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THE FALL OF TROY
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QUINTUS — for we know him only by
his first name — was a poet who lived
at Smyrna some four hundred years after
Christ. His work, in fourteen books, is
a bold and generally underrated attempt
in Homer’s style to complete the story
of Troy from the point at which the
Iliad closes. Quintus tells us the stories
of Penthesilea, the Amazonian queen;
Memnon, leader of the Ethiopians; the
death of Achilles; the contest for
Achilles’ arms between Ajax and
Odysseus; the arrival of Philoctetes; and
the making of the Wooden Horse. The
poem ends with the departure of the
Greeks and the great storm which by the
wrath of heaven shattered their fleet.
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QUINTUS
SMYRNAEUS
THE FALL OF TROY
WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY
ARTHUR 8. WAY, D.Li1rT.
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INTRODUCTION
Homer’s Iliad begins towards the close of the last
of the ten years of the Trojan War: its incidents
extend over some fifty days only, and it ends with
the burial of Hector. The things which came before
and after were told by other bards, who between
them narrated the whole “cycle” of the events of
the war, and so were called the Cyclic Poets. Of
their works none have survived; but the story of
what befell between Hector’s funeral and the
taking of Troy is told in detail, and well told, in a
poem about half as long as the /lzad. Some four
hundred years after Christ there lived at Smyrna a
poet of whom we know scarce anything, save that
his first name was Quintus. He had saturated
himself with the spirit of Homer, he had caught
the ring of his music, and he perhaps had before
him the works of those Cyclic Poets whose stars
had paled before the sun.
We have practically no external evidence as to
the date or place of birth of Quintus of Smyrna, or
for the sources whence he drew his materials. His
date is approximately settled by two passages in
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the poem, viz. vi. 531 sqqg., in which occurs an
illustration drawn from the man-and-beast fights of
the amphitheatre, which were suppressed by Theo-
dosius I. (879-395 a.p.); and xiii. 335 sqq., which
contains a prophecy, the special particularity of
which, it is maintained by Koechly, limits its applic-
ability to the middle of the fourth century a.p.
His place of birth, and the precise locality, is
given by himself in xii. 308-313, and confirmatory
evidence is afforded by his familiarity, of which he
gives numerous instances, with many natural features
of the western part of Asia Minor.
With respect to his authorities, and the use he
made of their writings, there has been more differ-
ence of opinion. Since his narrative covers the
same ground as the dethiopis (Coming of Memnon)
and the /iupersis (Destruction of Troy) of Arctinus
(circ. 776 B.c.), and the Little Iliad of Lesches (circ.
700 B.c.), it has been assumed that the work of
Quintus “is little more than an amplification or re-
modelling of the works of these two Cyclic Poets.”
This, however, must needs be pure conjecture, as
the only remains of these poets consist of frag-
ments amounting to no more than a very few lines
from each, and of the “summaries of contents” made
by the grammarian Proclus (cire. 140 a.p.), which,
again, we but get at second-hand through the
Bibliotheca of Photius (ninth century). Now, not
merely do the only descriptions of incident that are
found in the fragments differ essentially from the
corresponding incidents as described by Quintus, but
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even in the summaries, meagre as they are, we find,
as German critics have shown by exhaustive investiga-
tion, serious discrepancies enough to justify us in the
conclusion that, even if Quintus had the works of the
Cyclic poets before him, which is far from certain,
his poem was no mere remodelling of theirs, but an
independent and practically original work. Not
that this conclusion disposes by any means of all
difficulties. If Quintus did not follow the Cyclic
poets, from what source did he draw his materials?
The German critic unhesitatingly answers, “ from
Homer.” As regards language, versification, and
general spirit, the matter is beyond controversy ;
but when we come to consider the incidents of the
story, we find deviations from Homer even more
serious than any of those from the Cyclic poets.
And the strange thing is, that each of these de-
viations is a manifest detriment to the perfection
of his poem; in each of them the writer has missed,
or has rejected, a magnificent opportunity. With
regard to the slaying of Achilles by the hand of
Apollo only, and not by those of Apollo and Paris,
he might have pleaded that Homer himself here
speaks with an uncertain voice (cf. J/. xv. 416-17, xxii,
355-60, and xxi. 277-78). But, in describing the
fight for the body of Achilles (Od. xxiv. 36 sqq.),
Homer makes Agamemnon say
“* So we grappled the livelong day, and we had not refrained
us then,
But Zeus sent a hurricane, stilling the storm of the battle
of men.”
INTRODUCTION
Now, it is just in describing such natural phenomena,
and in blending them with the turmoil of battle,
that Quintus is in his element; yet for such a scene
he substitutes what is, by comparison, a lame and
impotent conclusion. Of that awful cry that rang
over the sea heralding the coming of Thetis and the
Nymphs to the death-rites of her son, and the panic
with which it filled the host, Quintus is silent.
Again, Homer (Od. iv. 274-89) describes how Helen
came in the night with Deiphobus, and stood by the
Wooden Horse, and called to each of the hidden
warriors with the voice of his own wife. This
thrilling scene Quintus omits, and substitutes nothing
of his own. Later on, he makes Menelaus slay
Deiphobus unresisting, “heavy with wine,’ whereas
Homer. (Od. viii. 517-20) makes him offer such a
magnificent resistance, that Odysseus and Menelaus
together could not kill him without the help of
Athena. In fact, we may say that, though there
are echoes of the /lad all through the poem, yet,
wherever Homer has, in the Odyssey, given the out-
line-sketch of an effective scene, Quintus has uni-
formly neglected to develop it, has sometimes
substituted something much weaker—as though he
had not the Odyssey before him!
For this we have no satisfactory explanation to
offer. He may have set his own judgment above
Homer—a most unlikely hypothesis: he may have
been consistently following, in the framework of his
story, some original now lost to us: there may be
more, and longer, /acunae in the text than any
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INTRODUCTION
editors have ventured to indicate: but, whatever
theory we adopt, it must be based on mere con-
jecture.
The Greek text here given is that of Koechly
(1850) with many of Zimmermann’s emendations,
which are acknowledged in the notes. Passages
enclosed in square brackets are suggestions of
Koechly for supplying the general sense of lacunae.
Where he has made no such suggestion, or none
that seemed to the editors to be adequate, the
lacuna has been indicated by asterisks, though
here too a few words have been added in the
translation, sufficient to connect the sense.
In the notes Ρ = Codex Parrhasianus.
Υ͂ = vulgaia plerorumque lectto,
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
THE first MS. (Codex Hydruntinus) of the Posthomerica
ever discovered was found in the fifteenth century by Cardinal
Bessarion in a convent at Otranto in Calabria, from which
circumstance the poet has been named Quintus Calaber.
This MS. has been lost, but many hasty and imperfect copies
were early made of it.
The most ancient, and also the best, of the extant MSS.
are the Codex Parrhasianus, which is complete, and the
Codex Monacensis, which contains I.-III., IV. 1-10, and
XII.
Next in value is the Codex Venetus, which is extant in a
copy that belonged to Cardinal Bessarion. This MS. con-
tains the Iliad, Posthomerica, Odyssey, Hymns, and Batra-
chomyomachia.
PRINCIPAL TEXTS AND COMMENTARIES,
The first printed edition was that of Aldus (Venice, 1504),
compiled from various imperfect transcripts of the Codex
Hydruntinus. A carefully collated edition was, after thirty
years’ critical study, produced by Rhodomann (Hanover,
1604). Tychsen’s great revision appeared in 1807 (Deux
Ponts); that of Lehrs (Bibliotheque Diderot, Paris) in 1839;
that of Koechly, with jprolegomena and commentary (Lezpsic)
in 1850; that of Zimmermann, with full apparatus criticus,
in 1891 (Teubner, Leipsic).
MONOGRAPHS, ETO.
Sainte-Beuve, Quinte Smyrne in Etudes sur Virgile (Paris,
1871).
Kemptgow, De Quints Smyrnaei fontibus (Kiel, 1891).
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ADDENDUM (1984)
EDITIONS
Budé edition, La suite d’Homére, with translation and
notes by Francis Vian, 3 volumes, Paris: I (1-4), 1963:
IT (5-9), 1966; ITT (10-14), 1969
Le postomeriche 1-2, G. Pompella, Naples 1979
CoMMENTARY
M. Campbell, Book 12 (Mnem. Suppl. 71), Leiden 1981
TRANSLATION
F. M. Combellack, The War at Troy/What Homer didn’t
tell (with introduction and notes), Norman, Ok]. 1968
MoNoGRAPHS
G. W. Paschal, A Study of Quintus of Smyrna, Diss.
Chicago 1904
F. Vian, Histoire de la tradition manuscrite de Quintus de
Smyrne, Paris 1959 (see also addenda in RPh 39 [1965]
48-55)
F. Vian, Recherches sur les Posthomerica de Quintus de
Smyrne, Paris 1959
REFERENCE
R. Keydell: Quintus, von Smyrna: RE Vol. 47 (1963)
1271-1296
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How died for Troy the Queen of the Amazons,
Penthesilera
Wuen godlike Hector by Peleides slain
Passed, and the pyre had ravined up his flesh,
And earth had veiled his bones, the Trojans then
Tarried in Priam’s city, sore afraid
Before the might of stout-heart Aeacus’ son:
As kine they were, that midst the copses shrink
From faring forth to meet a lion grim,
But in dense thickets terror-huddled cower ;
So in their fortress shivered these to see
That mighty man. Of those already dead
They thought—of all whose lives he reft away
As by Scamander’s outfall on he rushed,
And all that in mid-flight to that high wall
He slew, how he quelled Hector, how he haled
His corse round Troy ;—yea, and of all beside
Laid low by him since that first day whereon
O’er restless seas he brought the Trojans doom.
Ay, all these they remembered, while they stayed
Thus in their town, and o’er them anguished grief
Hovered dark-winged, as though that very day
All Troy with shrieks were crumbling down in fire.
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THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK I
Then from Thermodon, from _ broad - sweeping
streams,
Came, clothed upon with beauty of Goddesses,
Penthesileia—came athirst indeed
For groan-resounding battle, but yet more
Fleeing abhorred reproach and evil fame,
Lest they of her own folk should rail on her
Because of her own sister’s death, for whom
Ever her sorrows waxed, Hippolyté,
Whom she had struck dead with her mighty spear,
Not of her will—’twas at a stag she hurled.
So came she to the far-famed land of Troy.
Yea, and her warrior spirit pricked her on,
Of murder’s dread pollution thus to cleanse
Her soul, and with such sacrifice to appease
The Awful Ones, the Erinnyes, who in wrath
For her slain sister straightway haunted her
Unseen: for ever round the sinner’s steps
They hover; none may ‘scape those Goddesses.
And with her followed twelve beside, each one
A princess, hot for war and battle grim,
Far-famous each, yet handmaids unto her:
Penthesileia far outshone them all.
As when in the broad sky amidst the stars
The moon rides over all pre-eminent,
When through the thunderclouds the cleaving
heavens
Open, when sleep the fury-breathing winds ;
So peerless was she mid that charging host.
Clonié was there, Polemusa, Derinoé,
Evandré, and Antandré, and Bremusa,
Hippothoé, dark-eyed Harmothoé,
Alcibié, Derimacheia, Antibrote,
And Thermodosa glorying with the spear.
All these to battle fared with warrior-souled
Penthesileia : even as when descends
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THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK I
Dawn from Olympus’ crest of adamant,
Dawn, heart-exultant in her radiant steeds
Amidst the bright-haired Hours ; and o’er them all,
How flawless-fair soever these may be,
Her splendour of beauty glows pre-eminent ;
So peerless amid all the Amazons
Unto Troy-town Penthesileia came.
To right, to left, from all sides hurrying thronged
The Trojans, greatly marvelling, when they saw
The tireless War-god’s child, the mailéd maid,
Like to the Blesséd Gods; for in her face
Glowed beauty glorious and terrible.
Her smile was ravishing : beneath her brows
Her love-enkindling eyes shone like to stars,
And with the crimson rose of shamefastness
Bright were her cheeks, and mantled over them
Unearthly grace with battle-prowess clad.
Then joyed Troy’s folk, despite past agonies,
As when, far-gazing from a height, the hinds
Behold a rainbow spanning the wide sea,
When they be yearning for the heaven-sent shower,
When the parched fields be craving for the rain ;
Then the great sky at last is overgloomed,
And men see that fair sign of coming wind
And imminent rain, and seeing, they are glad,
Who for their corn-fields’ plight sore sighed before ;
Even so the sons of Troy when they beheld
There in their land Penthesileia dread
Afire for battle, were exceeding glad ;
For when the heart is thrilled with hope of good,
All smart of evils past is wiped away :
So, after all his sighing and his pain,
Gladdened a little while was Priam’s soul.
As when a man who hath suffered many a pang
From blinded eyes, sore longing to behold
The light, and, if he may not, fain would die,
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οὐ μὲν ὅσον τὸ πάροιθεν, ὅμως δ᾽ ἄρα βαιὸν ἰάνθη 80
a bd , ” 3.6 3}, ΄ ”
πολλῆς ἐκ κακότητος, ἔχει δ᾽ ETL πήματος ἄλγος
αἰνὸν ὑπὸ βλεφάροισι λελειμμένον: ὡς ἄρα δεινὴν
4
υἱὸς Λαομέδοντος ἐσέδρακε Πενθεσίλειαν'
“ \ / A \ / 4 7 ,
παῦρον μὲν γήθησε, TO δὲ πλέον εἰσέτε παίδων
Ψ 3559 / ww ᾽ ’ CaN , 7 wv
ἄχνυτ᾽ ἀποκταμένων. aye δ᾽ εἰς ἑὰ δώματ᾽ ἄνασσαν, 85
καί μιν προφρονέως τίεν ἔμπεδον εὖτε θύγατρα
if ΄ ᾽ .“ /
τηλόθι νοστήσασαν ἐεικοστῷ λυκάβαντι,
’ e , Μ / φΦ ”
καί ot δόρπον ἔτευξε πανείδατον, οἷον ἔδουσι
κυδάλιμοι βασιλῆες, ὅτ᾽ ἔθνεα δηώσαντες
’ S53 , ᾽ ΄ ‘ 4
δαίνυντ᾽ ἐν θαλίῃσιν ἀγαλλόμενοι περὶ νίκης" 90
δῶρα δέ οἱ πόρε καλὰ καὶ ὄλβια, πολλὰ δ᾽ ὑπέστη
, x , “ / > ἊΝ
δωσέμεν, ἢν Τρώεσσι δαϊξομένοις ἐπαμύνῃ.
e ΘΜ 3 τὸ , » Ξ ἃ ” \ Oud
ἡ δ᾽ ap ὑπέσχετο ἔργον, ὃ οὔποτε θνητὸς ἐώλπει,
δηώσειν ᾿Αχιλῆα καὶ εὐρέα λαὸν ὀλέσσειν
᾿Αργείων, πυρσὸν δὲ νεῶν καθύπερθε βαλέσθαι' 95
,ὔ 50 7 ” d+ , 9 A
νηπίη" οὐδέ τι ἤδη EVuperinv ᾿Αχιλῆα,
“ ,
ὅσσον ὑπέρτατος HEV ἐνὶ φθισήνορι χάρμῃ.
Τῆς δ᾽ ὡς οὖν ἐπάκουσεν ἐὺς πάϊς ᾿Ηετίωνος
᾿Ανδρομάχη, μάλα τοῖα φίλῳ προσελέξατο θυμῷ:
ce 4 ὃ ΄ ’ ΄ 7 / ae? /
ἃ δειλή, TL νυ τόσσα μέγα Ppovéova ἀγορεύεις; 100
> 4 , DJ \ ᾽ 7. "2
οὐ yap τοι σθένος ἐστὶν ἀταρβέϊ Ἰ]ηλείωνι
μάρνασθ᾽, ἀλλὰ σοὶ ὦκα φόνον καὶ λοιγὸν ἐφήσει.
/ / / > \ , > ΄ Μ
λευγαλέη, τί μέμηνας ἀνὰ φρένας; ἢ vu TOL ayXe
“ / / \ , 3
ἕστηκεν Θανάτοιο τέλος καὶ δαίμονος Aica.
ὃ
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK I
Then at the last, by a cunning leech’s skill,
Or by a God’s grace, sees the dawn-rose flush,
Sees the mist rolled back from before his eyes,—
Yea, though clear vision come not as of old,
Yet, after all his anguish, joys to have
Some small relief, albeit the stings of pain
Prick sharply yet beneath his eyelids ;—so
Joyed the old king to see that terrible queen—
The shadowy joy of one in anguish whelmed
For slain sons. Into his halls he led the Maid,
And with glad welcome honoured her, as one
Who greets a daughter to her home returned
From a far country in the twentieth year ;
And set a feast before her, sumptuous
As battle-glorious kings, who have brought low
Nations of foes, array in splendour of pomp,
With hearts in pride of victory triumphing.
And gifts he gave her costly and fair to see,
And pledged him to give many more, so she
Would save the Trojans from the imminent doom.
And she—such deeds she promised as no man
Had hoped for, even to lay Achilles low,
To smite the wide host of the Argive men,
And cast the brands red-flaming on the ships.
Ah fool !—but little knew she him, the lord
Of ashen spears, how far Achilles’ might
In warrior-wasting strife o’erpassed her own!
But when Andromache, the stately child
Of king Eetion, heard the wild queen’s vaunt,
Low to her own soul bitterly murmured she:
« Ah hapless ! why with arrogant heart dost thou
Speak such great swelling words? No strength is thine
To grapple in fight with Peleus’ aweless son.
Nay, doom and swift death shall he deal to thee.
Alas for thee! What madness thrills thy soul ὃ
Fate and the end of death stand hard by thee !
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
"
Exrop γὰρ σέο πολλὸν ὑπέρτερος ἔπλετο δουρί" 105
᾽ > > A , 37 ΓΑ » 37
ἀλλ᾽ ἐδάμη κρατερός περ ἐών, μέγα ὃ ἤκαχε
Τρῶας,
ve ἌΣ / 3 \ ᾽ὔ >] ,
οἵ € θεὸν ὃς πώντες ἀνὰ πτόλιν εἰσορόωντο"
, Μ / lal 309 ᾿] / ,
Kat μοι ἔην μέγα κῦδος iO’ ἀντιθέοις τοκέεσσι
ζωὸς ἐών: ὡς εἴ με χυτὴ κατὰ γαῖα κεκεύθει,
, e le) Ὶ A Cur)" o \ 3 7
πρίν ἑ δι᾿ ἀνθερεῶνος ὑπ éyxel θυμὸν ὀλέσσαι. 110
a SM) DNs Μ Dee aA 3 Υ
νῦν δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἀάσπετον ἄλγος ὀϊζυρῶς ἐσάθρησα,
A ¢ 3 > Ἁ ’ὔ / »Μ t/
κεῖνον OT ἀμφὶ πόληα ποδώκεες εἴρυον ἵπποι
> [é 3 A “ ? 9» 7] 5 ”
apyaréws ᾿Αχιλῆος, 6 μ᾽ ἀνέρος εὖνιν ἔθηκε
κουριδίου, τό μοι αἰνὸν ἄχος πέλει ἤματα πάντα."
“Qs GaP ἑὸν κατὰ θυμὸν ἐὕὔσφυρος ᾿Ηετιώνη 11
΄ Ξ
μνησαμένη πόσιος" μάλα yap μέγα πένθος ἀέξει
» Ν > , ’ ,
ἀνδρὸς ἀποφθιμένοιο σαόφροσι θηλυτέρησιν.
᾿Ηέλιος δὲ θοῇσιν ἑλισσόμενος περὶ δίνης
4 3 > 5 ΄Ὁ \ eu »»Ἤ > “εν
δύσατ᾽ ἐς ὠκεανοῖο βαθὺν ῥόον, ἤνυτο δ᾽ ἠώς.
οἱ δ᾽ ὅτε δὴ παύσαντο ποτοῦ δαιτός τ᾽ ἐρατεινῆς, 120
δὴ τότε που δμῳαὶ στόρεσαν θυμήρεα λέκτρα
ἐν ἸΙριάμοιο δόμοισι θρασύφρονι Ἰ]Πενθεσιλείη"
ἡ δὲ κιοῦσ᾽ εὕδεσκεν" ὕπνος δέ οἱ ὄσσε κάλυψε
yf ᾽ , ’ ? ’ / 5 ς vA
νήδυμος ἀμφιπεσών' μόλε δ᾽ αἰθέρος ἐξ ὑπάτοιο
Παλλάδος ἐννεσίῃσι μένος δολόεντος ᾿Ονείρον, 128
ὅππως μιν λεύσσουσα κακὸν Τρώεσσι γένηται
5 Ρ] A A \ / / 1
of T αὐτῇ, μεμαυῖα ποτὶ πτολέμου στροφάλιγγα.
\ \ \ ἃ eg ἘΠ) /
καὶ τὰ μὲν WS ὥρμαινε δαΐφρων Tpitoyévera:
A 9). \ Μ > / \ 3 ,
τῇ δ᾽ ἄρα λυγρὸς *Overpos ἐφίστατο πατρὶ ἐοικώς,
,ὔ = > 4 , » 9 9 ξι
καί μιν ἐποτρύνεσκε ποδάρκεος ἄντ᾽ ᾿Αχιλῆος 130
1 Zimmermann, for πτολέμοιο φάλαγγας of v.
10
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK I
Hector was mightier far to wield the spear
Than thou, yet was for all his prowess slain,
Slain for the bitter grief of Troy, whose folk
The city through looked on him as a God.
My glory and his noble parents’ glory
Was he while yet he lived—O that the earth
Over my dead face had been mounded high,
Or ever through his throat the breath of life
Followed the cleaving spear! But now have I
Looked—woe is me !—on grief unutterable,
When round the city those fleet-footed steeds
Haled him, steeds of Achilles, who had made
Me widowed of mine hero-husband, made
My portion bitterness through all my days.”
So spake Eetion’s lovely-ankled child
Low to her own soul, thinking on her lord.
So evermore the faithful-hearted wife
Nurseth for her lost love undying grief.
Then in swift revolution sweeping round
Into the Ocean’s deep stream sank the sun,
And daylight died. So when the banqueters
Ceased from the wine-cup and the goodly feast,
Then did the handmaids spread in Priam’s halls
For Penthesileia dauntless-souled the couch
Heart-cheering, and she laid her down to rest ;
And slumber mist-like overveiled her eyes [depths
Like sweet dew dropping round. From heavens’ blue
Slid down the might of a deceitful dream
At Pallas’ hest, that so the warrior-maid
Might see it, and become a curse to Troy
And to herself, when strained her soul to meet
The whirlwind of the battle. In this wise
The Trito-born, the subtle-souled, contrived :
Stood o’er the maiden’s head that baleful dream
In likeness of her father, kindling her
Fearlessly front to front to meet in fight
TI
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
θαρσαλέως μάρνασθαι ἐναντίον" ἡ δ᾽ ἀΐουσο
/ ’ \ ΄ Siok \ 4 ΝΜ
γήθεεν ἐν φρεσὶ πάμπαν: ὀΐσσατο γὰρ μέγα ἔργον
γ᾽ f don an aN , ’ ,
ἐκτελέσειν αὐτῆμαρ ἀνὰ μόθον ὀκρυόεντα"
’, Fes / 3... a 3 ΄
νηπίη" ἥ ῥ᾽ ἐπίθησεν ὀϊζυρῷ περ Ονείρῳ
ἑσπερίῳ, ὃς φῦλα πολυτλήτων ἀνθρώπων 135
θέλγει ἐνὶ λεχέεσσιν ἄδην ἐπικέρτομα Balov,
ee ae eee lf ’ ΄ /
ὅς μιν ap ἐξαπάφησεν ἐποτρύνων πονέεσθαι.
