε", "en": "But when he came to Priam's beautiful palace,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 243, "greek": "ξεστῇς αἰθούσῃσι τετυγμένον· αὐτὰρ ἐν αὐτῷ", "en": "built with polished colonnades — and in it"}
{"book": 6, "line": 244, "greek": "πεντήκοντʼ ἔνεσαν θάλαμοι ξεστοῖο λίθοιο", "en": "were fifty chambers of polished stone,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 245, "greek": "πλησίον ἀλλήλων δεδμημένοι, ἔνθα δὲ παῖδες", "en": "built close by one another, where the sons"}
{"book": 6, "line": 246, "greek": "κοιμῶντο Πριάμοιο παρὰ μνηστῇς ἀλόχοισι,", "en": "of Priam slept beside their wedded wives,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 247, "greek": "κουράων δʼ ἑτέρωθεν ἐναντίοι ἔνδοθεν αὐλῆς", "en": "and for the daughters, opposite, within the court,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 248, "greek": "δώδεκʼ ἔσαν τέγεοι θάλαμοι ξεστοῖο λίθοιο", "en": "were twelve roofed chambers of polished stone,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 249, "greek": "πλησίον ἀλλήλων δεδμημένοι, ἔνθα δὲ γαμβροὶ", "en": "built close by one another, where the sons-in-law"}
{"book": 6, "line": 250, "greek": "κοιμῶντο Πριάμοιο παρʼ αἰδοίῃς ἀλόχοισιν·", "en": "of Priam slept beside their honored wives —"}
{"book": 6, "line": 251, "greek": "ἔνθά οἱ ἠπιόδωρος ἐναντίη ἤλυθε μήτηρ", "en": "there his gentle-giving mother came to meet him,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 252, "greek": "Λαοδίκην ἐσάγουσα θυγατρῶν εἶδος ἀρίστην·", "en": "leading in Laodice, loveliest of her daughters;"}
{"book": 6, "line": 253, "greek": "ἔν τʼ ἄρα οἱ φῦ χειρὶ ἔπος τʼ ἔφατʼ ἔκ τʼ ὀνόμαζε·", "en": "and she clung to his hand, and spoke a word, and named him:"}
{"book": 6, "line": 254, "greek": "τέκνον τίπτε λιπὼν πόλεμον θρασὺν εἰλήλουθας;", "en": "\"Child, why have you left the bold fighting and come here?"}
{"book": 6, "line": 255, "greek": "ἦ μάλα δὴ τείρουσι δυσώνυμοι υἷες Ἀχαιῶν", "en": "Surely they are wearing you down — those cursed sons"}
{"book": 6, "line": 256, "greek": "μαρνάμενοι περὶ ἄστυ· σὲ δʼ ἐνθάδε θυμὸς ἀνῆκεν", "en": "of the Achaeans, fighting around the town — and your heart sent you"}
{"book": 6, "line": 257, "greek": "ἐλθόντʼ ἐξ ἄκρης πόλιος Διὶ χεῖρας ἀνασχεῖν.", "en": "here, to lift your hands to Zeus from the city's height."}
{"book": 6, "line": 258, "greek": "ἀλλὰ μένʼ ὄφρά κέ τοι μελιηδέα οἶνον ἐνείκω,", "en": "But wait while I bring you honey-sweet wine,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 259, "greek": "ὡς σπείσῃς Διὶ πατρὶ καὶ ἄλλοις ἀθανάτοισι", "en": "to pour first to father Zeus and the other immortals,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 260, "greek": "πρῶτον, ἔπειτα δὲ καὐτὸς ὀνήσεαι αἴ κε πίῃσθα.", "en": "and then to do yourself good, if you will drink."}
{"book": 6, "line": 261, "greek": "ἀνδρὶ δὲ κεκμηῶτι μένος μέγα οἶνος ἀέξει,", "en": "Wine greatly swells the strength of a wearied man —"}
{"book": 6, "line": 262, "greek": "ὡς τύνη κέκμηκας ἀμύνων σοῖσιν ἔτῃσι.", "en": "and you are wearied with defending your kinsmen.\""}
{"book": 6, "line": 263, "greek": "τὴν δʼ ἠμείβετʼ ἔπειτα μέγας κορυθαίολος Ἕκτωρ·", "en": "Then great Hector of the flashing helmet answered her:"}
{"book": 6, "line": 264, "greek": "μή μοι οἶνον ἄειρε μελίφρονα πότνια μῆτερ,", "en": "\"Bring me no wine, honey-hearted lady mother,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 265, "greek": "μή μʼ ἀπογυιώσῃς μένεος, ἀλκῆς τε λάθωμαι·", "en": "or you may unstring my limbs and I forget my courage."}
{"book": 6, "line": 266, "greek": "χερσὶ δʼ ἀνίπτοισιν Διὶ λείβειν αἴθοπα οἶνον", "en": "And I shrink from pouring gleaming wine to Zeus"}
{"book": 6, "line": 267, "greek": "ἅζομαι· οὐδέ πῃ ἔστι κελαινεφέϊ Κρονίωνι", "en": "with unwashed hands: a man spattered with blood and filth"}
{"book": 6, "line": 268, "greek": "αἵματι καὶ λύθρῳ πεπαλαγμένον εὐχετάασθαι.", "en": "cannot pray to the son of Cronos, lord of the dark cloud."}
{"book": 6, "line": 269, "greek": "ἀλλὰ σὺ μὲν πρὸς νηὸν Ἀθηναίης ἀγελείης", "en": "No — you go to the temple of Athena, driver of the spoil,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 270, "greek": "ἔρχεο σὺν θυέεσσιν ἀολλίσσασα γεραιάς·", "en": "with burnt offerings, when you have gathered the older women,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 271, "greek": "πέπλον δʼ, ὅς τίς τοι χαριέστατος ἠδὲ μέγιστος", "en": "and the robe that is loveliest and amplest"}
{"book": 6, "line": 272, "greek": "ἔστιν ἐνὶ μεγάρῳ καί τοι πολὺ φίλτατος αὐτῇ,", "en": "in the hall, and far the dearest to yourself,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 273, "greek": "τὸν θὲς Ἀθηναίης ἐπὶ γούνασιν ἠϋκόμοιο,", "en": "lay it on the knees of lovely-haired Athena,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 274, "greek": "καί οἱ ὑποσχέσθαι δυοκαίδεκα βοῦς ἐνὶ νηῷ", "en": "and vow to sacrifice to her in the temple twelve heifers,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 275, "greek": "ἤνις ἠκέστας ἱερευσέμεν, αἴ κʼ ἐλεήσῃ", "en": "yearlings, never goaded, if she will pity"}
{"book": 6, "line": 276, "greek": "ἄστύ τε καὶ Τρώων ἀλόχους καὶ νήπια τέκνα,", "en": "the town, and the Trojans' wives, and their little children —"}
{"book": 6, "line": 277, "greek": "αἴ κεν Τυδέος υἱὸν ἀπόσχῃ Ἰλίου ἱρῆς", "en": "if she will hold back Tydeus' son from holy Ilion,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 278, "greek": "ἄγριον αἰχμητὴν κρατερὸν μήστωρα φόβοιο.", "en": "that wild spearman, that strong machine of rout."}
