The Battle of the Fourth Book.

IL. IV. 422-443.

Ως δ' ὅτ' ἐν αἰγιαλῷ πολυηχέϊ κῦμα θαλάσσης Ορνυτ' ἐπασσύτερον, Ζεφύρου ὑποκινήσαντος· Πόντῳ μὲν τὰ πρῶτα κορύσσεται, αὐτὰρ ἔπειτα Χέρσῳ ῥηγνύμενον μεγάλα βρέμει, ἀμφὶ δέ τ ̓ ἄκρους Κυρτὸν τὸν κορυφοῦται, ἀποπτύει δ ̓ ἁλὸς ἄχνην· Ως τότ ̓ ἐπασσύτεραι Δαναῶν κίνυντο φάλαγγες Νωλεμέως πόλεμόνδε κέλευε δὲ οἶσιν ἕκαστος Ἡγεμόνων· οἱ δ ̓ ἄλλοι ἀκὴν ἴσαν—οὐδέ κε φαίης Τόσσον λαὸν ἕπεσθαι ἔχοντ ̓ ἐν στήθεσιν αὐδήν— Σιγῇ δειδιότες σημάντορας· ἀμφὶ δὲ πᾶσιν

Τεύχεα ποικίλ ̓ ἔλαμπε, τὰ εἱμένοι ἐστιχόωντο.

As when the billow gathers fast
With slow and sullen roar
Beneath the keen north-western blast
Against the sounding shore :
First far at sea it rears its crest,

Then bursts upon the beach,

Or with proud arch and swelling breast,
Where headlands outward reach,

It smites their strength, and bellowing flings.
Its silver foam afar;

So, stern and thick, the Danaan kings
And soldiers marched to war.

Each leader gave his men the word,

Each warrior deep in silence heard ;

So mute they marched, thou could'st not ken,
They were a mass of speaking men ;
And as they strode, in martial might,
Their flickering arms shot back the light.

Τρώες δ', ὡς τ ̓ ὄιες πολυπάμονος ἀνδρὸς ἐν αὐλῇ

T

Μυρίαι ἑστήκασιν ἀμελγόμεναι γάλα λευκὸν,
Αζηχὲς μεμακυῖαι, ἀκούουσαι ὄπα ἀρνῶν,
Ὣς Τρώων ἀλαλητὸς ἀνὰ στρατὸν εὐρὺν ὀρώρει·
Οὐ γὰρ πάντων ἦεν ὁμὸς θρόος οὐδ ̓ ἴα γῆρυς,
̓Αλλὰ γλῶσσ ̓ ἐμέμικτο, πολύκλητοι δ ̓ ἔσαν ἄνδρες.
Ωρσε δὲ τοὺς μὲν Ἄρης, τοὺς δὲ γλαυκῶπις Αθήνη
Δεῖμός τ' ἠδὲ φόβος καὶ ἔρις ἄμοτον μεμαυία,
"Αρεος ἀνδροφόνοιο κασιγνήτη ἑτάρη τε,

"Η τ' ὁλίγη μὲν πρῶτα κορύσσεται, αὐτὰρ ἔπειτα Οὐράνῳ ἐστήριξε κάρη, καὶ ἐπὶ χθονὶ βαίνει.

But, as at even the folded sheep

Of some rich master stand,

Ten thousand thick their place they keep, And bide the milkman's hand,

And more and more they bleat, the more
They hear their lamblings cry;

So from the Trojan host, uproar
And din rose loud and high.
They were a many-voiced throng;
Discordant accents there,

That sound from many a differing tongue,

Their differing race declare.

These, Mars had kindled for the fight;

Those, starry-eyed Athene's might,

And savage Terror, and Affright,

And Strife, insatiate of wars,

The sister and the mate of Mars;

Strife that, a pigmy at her birth,

By gathering rumour fed,

Soon plants her feet upon the earth
And in the heaven her head.

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The Threat of Achilles.

IL. IX. 357-365.

Νῦν δ ̓, ἐπεὶ οὐκ ἐθέλω πολεμιζέμεν "Εκτορι δίῳ,
Αὔριον, ἱρὰ Διὶ ῥέξας καὶ πᾶσι θεοίσι,

Νηήσας εὖ νῆας, ἐπὴν ἅλαδε προερύσσω,

Οψεαι, ἣν ἐθέλησθα, καὶ αἴκεν τοι τὰ μεμήλῃ, Ηρι μάλ' Ελλήσποντον ἐπ ̓ ἰχθυόεντα πλεούσας Νῆας ἐμὰς, ἐν δ ̓ ἄνδρας ἐρεσσέμεναι μεμαώτας. Εἰ δὲ κεν εὐπλοΐην δῴη κλυτὸς Εννοσίγαιος, Ἤματί κε τριτάτῳ Φθίην ἐρίβωλον ἱκοίμην.

Ἔστι δέ μοι μάλα πολλὰ, τὰ κάλλιπον, ἐνθάδε ἔῤῥων.