᾿Αλλ᾽ ὅτε δή ῥ᾽ ἐπόρουσε ῥοδόσφυρος ἠριγένεια,
δὴ τότε Πενθεσίλεια μέγ᾽ ἐνθεμένη φρεσὶ κάρτος
» sa Gn ᾽ / Yk oi a; »
ἐξ εὐνῆς ἀνέπαλτο καὶ ἀμφ᾽ ὦμοισιν ἔδυνε 140
/ / / e \ ” Vv
τεύχεα δαιδαλόεντα, τά ot θεὸς ὥπασεν Apne.
a \ nx , DAL ASS , »
πρῶτα μὲν ἂρ κνήμῃσιν ἐπ᾽ apyudenow ἔθηκε
κνημῖδας χρυσέας, αἴ οἱ ἔσαν Ev apapviat:
“ ᾽ > , / > \ Dp Mati Ds SSP
ἕσσατο δ᾽ av θώρηκα παναίολον' ἀμφὶ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ὦμοις
θήκατο κυδιόωσα μέγα ξίφος, ᾧ πέρι πάντῃ 14
κουλεὸς EV ἤσκητο δι᾿ ἀργύρου ἠδ᾽ ἐλέφαντος"
vn 9 ὦ 3 {3 γι “ > 7, Μ /
ἂν δ᾽ ἕλετ᾽ ἀσπίδα δῖαν ἀλίγκιον ἄντυγι μήνης,
ἥ θ᾽ ὑπὲρ ὠκεανοῖο βαθυρρόου ἀντέλλῃσιν
ἥμισυ πεπληθυῖα περὶ γναμπτῇσι κεραίῃς"
τοίη μαρμαίρεσκεν ἀάσπετον' ἀμφὶ δὲ κρατὶ 150
θῆκε κόρυν κομόωσαν ἐθείρησι χρυσέῃσιν"
ὡς ἡ μὲν μορόεντα περὶ χροὶ θήκατο τεύχη.
ἀστεροπῇ δ’ ἀτάλαντος ἐείδετο, τὴν ἀπ᾿ Ὀλύμπου
ἐς γαῖαν προΐησι Διὸς μένος ἀκαμάτοιο
δεικνὺς ἀνθρώποισι μένος βαρυηχέος ὄμβρου 155
IN / > / » ᾽ ΄
ἠὲ πολυρροίζων ἀνέμων ἄλληκτον LwND.
12
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK 1
Fleetfoot Achilles. And she heard the voice,
And all her heart exulted, for she weened
That she should on that dawning day achieve
A mighty deed in battle’s deadly toil—
Ah, fool, who trusted for her sorrow a dream
Out of the sunless land, such as beguiles
Full oft the travail-burdened tribes of men,
Whispering mocking lies in sleeping ears,
And to the battle’s travail lured her then!
But when the Dawn, the rosy-ankled, leapt
Up from her bed, then, clad in mighty strength
Of spirit, suddenly from her couch uprose
Penthesileia. Then did she array
Her shoulders in those wondrous-fashioned arms
Given her of the War-god. First she laid
Beneath her silver-gleaming knees the greaves
Fashioned of gold, close-clipping the strong limbs.
Her rainbow-radiant corslet clasped she then
About her, and around her shoulders slung,
With glory in her heart, the massy brand
Whose shining length was in a scabbard sheathed
Of ivory and silver. Next, her shield
Unearthly splendid, caught she up, whose rim
Swelled like the young moon’s arching chariot-rail
When high o’er Ocean’s fathomless-flowing stream
She rises, with the space half filled with light
Betwixt her bowing horns. So did it shine
Unutterably fair. Then on her head
She settled the bright helmet overstreamed
With a wild mane of golden-glistering hairs.
So stood she, lapped about with flaming mail,
In semblance like the lightning, which the might,
The never-wearied might of Zeus, to earth
Hurleth, what time he showeth forth to men
Fury of thunderous-roaring rain, or swoop
Resistless of his shouting host of winds.
13
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
αὐτίκα δ᾽ ἐγκονέουσα διὲκ μεγάροιο νέεσθαι
δοιοὺς εἵλετ᾽ ἄκοντας ὑπ᾽ ἀσπίδα, δεξιτερῇ δὲ
βουπλῆγ᾽ ἀμφίτυπον, Tov οἱ “Epis ὦπασε δεινὴ
θυμοβόρου πολέμοιο πελώριον ἔμμεναι ἄλκαρ. 160
“A >
/ ’ Dp ἌΣ, »Μ 4
τῷ ἐπικαγχαλόωσα τάχ᾽ ἤλυθεν ἔκτοθι πύργων
“ ΕῚ 4 4 > ,ὔ
Τρῶας ἐποτρύνουσα μάχην ἐς κυδιάνειραν
? 4 \ ao ee ’ ,
ἐλθέμεναι" τοὶ δ᾽ ὦκα συναγρόμενοι πεπίθοντο
wv ’ A , ΄ > > ,
ἄνδρες ἀριστῆες, καίπερ πάρος οὐκ ἐθέλοντες
, Wes oS A e \ ,
στήμεναι ἄντ᾽ ᾿Αχιλῆος: ὁ yap περιδάμνατο
πάνπας. 165
_- Ow wy , 27 “ γ δ΄
ἡ δ᾽ ἄρα κυδιάασκεν ἀάσχετον" ἕζετο δ᾽ ἵππῳ
καλῷ, ὠκυτάτῳ, τόν οἱ ἄλοχος Βορέαο
ὦπασεν ᾿᾽Ωρείθυια πάρος Θρήκηνδε κιούσῃ
, ee a / € ,
ξείνιον, ὅς τε θοῇσι μετέπρεπεν ᾿Αρπυίῃσι.
τῷ pa τόθ᾽ ἑξζομένη λίπεν ἄστεος αἰπὰ μέλαθρα 170
ἐσθλὴ ΤΠενθεσίλεια' λυγραὶ δέ μιν ὀτρύνεσκον
Κῆρες ὁμῶς πρώτην τε καὶ ὑστατίην ἐπὶ δῆριν
ἐλθέμεν: ἀμφὶ δὲ Τρῶες ἀνοστήτοισι πόδεσσι
πολλοὶ ἕποντ᾽ ἐπὶ δῆριν ἀναιδέα τλήμονι κούρῃ
ἰλαδόν, ἡὕτε μῆλα μετὰ κτίλον, ὅς θ᾽ ἅμα πάντων 175
νισσομένων προθέησι δαημοσύνῃσι νομῆος"
az » AP Sa 5.0. ἦ , , ΄
ὡς ἄρα τῇ γ᾽ ἐφέποντο Bin μέγα μαιμώωντες
Τρῶες ἐὐσθενέες καὶ ᾿Α μαζόνες ὀβριμόθυμοι.
ἡ δ᾽ οἵη Τριτωνίς, ὅτ᾽ ἤλυθεν ἄντα Γιγάντων,
14
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK I
Then in hot haste forth of her bower to pass
Caught she two javelins in the hand that grasped
Her shield-band; but her strong right hand laid
hold
On a huge halberd, sharp of either blade,
Which terrible Eris gave to Ares’ child
To be her Titan weapon in the strife
That raveneth souls of men. Laughing for glee
Thereover, swiftly flashed she forth the ring
Of towers. Her coming kindled all the sons
Of Troy to rush into the battle forth
Which crowneth men with glory. Swiftly all
Hearkened her gathering-cry, and thronging came,
Champions, yea, even such as theretofore
Shrank back from standing in the ranks of war
Against Achilles the all-ravager.
But she—in pride of triumph on she rode
Throned on a goodly steed and fleet, the gift
Of Oreithyia, the wild North-wind’s bride,
Given to her guest the warrior-maid, what time
She came to Thrace, a steed whose flying feet
Could match the Harpies’ wings. Riding thereon
Penthesileia in her goodlihead
Left the tall palaces of Troy behind.
And ever were the ghastly-visaged Fates
Thrusting her on into the battle, doomed
To be her first against the Greeks—and last!
To right, to left, with unreturning feet
The Trojan thousands followed to the fray,
The pitiless fray, that death-doomed warrior-maid,
Followed in throngs, as follow sheep the ram
That by the shepherd’s art strides before all.
So followed they, with battle-fury filled,
Strong Trojans and wild-hearted Amazons.
And like Tritonis seemed she, as she went
To meet the Giants, or as flasheth far
15
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
Aw > 4 > \ \ >.
“Epis ἐγρεκύδοιμος ava στρατὸν ἀΐσσουσα, 180
’ , \
τοίη ἐνὶ Τρώεσσι θοὴ πέλε Πενθεσίλεια.
, /
Kai τότε δὴ Κρονίωνι πολυτλήτους ἀναείρας
A , 9-4, / > A
χεῖρας Λαομέδοντος ἐὺς γόνος ἀφνειοῖο
wv 2 9 e x ᾽ \ / ’ /
evyeT ἐς ἱερὸν αἰπὺ τετραμμένος ᾿Ιδαίοιο
Ζηνός, ὃς Ἵλεον αἰὲν ἑοῖς ἐπιδέρκεται ὄσσοις" 185
A Ὁ) > A
“κλῦθι, πάτερ, καὶ λαὸν ᾿Αχαιικὸν ἤματι τῷδε
>
δὸς πεσέειν ὑπὸ χερσὶν Apniabos βασιλείης,
\ ’ 9 / SS \ n /
καὶ δ᾽ av μιν παλίνορσον ἐμὸν ποτὶ δῶμα σάωσον
τῳ x ? ΄ ” ”
ἁζόμενος τεὸν via πελώριον ὄβριμον ᾿Άρην,
αὐτήν θ᾽, οὕνεκ᾽ ἔοικεν ἐπουρανίησι θεῆσιν 190
᾽ / \ a A / > \ /
ἐκπάγλως, καὶ σεῖο θεοῦ γένος ἐστὶ γενέθλης.
αἴδεσσαι δ᾽ ἐμὸν ἧτορ, ἐπεὶ κακὰ πολλὰ τέτληκα
/ a
παίδων ὀλλυμένων, οὕς μοι περὶ Κῆρες ἔμαρψαν
9 / / \ ’ a
Αργείων παλάμῃσι κατὰ στόμα δηιοτῆτος"
” > 7 ” lal > > (/ / > >) lal ἘΞ
αἴδεο δ᾽, ἕως ETL παῦροι ἀφ᾽ αἵματός εἰμεν ἀγαυοῦ 195
Δαρδάνου, ἕως ἀδάϊκτος ἔτι πτόλις, ὄφρα καὶ ἡμεῖς
᾽ Le > 4 ἃ Ψ » / >”
ἐκ φόνου ἀργαλέοιο καὶ Apeos ἀμπνεύσωμεν.
Ἦ ῥα μέγ᾽ εὐχόμενος" τῷ δ᾽ αἰετὸς ὀξὺ κεκληγὼς
ἤδη ἀποπνείουσαν ἔχων ὀνύχεσσι πέλειαν
> / ὙΜ ’ / β ᾽ \ \ A
ἐσσυμένως οἴμησεν ἀριστερός: ἀμφὶ δὲ θυμῷ 200
τάρβησε ἸΪ]ριάμοιο νόος, φάτο δ᾽ οὐκέτ᾽ ἀθρήσειν
ζωὴν Πενθεσίλειαν ἀπὸ πτολέμοιο κιοῦσαν'
\ Ν \ “δ A NOL: > / » /
καὶ TO μὲν WS ἤμελλον ἐτήτυμον ἤματι κείνῳ
lal e
Kijpes ὑπεκτελέειν' ὁ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἄχνυτο θυμὸν ἐαγώς.
τό
THE ΕΑ, ΟΕ TROY, BOOK 1
Through war-hosts Eris, waker of onset-shouts.
So mighty in the Trojans’ midst she seemed,
Penthesileia of the flying feet.
Then unto Cronos’ Son Laomedon’s child
Upraised his hands, his sorrow-burdened hands,
Turning him toward the sky-encountering fane
Of Zeus of Ida, who with sleepless eyes
Looks ever down on Ilium ; and he prayed :
«Father, give ear! Vouchsafe that on this day
Achaea’s host may fall before the hands
Of this our warrior-queen, the War-god’s child ;
And do thou bring her back unscathed again
Unto mine halls: we pray thee by the love
Thou bear’st to Ares of the fiery heart
Thy son, yea, to her also !—is she not
Most wondrous like the heavenly Goddesses ?
And is she not the child of thine own seed ?
Pity my stricken heart withal! Thou know’st
All agonies 1 have suffered in the deaths
Of dear sons whom the Fates have torn from me
By Argive hands in the devouring fight.
Compassionate us, while a remnant yet
Remains of noble Dardanus’ blood, while yet
This city stands unwasted! Let us know
From ghastly slaughter and strife one breathing-
space "ἢ
In passionate prayer he spake :—lo, with shrill
scream
Swiftly to left an eagle darted by
And in his talons bare a gasping dove.
Then round the heart of Priam all the blood
Was chilled with fear. Low to his soul he said:
‘“‘Ne’er shall I see return alive from war
Penthesileia!’’ On that selfsame day
The Fates prepared his boding to fulfil ;
And his heart brake with anguish of despair.
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QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
9 A
Αργεῖοι δ᾽ ἀπάνευθεν ἐθάμβεον, εὖτ᾽ ἐσίδοντο 205
Τρῶας ἐπεσσυμένους καὶ ᾿Αρηίδα Πενθεσίλειαν,
\ \ \ / > if “ 8. Δ» ”
Tous μὲν δὴ θήρεσσιν ἐοικότας, οἵ τ᾽ ἐν ὄρεσσι
/ /
ποίμνῃς εἰροπόκοισι φόνον στονόεντα φέρουσι,
\ \ \ € wits / Ὁ ιν 4
τὴν δὲ πυρὸς ῥιπῇ ἐναλίγκιον, HT ἐπὶ θάμνοις
7ὔ
μαίνεται ἀζαλέοισιν ἐπευγομένου ἀνέμοιο" 210
ὦ a
Kal τις ἅμ᾽ ἀγρομένοισιν ἔπος ποτὶ τοῖον ἔειπεν"
“τίς δὴ Τρῶας ἔγειρε μεθ᾽ “Ἕκτορα δηωθέντα,
οὺς φάμεν οὐκέτι νῶιν ὑπαντιάσειν μεμαῶτας ;
A ah. U
νῦν δ᾽ ἄφαρ ἀΐσσουσι λιλαιόμενοι μέγα χάρμης.
΄ 4 » / > / /
Kal νύ TLS ἐν μέσσοισιν ἐποτρύνει πονέεσθαι" 215
φαίης κεν θεὸν ἔμμεν, ἐπεὶ μέγα μήδεται ἔργον.
5 Φ MN if A STN , ,
ἀλλ᾽ ἄγε θάρσος ἄατον ἐνὶ στέρνοισι λαβόντες
’ a ΄ Hf 2Q\ \ « a
ἀλκῆς μνησώμεσθα δαΐφρονος" οὐδὲ yap ἡμεῖς
an A ᾽
νόσφι θεῶν Τρώεσσι μαχησόμεθ᾽ ἤματι τῷδε.
“Ὁ ,
Ὡς dato: τοὶ δὲ φαεινὰ περὶ σφίσι τεύχεα
θέντες 290
A , v
νηῶν ἐξεχέοντο μένος KATAELMEVOL ὥὦμοις"
/
σὺν © ἔβαλον θήρεσσιν ἐοικότες ὠμοβόροισι
a “ x LA
δῆριν ἐς αἱματόεσσαν, ὁμοῦ δ᾽ ἔχον ἔντεα καλά,
"2 - /
ἔγχεα καὶ θώρηκας evabevéas τε βοείας
/ “
καὶ κόρυθας βριαράς, ἕτερος δ᾽ ἑτέρου χρόα χαλκῷ 225
/ » / \ ΨΥ / / 1D
TUTTOV ἀπηλεγέως: τὸ δ᾽ ἐρεύθετο Tparov οὖδας.
Ἔνθ᾽ ἕλε Πενθεσίλεια Μολίονα ἸΠερσίνοόν τε
ἣ
Εἰὐλισσόν τε καὶ ᾿Αντίθεον καὶ ἀγήνορα Λέρνον
᾿ 4 pee 4
“Ἵππαλμόν τε καὶ Αἱμονίδην κρατερόν t ᾿λάσ-
ὑππον"
18
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK I
Marvelled ttte Argives, far across the plain
Seeing the hosts of Troy charge down on them,
And midst them Penthesileia, Ares’ child.
These seemed like ravening beasts that mid the hills
Bring grimly slaughter to the fleecy flocks ;
And she, as a rushing blast of flame she seemed
That maddeneth through the copses summer-
scorched,
When the wind drives it on; and in this wise
Spake one to other in their mustering host :
“Who shall this be who thus can rouse to war
The Trojans, now that Hector hath been slain—
These who, we said, would never more find heart
To stand against us? Lo now, suddenly
Forth are they rushing, madly afire for fight!
Sure, in their midst some great one kindleth them
To battle’s toil! Thou verily wouldst say
This were a God, of such great deeds he dreams !
Go to, with aweless courage let us arm
Our own breasts: let us summon up our might
In battle-fury. We shall lack not help
Of Gods this day to close in fight with Troy.”
So cried they ; and their flashing battle-gear
Cast they about them: forth the ships they poured
Clad in the rage of fight as with a cloak.
Then front to front their battles closed, like beasts
Of ravin, locked in tangle of gory strife.
Clanged their bright mail together, clashed the
spears,
The corslets, and the stubborn-welded shields
And adamant helms. Each stabbed at other’s flesh
With the fierce brass: was neither ruth nor rest,
And all the Trojan soil was crimson-red.
_ Then first Penthesileia smote and slew
Molion; now Persinous falls, and now
Eilissus ; reeled Antitheus ‘neath her spear:
19
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
Δηρινόη δ᾽ ἕλε Aaoyovov, Krovin δὲ Mévirrrov, 230
ὅς pa πάρος Φυλακῆθεν ἐφέσπετο Πρωτεσιλάῳ,
ὅππως κε Τρώεσσιν ἐὐσθενέεσσι μάχηται.
τοῦ δ᾽ ap ἀποφθιμένοιο ΠΠοδάρκεϊ θυμὸς ὀρίνθη
Ἰφικληιάδῃ: τὸν γὰρ μέγα φίλαθ᾽ ἑταίρων'
αἶψα δ᾽ ὅ γ᾽ ἀντιθέην Κλονίην βάλε, τῆς δὲ διαπιρὸ 235
ἦλθε δόρυ στιβαρὸν κατὰ νηδύος, ἐκ δέ οἱ ὦκα
δουρὶ χύθη μέλαν αἷμα, συνέσπετο δ᾽ ἔγκατα πάντα"
τῆς δ᾽ ἄρα ἸΠενθεσίλεια χολώσατο, καί pa
Ποδάρκεα
οὔτασεν ἐς μυῶνα παχὺν περιμήκεϊ δουρὶ
Ν ΓΟ \ \ , € /
χειρὸς δεξιτερῆς, διὰ δὲ φλέβας αἱματοέσσας 940
/ , / « = ak, ᾽ ν
κέρσε, μέλαν δέ οἱ αἷμα δι᾽ ἕλκεος οὐταμένοιο
ἔβχλυσεν ἐσσυμένως" ὁ δ᾽ ἄρα στενάχων ἀπόρουσεν
εἰσοπίσω: μάλα yap οἱ ἐδάμνατο θυμὸν avin:
τοῦ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἀπεσσυμένοιο ποθὴ Φυλάκεσσιν ἐτύχθη
ἄσπετος" ὃς δ᾽ ἄρα βαιὸν ἀπὸ πτολέμοιο λιασθεὶς 245
κάτθανε καρπαλίμως σφετέρων ἐν χερσὶν ἑταίρων.
’ \ \ / Σ / , ΄,
Ἰδομενεὺς δὲ Βρέμουσαν ἐνήρατο δούρατι Tuas
δεξιτερὸν παρὰ μαζόν, ἄφαρ δέ οἱ ἦτορ ἔλυσεν'
e ps / » / Ὁ ἊΝ Μ
ἡ δ᾽ ἔπεσεν μελίῃ ἐναλίγκιος, ἥν T ἐν ὄρεσσι
δουροτόμοι τέμνουσιν ὑπείροχον, ἡ δ᾽ ἀλεγεινὸν 250
ῥοῖζον ὁμῶς καὶ δοῦπον ἐρευπομένη προΐἴησιν'
ὡς ἡ ἀνοιμώξασα πέσεν, τῆς δ᾽ ἅψεα πάντα
A , \ ἣν δι. / ”
λῦσε μόρος, ψυχὴ δ᾽ ἐμίγη πολυαέσιν αὔραις.
Εὐάνδρην δ᾽ ἄρα Μηριόνης ἰδὲ Θερμώδωσαν
᾽ - , ἢ ι > \ ὃ - Ε
εἷλεν ἐπεσσυμένας ὀλοὴν ἀνὰ δηιοτῆτα 255
20
THE? PALES OR PRON, BOOK I
The pride of Lernus quelled she: down she bore
Hippalmus ‘neath her horse-hoofs ; Haemon’s son
Died; withered stalwart Elasippus’ strength.
And Derinoé laid low Laogonus,
And Clonié Menippus, him who sailed
Long since from Phylace, led by his lord
Protesilaus to the war with Troy.
Then was Podarces, son of Iphiclus,
Heart-wrung with ruth and wrath to see him lie
Dead, of all battle-comrades best-beloved.
Swiftly at Clonié he hurled, the maid
Fair as a Goddess: plunged the unswerving lance
’Twixt hip and hip, and rushed the dark blood forth
After the spear, and all her bowels gushed out.
Then wroth was Penthesileia; through the brawn
Of his right arm she drave the long spear’s point,
She shore atwain the great blood-brimming veins,
And through the wide gash of the wound the gore
Spirted, a crimson fountain. With a groan
Backward he sprang, his courage wholly quelled
By bitter pain; and sorrow and dismay
Thrilled, as he fled, his men of Phylace.
A short way from the fight he reeled aside,
And in his friends’ arms died in httle space.
Then with his lance Idomeneus thrust out,
And by the right breast stabbed Bremusa. Stilled
For ever was the beating of her heart.
She fell, as falls a graceful-shafted pine
Hevwn mid the hills by woodmen: heavily,
Sighing through all its boughs, it crashes down.
So with a wailing shriek she fell, and death
Unstrung her every limb: her breathing soul
Mingled with multitudinous-sighing winds.
Then, as Evandré through the murderous fray
With Thermodosa rushed, stood Meriones,
A lion in the path, and slew: his spear
21
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
a \ 22" ἐν δί / 50 ao? ¢ \ ν
τῇ μὲν ἄρ᾽ ἐς κραδίην ἐλάσας δόρυ, τῇ δ᾽ ὑπὸ νηδὺν
φάσγανον ἐγχρίμψας: τὰς δ᾽ ἐσσυμένως λίπεν
αἰών.
Δηρινόην δ᾽ ἐδάμασσεν ᾿Οἰλέος ὄβριμος υἱὸς
ἔγχεϊ ὀκριόεντι διὰ κληῖδα τυχήσας.
᾿Αλκιβίης δ᾽ ἄρα Τυδείδης καὶ Δηριμαχείης 260
ἄμφω κρᾶτ᾽ ἀπέκοψε σὺν αὐχέσιν ἄχρις ἐπ᾽ wpous
yy / ‘ 3D ψῷ ck , »Μ
ἄορι λευγαλέῳ: ταὶ δ᾽ nite ὀόστιες ἄμφω
7 ev 3 3 \ Ν᾽ “ > Ψ
κάππεσον, as T αἰζηὸς ἄφαρ ψυχῆς ἀπαμέρσῃ
κόψας αὐχενίους στιβαρῷ βουπλῆγι τένοντας"
ἃ e , / / : an
ὡς at Τυδείδαο πέσον παλάμησι δαμεῖσαι 265
Τρώων ἂμ πεδίον σφετέρων ἀπὸ νόσφι καρήνων.