{"book": 6, "line": 279, "greek": "ἀλλὰ σὺ μὲν πρὸς νηὸν Ἀθηναίης ἀγελείης", "en": "So go to the temple of Athena, driver of the spoil;"}
{"book": 6, "line": 280, "greek": "ἔρχευ, ἐγὼ δὲ Πάριν μετελεύσομαι ὄφρα καλέσσω", "en": "and I will go after Paris, to summon him,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 281, "greek": "αἴ κʼ ἐθέλῃσʼ εἰπόντος ἀκουέμεν· ὥς κέ οἱ αὖθι", "en": "if he is willing to hear me speak. May the earth gape for him"}
{"book": 6, "line": 282, "greek": "γαῖα χάνοι· μέγα γάρ μιν Ὀλύμπιος ἔτρεφε πῆμα", "en": "where he stands! The Olympian reared him as a great affliction"}
{"book": 6, "line": 283, "greek": "Τρωσί τε καὶ Πριάμῳ μεγαλήτορι τοῖό τε παισίν.", "en": "to the Trojans, and to great-hearted Priam, and Priam's sons."}
{"book": 6, "line": 284, "greek": "εἰ κεῖνόν γε ἴδοιμι κατελθόντʼ Ἄϊδος εἴσω", "en": "If I could see that man gone down into Hades' house,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 285, "greek": "φαίην κε φρένʼ ἀτέρπου ὀϊζύος ἐκλελαθέσθαι.", "en": "I could say my heart had forgotten its joyless misery.\""}
{"book": 6, "line": 286, "greek": "ὣς ἔφαθʼ, ἣ δὲ μολοῦσα ποτὶ μέγαρʼ ἀμφιπόλοισι", "en": "So he spoke; and she went to the hall and called"}
{"book": 6, "line": 287, "greek": "κέκλετο· ταὶ δʼ ἄρʼ ἀόλλισσαν κατὰ ἄστυ γεραιάς.", "en": "her handmaids, and they gathered the older women through the city."}
{"book": 6, "line": 288, "greek": "αὐτὴ δʼ ἐς θάλαμον κατεβήσετο κηώεντα,", "en": "She herself went down to the fragrant storeroom"}
{"book": 6, "line": 289, "greek": "ἔνθʼ ἔσάν οἱ πέπλοι παμποίκιλα ἔργα γυναικῶν", "en": "where her robes were kept, the richly patterned work of women"}
{"book": 6, "line": 290, "greek": "Σιδονίων, τὰς αὐτὸς Ἀλέξανδρος θεοειδὴς", "en": "of Sidon, whom godlike Alexandros himself"}
{"book": 6, "line": 291, "greek": "ἤγαγε Σιδονίηθεν ἐπιπλὼς εὐρέα πόντον,", "en": "brought from Sidon, sailing the wide sea,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 292, "greek": "τὴν ὁδὸν ἣν Ἑλένην περ ἀνήγαγεν εὐπατέρειαν·", "en": "on that voyage on which he carried home high-born Helen."}
{"book": 6, "line": 293, "greek": "τῶν ἕνʼ ἀειραμένη Ἑκάβη φέρε δῶρον Ἀθήνῃ,", "en": "Of these Hecuba took one to carry as gift to Athena,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 294, "greek": "ὃς κάλλιστος ἔην ποικίλμασιν ἠδὲ μέγιστος,", "en": "the one that was loveliest in its patterning, and amplest,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 295, "greek": "ἀστὴρ δʼ ὣς ἀπέλαμπεν· ἔκειτο δὲ νείατος ἄλλων.", "en": "and it shone like a star; it lay beneath all the others."}
{"book": 6, "line": 296, "greek": "βῆ δʼ ἰέναι, πολλαὶ δὲ μετεσσεύοντο γεραιαί.", "en": "Then she set out, and the many older women hurried after."}
{"book": 6, "line": 297, "greek": "αἱ δʼ ὅτε νηὸν ἵκανον Ἀθήνης ἐν πόλει ἄκρῃ,", "en": "And when they came to Athena's temple on the city's height,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 298, "greek": "τῇσι θύρας ὤϊξε Θεανὼ καλλιπάρῃος", "en": "fair-cheeked Theano opened the doors for them,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 299, "greek": "Κισσηῒς ἄλοχος Ἀντήνορος ἱπποδάμοιο·", "en": "Cisseus' daughter, wife of Antenor, breaker of horses,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 300, "greek": "τὴν γὰρ Τρῶες ἔθηκαν Ἀθηναίης ἱέρειαν.", "en": "whom the Trojans had made priestess of Athena."}
{"book": 6, "line": 301, "greek": "αἳ δʼ ὀλολυγῇ πᾶσαι Ἀθήνῃ χεῖρας ἀνέσχον·", "en": "With a wailing cry they all lifted their hands to Athena;"}
{"book": 6, "line": 302, "greek": "ἣ δʼ ἄρα πέπλον ἑλοῦσα Θεανὼ καλλιπάρῃος", "en": "and fair-cheeked Theano took the robe"}
{"book": 6, "line": 303, "greek": "θῆκεν Ἀθηναίης ἐπὶ γούνασιν ἠϋκόμοιο,", "en": "and laid it on the knees of lovely-haired Athena,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 304, "greek": "εὐχομένη δʼ ἠρᾶτο Διὸς κούρῃ μεγάλοιο·", "en": "and vowing she prayed to the daughter of great Zeus:"}
{"book": 6, "line": 305, "greek": "πότνιʼ Ἀθηναίη ἐρυσίπτολι δῖα θεάων", "en": "\"Lady Athena, guardian of the city, brilliant among goddesses:"}
{"book": 6, "line": 306, "greek": "ἆξον δὴ ἔγχος Διομήδεος, ἠδὲ καὶ αὐτὸν", "en": "break now the spear of Diomedes, and grant"}
{"book": 6, "line": 307, "greek": "πρηνέα δὸς πεσέειν Σκαιῶν προπάροιθε πυλάων,", "en": "that the man himself fall on his face before the Scaean Gates,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 308, "greek": "ὄφρά τοι αὐτίκα νῦν δυοκαίδεκα βοῦς ἐνὶ νηῷ", "en": "and we will sacrifice to you at once, here in the temple,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 309, "greek": "ἤνις ἠκέστας ἱερεύσομεν, αἴ κʼ ἐλεήσῃς", "en": "twelve heifers, yearlings, never goaded, if you will pity"}
{"book": 6, "line": 310, "greek": "ἄστύ τε καὶ Τρώων ἀλόχους καὶ νήπια τέκνα.", "en": "the town, and the Trojans' wives, and their little children.\""}
{"book": 6, "line": 311, "greek": "ὣς ἔφατʼ εὐχομένη, ἀνένευε δὲ Παλλὰς Ἀθήνη.", "en": "So she spoke, vowing. But Pallas Athena turned her head away."}
{"book": 6, "line": 312, "greek": "ὣς αἳ μέν ῥʼ εὔχοντο Διὸς κούρῃ μεγάλοιο,", "en": "So they were praying to the daughter of great Zeus;"}