τῇσι δ᾽ ἔπι Σθένελος κρατερὸν κατέπεφνε Κάβειρον.
ἃ ’ b] - / /
ὃς κίεν ἐκ Σηστοῖο λιλαιόμενος πολεμίζειν
᾿Αργείοις, οὐδ᾽ αὖθις ἑὴν νοστήσατο πάτρην.
τοῦ δὲ Πάρις κραδίην ἐχολώσατο δῃωθέντος, 270
, ery , ὔ ΣΟΥ» ,
καί ῥ᾽ ἔβαλε Σ:θενέλοιο καταντίον" οὐδ᾽ ἄρα τόν γε
οὔτασεν ἐσσύμενός περ, ἀπεπλάγχθη γὰρ ὀϊστὸς
»Μ “ a 3 , > /
ἄλλῃ, ὅπῃ μιν Κῆρες ἀμείλιχοι ἰθύνεσκον'
κτεῖνε δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἐσσυμένως Evjvopa χαλκεομίτρην,
“Ὁ πΆν9 , ,ὔ ΄, , =
ὅς ῥ᾽ ἐκ Δουλιχίοιο κίεν Τρώεσσι μάχεσθαι. 275
a ΑΝ: θ / 7. Φ a ? al
τοῦ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἀποφθιμένοιο πάϊς Φυλῆος ἀγαυοῦ
af ἂν / 53. ἡ 7 ἃ , /
ὠρίνθη" μάλα δ᾽ ὦκα λέων ὡς πώεσι μήλων
» \ ? e /, e / Μ
ἔνθορε- τοὶ & ἅμα πάντες ὑπέτρεσαν ὄβριμον
ἄνδρα"
κτεῖνε yap ᾿Ιτυμονῆα καὶ Ἱππασίδην ᾿Αγέλαον,
οἵ p ἀπὸ Μιλήτοιο φέρον Δαναοῖσιν ὁμοκλὴν 280
KT 2 e Sas / Ne 3.9 / /
Naotyn ὑπ᾽ ἀντιθέῳ καὶ vr ᾿Αμφιμάχῳ μεγαθύμφῳ,
1 Zimmermann, from P for ἀγαυὸς of v.
22
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK I
Right to the heart of one he drave, and one
Stabbed with a lightning sword-thrust ’twixt the
hips:
Leapt Teach the wounds the life, and fled away.
Oileus’ fiery son smote Derinoé
’Twixt throat and shoulder with his ruthless spear ;
And on Alcibié Tydeus’ terrible son
Swooped, and on Derimacheia : head with neck
Clean from the shoulders of these twain he shore
With ruin-wreaking brand. Together down
Fell they, as young calves by the massy axe
Of brawny flesher felled, that, shearing through
The sinews of the neck, lops life away.
So, by the hands of Tydeus’ son laid low
Upon the Trojan plain, far, far away
From their own highland-home, they fell. Nor these
Alone died ; for the might of Sthenelus
Down on them hurled Cabeirus’ corse, who came
From Sestos, keen to fight the Argive foe,
But never saw his fatherland again.
Then was the heart of Paris filled with wrath
For a friend slain. Full upon Sthenelus
Aimed he a shaft death-winged, yet touched him not,
Despite his thirst for vengeance : otherwhere
The arrow glanced aside, and carried death
Whither the stern Fates guided its fierce wing,
And slew Evenor brazen-tasleted,
Who from Dulichium came to war with Troy.
For his death fury-kindled was the son
Of haughty Phyleus: as a lion leaps
Upon the flock, so swiftly rushed he: all
Shrank huddling back before that terrible man.
Itymoneus he slew, and Hippasus’ son
Agelaus: from Miletus brought they war
Against the Danaan men by Nastes led,
23
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
* * * * * * k
ot Μυκάλην ἐνέμοντο Λάτμοιό τε λευκὰ κάρηνα
Βράγχου τ᾽ ἄγκεα μακρὰ καὶ ἠιόεντα Πάνορμον
Μαιάνδρου τε ῥέεθρα βαθυρρόου, ὅς ῥ᾽ ἐπὶ γαῖαν
Καρῶν ἀμπελόεσσαν ἀπὸ Φρυγίης πολυμήλου 285
εἶσι πολυγνάμπτοισιν ἑλισσόμενος προχοῇσι.
καὶ τοὺς μὲν κατέπεφνε Μέγης ἐν δηιοτῆτι"
ἄλλους 8 αὗτ᾽ ἐδάμασσεν, ὅσους κίχε δουρὶ
κελαινῷ"
ἐν γάρ οἱ στέρνοισι θράσος βάλε Τριτογένεια,
ὄφρα κε δυσμενέεσσιν ὀλέθριον ἦμαρ ἐφείη. 290
Δρησαῖον δ᾽ ἐδάμασσεν ἀρηίφιλος ἸΤολυποίτης,
τὸν τέκε δία Νέαιρα περίφρονει Θειοδάμαντι
μιχθεῖσ᾽ ἐν λεχέεσσιν ὑπαὶ Σιπύλῳ νιφόεντι,
ἦχι θεοὶ Νιόβην λᾶαν θέσαν, ἧς ἔτι δάκρυ
πουλὺ μάλα στυφελῆς καταλείβεται ὑψόθι
πέτρης, 295
καί οἱ συστοναχοῦσι ῥοαὶ πολυηχέος “Ἑρμου
καὶ κορυφαὶ Σιπύλου περιμήκεες, ὧν καθύπερθεν
ἐχθρὴ μηλονόμοισιν ἀεὶ περιπέπτατ᾽ ὀμίχλη;
ἡ δὲ πέλει μέγα θαῦμα παρεσσυμένοισι βροτοῖσιν,
οὕνεκ᾽ ἔοικε γυναικὶ πολυστόνῳ, ἥ T ἐπὶ λυγρῷ 800
πένθεϊ μυρομένη μάλα μυρία δάκρυα χεύει"
καὶ τὸ μὲν ἀτρεκέως φὴς ἔμμεναι, ὁππότ᾽ ap
αὐτὴν
τηλόθεν ἀθρήσειας: ἐπὴν δέ ο ἐγγὺς ἵκηαι,
24
THE FAEL! OF FROY,’ BOOK +I
The god-like, and Amphimachus mighty-souled,
On Mycale they dwelt: beside their home
Rose Latmus’ snowy crests, stretched the long glens
Of Branchus, and Panormus’ water-meads.
Maeander’s flood deep-rolling swept thereby,
Which from the Phrygian uplands, pastured o’er
Ky myriad flocks, around a thousand forelands
Curls, swirls, and drives his hurrying ripples on
Down to the vine-clad land of Carian men
These mid the storm of battle Meges slew,
Nor these alone, but whomsoe’er his lance
Black-shafted touched, were dead men; for his
breast
The glorious Trito-born with courage thrilled
To bring to all his foes the day of doom.
And Polypoetes, dear to Ares, slew
Dresaeus, whom the Nymph Neaera bare
To passing-wise Theiodamas - for these
Spread was the bed of love beside the foot
Of Sipylus the Mountain, where the Gods
Made Niobe a stony rock, wherefrom
Tears ever stream: high up, the rugged crag
Bows as one weeping, weeping: waterfalls
Cry from far-echoing Hermus, wailing moan
Of sympathy: the sky-encountering crests
Of Sipylus, where alway floats a mist
Hated of shepherds, echo back the cry.
Weird marvel seems that Rock of Niobe
To men that pass with feet fear-goaded : there
They see the likeness of a woman bowed,
In depths of anguish sobbing, and her tears
Drop, as she mourns grief-stricken, endlessly.
Yea, thou wouldst say that verily so it was,
Viewing it from afar; but when hard by
Thou standest, all the illusion vanishes ;
And lo, a steep-browed rock, a fragment rent
29
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
, » , / A , v9 ,
φαίνεται αἰπήεσσα πέτρη Σιπύλοιό τ᾽ ἀπορρώξ.
ἀλλ᾽ ἡ μὲν μακάρων ὀλοὸν χόλον ἐκτελέουσα
μύρεται ἐν πέτρῃσιν ἔτ᾽ ἀχνυμένη εἰκυῖα.
ἼΛλλοι δ᾽ ἀμφ᾽ ἄλλοισι φόνον καὶ κῆρ᾽ ἐτίθεντο
\ a
ἀργαλέην: δεινὸς yap ἐνεστρωφᾶτο Κυδοιμὸς
μ
A > / > \ / coe
λαοῖς ἐν μέσσοισιν: ἀταρτηρὸν δέ οἱ ἄγχι
εἱστήκει Θανάτοιο τέλος, περὶ δέ σφισι Kijpes
λευγαλέαι στρωφῶντο φόνον στονόεντα φέρουσαι.
πολλῶν δ᾽ ἐν κονίῃσι λύθη κέαρ ἤματι κείνῳ
Τρώων τ᾽ ᾿Αργείων τε, πολὺς δ᾽ ἀλαλητὸς ὀρώρει"
οὐ γάρ πως ἀπέληγε μένος μέγα ἸΠενθεσιλείης,
> 3. Θὲ ’ ΄ > » \ /
ἀλλ᾽ ws τίς τε βόεσσι κατ᾽ οὔρεα μακρὰ λέαινα
ἐνθόρῃ ἀΐξασα βαθυσκοπέλου διὰ βήσσης
“ « , , ᾿ ΄ ᾿Ν δῖ, ἃ
αἵματος ἱμείρουσα, τό οἱ μάλα θυμὸν ἰαΐνει"
μ μ
ἃ = A > 8 Μ 7,
ὡς τῆμος Δαναοῖσιν ᾿Αρηιὰς ἔνθορε κούρη.
e 3)3 ’ ΄ , \ v
οἱ δ᾽ ὀπίσω yalovto τεθηπότα θυμὸν ἔχοντες,
ἡ δ᾽ ἕπετ᾽ nite κῦμα βαρυγδούποιο θαλάσσης
, > ἢ en ¢ , \ y
νήεσιν ὠκείησιν, ὅθ᾽ ἱστία λευκὰ πετάσσῃ
9 ᾿ , ΄ \ ΄ »»)
οὖρος ἐπειγόμενος, βοόωσι δὲ πάντοθεν ἄκραι
πόντου ἐρευγομένοιο ποτὶ χθονὸς ἠόνα μακρήν.
as ἥ γ᾽ ἑσπομένη Δαναῶν ἐδάϊζε φάλαγγας,
’, > , / \ ΄
Kat σφιν ἐπηπείλησε μέγα φρεσὶ κυδιόωσα:'
tna 7 e , \ » , ΄
ὦ κύνες, ὡς Πριάμοιο κακὴν ἀποτίσετε λώβην
/ > / , ἃ θέ ᾽ /
σήμερον: ov yap πώ τις ἐμὸν σθένος ἐξυπαλύξας
΄ , / \ 4 ἘΝ 3 /
χάρμα φίλοις τοκέεσσι καὶ υἱάσιν ἠδ᾽ ἀλόχοισιν
ἔσσεται" οἰωνοῖς δὲ βόσις καὶ θηρσὶ θανόντες
26
305
310
315
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK I
From Sipylus—yet Niobe is there,
Dreeing her weird, the debt of wrath divine,
A broken heart in guise of shattered stone.
All through the tangle of that desperate fray
Stalked slaughter and doom. The incarnate Onset-
shout
Raved through the rolling battle ; at her side
Paced Death the ruthless, and the Fearful Faces,
The Fates, beside them strode, and in red hands
Bare murder and the groans of dying men.
That day the beating of full many a heart,
Trojan and Argive, was for ever stilled,
While roared the battle round them, while the fury
Of Penthesileia fainted not nor failed ;
But as amid long ridges of lone hills
A lioness, stealing down a deep ravine,
Springs on the kine with lightning leap, athirst
For blood wherein her fierce heart revelleth ;
So on the Danaans leapt that warrior-maid.
And they, their souls were cowed: backward they
shrank,
And fast she followed, as a towering surge
Chases across the thunder-booming sea
A flying bark, whose white sails strain beneath
The wind’s wild buffeting, and all the air
Maddens with roaring, as the rollers crash
On a black foreland looming on the lee
Where long reefs fringe the surf-tormented shores.
So chased she, and so dashed the ranks asunder
Triumphant-souled, and hurled fierce threats before :
“ Ye dogs, this day for evil outrage done
To Priam shall ye pay! No man of you
Shall from mine hands deliver his own life,
And win back home, to gladden parents’ eyes,
Or comfort wife or children. Ye shall lie
Dead, ravined on by vultures and by wolves,
27
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
, ) , »
κείσεσθ᾽, οὐδέ τι τύμβος ἐφ᾽ ὑμέας ἵξεται αἴης. 3380
πῇ νῦν Τυδείδαο βίη, πῇ δ᾽ Αἰακίδαο,
aA \ \ " \ Ν i 35 ᾽ Ψ
ποῦ δὲ καὶ Αἴαντος; τοὺς γὰρ φάτις ἔμμεν ἀρίσ-
τους"
3
ἀλλ᾽ ἐμοὶ οὐ τλήσονται ἐναντία δηριάασθαι,
μή σφιν ἀπὸ μελέων ψυχὰς φθιμένοισι πελάσσω."
Ἦ ῥα καὶ ᾿Αργείοισι μέγα φρονέουσ᾽ ἐνόρουσε 335
θηρὶ βίην εἰκυῖα, πολὺν δ᾽ ὑπεδάμνατο λαὸν
” \ a ͵ ” aS
ἄλλοτε μὲν βουπλῆγι βαρυστομῳ, ἄλλοτε δ᾽ αὖτε
\ ’ , .
πάλλουσ᾽ ὀξὺν ἄκοντα" φέρεν δέ οἱ αἰόλος ἵππος
>] / \ ΄ » / Vv v 3 >) a
ἰοδόκην καὶ τόξον ἀμείλιχον, εἴ που ἄρ᾽ αὐτῇ
\ >] > e , ΄ , » -“
χρείω ἂν αἰἱματοεντα μόθον βελέων ἀλεγεινῶν 340
% ΄ , ‘\ 7 δι ἂν iv
καὶ τόξοιο πέλοιτο' Boot δέ οἱ ἄνδρες ἕποντο
v4 ? , , , ,
Εκτορος ἀγχεμάχοιο κασίγνητοί τε φίλοι τε
ὄβριμον ἐν στέρνοισιν ἀναπνείοντες “Apna,
οἱ Δαναοὺς édailov ἐὐξέστῃς μελίῃσι:
τοὶ δὲ θοοῖς φύλλοισιν ἐοικότες ἢ Ψψεκάδεσσι 345
πίπτον ἐπασσύτεροι, μέγα δ᾽ ἔστενεν ἄσπετος aia
αἵματι δενομένη νεκύεσσί τε πεπληθυϊα:
ἵπποι δ᾽ ἀμφὶ βέλεσσι πεπαρμένοι ἢ μελίησιν
ὑστάτιον χρεμέτιζον ἑὸν μένος ἐκπνείοντες"
ς AN , A 1 ὃ ὃ ’ὔ 3 ’ὔὕ; =
οἱ δὲ κόνιν Bpvypotcr! δεδραγμένοι ἀσπαίρεσκον" 350
\ >] v7 , vA > 4 &
τοὺς δ᾽ ἄρα Τρώιοι ἵπποι ἐπεσσύμενοι μετόπισθεν
ς΄ nr , ie
ἄντλον ὅπως στείβεσκον ὁμοῦ κταμένοισι πεσόν-
τας.
? Zimmermann, for λαχμοῖσι of Koechly, and δραχμοῖσι of
AMP.
28
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK I
And none shall heap the earth-mound o’er your
clay.
Where skulketh now the strength of Tydeus’ son,
And where the might of Aeacus’ scion? Where
Is Aias’ bulk? Ye vaunt them mightiest men
Of all your rabble. Ha! they will not dare
With me to close in battle, lest I drag
Forth from their fainting frames their craven souls!”
Then heart-uplifted Jeapt she on the foe,
Resistless as a tigress, crashing through
Ranks upon ranks of Argives, smiting now
With that huge halberd massy-headed, now
Hurling the keen dart, while her battle-horse
Flashed through the fight, and on his shoulder bare
Quiver and bow death-speeding, close to her hand,
If mid that revel of blood she willed to speed
The bitter-biting shaft. Behind her swept
The charging lines of men fleet-footed, friends
And brethren of the man who never flinched
From close death-grapple, Hector, panting all
The hot breath of the War-god from their breasts,
All slaying Danaans with the ashen spear,
Who fell as frost-touched leaves in autumn fall
One after other, or as drops of rain.
And aye went up a moaning from earth's breast
All blood-bedrenched, and heaped with corse on
corse.
Horses pierced through with arrows, or impaled
On spears, were snorting forth their last of strength
With screaming neighings. Men, with gnashing
teeth
Biting the dust, lay gasping, while the steeds
Of Trojan charioteers stormed in pursuit,
Trampling the dying mingled with the dead
As oxen trample corn in threshing-floors.
29
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
Kai tis évt Τρώεσσιν ἀγάσσατο μακρὰ yeyn-
θώς,
ὡς ide Πενθεσίλειαν ἀνὰ στρατὸν ἀΐσσουσαν
λαίλαπι κυανέῃ ἐναλίγκιον, ἥ T ἐνὶ πόντῳ 356
μαίνεθ᾽, ὅτ᾽ αἰγοκερῆι συνέρχεται ἠελίου is:
καί p ὅ γε μαψιδίῃσιν ἐπ᾽ ἐλπωρῇσιν ἔειπεν"
ὦ φίλοι, ὡς ἀναφανδὸν ἀπ᾽ οὐρανοῦ εἴλήλουθε
σήμερον ἀθανάτων τις, iv’ ᾿Αργείοισι μάχηται
ἡμῖν ἦρα φέρουσα Διὸς κρατερόφρονι βουλῇ, 360
ὃς τάχα που μέμνηται ἐὐσθενέος ἸΠ]ριάμοιο,
ὅς ῥά οἱ εὔχεται εἶναι ad αἵματος ἀθανάτοιο.
οὐ γὰρ τήνδε γυναῖκά γ᾽ ὀΐομαι εἰσοράασθαι
αὕτως θαρσαλέην τε καὶ ἀγλαὰ τεύχε᾽ ἔχουσαν,
ἀλλ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ᾿Αθηναίην ἢ καρτερόθυμον ᾿Ενυὼ 365
ἢ *“Epid ἢ κλειτὴν Antwida: καί μιν ὀΐω
σήμερον ᾿Αργείοισι φόνον στονόεντα βαλέσθαι
νῆάς T ἐμπρήσειν ὀλοῷ πυρί, That πάροιθεν
ἤλυθον ἐς Τροίην νῶιν κακὰ πολλὰ φέροντες,
ἤλυθον ἄσχετον ἄμμιν ὑπ᾽ "Αρεῖ πῆμα φέροντες" 370
ἀλλ᾽ οὐ μὰν παλίνορσοι ἐς Ἑλλάδα νοστήσαντες
πάτρην εὐφρανέουσιν, ἐπεὶ θεὸς ἄμμιν apne.”
“Qs dp ἔφη Τρώων τις ἐνὶ φρεσὶ πάγχυ γεγηθώς,
νήπιος: οὐδ᾽ ap ἐφράσσατ᾽ ἐπεσσύμενον βαρὺ
πῆμα
οἷ αὐτῷ καὶ Τρωσὶ καὶ αὐτῇ Πενθεσιλείῃ. 375
ov yap πώ TL μόθοιο δυσηχέος ἀμφιπέπυστο
Αἴας ὀβριμόθυμος ἰδὲ πτολίπορθος ᾿Αχιλλεύς,
ἀλλ᾽ ἄμφω περὶ σῆμα Μενοιτιάδαο κέχυντο
μνησάμενοι ἑτάροιο" γόος δ᾽ ἔχεν ἄλλυδις ἄλλον.
30
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK 1
Then one exulting boasted mid the host
Of Troy, beholding Penthesileia rush
On through the foes’ array, like the black storm
That maddens o’er the sea, what time the sun
Allies his might with winter’s Goat-horned Star ;
And thus, puffed up with vain hope, shouted he :
“© friends, in manifest presence down from heaven
One of the deathless Gods this day hath come
To fight the Argives, all of love for us,
Yea, and with sanction of almighty Zeus,
He whose compassion now remembereth
Haply strong-hearted Priam, who may boast
For his a lineage of immortal blood.
For this, I trow, no mortal woman seems,
Who is so aweless-daring, who is clad
In splendour-flashing arms: nay, surely she
Shall be Athene, or the mighty-souled
Enyo—haply Eris, or the Child
Of Leto world-renowned. O yea, I look
To see her hurl amid yon Argive men
Mad-shrieking slaughter, see her set aflame
Yon ships wherein they came long years agone
Bringing us many sorrows, yea, they came
Bringing us woes of war intolerable.
Ha! to the home-land Hellas ne’er shall these
With joy return, since Gods on our side fight.”
In overweening exultation so
Vaunted a Trojan. Fool !—he had no vision
Of ruin onward rushing upon himself
And Troy, and Penthesileia’s self withal.
For not as yet had any tidings come
Of that wild fray to Aias stormy-souled,
Nor to Achilles, waster of tower and town.
But on the grave-mound of Menoetius’ son
They twain were lying, with sad meinories
Of a dear comrade crushed, and echoing
321
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
\ \ \ / , -“
τοὺς γὰρ δὴ μακάρων τις ἐρήτυε νόσφι κυδοιμοῦ, 380
wv ᾽ v ,
opp ἀλεγεινὸν ὄλεθρον ἀναπλήσωσι δαμέντες
\ , ‘ a
πολλοὶ ὑπὸ Τρώεσσι καὶ ἐσθλῇ Πενθεσιλείῃ,
ἥ σφιν ἐπασσυτέροις κακὰ μήδετο, καί οἱ ἄεξεν
’ \ e a ‘ ΄ D2 cS , > ’ >
ἀλκὴ ὁμῶς καὶ θάρσος ἐπὶ πλέον, οὐδέ ποτ
αἰχμὴν
μαψιδίην ἴθυνεν, ἀεὶ δ᾽ ἡ νῶτα δάϊξζε 385
΄ , ΄ . ΄
φευγοντων ἢ στέρνα καταντίον ἀϊσσόντων'"
A ? ΄“ , ΄ - ry
θερμῷ δ᾽ αἵματι πάμπαν ἐδεύετο, γυῖα δ᾽ ἐλαφρὰ
ἔπλετ᾽ ἐπεσσυμένης" κάματος & οὐ δάμνατο
θυμὸν
Μ ᾽ ᾽ > ’ Vv / > 4 /
ἄτρομον, ἀλλ᾽ ἀδάμαντος ἔχεν μένος" εἰσέτι γάρ
μιν,
» GE s 3. ἣν ? ΄ Ct} n 1
οὔπω ἐπὶ κλόνον αἰνὸν ἐποτρύνουσ ᾿Αχιλῆα,; 3890
Alga λυγρὴ κύδαινεν, ἀπόπροθι δ᾽ ἑστηυῖα 390
,’ , a] / iA >) ον
χάρμης κυδιάασκεν ὀλέθριον, οὕνεκ᾽ ἔμελλε
κούρην οὐ μετὰ δηρὸν ὑπ᾽ Αἰακίδαο χέρεσσι
Sapvac ἀμφὶ δέ μιν ζόφος ἔκρυφε: τὴν δ᾽
ὀρόθυνεν
ὉΝ Ws SS ΔΝ Ν 9 Μ
αἰὲν ἄϊστος ἐοῦσα καὶ ἐς κακὸν ἦγεν ὄλεθρον
ὕστατα κυδαίνουσ᾽" ἡ δ᾽ ἄλλοθεν ἄλλον ἔναιρεν. 395
ὡς δ᾽ ὁπόθ᾽ ἑρσήεντος ἔσω κήποιο θοροῦσα
, / , » /
moins ἐλδομένη θυμηδέος εἴαρι πόρτις
nen A > / > 7 ” »
ἀνέρος οὐ παρεόντος ἐπέσσυται ἄλλοθεν ἄλλῃ
/ A 4 / ΄ ,
σινομένη φυτὰ πάντα νέον μάλα τηλεθόωντα,
‘ \ \ aN (ὃ \ δ᾽ > \ 3. /
καὶ τὰ μὲν ap κατέδαψε, τὰ δ᾽ ἐν ποσὶν ἠμάλ-
duvev’ 400
1 Zimmermann, for MS. οὕνεκα μοῖρα ποτὶ κλεινὸν ὀτρύνουσ᾽
ἀχιλῆα.-
32
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK I
Each one the other’s groaning. One it was
Of the Blest Gods who still was holding back
These from the battle-tumult far away,
Till many Greeks should fill the measure up
Of woeful havoc, slain by Trojan foes
And glorious Penthesileia, who pursued
With murderous intent their rifted ranks,
While ever waxed her valour more and more,
And waxed her might within her: never in vain
She aimed the unswerving spear-thrust: aye she
pierced
The backs of them that fled, the breasts of such
As charged to meet her. All the long shaft dripped
With steaming blood. Swift were her feet as wind
As down she swooped. Her aweless spirit failed
For weariness nor fainted, but her might
Was adamantine. The impending Doom,
Which roused unto the terrible strife not yet
Achilles, clothed her still with glory ; still
Aloof the dread Power stood, and still would shed
Splendour of triumph o’er the death-ordained
But for a little space, ere it should quell
That Maiden ’neath the hands of Aeacus’ son.