{"book": 6, "line": 313, "greek": "Ἕκτωρ δὲ πρὸς δώματʼ Ἀλεξάνδροιο βεβήκει", "en": "and Hector had gone to the house of Alexandros,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 314, "greek": "καλά, τά ῥʼ αὐτὸς ἔτευξε σὺν ἀνδράσιν οἳ τότʼ ἄριστοι", "en": "the beautiful house he had built himself with the men"}
{"book": 6, "line": 315, "greek": "ἦσαν ἐνὶ Τροίῃ ἐριβώλακι τέκτονες ἄνδρες,", "en": "who were then the best builders in deep-soiled Troy:"}
{"book": 6, "line": 316, "greek": "οἵ οἱ ἐποίησαν θάλαμον καὶ δῶμα καὶ αὐλὴν", "en": "they had made him a chamber and a hall and a courtyard"}
{"book": 6, "line": 317, "greek": "ἐγγύθι τε Πριάμοιο καὶ Ἕκτορος ἐν πόλει ἄκρῃ.", "en": "close by Priam and Hector, on the city's height."}
{"book": 6, "line": 318, "greek": "ἔνθʼ Ἕκτωρ εἰσῆλθε Διῒ φίλος, ἐν δʼ ἄρα χειρὶ", "en": "There Hector entered, dear to Zeus, and in his hand"}
{"book": 6, "line": 319, "greek": "ἔγχος ἔχʼ ἑνδεκάπηχυ· πάροιθε δὲ λάμπετο δουρὸς", "en": "he held a spear eleven cubits long; and before him the bronze"}
{"book": 6, "line": 320, "greek": "αἰχμὴ χαλκείη, περὶ δὲ χρύσεος θέε πόρκης.", "en": "point of the shaft shone, and a ring of gold ran round it."}
{"book": 6, "line": 321, "greek": "τὸν δʼ εὗρʼ ἐν θαλάμῳ περικαλλέα τεύχεʼ ἕποντα", "en": "He found Paris in the chamber busy with his beautiful armor,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 322, "greek": "ἀσπίδα καὶ θώρηκα, καὶ ἀγκύλα τόξʼ ἁφόωντα·", "en": "the shield and the corslet, and handling his curved bow;"}
{"book": 6, "line": 323, "greek": "Ἀργείη δʼ Ἑλένη μετʼ ἄρα δμῳῇσι γυναιξὶν", "en": "and Argive Helen sat among her slave-women,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 324, "greek": "ἧστο καὶ ἀμφιπόλοισι περικλυτὰ ἔργα κέλευε.", "en": "directing her handmaids in their famous work."}
{"book": 6, "line": 325, "greek": "τὸν δʼ Ἕκτωρ νείκεσσεν ἰδὼν αἰσχροῖς ἐπέεσσι·", "en": "And seeing him Hector raked him with shaming words:"}
{"book": 6, "line": 326, "greek": "δαιμόνιʼ οὐ μὲν καλὰ χόλον τόνδʼ ἔνθεο θυμῷ,", "en": "\"Strange man — it is not decent to nurse this anger in your heart."}
{"book": 6, "line": 327, "greek": "λαοὶ μὲν φθινύθουσι περὶ πτόλιν αἰπύ τε τεῖχος", "en": "The people are dying around the city and the steep wall"}
{"book": 6, "line": 328, "greek": "μαρνάμενοι· σέο δʼ εἵνεκʼ ἀϋτή τε πτόλεμός τε", "en": "as they fight; and it is for your sake that the war-cry and the war"}
{"book": 6, "line": 329, "greek": "ἄστυ τόδʼ ἀμφιδέδηε· σὺ δʼ ἂν μαχέσαιο καὶ ἄλλῳ,", "en": "burn around this town. You would quarrel yourself"}
{"book": 6, "line": 330, "greek": "ὅν τινά που μεθιέντα ἴδοις στυγεροῦ πολέμοιο.", "en": "with any man you saw hanging back from hateful war."}
{"book": 6, "line": 331, "greek": "ἀλλʼ ἄνα μὴ τάχα ἄστυ πυρὸς δηΐοιο θέρηται.", "en": "Up — before the town is warmed by the enemy's fire!\""}
{"book": 6, "line": 332, "greek": "τὸν δʼ αὖτε προσέειπεν Ἀλέξανδρος θεοειδής·", "en": "And godlike Alexandros answered him:"}
{"book": 6, "line": 333, "greek": "Ἕκτορ ἐπεί με κατʼ αἶσαν ἐνείκεσας οὐδʼ ὑπὲρ αἶσαν,", "en": "\"Hector, you rake me justly, not more than justly;"}
{"book": 6, "line": 334, "greek": "τοὔνεκά τοι ἐρέω· σὺ δὲ σύνθεο καί μευ ἄκουσον·", "en": "so I will tell you — and you mark me, and hear me out."}
{"book": 6, "line": 335, "greek": "οὔ τοι ἐγὼ Τρώων τόσσον χόλῳ οὐδὲ νεμέσσι", "en": "It was not so much anger at the Trojans, or resentment,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 336, "greek": "ἥμην ἐν θαλάμῳ, ἔθελον δʼ ἄχεϊ προτραπέσθαι.", "en": "that kept me sitting in my chamber: I wanted to give in to grief."}
{"book": 6, "line": 337, "greek": "νῦν δέ με παρειποῦσʼ ἄλοχος μαλακοῖς ἐπέεσσιν", "en": "But just now my wife, coaxing me with soft words,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 338, "greek": "ὅρμησʼ ἐς πόλεμον· δοκέει δέ μοι ὧδε καὶ αὐτῷ", "en": "urged me back to the war; and it seems even to me"}
{"book": 6, "line": 339, "greek": "λώϊον ἔσσεσθαι· νίκη δʼ ἐπαμείβεται ἄνδρας.", "en": "that it will be better so. Victory shifts from man to man."}
{"book": 6, "line": 340, "greek": "ἀλλʼ ἄγε νῦν ἐπίμεινον, Ἀρήϊα τεύχεα δύω·", "en": "Come then, wait while I put on the gear of Ares —"}
{"book": 6, "line": 341, "greek": "ἢ ἴθʼ, ἐγὼ δὲ μέτειμι· κιχήσεσθαι δέ σʼ ὀΐω.", "en": "or go, and I will follow: I think I shall overtake you.\""}
{"book": 6, "line": 342, "greek": "ὣς φάτο, τὸν δʼ οὔ τι προσέφη κορυθαίολος Ἕκτωρ·", "en": "So he spoke; and Hector of the flashing helmet answered him nothing."}
{"book": 6, "line": 343, "greek": "τὸν δʼ Ἑλένη μύθοισι προσηύδα μειλιχίοισι·", "en": "But Helen spoke to Hector with honeyed words:"}
{"book": 6, "line": 344, "greek": "δᾶερ ἐμεῖο κυνὸς κακομηχάνου ὀκρυοέσσης,", "en": "\"Brother — brother of me, the dog, the evil-scheming horror:"}
{"book": 6, "line": 345, "greek": "ὥς μʼ ὄφελʼ ἤματι τῷ ὅτε με πρῶτον τέκε μήτηρ", "en": "how I wish that on the day my mother first bore me"}
{"book": 6, "line": 346, "greek": "οἴχεσθαι προφέρουσα κακὴ ἀνέμοιο θύελλα", "en": "some foul storm of wind had carried me off"}
{"book": 6, "line": 347, "greek": "εἰς ὄρος ἢ εἰς κῦμα πολυφλοίσβοιο θαλάσσης,", "en": "to a mountain, or into the wave of the loud-roaring sea,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 348, "greek": "ἔνθά με κῦμʼ ἀπόερσε πάρος τάδε ἔργα γενέσθαι.", "en": "where the wave would have swept me away before all this was done."}