In darkness ambushed, with invisible hand
Ever it thrust her on, and drew her feet
Destruction-ward, and lit her path to death
With glory, while she slew foe after foe.
As when within a dewy garden-close,
Longing for its green springtide freshness, leaps
A heifer, and there rangeth to and fro,
When none is by to stay her, treading down
All its green herbs, and all its wealth of bloom,
Devouring greedily this, and marring that
With trampling feet ; so ranged she, Ares’ child,
33
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
ὡς ap ᾿Αχαιῶν vias ἐπεσσυμένη καθ᾽ ὅμιλον
κούρη ᾿Ενυαλίη τοὺς μὲν κτάνε, τοὺς δ᾽ ἐφόβησε.
Τρωιάδες δ᾽ ἀπάνευθεν ἀρήια ἔργα γυναικὸς
>]
θαύμαζον, πολέμοιο δ᾽ ἔρως λάβεν ἱπποδάμοιο
᾿Αντιμάχοιο θύγατρα Μενεπτολέμοιο δ᾽ ἄκοιτιν 405
’ a 2 nr
Τισιφόνην: κρατερῇσι δ᾽ ὑπὸ φρεσὶν ἐμμεμαυῖα
A e ΄,
θαρσαλέον φάτο μῦθον ὁμήλικας ὀτρύνουσα
A ΄ , e
δῆριν ἐπὶ στονόεσσαν' ἔγειρε δέ οἱ θράσος ἀλκήν'
“ὦ φίλαι, ἄλκιμον ἧτορ ἐνὶ στέρνοισι λαβοῦσαι
e , F
ἀνδράσιν ἡμετέροισιν ὁμοίιον, OL περὶ πάτρης 410
,
δυσμενέσιν μάρνανται ὑπὲρ τεκέων TE καὶ ἡμέων,
» 3) 3 , La od ? \ \ 3 \
οὔποτ᾽ ἀναπνείοντες ὀϊζυος--- ἀλλὰ καὶ αὐταὶ
’ x Ν »Μ Ψ ,
παρθέμεναι φρεσὶ θυμὸν ἴσης μνησώμεθα χάρμης"
> Ν > / f ’ Dee , ’ a
ov yap ἀπόπροθέν εἰμεν eVabevewr αἰζηῶν,
ἀλλ᾽ οἷον κείνοισι πέλει μένος ἔστι καὶ ἡμῖν" 415
ἶσοι δ᾽ ὀφθαλμοὶ καὶ γούνατα, πάντα δ᾽ ὁμοῖα,
X > 9 ΄ , \ , 27
ξυνὸν δ᾽ av πάντεσσι φάος Kai νήχυτος ἀήρ,
φορβὴ δ᾽ οὐχ ἑτέρη: τί δ᾽ ἐπ’ ἀνδράσι λώιον ἄλλο
nA , A / ΄ a
θῆκε θεός; τῷ μή τι φεβώμεθα δηιοτῆτα.
ἢ οὐχ ὁράατε γυναῖκα μέγ᾽ αἰζηῶν προφέρουσαν 420
a >]
ἀγχεμάχων; τῆς & οὔτι πέλει σχεδὸν οὔτε
γενέθλη
ἢ ἘΦ ΘΡ 5. ΘᾺ / Ε οὗ ‘ se,
οὔτ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἑὸν πτολίεθρον, ὑπὲρ ξείνοιο δ᾽ ἄνακτος
μάρναται ἐκ θυμοῖο καὶ οὐκ ἐμπάξεται ἀνδρῶν
ἐνθεμένη φρεσὶ θάρσος ἀταρτηρόν τε νόημα"
ἡμῖν δ᾽ ἄλλοθεν ἄλλα παραὶ ποσὶν ἄλγεα κεῖται 425
a \ \ / / > , > \ /
τῆς μὲν yap φίλα τέκνα Kal ἀνέρες ἀμφὶ πόληι
34
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK I
Through reeling squadrons of Achaea’s sons,
Slew these, and hunted those in panic rout
From Troy afar the women marvelling gazed
At the Maid’s battle-prowess Suddenly
A fiery passion for the fray hath seized
Antimachus’ daughter, Meneptolemus’ wife,
Tisiphone. Her heart waxed strong, and filled
With lust of fight she cried to her fellows all,
With desperate-daring words, to spur them on
To woeful war, by recklessness made strong .
ςς Friends, let a heart of valour in our breasts
Awake! Let us be like our lords, who fight
With foes for fatherland, for babes, for us,
And never pause for breath in that stern strife !
Let us too throne war’s spirit in our hearts!
Let us too face the fight which favoureth none !
For we, we women, be not creatures cast
In diverse mould from men: to us is given
Such energy of life as stirs in them.
Eyes have we like to theirs, and Jimbs: throughout
Fashioned we are alike * one common light
We look on, and one common air we breathe :
With like food are we nourished -—nay. wherein
Have we been dowered of God more niggardly
Than men? Then let us shrink not from the fray
See ye not yonder a woman far excelling
Men in the grapple of fight? Yet is her blood
Nowise akin to ours, nor fighteth she
For her own city. For an alien king
She warreth of her own heart’s prompting, fears
The face of no man; for her soul is thrilled
With valour and with spirit invincible.
But we — to right, to left, lie woes on woes
About our feet: this mourns belovéd sons,
And that a husband who for hearth and home
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
ὠλλυνθ᾽, αἱ δὲ τοκῆας ὀδυρόμεθ᾽ οὐκέτ᾽ ἐόντας"
’ a
ἄλλαι δ᾽ αὖτ᾽ ἀκάχηνται ἀδελφειῶν én’ ὀλέθρῳ
καὶ πηῶν' οὐ γάρ τις ὀϊζυρῆς κακότητος
» ᾿Ὶ \ Ni / \ ΄ 9
ἄμμορος: ἐλπωρὴ δὲ πέλει καὶ δούλιον ἦμαρ 430
3 δέ Ξ aA / VT oF B Ni λ /
εἰσιδέειν: τῷ μή TLS ET ἀμβολίη πολέμοιο
" / vy \ > δὲ se
εἴη τειρομένησιν" ἔοικε γὰρ ἐν dat μᾶλλον
τεθνάμεν ἢ μετόπισθεν UT ἀλλοδαποῖσιν ἄγεσθαι
νηπιάχοις ἅμα παισὶν ἀνιηρῇ UT ἀνάγκῃ
” 2 , \ ’ A ’ Ue eZ 3») =
ἄστεος αἰθομένοιο καὶ ἀνδρῶν οὐκέτ᾽ ἐόντων. 435
\ ΄, » a
“Os ap’ ἔφη: πάσῃσι δ᾽ ἔρως στυγεροῖο μόθοιο
ἔμπασεν: ἐσσυμένως δὲ πρὸ τείχεος ὁρμαίνεσκον
βήμεναι ἐν τεύχεσσιν ἀρηγέμεναι μεμαυῖαι
” -- \ an 9 , , ,
ἄστεϊ Kal λαοῖσιν: ὀρίνετο δέ σφισι θυμός.
ὡς δ᾽ ὅτ᾽ ἔσω σίμβλοιο μέγ᾽ ἰύζωσι μέλισσαι 440
’ ΄ ε
χείματος οὐκέτ᾽ ἐόντος, OT ἐς νομὸν ἐντύνονται
ἐλθέμεν, οὐδ᾽ ἄρα τῇσι φίλον πέλει ἔνδοθι μίμνειν,
3
ἄλλη δ᾽ αὖθ᾽ ἑτέρην προκαλίζεται ἐκτὸς ἄγεσθαι"
ἃ » ,ὔ Ve vA > /
ὡς apa Τρωιάδες ποτὶ φύλοπιν ἐγκονέουσαι
ἀλλήλας ὠτρυνον: ἀπόπροθι δ᾽ εἴρια θέντο 445
Ν / ’ Ν 3. δὲ eels “-“- ”
καὶ Taddpous, ἀλεγεινὰ δ᾽ ἐπ᾽ ἔντεα χεῖρας ἴαλλον.
Καί νύ κεν ἄστεος ἐκτὸς ἅμα σφετέροισιν ὄλοντο
b) ΄ \ a > , 2 A. Ἢ
ἀνδράσι καὶ σθεναρῆσιν ᾿Αμαζόσιν ἐν δαὶ κείνῃ,
> 4 Λ jf fi \
εἰ μή σφεας κατέρυξε πύκα φρονέουσα Θεανὼ
ἐσσυμένας πινυτοῖσι παραυδήσασ᾽ ἐπέεσσι" 450
‘ec , \ , 3.8 ΡῚ ὃ / / θ
τίπτε ποτὶ KNOVOY ALVOV ἐελόομεναι πονέεσθαι,
ΓΑ
σχέτλιαι, οὔτι πάροιθε πονησάμεναι περὶ χάρμης,
2 3, Se / " No (δ an
GAN apa νηΐδες ἔργον ἐπ᾽ ἄτλητον μεμαυῖαι
26
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK I
Hath died ; some wail for fathers now no more ;
Some grieve for brethren and for kinsmen lost.
Not one but hath some share in sorrow’s cup.
Behind all this a fearful shadow looms,
The day of bondage! Therefore flinch not ye
From war, O sorrow-laden! Better far
To die in battle now, than afterwards
Hence to be haled into captivity
To alien folk, we and our little ones,
In the stern grip of fate leaving behind
A burning city, and our husbands’ graves.”
So cried she, and with passion for stern war
Thrilled all those women; and with eager speed
They hasted to go forth without the wall
Mail-clad, afire to battle for their town
And people: all their spirit was aflame.
As when within a hive, when winter-tide
Is over and gone, loud hum the swarming bees
What time they make them ready forth to fare
To bright flower-pastures, and no more endure
To linger therewithin, but each to other
Crieth the challenge-cry to sally forth ;
Even so bestirred themselves the women of Troy,
And kindled each her sister to the fray.
The weaving-wool, the distaff far they flung,
And to grim weapons stretched their eager hands.
And now without the city these had died
In that wild battle, as their husbands died
And the strong Amazons died, had not one voice
Of wisdom cried to stay their maddened feet,
When with dissuading words Theano spake :
«“ Wherefore, ah wherefore for the toil and strain
Of battle’s fearful tumult do ye yearn,
Infatuate ones? Never your limbs have toiled
In conflict yet. In utter ignorance
w
a I
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
9
ὄρνυσθ᾽ adpadéws; ov yap σθένος ἔσσεται ἶσον
ἡμῖν καὶ Δαναοῖσιν ἐπισταμένοισι μάχεσθαι. 455
᾽ \ 3 ΄ A Ι] / e ,
αὐτὰρ ᾿Αμαζόσι δῆρις ἀμείλιχος ἱππασίαι τε
» ᾽ ᾽ A NOt ae: Sy aale »” ,
evadov ἐξ ἀρχῆς καὶ ὅσ᾽ ἀνέρες ἔργα μέλονται"
Μ , ἜΝ ὁ , a 3 ΄, 3A »
τοὔνεκ᾽ ἄρα σφίσι θυμὸς ἀρήιος αἰὲν ὄρωρεν,
οὐδ᾽ ἀνδρῶυ δεύονται, ἐπεὶ πόνος ἐς μέγα κάρτος
θυμὸν ἀνηέξησε καὶ ἄτρομα γούνατ᾽ ἔθηκε. 460
A A , \ τ »ν A ΄
τὴν δὲ φάτις καὶ “Apnos ἔμεν κρατεροῖο θύγατρα"
- e 6 ὮΝ ὔ ‘ag 3 > , wy » Ξ
τῷ οἱ θηλυτέρην τιν᾽ ἐριζέμεν οὔτι ἔοικεν
aN z 3 ’ 4 3 , > ,
ἠὲ τάχ ἀθανάτων τις ἐπήλυθεν εὐχομένοισιν.
a Ἄν a , e \ ͵ » ens Bi) 98
πᾶσι δ᾽ ap ἀνθρώποισιν ὁμὸν γένος, ἀλλ᾽ ἐπὶ ἔργα
στρωφῶντ᾽ ἄλλος ἐπ᾽ ἄλλα: πέλει δ᾽ Apa κεῖνο
, .
φέριστον 465
Μ cid \ ? ᾽ 4 .
Epyov, ὃ Te φρεσὶν σιν ἐπιστάμενος TOVENTAL
τοὔνεκα δηιοτῆτος ἀποσχόμεναι κελαδεινῆς
ἱστὸν ἐπεντύνεσθε φίλων ἔντοσθε μελάθρων.
ἀνδράσι δ᾽ ἡμετέροισι περὶ πτολέμοιο μελήσει.
» A ἌΡ ἌΝ a ee aie e 5 Ὁ 5
ἐλπωρὴ δ᾽ ἀγαθοῖο τάχ᾽ ἔσσεται, οὕνεκ᾽ ᾿Αχαιοὺς 470
/ > > ‘ , ‘ . .
δερκόμεθ᾽ ὀλλυμένους, μέγα δὲ κράτος ὄρνυται
ἀνδρῶν
e , 208) wv A , ” ἣν Μ
ἡμετέρων: οὐδ᾽ ἔστι κακοῦ δέος" οὔτι γὰρ ἄστυ
’ὔ > \ Μ > ‘ “ΝΗ o ‘
δήιοι ἀμφὶς ἔχουσιν ἀνηλέες, οὔτ᾽ ἀλεγεινὴ
, > ᾽ ’ A , ’ ”
ylveT avayKain καὶ θηλυτέρησι μάχεσθαι.
a ᾽,
Ὡς dato: ταὶ & ἐπίθοντο παλαιοτέρῃ περ ἐούση, 475
e , Then) 4 Mae e > 4 \
ὑσμίνην δ᾽ ἀπάνευθεν ἐσέδρακον. ἡ δ᾽ ἔτι λαοὺς
, ’ὔ
δάμνατο Πενθεσίλεια, περιτρομέοντο δ᾽ ᾿Αχαιοΐ,
38
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK I
Panting for labour unendurable,
Ye rush on all-unthinking; for your strength
Can never be as that of Danaan men,
Men trained in daily battle. Amazons
Have joyed in ruthless fight, in charging steeds,
From the beginning: all the toil of men
Do they endure ; and therefore evermore
The spirit of the War-god thrills them through.
They fall not short of men in anything:
Their labour-hardened frames make great their hearts
For all achievement: never faint their knees
Nor tremble. Rumour speaks their queen to be
A daughter of the mighty Lord of War.
Therefore no woman may compare with her
In prowess—if she be a woman, not
A God come down in answer to our prayers
Yea, of one blood be all the race of men,
Yet unto diverse labours still they turn ;
And that for each is evermore the best
Whereto he bringeth skill of use and wont.
Therefore do ye from tumult of the fray
Hold you aloof, and in your women’s bowers
Before the loom still pace ye to and fro ;
And war shall be the business of our lords.
Lo, of fair issue is there hope: we see
The Achaeans falling fast : we see the might
Of our men waxing ever: fear is none
Of evil issue now : the pitiless foe
Beleaguer not the town : no desperate need
There is that women should go forth to war.”
So cried she, and they hearkened to the words
Of her who had garnered wisdom from the years ;
So from afar they watched the fight. But still
Penthesileia brake the ranks, and still
Before her quailed the Achaeans : still they found
39
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
οὐδέ σφιν θανάτοιο πέλε στονόεντος ἄλυξεις"
> 3 & / Ξ- e \ A /
ἀλλ᾽ ἅτε μηκάδες αἶγες ὑπὸ βλοσυρῇσι γένυσσι
7, 7 A νὰν" ὦ > / ’
πορδάλιος κτείνοντο, ποθὴ δ᾽ ἔχεν οὐκέτι χάρμης 480
ἀνέρας ἀλλὰ φόβοιο, καὶ ἄλλυδις ἤιον ἄλλοι
ς A ᾽ ’ ᾽ Ν , δ ’ , ᾽ v
οἱ μὲν ἀπορρίψαντες ἐπὶ χθόνα τεύχε ἀπ᾽ ὦμων,
΄ ΄
οἱ δ᾽ ἄρα σὺν τεύχεσσι, καὶ ἡνιόχων ἀπάνευθεν
ἵπποι ἴσαν φεύγοντες: ἐπεσσυμένοις δ᾽ ἄρα χώρμα
ἔπλετ᾽, ἀπολλυμένων δὲ πολὺς στόνος" οὐδέ τις
ἀλκὴ 485
4 7] , \ /
yiveto τειρομένοισι" μινυνθάδιοι δὲ πέλοντο
πάντες, ὅσους ἐκίχανεν ἀνὰ κρυερὸν στόμα χάρμης.
ὡς δ᾽ ὅτ᾽ ἐπιβρίσασα μέγα στονόεσσα θύελλα
ἄλλα μὲν ἐκ ῥιζέων χαμάδις Bare δένδρεα μακρὰ
” ’ Ν 2) 5 / 4
ἄνθεσι τηλεθόωντα, Ta δ᾽ ἐκ πρέμνοιο κέδασσεν 490
ὑψόθεν, ἀλλήλοισι δ᾽ ἐπὶ κλασθέντα κέχυνται:
lal ‘ \ ’
ὡς Δαναῶν κέκλιντο πολὺς στρατὸς ἐν κονίῃσι
Μοιράων ἰότητι καὶ ἔγχεϊ Πενθεσιλείης.
Αὐτὰρ ἐπεὶ καὶ νῆες ἐνιπρήσεσθαι ἔμελλον
\ ef , ΄ / »Μ
χερσὶν ὕπο Τρώων, τότε που μενεδήιος Αἴας 495
οἰμωγῆς ἐσάκουσε καὶ Αἰακίδην mpocéertrev:
“ὦ ᾿Αχιλεῦ, περὶ δή μοι ἀπείριτος ἤλυθεν αὐδὴ
οὔασιν ὡς πολέμοιο συνεσταότος μεγάλοιο"
᾽ + 4» \ “-“ e / \ \
ἀλλ᾽ ἴομεν, μὴ Τρῶες ὑποφθάμενοι Tapa νηυσὶν
᾿Αργείους ὀλέσωσι, καταφλέξωσι δὲ νῆας" 500
A“ Dis 9D Δ > 4 > \
νῶιν δ᾽ ἀμφοτέροισιν ἐλεγχείη ἀλεγεινὴ
ἔσσεται" οὐ γὰρ ἔοικε Διὸς μεγάλοιο γεγῶτας
αἰσχύνειν πατέρων ἱερὸν γένος, οἵ ῥα καὶ αὐτοὶ
40
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK I
Nor screen nor hiding-place from imminent death.
As bleating goats are by the blood-stained jaws
Of a grim panther torn, so slain were they.
In each man’s heart all lust of battle died,
And fear alone lived. This way, that way fled
The panic-stricken : some to earth had flung
The armour from their shoulders ; some in dust
Grovelled in terror ‘neath their shields: the steeds
Fled through the rout unreined of charioteers.
In rapture of triumph charged the Amazons,
With groan and scream of agony died the Greeks.
Withered their manhood was in that sore strait ;
Brief was the span of all whom that fierce maid
Mid the grim jaws of battle overtook.
As when with mighty roaring bursteth down
A storm upon the forest-trees, and some
Uprendeth by the roots, and on the earth
Dashes them down, the tall stems blossom-crowned,
And snappeth some athwart the trunk, and high
Whirls them through air, till all confused they lie
A ruin of splintered stems and shattered sprays ;
So the great Danaan host lay, dashed to dust
By doom of Fate, by Penthesileia’s spear.
But when the very ships were now at point
To be by hands of Trojans set aflame,
Then battle-bider Aias heard afar
The panic-cries, and spake to Aeacus’ son:
« Achilles, all the air about mine ears
Is full of multitudinous cries, is full
Of thunder of battle rolling nearer aye.
Let us go forth then, ere the Trojans win
Unto the ships, and make great slaughter there
Of Argive men, and set the ships aflame.
Foulest reproach such thing on thee and me
Should bring ; for it beseems not that the seed
Of mighty Zeus should shame the sacred blood
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
τὸ πρὶν ἅμ᾽ Ηρακλῆι δαΐφρονι Λαομέδοντος
Τροίην, ἀγλαὸν ἄστυ, διέπραθον ἐγχείῃσι" 505
«ς A aA s Ὁ 2 ie. / > Sf
ὡς Kal viv τελέεσθαι ὑφ᾽ ἡμετέρησιν ὀΐω
[4 > \ , / Δ 2 f 3
χερσίν, ἐπεὶ μέγα κάρτος ἀέξεται ἀμφοτέροισιν.
ΩΣ ΄ a Ε]
Ὡς dato: τῷ δ᾽ ἐπίθησε θρασὺ σθένος Αἰακίδαο"
\ \ , e / » .
κλαγγὴν γὰρ στονόεσσαν ὑπέκλυεν οὔασιν οἷσιν.
vw >] e ’ > op eet ’;
ἄμφω δ᾽ ὡρμήθησαν ἐπ᾽ ἔντεα μαρμαίροντα" 510
καὶ τὰ μὲν ἑσσάμενοι κατεναντίον ἔσταν ὁμίλου"
A ee be 2 4 \ > / /
τῶν δ᾽ dpa τεύχεα καλὰ μέγ᾽ ἔβραχε: paiveto δέ
σφιν
5 ΝΜ
ἶσον θυμὸς “Apne τόσον σθένος ἀμφοτέροισι
δῶκεν ἐπειγομένοισι σακέσπαλος ᾿Ατρυτώνη.