{"book": 6, "line": 349, "greek": "αὐτὰρ ἐπεὶ τάδε γʼ ὧδε θεοὶ κακὰ τεκμήραντο,", "en": "But since the gods ordained these evils so,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 350, "greek": "ἀνδρὸς ἔπειτʼ ὤφελλον ἀμείνονος εἶναι ἄκοιτις,", "en": "then I wish I had been wife to a better man,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 351, "greek": "ὃς ᾔδη νέμεσίν τε καὶ αἴσχεα πόλλʼ ἀνθρώπων.", "en": "one who felt the world's anger and the long reproaches of men."}
{"book": 6, "line": 352, "greek": "τούτῳ δʼ οὔτʼ ἂρ νῦν φρένες ἔμπεδοι οὔτʼ ἄρʼ ὀπίσσω", "en": "But this one — his wits are not steady now, and never"}
{"book": 6, "line": 353, "greek": "ἔσσονται· τὼ καί μιν ἐπαυρήσεσθαι ὀΐω.", "en": "will be; and I think he will reap the harvest of it."}
{"book": 6, "line": 354, "greek": "ἀλλʼ ἄγε νῦν εἴσελθε καὶ ἕζεο τῷδʼ ἐπὶ δίφρῳ", "en": "But come in now, brother, and sit on this chair,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 355, "greek": "δᾶερ, ἐπεί σε μάλιστα πόνος φρένας ἀμφιβέβηκεν", "en": "since the labor rings your heart above all others' —"}
{"book": 6, "line": 356, "greek": "εἵνεκʼ ἐμεῖο κυνὸς καὶ Ἀλεξάνδρου ἕνεκʼ ἄτης,", "en": "for the sake of me, the dog, and for Alexandros's blindness:"}
{"book": 6, "line": 357, "greek": "οἷσιν ἐπὶ Ζεὺς θῆκε κακὸν μόρον, ὡς καὶ ὀπίσσω", "en": "on whom Zeus has set an evil doom, so that hereafter"}
{"book": 6, "line": 358, "greek": "ἀνθρώποισι πελώμεθʼ ἀοίδιμοι ἐσσομένοισι.", "en": "we may be subjects of song for men still to come.\""}
{"book": 6, "line": 359, "greek": "τὴν δʼ ἠμείβετʼ ἔπειτα μέγας κορυθαίολος Ἕκτωρ", "en": "Then great Hector of the flashing helmet answered her:"}
{"book": 6, "line": 360, "greek": "μή με κάθιζʼ Ἑλένη φιλέουσά περ· οὐδέ με πείσεις·", "en": "\"Do not seat me, Helen, though you love me. You will not persuade me."}
{"book": 6, "line": 361, "greek": "ἤδη γάρ μοι θυμὸς ἐπέσσυται ὄφρʼ ἐπαμύνω", "en": "Already my heart is driving me to stand by"}
{"book": 6, "line": 362, "greek": "Τρώεσσʼ, οἳ μέγʼ ἐμεῖο ποθὴν ἀπεόντος ἔχουσιν.", "en": "the Trojans, who feel their great longing for me gone."}
{"book": 6, "line": 363, "greek": "ἀλλὰ σύ γʼ ὄρνυθι τοῦτον, ἐπειγέσθω δὲ καὶ αὐτός,", "en": "No — you rouse this man, and let him hurry himself,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 364, "greek": "ὥς κεν ἔμʼ ἔντοσθεν πόλιος καταμάρψῃ ἐόντα.", "en": "so he may catch me still inside the city."}
{"book": 6, "line": 365, "greek": "καὶ γὰρ ἐγὼν οἶκον δὲ ἐλεύσομαι ὄφρα ἴδωμαι", "en": "For I am going home first, to see"}
{"book": 6, "line": 366, "greek": "οἰκῆας ἄλοχόν τε φίλην καὶ νήπιον υἱόν.", "en": "my household, and my dear wife, and my little son:"}
{"book": 6, "line": 367, "greek": "οὐ γὰρ οἶδʼ εἰ ἔτι σφιν ὑπότροπος ἵξομαι αὖτις,", "en": "I do not know if I shall come back to them again,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 368, "greek": "ἦ ἤδη μʼ ὑπὸ χερσὶ θεοὶ δαμόωσιν Ἀχαιῶν.", "en": "or whether the gods will break me now under Achaean hands.\""}
{"book": 6, "line": 369, "greek": "ὣς ἄρα φωνήσας ἀπέβη κορυθαίολος Ἕκτωρ·", "en": "So speaking Hector of the flashing helmet went."}
{"book": 6, "line": 370, "greek": "αἶψα δʼ ἔπειθʼ ἵκανε δόμους εὖ ναιετάοντας,", "en": "And quickly he came to his well-settled house —"}
{"book": 6, "line": 371, "greek": "οὐδʼ εὗρʼ Ἀνδρομάχην λευκώλενον ἐν μεγάροισιν,", "en": "but he did not find white-armed Andromache in the hall:"}
{"book": 6, "line": 372, "greek": "ἀλλʼ ἥ γε ξὺν παιδὶ καὶ ἀμφιπόλῳ ἐϋπέπλῳ", "en": "she had gone with the child and one fair-robed handmaid"}
{"book": 6, "line": 373, "greek": "πύργῳ ἐφεστήκει γοόωσά τε μυρομένη τε.", "en": "and stood on the tower, weeping and mourning."}
{"book": 6, "line": 374, "greek": "Ἕκτωρ δʼ ὡς οὐκ ἔνδον ἀμύμονα τέτμεν ἄκοιτιν", "en": "When Hector did not find his blameless wife within,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 375, "greek": "ἔστη ἐπʼ οὐδὸν ἰών, μετὰ δὲ δμῳῇσιν ἔειπεν·", "en": "he stopped on the threshold and spoke among the slave-women:"}
{"book": 6, "line": 376, "greek": "εἰ δʼ ἄγε μοι δμῳαὶ νημερτέα μυθήσασθε·", "en": "\"Come, slave-women, tell me the truth of it:"}
{"book": 6, "line": 377, "greek": "πῇ ἔβη Ἀνδρομάχη λευκώλενος ἐκ μεγάροιο;", "en": "where has white-armed Andromache gone from the hall?"}
{"book": 6, "line": 378, "greek": "ἠέ πῃ ἐς γαλόων ἢ εἰνατέρων ἐϋπέπλων", "en": "To one of my sisters, or my brothers' fair-robed wives?"}
{"book": 6, "line": 379, "greek": "ἢ ἐς Ἀθηναίης ἐξοίχεται, ἔνθά περ ἄλλαι", "en": "Or out to Athena's temple, where the other"}
{"book": 6, "line": 380, "greek": "Τρῳαὶ ἐϋπλόκαμοι δεινὴν θεὸν ἱλάσκονται;", "en": "lovely-braided women of Troy are appeasing the dread goddess?\""}
{"book": 6, "line": 381, "greek": "τὸν δʼ αὖτʼ ὀτρηρὴ ταμίη πρὸς μῦθον ἔειπεν·", "en": "And the busy housekeeper answered him:"}
{"book": 6, "line": 382, "greek": "Ἕκτορ ἐπεὶ μάλʼ ἄνωγας ἀληθέα μυθήσασθαι,", "en": "\"Hector — since you order me strictly to tell the truth:"}
{"book": 6, "line": 383, "greek": "οὔτέ πῃ ἐς γαλόων οὔτʼ εἰνατέρων ἐϋπέπλων", "en": "not to one of your sisters, nor your brothers' fair-robed wives,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 384, "greek": "οὔτʼ ἐς Ἀθηναίης ἐξοίχεται, ἔνθά περ ἄλλαι", "en": "nor out to Athena's temple, where the other"}
{"book": 6, "line": 385, "greek": "Τρῳαὶ ἐϋπλόκαμοι δεινὴν θεὸν ἱλάσκονται,", "en": "lovely-braided women of Troy are appeasing the dread goddess —"}
{"book": 6, "line": 386, "greek": "ἀλλʼ ἐπὶ πύργον ἔβη μέγαν Ἰλίου, οὕνεκʼ ἄκουσε", "en": "she went up on the great tower of Ilion, because she heard"}
{"book": 6, "line": 387, "greek": "τείρεσθαι Τρῶας, μέγα δὲ κράτος εἶναι Ἀχαιῶν.", "en": "the Trojans were worn down, and the Achaeans' power was great."}
{"book": 6, "line": 388, "greek": "ἣ μὲν δὴ πρὸς τεῖχος ἐπειγομένη ἀφικάνει", "en": "She has gone hurrying to the wall"}
{"book": 6, "line": 389, "greek": "μαινομένῃ ἐϊκυῖα· φέρει δʼ ἅμα παῖδα τιθήνη.", "en": "like a woman gone mad; and the nurse carries the child beside her.\""}
{"book": 6, "line": 390, "greek": "ἦ ῥα γυνὴ ταμίη, ὃ δʼ ἀπέσσυτο δώματος Ἕκτωρ", "en": "So the housekeeper spoke; and Hector sped from the house"}
{"book": 6, "line": 391, "greek": "τὴν αὐτὴν ὁδὸν αὖτις ἐϋκτιμένας κατʼ ἀγυιάς.", "en": "back the same way, down the well-built streets."}
{"book": 6, "line": 392, "greek": "εὖτε πύλας ἵκανε διερχόμενος μέγα ἄστυ", "en": "When, crossing the great city, he reached the gates —"}
{"book": 6, "line": 393, "greek": "Σκαιάς, τῇ ἄρʼ ἔμελλε διεξίμεναι πεδίον δέ,", "en": "the Scaean Gates, by which he meant to go out on the plain —"}
{"book": 6, "line": 394, "greek": "ἔνθʼ ἄλοχος πολύδωρος ἐναντίη ἦλθε θέουσα", "en": "there his richly dowered wife came running to meet him,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 395, "greek": "Ἀνδρομάχη θυγάτηρ μεγαλήτορος Ἠετίωνος", "en": "Andromache, daughter of great-hearted Eëtion —"}
{"book": 6, "line": 396, "greek": "Ἠετίων ὃς ἔναιεν ὑπὸ Πλάκῳ ὑληέσσῃ", "en": "Eëtion, who lived under wooded Placus,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 397, "greek": "Θήβῃ Ὑποπλακίῃ Κιλίκεσσʼ ἄνδρεσσιν ἀνάσσων·", "en": "in Thebe-under-Placus, lord over the Cilician men:"}
{"book": 6, "line": 398, "greek": "τοῦ περ δὴ θυγάτηρ ἔχεθʼ Ἕκτορι χαλκοκορυστῇ.", "en": "his daughter was wife to Hector of the bronze helmet."}
{"book": 6, "line": 399, "greek": "ἥ οἱ ἔπειτʼ ἤντησʼ, ἅμα δʼ ἀμφίπολος κίεν αὐτῇ", "en": "She met him there, and with her came the handmaid"}
{"book": 6, "line": 400, "greek": "παῖδʼ ἐπὶ κόλπῳ ἔχουσʼ ἀταλάφρονα νήπιον αὔτως", "en": "holding the child at her breast, all baby-thoughts still, a little one,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 401, "greek": "Ἑκτορίδην ἀγαπητὸν ἀλίγκιον ἀστέρι καλῷ,", "en": "the beloved son of Hector, like a beautiful star:"}
{"book": 6, "line": 402, "greek": "τόν ῥʼ Ἕκτωρ καλέεσκε Σκαμάνδριον, αὐτὰρ οἱ ἄλλοι", "en": "Hector called him Scamandrius, but the others"}
{"book": 6, "line": 403, "greek": "Ἀστυάνακτʼ· οἶος γὰρ ἐρύετο Ἴλιον Ἕκτωρ.", "en": "Astyanax — for Hector alone was the saving of Ilion."}
{"book": 6, "line": 404, "greek": "ἤτοι ὃ μὲν μείδησεν ἰδὼν ἐς παῖδα σιωπῇ·", "en": "He looked at his boy and smiled in silence;"}
{"book": 6, "line": 405, "greek": "Ἀνδρομάχη δέ οἱ ἄγχι παρίστατο δάκρυ χέουσα,", "en": "but Andromache came and stood close beside him, weeping,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 406, "greek": "ἔν τʼ ἄρα οἱ φῦ χειρὶ ἔπος τʼ ἔφατʼ ἔκ τʼ ὀνόμαζε·", "en": "and she clung to his hand, and spoke a word, and named him:"}
{"book": 6, "line": 407, "greek": "δαιμόνιε φθίσει σε τὸ σὸν μένος, οὐδʼ ἐλεαίρεις", "en": "\"Strange man — your own fury will destroy you. And you have no pity"}
{"book": 6, "line": 408, "greek": "παῖδά τε νηπίαχον καὶ ἔμʼ ἄμμορον, ἣ τάχα χήρη", "en": "for your son, a little child, or for doomed me, who soon"}
{"book": 6, "line": 409, "greek": "σεῦ ἔσομαι· τάχα γάρ σε κατακτανέουσιν Ἀχαιοὶ", "en": "shall be your widow: for soon the Achaeans will kill you,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 410, "greek": "πάντες ἐφορμηθέντες· ἐμοὶ δέ κε κέρδιον εἴη", "en": "falling on you all together. And for me it would be better,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 411, "greek": "σεῦ ἀφαμαρτούσῃ χθόνα δύμεναι· οὐ γὰρ ἔτʼ ἄλλη", "en": "losing you, to go under the earth: there will be no other"}
{"book": 6, "line": 412, "greek": "ἔσται θαλπωρὴ ἐπεὶ ἂν σύ γε πότμον ἐπίσπῃς", "en": "comfort ever again, once you have met your doom —"}
{"book": 6, "line": 413, "greek": "ἀλλʼ ἄχεʼ· οὐδέ μοι ἔστι πατὴρ καὶ πότνια μήτηρ.", "en": "only griefs. And I have no father, no lady mother."}
{"book": 6, "line": 414, "greek": "ἤτοι γὰρ πατέρʼ ἁμὸν ἀπέκτανε δῖος Ἀχιλλεύς,", "en": "My father — brilliant Achilles killed him,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 415, "greek": "ἐκ δὲ πόλιν πέρσεν Κιλίκων εὖ ναιετάουσαν", "en": "the day he sacked the well-settled city of the Cilicians,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 416, "greek": "Θήβην ὑψίπυλον· κατὰ δʼ ἔκτανεν Ἠετίωνα,", "en": "Thebe of the high gates. He killed Eëtion —"}
{"book": 6, "line": 417, "greek": "οὐδέ μιν ἐξενάριξε, σεβάσσατο γὰρ τό γε θυμῷ,", "en": "but he did not strip him: his heart stood in awe of that."}
{"book": 6, "line": 418, "greek": "ἀλλʼ ἄρα μιν κατέκηε σὺν ἔντεσι δαιδαλέοισιν", "en": "He burned his body in the wrought armor"}
{"book": 6, "line": 419, "greek": "ἠδʼ ἐπὶ σῆμʼ ἔχεεν· περὶ δὲ πτελέας ἐφύτευσαν", "en": "and heaped a grave-mound over him; and around it the mountain nymphs,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 420, "greek": "νύμφαι ὀρεστιάδες κοῦραι Διὸς αἰγιόχοιο.", "en": "daughters of aegis-bearing Zeus, planted elm trees."}
{"book": 6, "line": 421, "greek": "οἳ δέ μοι ἑπτὰ κασίγνητοι ἔσαν ἐν μεγάροισιν", "en": "And my seven brothers in our halls —"}
{"book": 6, "line": 422, "greek": "οἳ μὲν πάντες ἰῷ κίον ἤματι Ἄϊδος εἴσω·", "en": "all of them went to Hades' house in a single day:"}