᾿Αργεῖοι δ᾽ ἐχάρησαν, ἐπεὶ ἴδον ἄνδρε κραταιὼ δ)
εἰδομένω παίδεσσιν ᾿Αλωῆος μεγάλοιο,
δ v P
οἵ mot ἐπ᾽ εὐρὺν ᾽οΟλυμπον ἔφαν θέμεν οὔρεα
μακρὰ
Ὄσσαν τ᾽ αἰπεινὴν καὶ Πήλιον ὑψικάρηνον,
ὅππως δὴ μεμαῶτε καὶ οὐρανὸν εἰσαφίκωνται"
τοῖοι ἄρ᾽ ἀντέστησαν ἀταρτηροῦ πολέμοιο 520
Αἰακίδαι, μέγα χάρμα λιλαιομένοισιν ᾿Αχαιοῖς,
” 2 / , ᾽ Ν ἈΝ > /
ἄμφω ἐπειγόμενοι δηίων ἀπὸ λαὸν ὀλέσσαι.
\ 3) 2 / > / /
πολλοὺς δ᾽ ἐγχείησιν ἀμαιμακέτησι δάμασσαν"
ὡς δ᾽ ὅτε πίονα μῆλα βοοδμητῆρε λέοντε
εὑρόντ᾽ ἐν ξυλόχοισι φίλων ἀπάνευθε νομήων 525
1 Zimmermann (for MS. Tpofns), whose arrangement of lines
is adopted.
42
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK I
Of hero-fathers, who themselves of old
With Hercules the battle-eager sailed
To Troy, and smote her even at her height
Of glory, when Laomedon was king.
Ay, and I[ ween that our hands even now
Shall do the like: we too are mighty men.”
He spake: the aweless strength of Aeacus’ son
Hearkened thereto, for also to his ears
By this the roar of bitter battle came.
Then hasted both, and donned their warrior-gear
All splendour-gleaming : now, in these arrayed
Facing that stormy-tossing rout they stand.
Loud clashed their glorious armour: in their souls
A battle-fury like the War-god’s wrath
Maddened ; such might was breathed into these
twain
By Atrytoné, Shaker of the Shield,
As on they pressed. With joy the Argives saw
The coming of that mighty twain: they seemed
In semblance like Aléeus’ giant sons
Who in the old time made that haughty vaunt
Of piling on Olympus’ brow the height
Of Ossa steeply-towering, and the crest
Of sky-encountering Pelion, so to rear
A mountain-stair for their rebellious rage
To scale the highest heaven. Huge as these
The sons of Aeacus seemed, as forth they strode
To stem the tide of war. A gladsome sight
To friends who have fainted for their coming, now
Onward they press to crush triumphant foes.
Many they slew with their resistless spears ;
As when two herd-destroying lions come
On sheep amid the copses feeding, far
From help of shepherds, and in heaps on heaps
43
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
, / v / τς /
πανσυδίῃ κτείνωσιν, ἄχρις μέλαν αἷμα πιόντες
σπλάγχνων ἐμπλήσωνται Env πολυχανδέα νηδύν'"
ἃ Fa ΣῪ » ΟἹ / δὴ ? a
ὡς οἵ γ᾽ ἄμφω ὄλεσσαν ἀπειρέσιον στρατὸν ἀνδρῶν.
Ἔνθ᾽ Αἴας ἕλε Δηίοχον καὶ ἀρήιον Ὕλλον,
/ A
Εὐρύνομόν τε φιλοπτόλεμον Kal ’Evvéa δῖον. 530
2 a
᾿Αντάνδρην δ᾽ ἄρα IInretdns ἕλε καὶ ἸΠολεμοῦσαν
3 , Ul
ἠδὲ καὶ ᾿Αντιβρότην, μετὰ δ᾽ ἹἹπποθόην ἐρίθυμον,
A : ΝΣ ὡρ Δ... ’ 3 \ >] wv \ [τὰ
τῆσι δ᾽ ἔφ᾽ ᾿Αρμοθόην: ἐπὶ δ᾽ ὥχετο λαὸν ἅπαντα
σὺν Τελαμωνιάδῃ μεγαλήτορι: τῶν δ᾽ ὑπὸ χερσὶ
, ’ { / ~
πυκναί Te σθεναραΐ τε κατηρείποντο φάλαγγες 535
Coa “3 / e \ Ν , “
ῥεῖα καὶ ὀτραλέως, ὡσεὶ πυρὶ δάσκιος ὕλη
οὔρεος ἐν ξυνοχῆσιν ἐπισπέρχοντος ἀήτεω.
Τοὺς δ᾽ ὁπότ᾽ εἰσενόησε δαΐφρων Πενθεσίλεια
a « / > \ / > ,
θῆρας ὅπως Ovvovtas ava μόθον ὀκρυόεντα,
ἀμφοτέρων ὥρμησε καταντίον, ἠὕτε λυγρὴ 540
, 3 , 3 / 9S y
πόρδαλις ἐν ξυλόχοισιν ὀλέθριον ἦτορ ἔχουσα
αἰνὰ περισσαίνουσα θόρῃ κατέναντ᾽ ἐπιόντων
ἀγρευτέων, οἵπερ μιν ἐν ἔντεσι θωρηχθέντες
ἐσσυμένην μίμνουσι πεποιθότες ἐγχείησιν'
ὡς ἄρα Ἰ]ενθεσίλειαν ἀρήιοι ἄνδρες ἔμιμνον 545
Sovpat ἀειράμενοι: περὶ δέ σφισι χαλκὸς ἀὕὔτει
κινυμένων: πρώτη δ᾽ ἔβαλεν περιμήκετον ἔγχος
ἐσθλὴ Πενθεσίλεια: τὸ δ᾽ ἐς σάκος Αἰακίδαο
ἷξεν, ἀπεπλάγχθη δὲ διατρυφὲν εὖτ᾽ ἀπὸ πέτρης"
a> e / / ” r
tot ἔσαν Hdaictoto περίφρονος ἄμβροτα δῶρα. 550
ἡ δ᾽ ἕτερον μετὰ χερσὶ τιτύσκετο θοῦρον ἄκοντα
Αἴαντος κατέναντα καὶ ἀμφοτέροισιν ἀπείλει:
44
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK I
Slay them, till they have drunken to the full
Of blood, and filled their maws insatiate
With flesh, so those destroyers twain slew on,
Spreading wide havoc through the hosts of Troy.
There Déiochus and gallant Hyllus fell
By Aias slain, and fell Eurynomus
Lover of war, and goodly Enyeus died.
But Peleus’ son burst on the Amazons
Smiting Antandré, Polemusa then,
Antibroté, fierce-souled Hippothoe,
Hurling Harmothoé down on sisters slain.
Then hard on all their reeling ranks he pressed
With Telamon’s mighty-hearted son ; and now
Before their hands battalions dense and strong
Crumbled as weakly and as suddenly
As when in mountain-folds the forest-brakes
Shrivel before a tempest-driven fire.
When battle-eager Penthesileia saw
These twain, as through the scourging storm of war
Like ravening beasts they rushed, to meet them there
She sped, as when a leopard grim, whose mood
Is deadly, leaps from forest-coverts forth,
Lashing her tail, on hunters closing round,
While these, in armour clad, and putting trust
In their long spears, await her lightning leap ;
So did those warriors twain with spears upswung
Wait Penthesileia. Clanged the brazen plates
About their shoulders as they moved. And first
Leapt the long-shafted lance sped from the hand
Of goodly Penthesileia. Straight it flew
To the shield of Aeacus’ son, but glancing thence
This way and that the shivered fragments sprang
As from a rock-face : of such temper were
The cunning-hearted Fire-god’s gifts divine.
Then in her hand the warrior-maid swung up
A second javelin fury-winged, against
45
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
ce Le! \ > lal ) \ \ 3, , » »
νῦν μὲν ἐμῆς ἀπὸ χειρὸς ἐτώσιον ἔκθορεν ἔγχος"
ἀλλ᾽ ὀΐω τάχα τῷδε μένος καὶ θυμὸν ὀλέσσειν
e ’ 2 / “ 2 90. ᾽ , =
ὑμέων ἀμφοτέρων, οἵ T ἄλκιμοι εὐχετάασθε 555
ἔμμεναι ἐν Δαναοῖσιν: ἔλαφροτέρη δὲ μόθοιο
ἔσσεται ἱπποδάμοισι τότε Τρώεσσιν ὀιζύς.
ἀλλά μοι ἄσσον ἵκεσθε κατὰ κλόνον, ὄφρ᾽ ἐσί-
δησθε,
ev >’ , / 2 ΄ »
ὅσσον ᾿Αμαζόσι κάρτος ἐνι στήθεσσιν ὄρωρεν"
καὶ γάρ peu γένος ἐστὶν ᾿Αρήιον: οὐδέ με θνητὸς 560
, ’ b ’ὔ >? > > ‘ wv z τ -ῇ A
yelvat ἀνήρ, ἀλλ᾽ αὐτὸς "Apys ἀκόρητος ὁμοκλῆς"
τοὔνεκά μοι μένος ἐστὶ πολὺ προφερέστατον
ἀνδρῶν."
> , , Ἢ ΄ Φ 3 49,,...3
ἦ, μέγα [καγχαλόωσα κατὰ φρένας: ἧκε δ᾽ ἄρ
ἔγχος
΄ ΄ ΄ °
δεύτερον") οἱ δ᾽ ἐγέλασσαν, adap δέ οἱ ἤλασεν
> δὶ
αἰχμὴ
Αἴαντος κνημῖδα πανάργυρον. οὐδέ οἱ εἴσω
ἤλυθεν ἐς χρόα καλὸν ἐπειγομένη περ ἱκέσθαι' δθῦ
οὐ γὰρ δὴ πέπρωτο μιγήμεναι αἵματι κείνου
δυσμενέων στονόεσσαν ἐπὶ πτολέμοισιν ἀκωκήν.
Αἴας δ᾽ οὐκ ἀλέγιζεν ᾿Αμαζόνος, ἀλλ᾽ ἄρα Τρώων
ἐς πληθὺν ἀνόρουσε: λίπεν δ᾽ ἄρα Πηλείωνι
οἴῳ Πενθεσίλειαν, ἐπεί ῥά οἱ ἐν φρεσὶ θυμὸς 570
ἤδεεν, ὡς ᾿Αχιλῆι καὶ ἰφθίμη περ ἐοῦσα
« , , Μ πὸ Μ LA
ῥηίδιος πόνος ἔσσεθ᾽ ὅπως ἴρηκι πέλεια.
Ἡ δὲ μέγα στονάχησεν ἐτώσια δοῦρα βαλοῦσα"
καί μιν κερτομέων προσεφώνεε Πηλέος υἱός"
“ὦ γύναι, ὡς ἁλίοισιν ἀγαλλομένη ἐπέεσσιν 575
46
THE! FALL ΟΕ TROY! BOOK: I
Aias, and with fierce words defied the twain:
« Ha, from mine hand in vain one lance hath leapt !
But with this second look I suddenly
To quell the strength and courage of two foes,—
Ay, though ye vaunt you mighty men of war
Amid your Danaans! Die ye shall, and so
Lighter shall be the load of war’s affliction
That lies upon the Trojan chariot-lords.
Draw nigh, come through the press to grips with me.
So shall ye learn what might wells up in breasts
Of Amazons. With my blood is mingled war!
No mortal man begat me, but the Lord
Of War, insatiate of the battle-cry.
Therefore my might is more than any man’s.”
With scornful laughter spake she: then she hurled
Her second lance; but they in utter scorn
Laughed now, as swiftly flew the shaft, and smote
The silver greave of Aias, and was foiled
Thereby, and all its fury could not scar
The flesh within ; for fate had ordered not
That any blade of foes should taste the blood
Of Aias in the bitter war. But he
Recked of the Amazon naught, but turned him
thence
To rush upon the Trojan host, and left
Penthesileia unto Peleus’ son
Alone, for well he knew his heart within
That she, for all her prowess, none the less
Would cost Achilles battle-toil as light,
As effortless, as doth the dove the hawk.
Then groaned she an angry groan that she haa
sped
Her shafts in vain; and now with scoffing speech
To her in turn the son of Peleus spake:
« Woman, with what vain vauntings triumphing
47
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
ἡμέων ἤλυθες ἄντα λιλαιομένη πολεμίζειν,
«Δ / / / 2 2 / ς ,
οἱ μέγα φέρτατοί εἰμεν ἐπιχθονίων ἡρώων"
\
ἐκ yap δὴ Κρονίωνος ἐριγδούποιο γενέθλης
> , bh) ΄ / Ni \ NG Ses;
εὐχόμεθ'᾽ ἐκγεγάμεν: τρομέεσκε δὲ καὶ θοὸς “Εἰκτωρ
ἡμέας, εἰ καὶ ἄπωθεν ἐσέδρακεν ἀΐσσοντας
δῆριν ἐπὶ στονόεσσαν" ἐμὴ δέ μιν ἔκτανεν αἰχμὴ 580
καὶ κρατερόν περ ἐόντα: σὺ δ᾽ ἐν φρεσὶ πάγχυ
/
μέμηνας,
ἣ μέγ᾽ ἔτλης καὶ νῶιν ἐπηπείλησας ὄλεθρον
/ > \ \ 3 2 / “ 4
σήμερον: ἀλλὰ σοὶ εἶθαρ ἐλεύσεται ὕστατον ἦμαρ"
> \ \ +9? > / \ yy «ἡ war =
οὐδὲ γὰρ οὐδ᾽ αὐτός σε πατήρ ETL ῥύσεται "Ἄρης 585
> 2 / , \ \ , Gin), 59 v
ἐξ ἐμέθεν: τίσεις δὲ κακὸν μόρον, εὖτ᾽ ἐν ὄρεσσι
κεμμὰς ὁμαρτήσασα βοοδμητῆρι λέοντι.
ἢ οὔπω τόδ᾽ ἄκουσας, ὅσων ὑποκάππεσε γυῖα
»- / Ν n Ὁ 2) e / ,
Ξάνθου πὰρ προχοῆῇσιν ὑφ᾽ ἡμετέρῃς παλάμῃσιν;
” / / , > /
ἤ σευ πευθομένης μάκαρες φρένας ἐξείλοντο 590
\ / Vv fol > / > / 3
kat νόον, ὄφρα σε Κῆρες ἀμείλιχοι ἀμφιχάνωσιν;
Ὡς εὐπὼν οἴμησε κραταιῇ χειρὶ τιταίνων
λαοφόνον δόρυ μακρὸν ὑπαὶ Χείρωνι πονηθέν"
αἷψα δ᾽ ὑπὲρ μαζοῖο δαΐφρονα Ἰ]ενθεσίλειαν
οὔτασε δεξιτεροῖο: μέλαν δέ οἱ ἔρρεεν αἷμα 595
> / e > 5 e / /
ἐσσυμένως" ἡ δ᾽ εἶθαρ ὑπεκλάσθη μελέεσσιν'
ἐκ δ᾽ ἔβαλεν χειρὸς πέλεκυν μέγαν: ἀμφὶ δέ οἱ νὺξ
ὀφθαλμοὺς ἤχλυσε καὶ ἐς φρένα δῦσαν ἀνῖαι.
ἀλλὰ καὶ ὡς ἄμπνυε καὶ εἴσιδε δήιον ἄνδρα
ἤδη μιν μέλλοντα καθελκέμεν ὠκέος ἵππου" 600
ὥρμηνεν δ᾽ ἢ χειρὶ μέγα ξίφος εἰρύσσασα
48
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK I
Hast thou come forth against us, all athirst
To battle with us, who be mightier far
Than earthborn heroes? We from Cronos’ Son,
The Thunder-roller, boast our high descent.
Ay, even Hector quailed, the battle-swift,
Before us, e’en though far away he saw
Our onrush to grim battle. Yea, my spear
Slew him, for all his might. But thou—thine heart
Is utterly mad, that thou hast greatly dared
To threaten us with death this day! On thee
Thy latest hour shall swiftly come—is come!
Thee not thy sire the War-god now shall pluck
Out of mine hand, but thou the debt shalt pay
Of a dark doom, as when mid mountain-folds
A pricket meets a lion, waster of herds.
What, woman, hast thou heard not of the heaps
Of slain, that into Xanthus’ rushing stream
Were thrust by these mine hands?—or hast thou
heard
In vain, because the Blesséd Ones have stol’n
Wit and discretion from thee, to the end
That Doom’s relentless gulf might gape for thee?”
He spake; he swung up in his mighty hand
And sped the long spear warrior-slaying, wrought
By Chiron, and above the right breast pierced
The battle-eager maid. The red blood leapt
Forth, as a fountain wells, and all at once
Fainted the strength of Penthesileia’s limbs ;
Dropped the great battle-axe from her nerveless
hand ;
A mist of darkness overveiled her eyes,
And anguish thrilled her soul. Yet even so
Still drew she difficult breath, still dimly saw
The hero, even now in act to drag
Her from the swift steed’s back. Confusedly
She thought: “ Or shall I draw ny mighty sword,
49
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
A " ΄ a3 A 3 ’
μεῖναι ἐπεσσυμένοιο θοοῦ ᾿Αχιλῆος ἐρωήν,
A ΄ 3 A
ἢ κραιπνῶς ἵπποιο KAT ὠκυτάτοιο θοροῦσα
λίσσεσθ᾽ ἀνέρα δῖον, ὑποσχέσθαι δέ οἱ ὦκα
χαλκὸν ἅλις καὶ χρυσόν, ἅ τε φρένας ἔνδον ἰαίνει 605
θνητῶν ἀνθρώπων, εἰ καὶ μάλα τις θρασὺς εἴη,
τοῖς ἤν πως πεπίθοιτ᾽ ὀλοὸν σθένος Αἰακίδαο"
Δ Ὗς , ? ΄ \ \
ἢ καὶ ὁμηλικίην αἰδεσσάμενος κατὰ θυμὸν
. ’ > 9 , ’ /
δῳη νόστιμον Huap ἐελδομένῃ περ ἀλύξαι.
Καὶ τὸ μὲν ὡς ὥρμαινε" θεοὶ δ᾽ ἑτέρωσε βάλοντο. 610
A \ 3 Φ δα ἢ ΄ , er
τῇ yap ἐπεσσύμενος μέγ᾽ ἐχώσατο Ἰ]Πηλέος υἱός,
’ ΄,͵ "ἢ , ? ‘ / (/
καί οἱ ἄφαρ συνέπειρεν ἀελλόποδος δέμας ἵππου"
’ ᾽ “
εὖτέ τις ἀμφ᾽ ὀβελοῖσιν ὑπὲρ πυρὸς αἰθαλόεντος
σπλάγχνα διαμπείρῃσιν ἐπειγόμενος ποτὶ δόρπον,
x ef , Ἁ > Μ ”
ἢ OS τις στονοεντα βαλὼν ἐν ὄρεσσιν ἄκοντα 615
\ ᾽ / / \ 4 /
θηρητὴρ ἐλάφοιο μέσην διὰ vndva Képon
ἐσσυμένως, πταμένη δὲ διαμπερὲς ὄβριμος αἰχμὴ
πρέμνον ἐς ὑψικόμοιο πάγη δρυὸς ἠέ νυ πεύκης"
ἃ v U e na Ja C7
ὡς apa Ἰ]ενθεσίλειαν ὁμῶς περικαλλέϊ ἵππῳ
ἀντικρὺ διάμησεν ὑπ᾽ ἔγχεϊ μαιμώωντι 620
/ e δ τον, 4 / \ ’ ,
Πηλείδης" ἡ δ᾽ ὦκα μίγη Kovin καὶ ὀλέθρῳ
» / 2 A > », ᾽ , 4 ον
εὐσταλέως ἐριποῦσα κατ᾽ οὔδεος" οὐδέ οἱ αἰδὼς
wv / 2 A / ς ἘΨΡ" \ 4 A
noxuvev δέμας nv τάθη δ᾽ ἐπὶ νηδύα μακρῷ
δουρὶ περισπαίρουσα, θοῷ δ᾽ ἐπεκέκλιτο ἵππῳ"
εὖτ᾽ ἐλάτη κλασθεῖσα βίῃ κρυεροῦ Βορέαο, 625
ἥν τέ που αἰπυτάτην ἀνά τ᾽ ἄγκεα μακρὰ καὶ
ὕλην,
> a ὦ Δ ἈΚ. / \ / A
of αὐτῇ μέγ᾽ ἄγαλμα, τρέφει Tapa πίδακι γαῖα"
5°
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK I
And bide Achilles’ fiery onrush, or
Hastily cast me from my fleet horse down
To earth, and kneel unto this godlike man,
And with wild breath promise for ransoming
Great heaps of brass and gold, which pacify
The hearts of victors never so athirst
For blood, if haply so the murderous might
Of Aeacus’ son may hearken and may spare,
Or peradventure may compassionate
My youth, and so vouchsafe me to behold
Mine home again ?>—for O, I long to live!”
So surged the wild thoughts in her; but the Gods
Ordained it otherwise. Even now rushed on
In terrible anger Peleus’ son: he thrust
With sudden spear, and on its shaft impaled
The body of her tempest-footed steed,
Even as a man in haste to sup might pierce
Flesh with the spit, above the glowing hearth
To roast it, or as in a mountain-glade
A hunter sends the shaft of death clear through
The body of a stag with such winged speed
That the fierce dart leaps forth beyond, to plunge
Into the tall stem of an oak or pine.
So that death-ravening spear of Peleus’ son
Clear through the goodly steed rushed on, and
pierced
Penthesileia. Straightway fell she down
Into the dust of earth, the arms of death,
In grace and comeliness fell, for naught of shame
Dishonoured her fair form. Face down she lay
On the long spear outgasping her last breath,
Stretched upon that fleet horse as on a couch 5
Like some tall pine snapped by the icy mace
Of Boreas, earth’s forest-fosterling
Reared by a spring to stately height, amidst
Long mountain-glens, a glory of mother earth ;
5!
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
fd / ee) ‘ BA “
τοίη Πενθεσίλεια κατ᾽ ὠκέος ἤριπεν ἵππου
/ Sd ae) 7 / ¢ 3 ,
θηητή περ ἐοῦσα: κατεκλάσθη δέ οἱ ἀλκή.
A >) [ὦ 2 / ” / SLEX he
Τρῶες δ᾽ ὡς ἐσίδοντο δαϊκταμένην ἐνὶ χάρμῃ, 680
/ / ’ \ , 3) 7
πανσυδίῃ TPOMEOVTES ἐπὶ πτόλιν ἐσσεύοντο
” » 9 , ΄ \ , 8 ,
ἄσπετ᾽ ἀκηχέμενοι μεγάλῳ περὶ πένθεϊ θυμόν.