{"book": 6, "line": 423, "greek": "πάντας γὰρ κατέπεφνε ποδάρκης δῖος Ἀχιλλεὺς", "en": "swift-footed brilliant Achilles killed them all"}
{"book": 6, "line": 424, "greek": "βουσὶν ἐπʼ εἰλιπόδεσσι καὶ ἀργεννῇς ὀΐεσσι.", "en": "among their rolling-gaited cattle and their white sheep."}
{"book": 6, "line": 425, "greek": "μητέρα δʼ, ἣ βασίλευεν ὑπὸ Πλάκῳ ὑληέσσῃ,", "en": "And my mother, who was queen under wooded Placus —"}
{"book": 6, "line": 426, "greek": "τὴν ἐπεὶ ἂρ δεῦρʼ ἤγαγʼ ἅμʼ ἄλλοισι κτεάτεσσιν,", "en": "he brought her here with the rest of the plunder,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 427, "greek": "ἂψ ὅ γε τὴν ἀπέλυσε λαβὼν ἀπερείσιʼ ἄποινα,", "en": "but set her free again, taking ransom past counting,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 428, "greek": "πατρὸς δʼ ἐν μεγάροισι βάλʼ Ἄρτεμις ἰοχέαιρα.", "en": "and in her father's halls Artemis who showers arrows struck her down."}
{"book": 6, "line": 429, "greek": "Ἕκτορ ἀτὰρ σύ μοί ἐσσι πατὴρ καὶ πότνια μήτηρ", "en": "Hector — so you are my father, and my lady mother,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 430, "greek": "ἠδὲ κασίγνητος, σὺ δέ μοι θαλερὸς παρακοίτης·", "en": "and my brother; and you are my strong young husband."}
{"book": 6, "line": 431, "greek": "ἀλλʼ ἄγε νῦν ἐλέαιρε καὶ αὐτοῦ μίμνʼ ἐπὶ πύργῳ,", "en": "Come, take pity now, and stay here on the tower:"}
{"book": 6, "line": 432, "greek": "μὴ παῖδʼ ὀρφανικὸν θήῃς χήρην τε γυναῖκα·", "en": "do not make your child an orphan and your wife a widow."}
{"book": 6, "line": 433, "greek": "λαὸν δὲ στῆσον παρʼ ἐρινεόν, ἔνθα μάλιστα", "en": "And station the army by the wild fig tree, where the city"}
{"book": 6, "line": 434, "greek": "ἀμβατός ἐστι πόλις καὶ ἐπίδρομον ἔπλετο τεῖχος.", "en": "is easiest to scale, and the wall lies open to assault."}
{"book": 6, "line": 435, "greek": "τρὶς γὰρ τῇ γʼ ἐλθόντες ἐπειρήσανθʼ οἱ ἄριστοι", "en": "Three times their best men have come there and tried it,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 436, "greek": "ἀμφʼ Αἴαντε δύω καὶ ἀγακλυτὸν Ἰδομενῆα", "en": "the two Ajaxes and famous Idomeneus together,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 437, "greek": "ἠδʼ ἀμφʼ Ἀτρεΐδας καὶ Τυδέος ἄλκιμον υἱόν·", "en": "and the sons of Atreus, and Tydeus' powerful son —"}
{"book": 6, "line": 438, "greek": "ἤ πού τίς σφιν ἔνισπε θεοπροπίων ἐῢ εἰδώς,", "en": "whether someone skilled in god-signs told them of it,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 439, "greek": "ἤ νυ καὶ αὐτῶν θυμὸς ἐποτρύνει καὶ ἀνώγει.", "en": "or their own hearts drive and command them to it.\""}
{"book": 6, "line": 440, "greek": "τὴν δʼ αὖτε προσέειπε μέγας κορυθαίολος Ἕκτωρ·", "en": "Then great Hector of the flashing helmet answered her:"}
{"book": 6, "line": 441, "greek": "ἦ καὶ ἐμοὶ τάδε πάντα μέλει γύναι· ἀλλὰ μάλʼ αἰνῶς", "en": "\"All this is my care too, wife. But I would stand"}
{"book": 6, "line": 442, "greek": "αἰδέομαι Τρῶας καὶ Τρῳάδας ἑλκεσιπέπλους,", "en": "in terrible shame before the Trojans, and the Trojan women"}
{"book": 6, "line": 443, "greek": "αἴ κε κακὸς ὣς νόσφιν ἀλυσκάζω πολέμοιο·", "en": "with their trailing gowns, if like a coward I skulked apart from the war;"}
{"book": 6, "line": 444, "greek": "οὐδέ με θυμὸς ἄνωγεν, ἐπεὶ μάθον ἔμμεναι ἐσθλὸς", "en": "and my own heart will not let me. I have learned to be brave"}
{"book": 6, "line": 445, "greek": "αἰεὶ καὶ πρώτοισι μετὰ Τρώεσσι μάχεσθαι", "en": "always, and to fight among the foremost Trojans,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 446, "greek": "ἀρνύμενος πατρός τε μέγα κλέος ἠδʼ ἐμὸν αὐτοῦ.", "en": "winning great fame for my father, and for myself."}
{"book": 6, "line": 447, "greek": "εὖ γὰρ ἐγὼ τόδε οἶδα κατὰ φρένα καὶ κατὰ θυμόν·", "en": "For this I know well in my mind and heart:"}
{"book": 6, "line": 448, "greek": "ἔσσεται ἦμαρ ὅτʼ ἄν ποτʼ ὀλώλῃ Ἴλιος ἱρὴ", "en": "the day will come when holy Ilion shall perish,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 449, "greek": "καὶ Πρίαμος καὶ λαὸς ἐϋμμελίω Πριάμοιο.", "en": "and Priam, and the people of Priam of the good ash spear."}
{"book": 6, "line": 450, "greek": "ἀλλʼ οὔ μοι Τρώων τόσσον μέλει ἄλγος ὀπίσσω,", "en": "But it is not the Trojans' coming grief that so much moves me —"}
{"book": 6, "line": 451, "greek": "οὔτʼ αὐτῆς Ἑκάβης οὔτε Πριάμοιο ἄνακτος", "en": "not Hecuba's own, not lord Priam's,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 452, "greek": "οὔτε κασιγνήτων, οἵ κεν πολέες τε καὶ ἐσθλοὶ", "en": "not my brothers', who many and brave"}
{"book": 6, "line": 453, "greek": "ἐν κονίῃσι πέσοιεν ὑπʼ ἀνδράσι δυσμενέεσσιν,", "en": "may fall in the dust under enemy hands —"}
{"book": 6, "line": 454, "greek": "ὅσσον σεῦ, ὅτε κέν τις Ἀχαιῶν χαλκοχιτώνων", "en": "as yours: when some bronze-shirted Achaean"}
{"book": 6, "line": 455, "greek": "δακρυόεσσαν ἄγηται ἐλεύθερον ἦμαρ ἀπούρας·", "en": "leads you away in tears, and takes your day of freedom;"}
{"book": 6, "line": 456, "greek": "καί κεν ἐν Ἄργει ἐοῦσα πρὸς ἄλλης ἱστὸν ὑφαίνοις,", "en": "and in Argos you would weave at another woman's loom,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 457, "greek": "καί κεν ὕδωρ φορέοις Μεσσηΐδος ἢ Ὑπερείης", "en": "and carry water from the spring Messeïs or Hypereia,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 458, "greek": "πόλλʼ ἀεκαζομένη, κρατερὴ δʼ ἐπικείσετʼ ἀνάγκη·", "en": "hating it, every step — and hard necessity on you;"}