ς ϑι ἕω δ > aise) b] / , >’ , 3.) οἷν
ὡς δ᾽ ὅτ᾽ ἀν᾽ εὐρέα πόντον ἐπιβρίσαντος ἀήτεω
A As (5 / ς 4 v
ναῦται νῆ ὀλέσαντες ὑπεκπροφύγωσιν ὄλεθρον,
A \ , - lal
παῦροι πολλὰ καμόντες ὀϊζυρῆς ἁλὸς εἴσω, 635
ὀψὲ δ᾽ ἄρα σφίσι γαῖα φάνη σχεδὸν nde καὶ
,
ἄστυ,
\ δὲ ff ’ v 4 e/ 7
τοὶ δὲ μόγῳ στονόεντι τετρυμένοι ἅψεα πάντα
D>] € \ 5.1 / ’ b] / \ Ν
ἐξ ἁλὸς ἀΐσσουσι μέγ᾽ ἀχνύμενοι περὶ νηὸς
23) (2 / ἃ ΝΑ e \ , wv al
nO ἑτάρων, OVS αἰνὸν ὑπὸ ζόφον ἤλασε κῦμα"
ὡς Τρῶες ποτὶ ἄστυ πεφυζότες ἐκ πολέμοιο 640
A iA wv > / ,
κλαῖον πάντες "Ἄρηος ἀμαιμακέτοιο θύγατρα
\ / “ὉὍ a Sun / Μ
καὶ λαούς, Ol δῆριν ava στονοεσσαν ολοντο.
a > /
Τηδ᾽ ἐπικαγχαλόων μεγάλ᾽ εὔχετο Πηλέος υἱός"
‘ec A , 3 , A , 909 b A
κεῖσό νυν ἐν κονίησι κυνῶν Boots ἠδ᾽ οἰωνῶν,
, / 4 / ’ Dis aA
δειλαίη" Tis yap σε παρήπαφεν ἀντί ἐμεῖο 645
> , 8 » ΄ + /
ἐλθέμεν; 7) που ἔφησθα μάχης ἄπο νοστήσασα
,ὔ Y ἴω
οἰσέμεν ἄσπετα δῶρα παρὰ ΤΙριάμοιο γέροντος
/ ie / > ᾽ ᾽ Ψ ’ ,
κτείνασ᾽ ᾿Αργείους" ἀλλ᾽ οὐ τόδε σοίγε νόημα
> / b / > \ / / ’ 3
ἀθάνατοι ἐτέλεσσαν, ἐπεὶ μέγα φέρτατοί εἰμεν
, n / an
ἡρώων, Δαναοῖσι φάος μέγα, Τρωσὶ δὲ πῆμα 650
ἠδὲ σοὶ αἰνομόρῳ, ἐπειή νύ σε Κῆρες ἐρεμναὶ
52
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK 1]
So from the once fleet steed low fallen lay
Penthesileia, all her shattered strength
Brought down to this, and all her loveliness.
Now when the Trojans saw the Warrior-queen
Struck down in battle, ran through all their lines
A shiver of panic. Straightway to their walls
Turned they in flight, heart-agonized with grief.
As when on the wide sea, ‘neath buffetings
Of storm-blasts, castaways whose ship is wrecked
Escape, a remnant of a crew, forspent
With desperate conflict with the cruel sea:
Late and at last appears the land hard by,
Appears a city : faint and weary-limbed
With that grim struggle, through the surf they
strain
To land, sore grieving for the good ship lost,
And shipmates whom the terrible surge dragged
down
To nether gloom ; so, Troyward as they fled
From battle, all those Trojans wept for her,
The Child of the resistless War-god, wept
For friends who died in groan-resounding fight.
Then over her with scornful laugh the son
Of Peleus vaunted: “In the dust lie there
A prey to teeth of dogs, to ravens’ beaks,
Thou wretched thing! Who cozened thee to come
Forth against me? And thoughtest thou to fare
Home from the war alive, to bear with thee
Right royal gifts from Priam the old king,
Thy guerdon for slain Argives? Ha, ‘twas not
The Immortals who inspired thee with this thought,
Who know that | of heroes mightiest am,
The Danaans’ light of safety, but a woe
To Trojans and to thee, O evil-starred !
Nay, but it was the darkness-shrouded Fates
And thine own folly of soul that pricked thee on
59
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
\ 4 > ig a ” a
Kal νόος ἐξορόθυνε γυναικῶν ἔργα λιποῦσαν
/
βήμεναι ἐς πόλεμον, τόν περ τρομέουσι Kal
» 39
ἄνδρες.
“Os εἰπὼν μελίην ἐξείρυσε ἸΠηλέος υἱὸς
ὠκέος ἐξ ἵπποιο καὶ αἰνῆς ἸΠενθεσιλείης" 655
ἄμφω δ᾽ ἀσπαίρεσκον ὑφ᾽ ἕν δόρυ δῃωθέντες.
» \ / e Ἁ , ¢/ ’
ἀμφὶ δέ οἱ κρατὸς κόρυν εἵλετο μαρμαίρουσαν
a \ ’
ἠελίου ἀκτῖσιν ἀλύίγκιον ἢ Διὸς aiyAn’
τῆς δὲ καὶ ἐν κονίησι καὶ αἵματι πεπτηυίης
2 ,ὔ 3 a e ae ͵ \ / i
ἐξεφάνη ἐρατῇσιν ὑπ᾽ ὀφρύσι καλὰ πρόσωπα 660
/ > , e γ᾽ Ὁ ” γ᾽ /
καίπερ ἀποκταμένης. οἱ δ᾽, ὡς ἴδον, ἀμφιέποντες
? a / > \ 4 SEL
Ἀργεῖοι θάμβησαν, ἐπεὶ μακάρεσσιν ἐῴκει.
a \ > , \ Ν “τ ae oe \
κεῖτο yap ἐν τεύχεσσι κατὰ χθονὸς HUT ἀτειρὴς
dt δ / ‘ / io /
Ἄρτεμις ὑπνώουσα, Atos τέκος, EVTE κάμῃσι
γυῖα κατ᾽ οὔρεα μακρὰ θοοὺς βάλλουσα λέοντας" 665
’ δὴ 4 ” Nig , > \
αὐτὴ yap μιν ἔτευξε καὶ ἐν φθιμένοισιν ἀγητὴν
Κύπρις évotépavos κρατεροῦ παράκοιτις *Apnos,
vv \ nan > 4 a) ’ »
ὄφρα τι καὶ Ἰ]ηλῆος ἀμύμονος vii ἀκαχήση.
\ ᾽ > / ᾽ ϑὲν δ ΄
πολλοὶ δ᾽ εὐχετόωντο KAT οἰκία νοστήσαντες
, Φ > / \ /, ’ “
τοίης ἧς ἀλόχοιο παρὰ λεχέεσσιν ἰαῦσαι. 670
καὶ δ᾽ ᾿Αχιλεὺς ἀλίαστον é@ ἐνετείρετο θυμῷ,
A / / \ ᾽ » “ »
οὕνεκά μιν κατέπεφνε καὶ οὐκ ἄγε δῖαν ἄκοιτιν
΄ U 53
Φθίην εἰς εὔπωλον, ἐπεὶ μέγεθός τε καὶ εἶδος
Μ ΩΝ. , , \ > / is /
ETAET ἀμωμητός τε καὶ ἀθανάτῃσιν ὁμοίη.
54
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK I
To leave the works of women, and to fare
To war, from which strong men shrink shuddering
back.”’
So spake he, and his ashen spear the son
Of Peleus drew from that swift horse, and from
Penthesileia in death’s agony.
Then steed and rider gasped their lives away
Slain by one spear. Now from her head he plucked
The helmet splendour-flashing like the beams
Of the great sun, or Zeus’ own glory-light.
Then, there as fallen in dust and blood she lay,
Rose, like the breaking of the dawn, to view
Neath dainty-pencilled brows a lovely face,
Lovely in death. The Argives thronged around,
And all they saw and marvelled, for she seemed
Like an Immortal. In her armour there
Upon the earth she lay, and seemed the Child
Of Zeus, the tireless Huntress Artemis
Sleeping, what time her feet forwearied are
With following lions with her flying shafts
Over the hills far-stretching. She was made
A wonder of beauty even in her death
By Aphrodite glorious-crowned, the Bride
Of the strong War-god, to the end that he,
The son of noble Peleus, might be pierced
With the sharp arrow of repentant love.
The warriors gazed, and in their hearts they prayed
That fair and sweet like her their wives might
seem,
Laid on the bed of love, when home they won.
Yea, and Achilles’ very heart was wrung
With love’s remorse to have slain a thing so sweet,
Who might have borne her home, his queenly bride,
To chariot-glorious Phthia ; for she was
Flawless, a very daughter of the Gods,
Divinely tall, and most divinely fair.
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
"Αρεῖ δ᾽ ἔμπεσε πένθος ὑπὸ φρένας ἀμφὶ
θυγατρὸς 675
θυμὸν ἀκηχεμένῳ: τάχα δ᾽ ἔκθορεν Οὐλύμποιο
σμερδωλέῳ ἀτάλαντος ἐὺ κτυπέοντι κεραυνῷ,
ὅν τε Ζεὺς προΐησιν, ὁ δ᾽ ἀκαμάτης ἀπὸ χειρὸς
ἔσσυται ἢ ἐπὶ πόντον ἀπείριτον ἢ ἐπὶ γαῖαν
μαρμαίρων, τῷ δ᾽ ἀμφὶ μέγας πελεμίζετ᾽ "Ολυμ-
πος" 680
τοῖος "Ἄρης tavaoto dv ἠέρος ἀσχαλόων κῆρ
ἔσσυτο σὺν τεύχεσσιν, ἐπεὶ μόρον αἰνὸν ἄκουσε
παιδὸς ENS’ τῷ γάρ ῥα κατ᾽ οὐρανὸν εὐρὺν ἐόντι
Αὖραι μυθήσαντο θοαὶ Βορέαο θύγατρες
κούρης αἰνὸν ὄλεθρον' ὁ δ᾽ ὡς κλύεν, ἶσος ἀέλλῃ 685
᾿Ιδαίων ὀρέων ἐπεβήσατο" τοῦ δ᾽ ὑπὸ ποσσὶν
ἄγκεα κίνυτο μακρὰ βαθύρρωχμοί τε χαράδραι
καὶ ποταμοὶ καὶ πάντες ἀπειρέσιοι πόδες ἤϊδης.
καί νύ κε Μυρμιδόνεσσι πολύστονον ὥὦὥπασεν
ἦμαρ,
εἰ μή μιν Ζεὺς αὐτὸς ἀπ᾿ Οὐλύμποιο φόβησε 690
σμερδαλέης στεροπῇσι καὶ ἀργαλέοισι κεραυνοῖς,
οἵ οἱ πρόσθε ποδῶν θαμέες ποτόωντο δι᾽ αἴθρης
δεινὸν ἀπαιθόμενοι: ὁ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ εἰσορόων ἐνόησε
πατρὸς ἐριγδούποιο μέγα βρομέουσαν ὁμοκλήν'
ἔστη δ᾽ ἐσσύμενός περ ἐπὶ πτολέμοιο κυδοιμόν. 695
ὡς δ᾽ ὅτ᾽ ἀπ᾽ ἠλιβάτου σκοπιῆς περιμήκεα λᾶαν
λάβρος ὁ ὁμῶς ἀνέμοισιν ἀπορρήξῃ Διὸς ὄμβρος,
ὄμβρος ap ἠὲ κεραυνύς, ἐπικτυπέουσι δὲ βῆσσαι
λάβρα κυλινδομένοιο, ὁ δ᾽ ἀκαμάτῳ ὑπὸ ῥοίζῳ
ἔσσυτ ᾿ ἀναθρώσκων μάλα TGP: μέχρις ἵκηται 700
χῶρον ἐπ᾽ ἰσόπεδον, σταίη δ᾽ ἄφαρ οὐκ ἐθέλων
περ"
56
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK I
Then Ares’ heart was thrilled with grief and rage
For his child slain. Straight from Olympus down
He darted, swift and bright as thunderbolt
Terribly flashing from the mighty hand
Of Zeus, far leaping o’er the trackless sea,
Or flaming o’er the land, while shuddereth
All wide Olympus as it passeth by.
So through the quivering air with heart aflame
Swooped Ares armour-clad, soon as he heard
The dread doom of his daughter. For the Gales,
The North-wind’s fleet-winged daughters, bare to
him,
As through the wide halls of the sky he strode,
The tidings of the maiden’s woeful end.
Soon as he heard it, like a tempest-blast
Down to the ridges of Ida leapt he: quaked
Under his feet the long glens and ravines
Deep-scored, all Ida’s torrent-beds, and all
Far-stretching foot-hills. Now had Ares brought
A day of mourning on the Myrmidons,
But Zeus himself from far Olympus sent
Mid shattering thunders terror of levin-bolts
Which thick and fast leapt through the welkin down
Before his feet, blazing with fearful flames.
And Ares saw, and knew the stormy threat
Of the mighty-thundering Father, and he stayed
His eager feet, now on the very brink
Of battle’s turmoil. As when some huge crag
Thrust from a beetling cliff-brow by the winds
And torrent rains, or lightning-lance of Zeus,
Leaps like a wild beast, and the mountain-glens
Fling back their crashing echoes as it rolls
In mad speed on, as with resistless swoop
Of bound on bound it rushes down, until
It cometh to the levels of the plain,
And there perforce its stormy flight is stayed ;
57
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
\ , A
ὡς Διὸς ὄβριμος vids” Apns ἀέκοντί ye θυμῷ
ἔστη ἐπειγόμενός περ, ἐπεὶ μακάρων μεδέοντι
, Cou οἷσι ” ’ ΄ e/ Dy 729 OA
πάντες ὁμῶς εἴκουσιν ᾿Ολύμπιοι, οὕνεκ᾽ Ap αὐτῶν
πολλὸν ὑπέρτατός ἐστι, πέλει δέ οἱ ἄσπετος ἀλκή. 705
πολλὰ δὲ πορφύροντα θοὸς νόος ὀτρύνεσκεν
» \ , Big? ’ , 5 \
ἄλλοτε μὲν Kpovidao μέγ᾽ ἀσχαλόωντος ἐνιπὴν
σμερδαλέην τρομέοντα πρὸς οὐρανὸν ἀπονέεσθαι,
ἄλλοτε δ᾽ οὐκ ἀλέγειν σφετέρου πατρός, ἀλλ᾽
᾿Αχιλῆι
“ 2 “ a » , 2 \ ‘ e A
μῖξαι ἐν αἵματι χεῖρας ἀτειρέας. ὀψὲ δέ οἱ KHP 710
΄ .“ , ΄
μνήσαθ᾽, ὅσοι καὶ Ζηνὸς ἐνὶ πτολέμοισι δώμησαν
ΤΡ μ᾿ 50» ΞΟ ΙΝ 3 / γ ,
υἱέες, οἷς οὐδ᾽ αὐτὸς ETNPKETEV ολλυμενοισιν'"
” 3.» 9 79 / e \ we i \ »
τοὔνεκ at Αργειων exas ἤϊεν: ἢ γὰρ ἐμελλεν
κεῖσθαι ὁμῶς Τιτῆσι δαμεὶς στονόεντι κεραυνῷ,
εἰ Διὸς ἀθανάτοιο παρὲκ νόον ἄλλα μενοίνα. 715
Kai τότ᾽ ἀρήιοι vies ἐὐσθενέων ᾿Αργείων
σύλεον ἐσσυμένως βεβροτωμένα τεύχεα νεκρῶν
πάντῃ ἐπεσσύμενοι' μέγα δ᾽ ἄχνυτο Ἰ]ηλέος υἱὸς
Ξ /
κούρης εἰσορόων ἐρατὸν σθένος ἐν κονίησι"
τοὔνεκά οἱ κραδίην OAOAL κατέδαπτον ἀνΐαι Ἴ9ς
Kf ’ ᾽ ϑὺ “ 4 / ΄
ὀππόσον aud ἑτάροιο πάρος Πατρόκλοιο δαμέντος.
’, / ” A ῇ 7 ,
Θερσίτης δέ μιν ἄντα κακῷ μέγα νείκεσε μύθῳ
A , ’ὔ ,
“ᾧ ᾿Αχιλεῦ φρένας aivé, Tin νύ σευ ἤπαφε δαίμων
θυμὸν ἐνὶ στέρνοισιν ᾿Αμαζόνος εἵνεκα λυγρῆς,
ἣ νῶιν κακὰ πολλὰ λιλαίετο μητίσασθαι; 725
τῆς τοι ἐνὶ φρεσὶ σῆσι γυναιμανὲς ἦτορ ἔχοντι
μέμβλεται ὡς ἀλόχοιο πολύφρονος, ἥν T ἐπὶ ἕδνοις
κουριδίην μνήστευσας ἐελδόμενος γαμέεσθαι.
58
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK I
So Ares, battle-eager Son of Zeus,
Was stayed, how loth soe’er ; for all the Gods
To the Ruler of the Blessed needs must yield,
Seeing he sits high-throned above them all,
Clothed in his might unspeakable. Yet still
Many a wild thought surged through Ares’ soul,
Urging him now to dread the terrible threat
Of Cronos’ wrathful Son, and to return
Heavenward, and now to reck not of his Sire,
But with Achilles’ blood to stain those hands,
The battle-tireless. At the last his heart
Remembered how that many and many a son
Of Zeus himself in many a war had died,
Nor in their fall had Zeus availed them aught.
Therefore he turned him from the Argives — else,
Down smitten by the blasting thunderbolt,
With Titans in the nether gloom he had lain,
Who dared defy the eternal will of Zeus.
Then did the warrior sons of Argos strip
With eager haste from corpses strown all round
The blood-stained spoils. But ever Peleus’ son
Gazed, wild with all regret, still gazed on her,
The strong, the beautiful, laid in the dust ;
And all his heart was wrung, was broken down
With sorrowing love, deep, strong as he had known
When that beloved friend Patroclus died.
Loud jeered Thersites, mocking to his face:
“Thou sorry-souled Achilles! art not shamed
To let some evil Power beguile thine heart
To pity of a pitiful Amazon
Whose furious spirit purposed naught but ill
To us and ours? Ha, woman-mad art thou,
And thy soul lusts for this thing, as she were
Some lady wise in household ways, with gifts
And pure intent for honoured wedlock wooed !
Good had it been had her spear reached thine heart,
59
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
ὥς σ᾽ ὄφελον κατὰ δῆριν ὑποφθαμένη βάλε δουρί,
οὕνεκα θηλυτέρῃησιν ἄδην ἐπιτέρπεαι ἦτορ, 730
950} , ; , ον \ ) ,
οὐδέ VU σοί TL μέμηλεν ἐνὶ φρεσὶν οὐλομενησιν
> 2) 3 A Ν ” 2 A 2 , a
ἀμφ᾽ ἀρετῆς κλυτὸν ἔργον, ἐπὴν ἐσίδησθα γυναῖκα.
A δι ,
σχέτλιε, ποῦ νύ τοί ἐστιν ἐὺ σθένος ἠδὲ νόημα;
πῇ δὲ βίη βασιλῆος ἀμύμονος; οὐδέ τι οἶσθα
ὅσσον ἄχος Τρώεσσι γυναιμανέουσι τέτυκται; Ἰ3ὅ
οὐ γὰρ τερπωλῆς ὀλοώτερον ἄλλο βροτοῖσιν
b / e / ef a7 ov, A ,
ἐς λέχος ἱεμένης, ἥ τ᾽ ἄφρονα φῶτα τίθησι
καὶ πινυτόν περ ἐόντα" πόνῳ δ᾽ ἄρα κῦδος ὀπηδεῖ"
> \ \ > A ΄ / »Μ 7, wv
ἀνδρὶ yap αὐχμητῇ νίκης κλέος ἔργα τ᾽ ”Apnos
τερπνά: φυγοπτολέμῳ δὲ γυναικῶν εὔαδεν εὐνή.᾽ 740
Ἦ μέγα νεικείων' ὁ δέ οἱ περιχώσατο θυμῷ
Πηλείδης ἐρίθυμος: ἄφαρ δέ ἑ χειρὶ κραταιῇ
4 7 ral \ wv c a) ie ,
τύψε κατὰ γναθμοῖο καὶ οὔατος" οἱ δ᾽ ἅμα πάντες
2 A ’ / 2 Ἁ , / ’ ἊΨ \
ἐξεχύθησαν ὀδόντες ἐπὶ χθόνα, κάππεσε δ᾽ αὐτὸς
πρηνής" ἐκ δέ οἱ αἷμα διὰ στόματος πεφόρητο 745
ἀθρόον: αἶψα δ᾽ ἄναλκις ἀπὸ μελέων φύγε θυμὸς
> / ᾽ - ΄ a. "ἢ \ 3 A
ἀνέρος οὐτιδανοῖο' χάρη δ᾽ apa λαὸς ᾿Αχαιῶν"
τοὺς γὰρ νείκεε πάμπαν ἐπεσβολίῃσι κακῇσιν
αὐτὸς ἐὼν λωβητός" ὁ γὰρ Δαναῶν πέλεν αἰδώς.
(AB ἀν A eo? v b] . , ’ [4
Kal pa τις ὧδ᾽ εἴπεσκεν ἀρηϊθόων ᾿Αργείων": 750
“οὐκ ἀγαθὸν βασιλῆας ὑβριζέμεν ἀνδρὶ χέρηι
᾽ \ Ψ», 2 ? \ / > ΟΝ 2 A
ἀμφαδὸν οὔτε κρυφηδόν, ἐπεὶ χόλος αἰνὸς ὀπηδεῖ"
» , \ - ᾽ , , ”
ἔστι Θέμις, καὶ γλῶσσαν ἀναιδέα τίνυται “AT,
2 ᾽ 3 Ὁ ’ S35 κῃ ” Pad 37)
ἥ τ᾽ αἰεὶ μερόπεσσιν ἐπ᾽ ἄλγεσιν ἄλγος ἀέξει.
“Os dp’ ἔφη Δαναῶν τις" ὁ δ᾽ ἀσχαλόων ἐνὶ θυμῷ 755
Πηλείδης ἐρίθυμος ἔπος ποτὶ τοῖον ἔειπεν"
60
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK I
The heart that sighs for woman-creatures still !
Thou carest not, unmanly-souled, not thou,
For valour’s glorious path, when once thine eye
Lights on a woman! Sorry wretch, where now
Is all thy goodly prowess ?—where thy wit?
And where the might that should beseem a king
All-stainless? Dost not know what misery
This self-same woman-madness wrought for Troy?
Nothing there is to men more ruinous
Than lust for woman’s beauty ; it maketh fools
Of wise men. But the toil of war attains
Renown. To him that is a hero indeed
Glory of victory and the War-god’s works
Are sweet. ’Tis but the battle-blencher craves
The beauty and the bed of such as she!”’
So railed he long and loud: the mighty heart
Of Peleus’ son leapt into fame of wrath.
A sudden buffet of his resistless hand
Smote ’neath the railer’s ear, and all his teeth
Were dashed to the earth: he fell upon his face:
Forth of his lips the blood in torrent gushed :
Swift from his body fled the dastard soul
Of that vile niddering. Achaea’s sons
Rejoiced thereat, for aye he wont to rail
On each and all with venomous gibes, himself
A scandal and the shame of all the host.
Then mid the warrior Argives cried a voice:
““Νοῦ good it is for baser men to rail
On kings, or secretly or openly ;
For wrathful retribution swiftly comes.
The Lady of Justice sits on high ; and she
Who heapeth woe on woe on humankind,
Even Até, punisheth the shameless tongue.”
So mid the Danaans cried a voice: nor yet
Within the mighty soul of Peleus’ son
Lulled was the storm of wrath, but fiercely he spake:
61
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
“ κεῖσό νυν ἐν Kovinot λελασμένος ἀφροσυνάων'
οὐ γὰρ ἀμείνονι φωτὶ χρεὼν κακὸν ἀντί᾽ ἐρίζειν"
ἃ , ἢ , 3 - ‘ ~
ws καί που τὸ πάροιθεν ᾿Οδυσσῆος ταλαὸν κὴἣρ
ἀργαλέως ὦρινας ἐλέγχεα μυρία Balov: 760
ἀλλ᾽ οὐ Πηλείδης τοι ὁμοίιος ἐξεφαάνθην,
ov \ »Ὦ \ ᾽ , Ὶ \ ,
os σευ θυμὸν ἔλυσα Kal οὐκέτι χειρὶ βαρείη
πληξάμενος: σὲ δὲ πότμος ἀμείλιχος ἀμφεκά-
λυψεν,
σῇ δ᾽ ὀλιγοδρανίῃ θυμὸν λίπες: ἀλλ᾽ ἀπ᾽ ᾿Αχαιῶν
Μ Ν Ε ’ 3 ᾿ > ΄ 39 =
ἔρρε καὶ ev φθιμένοισιν ἐπεσβολίας ἀγόρευε. 765
“Os ἔφατ᾽ Αἰακίδαο θρασύφρονος ἄτρομος υἱός.
Τυδείδης δ᾽ ἄρα μοῦνος ἐν ᾿Αργείοις ᾿Αχιλῆι
χώετο Θερσίταο δεδουπότος, οὕνεκ᾽ ἄρ᾽ αὐτοῦ
εὔχετ᾽ ἀφ᾽ αἵματος εἶναι, ἐπεὶ πέλεν ὃς μὲν ἀγαυοῦ
, v oe e 2 2 , ᾽ ,
Τυδέος ὄβριμος υἱὸς, ὁ δ᾽ ᾿Αγρίου ἰσοθέοιο, 770
᾿Αγρίου, ὅς τ᾽ Οἰνῆος ἀδελφεὸς ἔπλετο δίου"
Οἰνεὺς δ᾽ vida γείνατ᾽ ἀρήιον ἐν Δαναοῖσι
/ A eee , oe A e
Τυδέα: τοῦ δ᾽ ἐτέτυκτο πάϊς σθεναρὸς Διομηδης.
τοὔνεκα Θερσίταο περὶ κταμένοιο χαλέφθη.
καί νύ κε Πηλείωνος ἐναντίον ἤρατο χεῖρας,
7 ” xeep
/ , 3 a“ ,
εἰ μή μιν κατέρυξαν ᾿Αχαιῶν φέρτατοι υἷες,
\ , ς , a \ \ > Ν
πολλὰ παρηγορέοντες ὁμιλαδόν' ws δὲ καὶ αὐτὸν
ρη μ
, « / > / = \ Μ
Πηλείδην ἑτέρωθεν ἐρήτυον: 7) γὰρ ἔμελλον
ἤδη καὶ ξιφέεσσιν ἐριδμαίνειν οἱ ἄριστοι
᾿Αργείων: τοὺς γάρ ῥα κακὸς χόλος ὀτρύνεσκεν. 780
ἀλλ᾽ οἱ μὲν πεπίθοντο παραιφασίῃσιν ἑταίρων.
ε \ | oe > , > A ΄
Οἱ δὲ μέγ᾽ οἰκτείραντες ἀγαυὴν Πενθεσίλειαν
3 - “- 2 ,ὕ ᾿ὰ- \ ᾽ \
Ατρεῖδαι βασιλῆες ἀγασσάμενοί ἡ καὶ αὐτοὶ
Τρωσὶ δόσαν ποτὶ ἄστυ φέρειν ἐρικυδέος Ἴλου
7
1
σι
1 Zimmermann, for οὐκ ἐπὶ of v.
62
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK I
‘ Lie there in dust, thy follies all forgot !
Tis not for knaves to beard their betters: once
Thou didst provoke Odysseus’ steadfast soul,
Babbling with venomous tongue a thousand gibes,
And didst escape with life ; but thou hast found
The son of Peleus not so patient-souled,
Who with one only buffet from his hand
Unkennels thy dog’s soul! A bitter doom
Hath swallowed thee: by thine own rascalry
Thy life is sped. Hence from Achaean men,
And mouth out thy revilings midst the dead!”
So spake the valiant-hearted aweless son
Of Aeacus. But Tydeus’ son alone
Of all the Argives was with anger stirred
Against Achilles for Thersites slain,
Seeing these twain were of the self-same blood,
The one, proud Tydeus’ battle-eager son,
The other, seed of godlike Agrius:
Brother of noble Oeneus Agrius was ;
And Oeneus in the Danaan land begat
Tydeus the battle-eager, son to whom
Was stalwart Diomedes. Therefore wroth
Was he for slain Thersites, yea, had raised
Against the son of Peleus vengeful hands,
Except the noblest of Achaea’s sons
Had thronged around him, and besought him sore,
And held him back therefrom. With Peleus’ son
Also they pleaded ; else those mighty twain,
The mightiest of all Argives, were at point
To close with clash of swords, so stung were they
With bitter wrath ; yet hearkened they at last
To prayers of comrades, and were reconciled.
Then of their pity did the Atreid kings—
For these too at the imperial loveliness
Of Penthesileia marvelled—render up
63
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
\ - 4 2 \ / ,
συν σφοῖσιν τευχέσσιν, ἔπει Πριάμοιο νόησαν 785
b) ’ὔ -7 e \ \ ka /
ἀγγελίην προϊέντος" ὁ yap φρεσὶν ἧσι pevoiva
jonv ὀβριμόθυμον ὁμῶς τεύχεσσι καὶ ἵ
κούρην ὀβριμόθυμον ὁμῶς τεύχεσσι καὶ ἵππῳ
ἐς μέγα σῆμα βαλέσθαι ἀφνειοῦ Λαομέδοντος.
7 e ~~ 7 / /
Kal οἱ πυρκαϊὴν νηήσατο πρόσθε πόληος
ὑψηλήν, εὐρεῖαν: ὕπερθε δὲ θήκατο κούρην 790
κ \ ΄ ef / > ,
πολλοῖς σὺν κτεάτεσσιν, ὅσα κταμένη ETEWKEL
’ \ 7 5... / /
ἐν πυρὶ συγκείασθαι ἐϊκτεάνῳ βασιλείη.
καὶ τὴν μὲν κατέδαψε θοὸν μένος Ἡφαίστοιο,
φλὸξ ὀλοή: λαοὶ δὲ περισταδὸν ἄλλοθεν ἄλλοι
πυρκαϊὴν σβέσσαντο θοῶς εὐώδεὶϊ οἴνῳ. 795
ὀστέα δ᾽ ἀλλέξαντες ἄδην ἐπέχευαν ἄλειφα
΄ Ν -
ἡδὺ καὶ ἐς κοίλην χηλὸν θέσαν: ἀμφὶ δ᾽ ap αὐτοῖς
πίονα δημὸν ὕπερθε βάλον Boos, ἥ τ᾽ ἀγέλησιν
/
᾿Ιδαίοις ἐν ὄρεσσι μετέπρεπε φερβομένησι.
Τρῶες δ᾽ ὥστε θύγατρα φίλην περικωκύσαντες 800
ἀχνύμενοι τάρχυσαν ἐὔδμητον περὶ τεῖχος
/ Μ » ΡΣ / /
πύργῳ ἔπι προὔχοντι Tap ὀστέα Λαομέδοντος
ἦρα φέροντες “Apne καὶ αὐτῇ Πενθεσιλείῃ.
’ e / ᾽ ud 4 “ ’ 3 fol
καί οἱ παρκατέθαψαν ᾿Αμαζόνας, ὅσσαι ἅμ᾽ αὐτῇ
ς / \ an ΄ > ΚΕ S| / Ἕ =
EO TOMEVAL TTOTL δῆριν ὑπ Αργείοισι δάμησαν' 805
’ὔ
οὐ γάρ σφιν τύμβοιο πολυκλαύτοιο μέγηραν
᾿Ατρεῖδαι, Τρώεσσι δ᾽ ἐὐπτολέμοισιν ὄπασσαν
- e fr Ul
ex βελέων ἐρύσασθαι ὁμῶς κταμένοισι καὶ ἄλλοις"
64
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK 1
Her body to the men of Troy, to bear
Unto the burg of Ilus far-renowned
With all her armour. For a herald came
Asking this boon for Priam ; for the king
Longed with deep yearning of the heart to lay
That battle-eager maiden, with her arms,
And with her war-horse, in the great earth-mound
Of old Laomedon. And so he heaped
A high broad pyre without the city wall:
Upon the height thereof that warrior-queen
They laid, and costly treasures did they heap
Around her, all that well beseems to burn
Around a mighty queen in battle slain.
And so the Fire-god’s swift-upleaping might,
The ravening flame, consumed her. All around
The people stood on every hand, and quenched
The pyre with odorous wine. Then gathered they
The bones, and poured sweet ointment over them,
And laid them in a casket: over all
Shed they the rich fat of a heifer, chief
Among the herds that grazed on Ida's slope.
And, as for a belovéd daughter, rang
All round the Trojan men’s heart-stricken wail,
As by the stately wall they buried her
On an outstanding tower, beside the bones
Of old Laomedon, a queen beside
A king. This honour for the War-god’s sake
They rendered, and for Penthesileia’s own.
And in the plain beside her buried they
The Amazons, even all that followed her
To battle, and by Argive spears were slain.
For Atreus’ sons begrudged not these the boon
Of tear-besprinkled graves, but let their friends,
The warrior Trojans, draw their corpses forth,
Yea, and their own slain also, from amidst
The swath of darts o’er that grim harvest-field.
65
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
ov γὰρ ἐπὶ φθιμένοισι πέλει κότος, GAN ἐλεεινοὶ
δήιοι οὐκέτ᾽ ἐόντες, ἐπὴν ἀπὸ θυμὸς ὄληται. 810
> tal a; 3 ΄ὔ Ud \ \ /
Ἀργεῖοι δ᾽ ἀπάνευθε δόσαν πυρὶ πολλὰ κάρηνα
ἡρώων, οἱ δή σφιν ὁμοῦ κτάθεν ἠδ᾽ ἐδάμησαν
Τρώων ἐν παλάμησιν ἀνὰ στόμα δηιοτῆτος,
πολλὰ μάλ᾽ ἀχνύμενοι κταμένων ὕπερ. ἔξοχα δ᾽
ἄλλων
ἀμφ᾽ ἀγαθοῦ μύροντο Ἰ]οδάρκεος" οὐ γὰρ ἐπ᾽
ἐσθλοῦ 815
Sever ἀδελφειοῖο μάχῃ ἔνι Πρωτεσιλάου"
> ’ ¢€ \ » / ς 3. of -“ “
ἀλλ᾽ ὁ μὲν ἤδη πρόσθεν ὑφ᾽ “Ἕκτορι κεῖτο δαΐ-
θεὶς
nis ΠΙρωτεσίλαος: ὁ δ᾽ ἔγχεϊ Πενθεσιλείης
/ ’ / \ 7 7
βλήμενος ᾿Αργείοισι λυγρὸν περικάββαλε πένθος"
τοὔνεκά οἱ πληθὺν μὲν ἀπόπροθι ταρχύσαντο 820
τεθναότων: κείνῳ δὲ πέριξ ἐβάλοντο καμόντες
οἴῳ σῆμ᾽ ἀρίδηλον, ἐπεὶ θρασὺς ἔπλετο θυμῷ.
νόσφι δὲ Θερσίταο λυγρὸν δέμας οὐτιδανοῖο
θάψαντες ποτὶ νῆας ἐῦπρώρους ἀφίκοντο
Αἰακίδην ᾿Αχιλῆα μέγα φρεσὶ κυδαίνοντες. 825
ἦμος δ᾽ αἰγλήεσσα κατ᾽ wKeavoio βεβήκει
ἠώς, ἀμφὶ δὲ γαῖαν ἐκίδνατο θεσπεσίη νύξ,
δὴ τότ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἐν κλισίῃς ᾿Αγαμέμνονος ἀφνειοῖο
δαίνυτο Ἰ]ηλείδαο βίη: σὺν δ᾽ ἄλλοι ἄριστοι
’ eyed / / JEN a tf
τέρποντ᾽ ἐν θαλίῃς μέχρις ἠὼ δῖαν ἱκέσθαι. 830
66
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK I
Wrath strikes not at the dead: pitied are foes
When life has fled, and left them foes no more.
Far off across the plain the while uprose
Smoke from the pyres whereon the Argives laid
The many heroes overthrown and slain
By Trojan hands what time the sword devoured ;
And multitudinous lamentation wailed
Over the perished. But above the rest
Mourned they o’er brave Podarces, who in fight
Was no less mighty than his hero-brother
Protesilaus, he who long ago
Fell, slain of Hector: so Podarces now,
Struck down by Penthesileia’s spear, hath cast
Over all Argive hearts the pall of grief.
Wherefore apart from him they laid in clay
The common throng of slain; but over him
Toiling they heaped an earth-mound far-descried
In memory of a warrior aweless-souled.
And in a several pit withal they thrust
The niddering Thersites’ wretched corse.
Then to the ships, acclaiming Aeacus’ son,
Returned they all. But when the radiant day
Had plunged beneath the Ocean-stream, and night,
The holy, overspread the face of earth,
Then in the rich king Agamemnon’s tent
Feasted the might of Peleus’ son, and there
Sat at the feast those other mighty ones
All through the dark, till rose the dawn divine.
67
AOTO AETTEPOS
Αὐτὰρ ἐπεὶ κορυφὰς ὀρέων ὑπὲρ ἠχηέντων
\ Lr \ / > ’ ΄ ’ ,
λαμπρὸν ὑπὲρ φάος ἦλθεν ἀτειρέος ἠελίοιο,
e XN Ν᾽ ἐν , ᾽ rn v -
οἱ μὲν ap ἐν κλισίησιν ᾿Αχαιῶν ὄβριμοι υἷες
7 » if FAN SF ‘ ’ a
γήθεον ἀκαμάτῳ μέγ᾽ ἐπευχόμενοι ᾿Αχιλῆι.
a ’ = / \ , ? \ \ ΄
Τρῶες δ᾽ αὖ μύροντο κατὰ πτόλιν' ἀμφὶ δὲ πύρ-
γους 5
, / x
ἑζόμενοι σκοπίαζον, ἐπεὶ φόβος ἔλλαβε πάντας,
μὴ δή που μέγα τεῖχος ὑπερθόρῃ ὄβριμος ἀνὴρ
αὐτούς τε κτείνῃ κατά τε πρήσῃ πυρὶ πάντα.
τοῖσι δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἀχνυμένοισι γέρων μετέειπε Θυμοίτης"
“ὦ φίλοι, οὐκέτ᾽ ἔγωγε περὶ φρεσὶν οἶδα νοῆσαι, 10
ὅππως ἔσσεται ἄλκαρ ἀνιηροῦ πολέμοιο
d > / / ἃ / ,
Extopos ἀγχεμάχοιο δεδουπότος, ὃς μέγα Τρώων
/ » \ ΄ A 20. 4 rr
κάρτος ἔην τὸ πάροιθε: καὶ οὐδ᾽ ὅ ye Κῆρας
ἄλυξεν,
ἀλλ᾽ ἐδάμη παλάμῃσιν ᾿Αχιλλέος, ᾧ περ ὀΐω
\ \ ? / / » “-
καὶ θεὸν ἀντιάσαντα μάχη ἔνι δηωθῆναι: 1ὅ
“ / 7235 / 3 ON »» e Εν
οἵην τήνδ᾽ ἐδάμασσεν ἀνὰ κλόνον, ἥνπερ οἱ ἄλλοι
᾿Αργεῖοι φοβέοντο, δαΐφρονα Πενθεσίλειαν'"
καὶ γὰρ ἔην ἔκπαγλος: ἔγωγέ μιν ὡς ἐνόησα,
68
BOOK Il
How Memnon, Son of the Dann, for Troy’s sake fell
in the Batlle
WHEN o’er the crests of the far-echoing hills
The splendour of the tireless-racing sun
Poured o’er the land, still in their tents rejoiced
Achaea’s stalwart sons, and still acclaimed
Achilles the resistless. But in Troy
Still mourned her people, still from all her towers
Seaward they strained their gaze ; for one great fear
Gripped all their hearts—to see that terrible man
At one bound overleap their high-built wall,
Then smite with the sword all people therewithin,
And burn with fire fanes, palaces, and homes.
And old Thymoetes spake to the anguished ones:
“ Friends, I have lost hope: mine heart seeth not
Or help, or bulwark from the storm of war,
Now that the aweless Hector, who was once
Troy’s mighty champion, is in dust laid low.
Not all his might availed to escape the Fates,
But overborne he was by Achilles’ hands,
The hands that would, I verily deem, bear down
A God, if he defied him to the fight,
Even as he overthrew this warrior-queen
Penthesileia battle-revelling,
From whom all other Argives shrank in fear.
Ah, she was marvellous! When at the first
I looked on her, meseemed a Blesséd One
69
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
b] / ΄ Leet ee ’ 3 A 9 7O9 ¢ /
ὠισάμην μακάρων τίν᾽ am οὐρανοῦ ἐνθάδ᾽ ἱκέσθαι
Ὁ τὰ i ἢ a ᾽ > δ᾿ ὁ Φὺ ἶν ΄ >
ἡμῖν χάρμα φέρουσαν' ὃ δ᾽ οὐκ ap ἐτήτυμον ἧεν. 20
ἀλλ᾽ ἄγε φραζώμεσθα, τί λώιον ἄμμι γένηται,
ἢ ἔτι που στυγεροῖσι μαχώμεθα δυσμενέεσσιν,
A wW 4 ᾽ 2 >) /
ἢ ἤδη φεύγωμεν aT ἄστεος ὀλλυμένοιο'"
᾽ Ν οἰὸς ας; , , PP Ὁ ,
ov yap ἔτ᾽ ᾿Αργείοισι δυνησόμεθ᾽ ἀντιφερίξειν
μαρναμένου κατὰ δῆριν ἀμειλίκτου ᾿Αχιλῆος. —-25
“Os ap’ ἔφη: τὸν δ᾽ υἱὸς ἀμείβετο Λαομέδοντος"
“ὦ φίλος 75 ἄλλοι Τρῶες σθεναροί τ᾽ ἐπίκουροι,
μή νύ τι δειμαίνοντες Ens χαζώμεθα πάτρης,
> / , a ,
μηδ᾽ ἔτι δυσμενέεσσι μαχώμεθα τῆλε πόληος,
᾽ ’ὔ > / \ / 3 x) , Vv
ἀλλά που ἐκ πύργων καὶ τείχεος, εἰσόκεν ἔλθῃ 90
Μέμνων ὀβριμόθυμος ἄγων ἀπερείσια φῦλα
λαῶν, οἱ ναίουσι μελάμβροτον Αἰθιόπειαν.
ἤδη γάρ ῥα καὶ αὐτὸν ὀΐομαι ἀγχόθι γαίης
ἔμμεναι ἡμετέρης" ἐπεὶ 7) νύ οἱ οὔτι νέον γε
ἀγγελίην προέηκα μέγ᾽ ἀχνύμενος περὶ θυμῷ" 35
αὐτὰρ 6 γ᾽ ἀσπασίως μοι ὑπέσχετο πάντα τελέσσαι
Ν > / / ‘ ” 5
ἐλθὼν ἐς Τροίην: καί μιν σχεδὸν ἔλπομαι εἶναι.
ἀλλ᾽ ἄγε TAHT ἔτι βαιὸν, ἐπεὶ πολὺ λώιόν ἐστι
θαρσαλέως ἀπολέσθαι ἀνὰ κλόνον, ἠὲ φυγόντας
, > “ 4, 33 / "» » ἝΝ 3)
ζώειν ἀλλοδαποῖσι παρ᾽ ἀνδράσιν αἴσχε᾽ ἔχοντας." 40
Ἦ ῥ᾽ ὁ γέρων: ἀλλ᾽ οὔτι σαόφρονι ἸΠουλυδά-
μαντι
ἤνδανεν εἰσέτι δῆρις, ἐὔύφρονα δ᾽ ἔκφατο μῦθον"
Pete RES. \ , » , ,
εἰ μὲν δὴ Μέμνων τοι ἀριφραδέως κατένευσεν
ἡμέων αἰνὸν ὄλεθρον ἀπωσέμεν, οὔτι μεγαίρω
μίμνειν ἀνέρα δῖον ἀνὰ πτόλιν: GAN ἄρα θυμῶὼἤ 4
7°
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK II
From heaven had come down hitherward to bring
Light to our darkness—ah, vain hope, vain dream!
Go to, let us take counsel, ae to do
Were best for us. Or shall we still maintain
A hopeless fight against these ruthless foes,
Or shall we straightway flee a city doomed?
Ay, doomed !—for never more may we withstand
Argives in fighting field, when in the front
Of battle pitiless Achilles storms.”
Then spake Laomedon’s son, the ancient king:
“‘ Nay, friend, and all ye other sons of Troy,
And ye our strong war-helpers, flinch we not
Faint-hearted from defence of fatherland !
Yet let us go not forth the city-gates
To battle with yon foe. Nay, from our towers
And from our ramparts let us make defence,
Till our new champion come, the stormy heart
Of Memnon. Lo, he cometh, leading on
Hosts numberless, Aethiopia’s swarthy sons.
By this, I trow, he is nigh unto our gates ;
For long ago, in sore distress of soul,
I sent him urgent summons. Yea, ἜΝ he
Promised me, gladly promised me, to come
To Troy, and make an end of all our woes.
And now, I trust, he is nigh. Let us endure
A little longer then; for better far
It is like brave men in the fight to die
Than flee, and live in shame ἐπ alien folk.”
So spake the old king; but Polydamas,
The prudent-hearted, thought not good to war
Thus endlessly, and spake his patriot rede :
“1f Memnon have beyond all shadow of doubt
Pledged him to thrust dire ruin far from us,
Then do I gainsay not that we await
The coming of that godlike man within
Our walls—yet, ah, mine heart misgives me, lest,
γι
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
la A \ | »".- \ id ΄ ,
δείδω, μὴ σὺν ἑοῖσι κιὼν ἑτάροισι δαμείη
fe ’ A ᾽ a
κεῖνος ἀνήρ, πολλοῖς δὲ Kal ἄλλοις πῆμα γένηται
ἡμετέροις" δεινὸν γὰρ ἐπὶ σθένος ὄρνυτ᾽ ᾿Αχαιῶν.
ἀλλ᾽ ἄγε, μηδὲ πόληος ENS ἀπὸ τῆλε φυγόντες
αἴσχεα πολλὰ φέρωμεν ἀναλκείῃ ὑπὸ λυγρῇ 50
’ \ / 53 Ἁ / ἂν FA
ἀλλοδαπὴν περόωντες ἐπὶ χθόνα, μηδ᾽ ἔτι πάτρῃ
, 7 aie J ’ aA
μίμνοντες κτεινώμεθ᾽ UT ᾿Αργείων ὀρυμαγδοῦ,
ἀλλ᾽ ἤδη Δαναοῖσι, καὶ εἰ βραδύ, λώιον εἴη
3 4 / «ς ΄ ‘ , Sh 9 ,
εἰσέτι κυδαλίμην ᾿Ελένην καὶ κτήματ᾽ ἐκείνης,
ἠμὲν ὅσα Σπάρτηθεν ἀνήγαγεν ἠδὲ καὶ ἄλλα, 55
e / -“
διττάκι τόσσα φέροντας ὑπὲρ πόλιός τε καὶ αὐτῶν
ἐκδόμεν, ἕως οὐ κτῆσιν ἀνάρσια φῦλα δέδασται
ἡμετέρην, οὐδ᾽ ἄστυ κατήνυκε πῦρ ἀΐδηλον.
a oe 8) Cs: \ / \ / > \ 3.
νῦν δ᾽ ay ἐμοὶ πείθεσθε περὶ φρεσίν: οὐ γὰρ ὀΐω
ἄλλον ἀμείνονα μῆτιν ἐνὶ Τρώεσσι φράσασθαι: 60
»2} ἡ x , ᾽ “ 9 Ψ bd a
εἴθ᾽ ὄφελον Kal πρόσθεν ἐμῆς ἐπάκουσεν ἐφετμῆς
“Ἕκτωρ, ὁππότε μιν κατερήτυον ἔνδοθι πάτρης."
Ὡς φάτο ἸΠουλυδάμαντος ἐὺ σθένος: ἀμφὶ δὲ
Τρῶες
wv > ." 80... , SIN) 3 \
nveov εἰσαΐοντες ἐνὶ φρεσίν, οὐδ᾽ ἀναφανδὸν
μῦθον ἔφαν: πάντες γὰρ ἑὸν τρομέοντες ἄνακτα θῦ
Ὁ SH ον ς / / 4 ιν , ,
aflovt ἠδ᾽ ᾿λένην, κείνης ἕνεκ᾽ ὀλλύμενοί περ.