{"book": 6, "line": 459, "greek": "καί ποτέ τις εἴπῃσιν ἰδὼν κατὰ δάκρυ χέουσαν·", "en": "and someone will say, seeing you letting fall your tears:"}
{"book": 6, "line": 460, "greek": "Ἕκτορος ἥδε γυνὴ ὃς ἀριστεύεσκε μάχεσθαι", "en": "'This is the wife of Hector, who was best in battle"}
{"book": 6, "line": 461, "greek": "Τρώων ἱπποδάμων ὅτε Ἴλιον ἀμφεμάχοντο.", "en": "of all the horse-taming Trojans, when they fought around Ilion.'"}
{"book": 6, "line": 462, "greek": "ὥς ποτέ τις ἐρέει· σοὶ δʼ αὖ νέον ἔσσεται ἄλγος", "en": "So someone will say; and for you it will be fresh grief,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 463, "greek": "χήτεϊ τοιοῦδʼ ἀνδρὸς ἀμύνειν δούλιον ἦμαρ.", "en": "for want of such a man to beat off the day of slavery."}
{"book": 6, "line": 464, "greek": "ἀλλά με τεθνηῶτα χυτὴ κατὰ γαῖα καλύπτοι", "en": "But may the heaped earth cover me, dead,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 465, "greek": "πρίν γέ τι σῆς τε βοῆς σοῦ θʼ ἑλκηθμοῖο πυθέσθαι.", "en": "before I hear your cry and see you dragged away.\""}
{"book": 6, "line": 466, "greek": "ὣς εἰπὼν οὗ παιδὸς ὀρέξατο φαίδιμος Ἕκτωρ·", "en": "So speaking, glorious Hector reached out for his boy —"}
{"book": 6, "line": 467, "greek": "ἂψ δʼ ὃ πάϊς πρὸς κόλπον ἐϋζώνοιο τιθήνης", "en": "and the child shrank back, crying, against the breast"}
{"book": 6, "line": 468, "greek": "ἐκλίνθη ἰάχων πατρὸς φίλου ὄψιν ἀτυχθεὶς", "en": "of his fair-belted nurse, terrified at the sight of his own father,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 469, "greek": "ταρβήσας χαλκόν τε ἰδὲ λόφον ἱππιοχαίτην,", "en": "frightened by the bronze and the horsehair crest,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 470, "greek": "δεινὸν ἀπʼ ἀκροτάτης κόρυθος νεύοντα νοήσας.", "en": "seeing it nod terribly from the helmet's top."}
{"book": 6, "line": 471, "greek": "ἐκ δʼ ἐγέλασσε πατήρ τε φίλος καὶ πότνια μήτηρ·", "en": "And his dear father laughed aloud, and his lady mother;"}
{"book": 6, "line": 472, "greek": "αὐτίκʼ ἀπὸ κρατὸς κόρυθʼ εἵλετο φαίδιμος Ἕκτωρ,", "en": "at once glorious Hector took the helmet from his head"}
{"book": 6, "line": 473, "greek": "καὶ τὴν μὲν κατέθηκεν ἐπὶ χθονὶ παμφανόωσαν·", "en": "and laid it, all shining, on the ground."}
{"book": 6, "line": 474, "greek": "αὐτὰρ ὅ γʼ ὃν φίλον υἱὸν ἐπεὶ κύσε πῆλέ τε χερσὶν", "en": "Then he kissed his dear son, and swung him in his arms,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 475, "greek": "εἶπε δʼ ἐπευξάμενος Διί τʼ ἄλλοισίν τε θεοῖσι·", "en": "and spoke in prayer to Zeus and the other gods:"}
{"book": 6, "line": 476, "greek": "Ζεῦ ἄλλοι τε θεοὶ δότε δὴ καὶ τόνδε γενέσθαι", "en": "\"Zeus, and you other gods: grant that this boy,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 477, "greek": "παῖδʼ ἐμὸν ὡς καὶ ἐγώ περ ἀριπρεπέα Τρώεσσιν,", "en": "my son, may become, as I am, preeminent among the Trojans,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 478, "greek": "ὧδε βίην τʼ ἀγαθόν, καὶ Ἰλίου ἶφι ἀνάσσειν·", "en": "as strong and brave as I; and rule Ilion in strength;"}
{"book": 6, "line": 479, "greek": "καί ποτέ τις εἴποι πατρός γʼ ὅδε πολλὸν ἀμείνων", "en": "and may men someday say he is far better than his father"}
{"book": 6, "line": 480, "greek": "ἐκ πολέμου ἀνιόντα· φέροι δʼ ἔναρα βροτόεντα", "en": "as he comes home from war. May he carry back the bloody spoils"}
{"book": 6, "line": 481, "greek": "κτείνας δήϊον ἄνδρα, χαρείη δὲ φρένα μήτηρ.", "en": "of the enemy he has killed, and his mother's heart be glad.\""}
{"book": 6, "line": 482, "greek": "ὣς εἰπὼν ἀλόχοιο φίλης ἐν χερσὶν ἔθηκε", "en": "So speaking he laid his son in the arms"}
{"book": 6, "line": 483, "greek": "παῖδʼ ἑόν· ἣ δʼ ἄρα μιν κηώδεϊ δέξατο κόλπῳ", "en": "of his dear wife; and she took him to her fragrant breast,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 484, "greek": "δακρυόεν γελάσασα· πόσις δʼ ἐλέησε νοήσας,", "en": "laughing through her tears. And her husband saw, and pitied her,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 485, "greek": "χειρί τέ μιν κατέρεξεν ἔπος τʼ ἔφατʼ ἔκ τʼ ὀνόμαζε·", "en": "and stroked her with his hand, and spoke a word, and named her:"}
{"book": 6, "line": 486, "greek": "δαιμονίη μή μοί τι λίην ἀκαχίζεο θυμῷ·", "en": "\"Strange woman — do not grieve too much for me in your heart."}
{"book": 6, "line": 487, "greek": "οὐ γάρ τίς μʼ ὑπὲρ αἶσαν ἀνὴρ Ἄϊδι προϊάψει·", "en": "No man will hurl me to Hades beyond my portion;"}
{"book": 6, "line": 488, "greek": "μοῖραν δʼ οὔ τινά φημι πεφυγμένον ἔμμεναι ἀνδρῶν,", "en": "but his fate, I say, no man has ever escaped,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 489, "greek": "οὐ κακὸν οὐδὲ μὲν ἐσθλόν, ἐπὴν τὰ πρῶτα γένηται.", "en": "coward or brave man, once he has been born."}
{"book": 6, "line": 490, "greek": "ἀλλʼ εἰς οἶκον ἰοῦσα τὰ σʼ αὐτῆς ἔργα κόμιζε", "en": "Go home now, and set your own work in order —"}
{"book": 6, "line": 491, "greek": "ἱστόν τʼ ἠλακάτην τε, καὶ ἀμφιπόλοισι κέλευε", "en": "the loom and the distaff — and tell your handmaids"}
{"book": 6, "line": 492, "greek": "ἔργον ἐποίχεσθαι· πόλεμος δʼ ἄνδρεσσι μελήσει", "en": "to go about their work. War shall be men's concern —"}
{"book": 6, "line": 493, "greek": "πᾶσι, μάλιστα δʼ ἐμοί, τοὶ Ἰλίῳ ἐγγεγάασιν.", "en": "all men's, and mine above all, of all who were born in Ilion.\""}
{"book": 6, "line": 494, "greek": "ὣς ἄρα φωνήσας κόρυθʼ εἵλετο φαίδιμος Ἕκτωρ", "en": "So speaking, glorious Hector took up the helmet"}
{"book": 6, "line": 495, "greek": "ἵππουριν· ἄλοχος δὲ φίλη οἶκον δὲ βεβήκει", "en": "with its horsehair crest; and his dear wife went home,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 496, "greek": "ἐντροπαλιζομένη, θαλερὸν κατὰ δάκρυ χέουσα.", "en": "turning back again and again, letting the full tears fall."}
{"book": 6, "line": 497, "greek": "αἶψα δʼ ἔπειθʼ ἵκανε δόμους εὖ ναιετάοντας", "en": "And quickly she came to the well-settled house"}
{"book": 6, "line": 498, "greek": "Ἕκτορος ἀνδροφόνοιο, κιχήσατο δʼ ἔνδοθι πολλὰς", "en": "of man-slaughtering Hector, and found inside her many"}
{"book": 6, "line": 499, "greek": "ἀμφιπόλους, τῇσιν δὲ γόον πάσῃσιν ἐνῶρσεν.", "en": "handmaids; and in all of them she stirred lament."}
{"book": 6, "line": 500, "greek": "αἳ μὲν ἔτι ζωὸν γόον Ἕκτορα ᾧ ἐνὶ οἴκῳ·", "en": "So they mourned Hector, still alive, in his own house:"}
{"book": 6, "line": 501, "greek": "οὐ γάρ μιν ἔτʼ ἔφαντο ὑπότροπον ἐκ πολέμοιο", "en": "for they said he would never again come back"}
{"book": 6, "line": 502, "greek": "ἵξεσθαι προφυγόντα μένος καὶ χεῖρας Ἀχαιῶν.", "en": "out of the war, escaping the fury and the hands of the Achaeans."}
{"book": 6, "line": 503, "greek": "οὐδὲ Πάρις δήθυνεν ἐν ὑψηλοῖσι δόμοισιν,", "en": "Nor did Paris linger long in his high house:"}
{"book": 6, "line": 504, "greek": "ἀλλʼ ὅ γʼ, ἐπεὶ κατέδυ κλυτὰ τεύχεα ποικίλα χαλκῷ,", "en": "when he had put on his famed armor, patterned with bronze,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 505, "greek": "σεύατʼ ἔπειτʼ ἀνὰ ἄστυ ποσὶ κραιπνοῖσι πεποιθώς.", "en": "he ran through the city, sure of his quick feet."}
{"book": 6, "line": 506, "greek": "ὡς δʼ ὅτε τις στατὸς ἵππος ἀκοστήσας ἐπὶ φάτνῃ", "en": "As when a stalled horse, corn-fed at the manger,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 507, "greek": "δεσμὸν ἀπορρήξας θείῃ πεδίοιο κροαίνων", "en": "breaks his tether and gallops drumming across the plain,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 508, "greek": "εἰωθὼς λούεσθαι ἐϋρρεῖος ποταμοῖο", "en": "used to bathing in the fair-flowing river,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 509, "greek": "κυδιόων· ὑψοῦ δὲ κάρη ἔχει, ἀμφὶ δὲ χαῖται", "en": "glorying: he holds his head high, and the mane"}
{"book": 6, "line": 510, "greek": "ὤμοις ἀΐσσονται· ὃ δʼ ἀγλαΐηφι πεποιθὼς", "en": "streams along his shoulders; sure of his own splendor,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 511, "greek": "ῥίμφά ἑ γοῦνα φέρει μετά τʼ ἤθεα καὶ νομὸν ἵππων·", "en": "his knees carry him lightly to the haunts and pastures of horses:"}
{"book": 6, "line": 512, "greek": "ὣς υἱὸς Πριάμοιο Πάρις κατὰ Περγάμου ἄκρης", "en": "so Paris, Priam's son, came striding down from the height"}
{"book": 6, "line": 513, "greek": "τεύχεσι παμφαίνων ὥς τʼ ἠλέκτωρ ἐβεβήκει", "en": "of Pergamos, blazing in his armor like the beaming sun,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 514, "greek": "καγχαλόων, ταχέες δὲ πόδες φέρον· αἶψα δʼ ἔπειτα", "en": "laughing aloud, and his quick feet carried him. And at once"}
{"book": 6, "line": 515, "greek": "Ἕκτορα δῖον ἔτετμεν ἀδελφεὸν εὖτʼ ἄρʼ ἔμελλε", "en": "he came on brilliant Hector, his brother, just turning away"}
{"book": 6, "line": 516, "greek": "στρέψεσθʼ ἐκ χώρης ὅθι ᾗ ὀάριζε γυναικί.", "en": "from the place where he had talked with his wife."}
{"book": 6, "line": 517, "greek": "τὸν πρότερος προσέειπεν Ἀλέξανδρος θεοειδής·", "en": "Godlike Alexandros spoke to him first:"}
{"book": 6, "line": 518, "greek": "ἠθεῖʼ ἦ μάλα δή σε καὶ ἐσσύμενον κατερύκω", "en": "\"Elder brother — surely I have held you back in your hurry,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 519, "greek": "δηθύνων, οὐδʼ ἦλθον ἐναίσιμον ὡς ἐκέλευες;", "en": "lingering so long; I did not come promptly, as you asked.\""}
{"book": 6, "line": 520, "greek": "τὸν δʼ ἀπαμειβόμενος προσέφη κορυθαίολος Ἕκτωρ·", "en": "Answering him spoke Hector of the flashing helmet:"}
{"book": 6, "line": 521, "greek": "δαιμόνιʼ οὐκ ἄν τίς τοι ἀνὴρ ὃς ἐναίσιμος εἴη", "en": "\"Strange man — no fair-minded man could disparage"}
{"book": 6, "line": 522, "greek": "ἔργον ἀτιμήσειε μάχης, ἐπεὶ ἄλκιμός ἐσσι·", "en": "your work in battle: you have your courage."}
{"book": 6, "line": 523, "greek": "ἀλλὰ ἑκὼν μεθιεῖς τε καὶ οὐκ ἐθέλεις· τὸ δʼ ἐμὸν κῆρ", "en": "But you hang back by choice; you will not try. And my heart"}
{"book": 6, "line": 524, "greek": "ἄχνυται ἐν θυμῷ, ὅθʼ ὑπὲρ σέθεν αἴσχεʼ ἀκούω", "en": "aches in me when I hear your shame on Trojan lips —"}
{"book": 6, "line": 525, "greek": "πρὸς Τρώων, οἳ ἔχουσι πολὺν πόνον εἵνεκα σεῖο.", "en": "the men who bear this long labor for your sake."}
{"book": 6, "line": 526, "greek": "ἀλλʼ ἴομεν· τὰ δʼ ὄπισθεν ἀρεσσόμεθʼ, αἴ κέ ποθι Ζεὺς", "en": "But let us go. We will make all this good later, if ever Zeus"}
{"book": 6, "line": 527, "greek": "δώῃ ἐπουρανίοισι θεοῖς αἰειγενέτῃσι", "en": "grants us to set out for the heavenly gods who are forever"}
{"book": 6, "line": 528, "greek": "κρητῆρα στήσασθαι ἐλεύθερον ἐν μεγάροισιν", "en": "the mixing-bowl of freedom in our halls,"}
{"book": 6, "line": 529, "greek": "ἐκ Τροίης ἐλάσαντας ἐϋκνήμιδας Ἀχαιούς.", "en": "when we have driven the strong-greaved Achaeans out of Troy.\""}