Ν \ \ ᾽ \ ag / / /
tov δὲ καὶ ἐσθλὸν ἐόντα lapis μέγα νείκεσεν
ἄντην'
““Πουλυδάμα, σὺ μὲν ἐσσὶ φυγοπτόλεμος καὶ
ἄναλκις,
DIN Wg 4 ,ὔ / 9
οὐδὲ σοὶ ἐν στέρνοισι πέλει μενεδήιον ἦτορ,
ἀλλὰ δέος καὶ Pula: σὺ δ᾽ εὔχεαι εἶναι ἄριστος 70
᾽ aA 7 WN , / 5
ἐν βουλῇ" πάντων δὲ χερείονα μήδεα οἶδας.
72
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK II
Though he with all his warriors come, he come
But to his death, and unto thousands more,
Our people, nought but misery come thereof ;
For terribly against us leaps the storm
Of the Achaeans’ might. But now, go to,
Let us not flee afar from this our Troy
To wander to some alien land, and there,
In the exile’s pitiful helplessness, endure
All flouts and outrage ; nor in our own land
Abide we till the storm of Argive war
O’erwhelm us. Nay, even now, late though it be,
Better it were for us to render back
Unto the Danaans Helen and her wealth,
Even all that glory of women brought with her
From Sparta, and add other treasure—yea,
Repay it twofold, so to save our Troy
And our own souls, while yet the spoiler’s hand
Is laid not on our substance, and while yet
Troy hath not sunk in gulfs of ravening flame.
I pray you, take to heart my counsel! None
Shall, well I wot, be given to Trojan men
Better than this. Ah, would that long ago
Hector had hearkened to my pleading, when
I fain had kept him in the ancient home !”’
So spake Polydamas the noble and strong,
And all the listening Trojans in their hearts
Approved; yet none dared utter openly
The word, for all with trembling held in awe
Their prince and Helen, though for her sole sake
Daily they died. But on that noble man
Turned Paris, and reviled him to his face:
“Thou dastard battle-blencher Polydamas!
Not in thy craven bosom beats a heart
That bides the fight, but only fear and panic.
Yet dost thou vaunt thee—quotha !—still our best
In counsel !—no man’s soul is base as thine!
73
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
» LINEN? \ \ \ SN > , A
ἀλλ᾽ ἄγε δὴ σὺ μὲν αὐτὸς ἀπόσχεο δηιοτῆτος,
,ὔ >) SAN 4 if > \ © iF
μίμνε δ᾽ ἐνὶ μεγάροισι καθήμενος" αὐτὰρ οἱ ἄλλοι
᾽ 5. IN ,ὕ Κ τ τ , ” a
ἀμφ᾽ ἐμὲ θωρήξονται ava πτόλιν, εἴσοκε μῆχος
if a
εὕρωμεν θυμῆρες ἀνηλεγέος πολέμοιο"
᾽ Ν / /
ov yap νόσφι πόνοιο Kal ἀργαλέου πολέμοιο
ἀνθρώποις μέγα κῦδος ἀέξεται ἠδὲ καὶ ἔργον"
΄ \ Ig / 3 wv > \ ’
φύζα δὲ νηπιάχοισι μάλ᾽ εὔαδεν ἠδὲ γυναιξί:
κείνῃς θυμὸν ἔοικας" ἐγὼ δέ τοι οὔτι πέποιθα
\
μαρναμένῳι: πάντων yap ἀμαλδύνεις θρασὺ
κάρτος."
Ss / ΄ e \ , / A
Η μέγα νεικείων" ὁ δὲ χωόμενος φάτο μῦθον
Πουλυδώμας: οὐ γάρ οἱ ἐναντίον aber ἀῦσαι
lad Ν ΄
κεῖνος, ἐπεὶ στυγερὸς καὶ ἀτάσθαλος ἠδ᾽ ἀεσί-
φρων,
« I~ ’ ‘ »
ὃς φίλα μὲν σαίνησιν ἐνωπαδόν, ἄλλα δὲ θυμῷ
πορφύρει καὶ κρύβδα τὸν οὐ παρεόντα χαλέπτῃ"
τῷ ῥα καὶ ἀμφαδίῃ μέγα νείκεσε δῖον ἄνακτα:
> 9 vA ~
“ὦ μοι ἐπιχθονίων πάντων ONOWTATE φωτῶν,
σὸν θράσος ἤγαγε νῶιν ὀϊζύα, σὸς νόος ἔτλη
δῆριν ἀπειρεσίην καὶ τλήσεται, εἰσόκε πάτρην
σὺν λαοῖς σφετέροισι δαϊζομένην ἐσίδηαι"
“
ἀλλ᾽ ἐμὲ μὴ τοιόνδε λάβοι θράσος, ἀμφὶ δὲ
τάρβος
ἀσφαλὲς αἰὲν ἔχοιμι, σόον δέ μοι οἶκον ὀφέλλοι."
«“ SUVS. 57) ς SSS ” 7
Ὡς ap ἔφη. ὁ δ᾽ ap’ οὔτι προσέννεπε Πουλυ-
ἄμαντα:
΄, 7 , 4 3 , 3. ἢ
μνήσατο γάρ, Τρώεσσιν ὅσας ἐφέηκεν ἀνίας
> la / Sie) € A
nO ὁπόσας ἔτ᾽ ἔμελλεν, ἐπεί ῥά οἱ αἰθόμενον κῆρ
a 2 ΄ 7 A / /
μᾶλλον ἐφώρμαινεν θανέειν ἢ νόσφι γενέσθαι
b) / ς / 2 ἢ ΜᾺ (7A ΄ e
ἀντιθέης ᾿Ελένης, ἧς εἵνεκα Τρώιοι vies
£ / 3 Uy > Sgn: ’ a“
ὑψόθεν ἐσκοπίαζον am ἄστεος αἰπεινοῖο
/ ’ / 2 / a
δέγμενοι ᾿Αργείους ἠδ᾽ Αἰακίδην ᾿Αχιλῆα.
74
80
8&5
90
95
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK Il
Go to, thyself shrink shivering from the strife !
Cower, coward, in thine halls! But all the rest,
We men, will still go armour-girt, until
We wrest from this our truceless war a peace
That shall not shame us! ’Tis with travail and toil
Of strenuous war that brave men win renown ;
But flight?—weak women choose it, and young
babes !
Thy spirit is like to theirs. No whit I trust
Thee in the day of battle—thee, the man
Who maketh faint the hearts of all the host!”
So fiercely he reviled : Polydamas
Wrathfully answered; for he shrank not, he,
From answering to his face. A caitiff hound,
A reptile fool, is he who fawns on men
Before their faces, while his heart is black
With malice, and, when they be gone, his tongue
Backbites them. Openly Polydamas
Flung back upon the prince his taunt and scoff:
“Ὁ thou of living men most mischievous !
Thy valour—quotha !—brings us misery !
Thine heart endures, and will endure, that strife
Should have no limit, save in utter ruin
Of fatherland and people—for thy sake !
Ne’er may such wantwit valour craze my soul!
Be mine to cherish wise discretion aye,
A warder that shall keep mine house in peace.”
Indignantly he spake, and Paris found
No word to answer him, for conscience woke
Remembrance of all woes he had brought on Troy,
And should bring ; for his passion-fevered heart
Would rather hail quick death than severance
From Helen the divinely fair, although
For her sake was it that the sons of Troy
Even then were gazing from their towers to see
The Argives and Achilles drawing nigh.
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
Τοῖσι δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ov peta δηρὸν ἀρήιος ἤλυθε
Μέμνων, 100
3
Μέμνων κυανέοισι pet Αἰθιόπεσσιν ἀνάσσων,
+ \ ~
ὃς κίε λαὸν ἄγων ἀπερείσιον: ἀμφὶ dé Τρῶες
’ 7 M \ , > £ -
γηθόσυνοί μιν ἴδοντο κατὰ πτόλιν, ἠὔτε ναῦται
΄ 3 ; a ’ "57 ᾿ ,
χείματος ἐξ ὀλοοῖο δι᾽ αἰθέρος ἀθρήσωσιν
ἤδη τειρόμενοι ᾿Ελίκης περιηγέος αἴγλην" 105
ἃ \ ΄ , M ees -
ὡς λαοὶ κεχάροντο περισταδόν, ἔξοχα δ᾽ ἄλλων
Λαομεδοντιάδης: μάλα γάρ νύ οἱ ἧτορ ἐώλπει
΄ - ’ S cA
δηώσειν πυρὶ νῆας UT ἀνδράσιν Αἰθιόπεσσιν,
cA > Mw rf ΄ > \ \ > \
οὕνεκ᾽ ἔχον βασιλῆα πελώριον ἠδὲ Kal αὐτοὶ
ἣν oF - \ ΄ > » /
πολλοὶ ἐσαν καὶ παντες ἐς Ἄρεα μαιμωώωντες" 110
~ «3 w Fi “ὃ i s -H ,
τῷ ῥ᾽ ἄμοτον κύδαινεν ἐὺν γόνον ᾿Ηβιγενείης
΄ Σ ΄- \ > ’ ‘
δωτίνῃς ἀγαθῆσι καὶ εὐφροσύνῃ τεθαλυίῃ:"
? ΄ ᾿ 7 -
ἀλλήλοις δ᾽ ὀάριζον ἐπ᾽ εἰλαπίνη καὶ ἐδωδῇ,
a \ > ~ “a \ oo > ἫΝ , > 7
ὃς μὲν ἀριστῆας Δαναῶν καὶ ὅσ᾽ ἄλγε ἀνέτλη
5 , ς Ἀ Ἁ cn A / Ε] lal Ξ
ἐξενέπων, ὁ δὲ πατρὸς ἑοῦ καὶ μητέρος ᾿Ηοῦς 115
ἀθάνατον βίον αἰέν, ἀπειρεσίης τε ῥέεθρα
Τηθύος, ὠκεανοῦ te βαθυρρόου ἱερὸν οἶδμα
30. \ 9 ΄ , , > 7,
ἠδὲ καὶ ἀκαμάτου πέρατα χθονός, ἀντολίας τε
᾿ , 4 7 Ε] ΡῚ ’ ~ 7
ἠελίου, καὶ πᾶσαν ἀπ᾿ ὠκεανοῖο κέλευθον
μέχρις ἐπὶ Πριάμοιο πόλιν καὶ πρώονας Ἴδης, 120
+a. \ =e 3 7- tx = ͵
ἠδὲ καὶ ὡς ἐδάϊξεν ὑπὸ στιβαρῇσι χέρεσσιν
ἀργαλέων Σολύμων ἱερὸν στρατόν, οἵ μιν ἰόντα
εἶργον, ὃ καὶ σφίσι πῆμα καὶ ἄσχετον ὦὥπασε
πότμον.
‘ Ν Ἀ τὰ ᾽ ῇ x ΄ ” v a
καὶ Ta μὲν ὡς ἀγόρευε καὶ ws ἴδεν ἔθνεα φωτῶν
/ 7 ~ > 7 We e \ 4 / ,
μυρία: Tov δ᾽ alovtos ὑπὸ φρεσὶ τέρπετο θυμός, 125
76
THF FALL OF TROY, BOOK Il
But no long time thereafter came to them
Memnon the warrior-king, and brought with him
A countless host of swarthy Aethiops.
From all the streets of Troy the Trojans flocked
Glad-eyed to gaze on him, as seafarers,
With ruining tempest utterly forspent,
See through wide-parting clouds the radiance
Of the eternal-wheeling Northern Wain ;
So joyed the Troyfolk as they thronged around,
And more than all Laomedon’s son, for now
Leapt in his heart a hope, that yet the ships
Might by those Aethiop men be burned with frre;
So giantlike their king was, and themselves
So huge a host, and so athirst for fight.
Therefore with all observance welcomed he
The strong son of the Lady of the Dawn
With goodly gifts and with abundant cheer.
So at the banquet King and Hero sat
And talked, this telling of the Danaan chiefs,
And all the woes himself had suffered, that
Telling of that strange immortality
By the Dawn-goddess given to his sire,
Telling of the unending flow and ebb
Of the Sea-mother, of the sacred flood
Of Ocean fathomless-rolling, of the bounds
Of Earth that wearieth never of her travail,
Of where the Sun-steeds leap from orient waves,
Telling withal of all his waytaring
From Ocean's verge to Priam’s wall, and spurs
Of Ida. Yea, he told how his strong hands
Smote the great army of the Solymi
Who barred his way, whose deed presumptuous
brought
Upon their own heads crushing ruin and woe.
So told he all that marvellous tale, and told
Of countless tribes and nations seen of him.
77
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
fe , - s ,
καὶ € καθαπτόμενος γεραρῷ προσεφώνεε μύθῳ:
“ὦ Μέμνον, τὸ μὲν ἄρ με θεοὶ ποίησαν ἰδέσθαι
κ Ἁ > % 4 > 4 > 4 ΄ /
σὸν στρατὸν ἠδὲ καὶ αὐτὸν ἐν ἡμετέροισι μελάθ-
ροις"
a » ΄ 733 > /> Β
ὥς μοι ἔτι κρήνειαν, ιν ἈἌργειους ἐσίδωμαι
ὀλλυμένους ἅμα πάντας ὑπ᾽ ἐγχείησι τεῆσι' 130
καὶ γὰρ δὴ μακάρεσσιν ἀτειρέσι πάντα ἔοικας
3. ΄ ΄ »' ᾽ ΄ ΄ ΄
ἐκπάγλως, ὡς οὔτις ἐπιχθονίων ἡρώων"
τῷ σ᾽ ὀΐω κείνοισι φόνον στονόεντα βαλέσθαι.
΄ ΜΒ αν ΄ ᾿ Θ᾽ ὦ s > -
νῦν & ἄγε τέρπεο θυμὸν ἐπ᾽ εἰλαπίνησιν ἐμῆσι
σήμερον: αὐτὰρ ἔπειτα μαχήσεαι, ὡς ἐπέοικεν. 135
“Os εἰπὼν παλάμησι δέπας πολυχανδὲς ἀείρας
, a Ὁ. /9 I.
Μέμνονα προφρονέως στιβαρῴῷ δείδεκτο κυπέλλῳ
, sof 5“. / ᾽ ΄
χρυσείῳ, TO pa δώκε περίφρων ἀμφιγυήεις
Ἥφαιστος κλυτὸν ἔργον, ὅτ᾽ ἤγετο Κυπρογένειαν,
- ΄ > a ΄
Ζηνὶ μεγασθενέι: ὁ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ὥπασεν vidi δῶρον 140
- ΄ " , ΄
Δαρδάνῳ ἀντιθέῳ ὁ δ᾽ ᾿Εριχθονίω πόρε παιδί:
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κάλλιπε σὺν κτεάτεσσιν" ὁ δ᾽ ὥπασε AaopébovTe’
΄ 5” ΄
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΄σ,. 6. s - ΄ % > ors F
VIEL OWTEPEVAL* TO δέ οἱ θεὸς οὐκ ἐτέλεσσεν. 145
κεῖνο δέπας περικαλλὲς ἐθάμβεεν ἐν φρεσὶ Μέμνων
ἀμφαφόων καὶ τοῖον ὑποβλήξην φάτο μῦθον’
“οὐ μὲν χρὴ παρὰ δαιτὶ πελώριον εὐχετάασθαι
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ξαίνυσθ᾽ ἐν μεγάροισι καὶ ἄρτια μηχανάασθαι- 150
1 Zimmermann, for κατανεύσαιμεν of MSS.
78
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK I
And Priam heard, and ever glowed his heart
Within him; and the old lips answering spake :
““ Memnon, the Gods are good, who have vouchsafed
To me to look upon thine host, and thee
Here in mine halls. O that their grace would so
Crown this their boon, that I might see my foes
All thrust to one destruction by thy spears.
That well may be, for marvellous-like art thou
To some invincible Deathless One, yea, more
Than any earthly hero. W herefore thou,
I trust, shalt hurl wild Πανὸς through their host.
But now, I pray thee, for this day do thou
Cheer at my feast thine heart, and with the mom
Shalt thou go forth to battle worthy of thee.”
Then in his hands a chalice deep and wide
He raised, and Memnon in all love he pledged
In that huge golden cup, a gift of Gods;
For this the cunning God-smith brought to Zeus,
His masterpiece, what time the Mighty in Power
To Hephaestus gave for bride the Cyprian Queen ;
And Zeus on Dardanus his godlike son
Bestowed it, he on Erichthonius:
Erichthonius to Tros the great of heart
Gave it, and he with all his treasure-store
Bequeathed it unto Ilus, and he gave
That wonder to Laomedon, and he
To Priam, who had thought to leave the same
To his own son. Fate ordered otherwise.
And Memnon clasped his hands about that cup
So peerless-beautiful, and all his heart
Marvelled ; and thus he spake unto the King:
Ὁ Beseems not with great swelling words to vaunt
Amidst the feast, and lavish promises,
But rather quietly to eat in hall,
And to devise deeds worthy. Whether I
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
εἴτε yap ἐσθλὸς τ᾽ εἰμὶ Kal ἄλκιμος εἴτε καὶ οὐκί,
γνώσῃ ἐνὶ πτολέμῳ, ὁπότ᾽ ἀνέρος εἴδεται ἀλκή.
νῦν δ᾽ ἄγε δὴ κοίτοιο μεδώμεθα, μηδ᾽ ἀνὰ νύκτα
πίνωμεν: χαλεπὸς γὰρ ἐπειγομένοισι μάχεσθαι
οἶνος ἀπειρέσιος καὶ ἀυὐπνοσύνη ἀλεγεινή." 155
“Os dato: τὸν δ᾽ ὁ γεραιὸς ἀγασσάμενος προσ-
έειπεν"
"αὐτὸς ὅπως ἐθέλεις μεταδαίνυσο, πείθεο δ᾽ αὐτῷ"
οὐ γὰρ ἐγώ σ᾽ ἀέκοντα βιήσομαι" οὐ γὰρ ἔοικεν
οὔτ᾽ ἀπιόντ᾽ ἀπὸ δαιτὸς ἐρυκέμεν οὔτε μένοντα
σεύειν ἐκ μεγάροιο’ θέμις νύ τοι ἀνδράσιν
αὕτως." 160
“Os φάθ": ὁ δ᾽ ἐκ δόρποιο μεθίστατο" βῆ δὲ πρὸς
εὐνὴν
ὑστατίην: ἅμα δ᾽ ἄλλοι ἔβαν κοίτοιο μέδεσθαι
δαιτυμόνες" τάχα δέ σφιν ἐπήλυθε νήδυμος ὕπνος.
Αὐτὰρ ἐνὶ μεγάροισι Διὸς στεροπηγερέταο
ἀθάνατοι δαίνυντο' πατὴρ δ᾽ ἐν τοῖσι Κρονίων 165
εὖ εἰδὼς ἀγόρευε δυσηχέος ἔργα μόθοιο"
“ἴστε θεοὶ περὶ πάντες ἐπεσσύμενον βαρὺ πῆμα
αὔριον ἐν πολέμῳ: μάλα γὰρ πολλῶν μένος ἵππων
ὄψεσθ᾽ ἀμφ᾽ ὀχέεσσι δαϊζομένων ἑκάτερθεν
ἄνδρας δ᾽ ὀλλυμένους: τῶν καὶ πέρι κηδόμενός τις 170
μιμνέτω ὑμείων μηδ᾽ ἀμφ᾽ ἐμὰ γούναθ' ἱκάνων
λισσέσθω:" Κῆρες γὰρ ἀμείλιχοί εἰσι καὶ ἡμῖν."
“Os ἔφατ᾽ ἐν μέσσοισιν ἐπισταμένοισι καὶ
αὐτοῖς,
ὄφρα καὶ ἀσχαλόων τις ἀπὸ πτολέμοιο τράπηται,
μηδέ € λισσόμενος περὶ υἱέος ἠὲ φίλοιο 175
μαψιδίως ἀφίκηται ἀτειρέος ἔνδον ᾽Ολύμπου.
καὶ τὰ μὲν ὡς ἐσάκουσαν ἐρυγδούπου Κρονίδαο,
τλῆσαν ἐνὶ στερνοισι καὶ οὐ βασιλῆος ἔναντα
8ο
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK II
Be brave and strong, or whether I be not,
Battle, wherein a man’s true might is seen,
Shall prove to thee. Now would I rest, nor drink
The long night through. The battle-eager spirit
By measureless wine and lack of sleep is dulled.”
Marvelled at him the old King, and he said :
«« As seems thee good touching the banquet, do
After thy pleasure. I, when thou art loth,
Will not constrain thee. Yea, unmeet it is
To hold back him who fain would leave the board,
Or hurry from one’s halls who fain would stay.
So is the good old law with all true men.”
Then rose that champion from the board, and
passed
Thence to his sleep—his last! And with him went
All others from the banquet to their rest:
And gentle sleep slid down upon them soon.
But in the halls of Zeus, the Lightning-lord,
Feasted the gods the while, and Cronos’ son,
All-father, of his deep foreknowledge spake
Amidst them of the issue of the strife:
“ Be it known unto you all, to-morn shall bring
By yonder war affliction swift and sore ;
For many mighty horses shall ye see
In either host beside their chariots slain,
And many heroes perishing. Therefore ye
Remember these my words, howe’er ye grieve
For dear ones. Let none clasp my knees in prayer,
Since even to us relentless are the fates.”
So warned he them, which knew before, that all
Should from the battle stand aside, howe’er
Heart-wrung ; that none, petitioning for a son
Or dear one, should to Olympus vainly come.
So, at that warning of the Thunderer,
The Son of Cronos, all they steeled their hearts
To bear, and spake no word against their king ;
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
a /
μῦθον ἔφαν: μάλα γάρ μιν ἀπειρέσιον τρομέεσκον'"
>’ / eA « 9 id 4 -
ἀχνύμενοι δ᾽ ἵκανον ὅπῃ δόμος ἦεν ἑκάστου 180
\ / b] \ \ a \ » 4
καὶ λέχος: ἀμφὶ δὲ τοῖσι καὶ ἀθανάτοις περ
ἐοῦσιν
ὕπνου βληχρὸν ὄνειαρ ἐπὶ βλεφάροισι τανύσθη.
Ἦμος δ᾽ ἠλιβάτων ὀρέων ὑπερέσσυται ἄκρας
λαμπρὸς ἀν᾽ οὐρανὸν εὐρὺν ἑωσφόρος, ὅς T ἐπὶ
ἔργον
ἡδὺ μάλα κνώσσοντας ἀμαλλοδετῆρας ἐγείρει'΄ 188
τῆμος ἀρήιον υἷα φαεσφόρου ᾿Ηριγενείης
ὕστατος ὕπνος ἀνῆκεν: ὁ δ᾽ ἐν φρεσὶ κάρτος ἀέξων
»Μ / , ,
ἤδη δυσμενέεσσι λιλαίετο δηριάασθαι.
᾽ \ ᾽ 5) ν 3. \ δ) ἐν » 5.27,
Has δ᾽ οὐρανὸν εὐρὺν ἀνήιεν οὐκ ἐθέλουσα.
\ , a “ \ A, / /
καὶ τότε Τρῶες ἕσαντο περὶ χροὶ δήια τεύχη, 190
a > ce ’ 2) [4 ’, \ e Ul aA
τοῖσι δ᾽ ἅμ᾽ Aidiorés τε καὶ ὁππόσα φῦλα
πέλοντο
’ % , VA / ’ 4
ἀμφὶ βίην IIprayoro συναγρομένων ἐπικούρων
’,
πανσυδίῃ: μάλα δ᾽ ὦκα πρὸ τείχεος ἐσσεύοντο
/ /
κυανέοις νεφέεσσιν ἐοικότες, ola Κρονίων
’ὔ ’ v4 ’ De. \ > ,
χείματος OPVUMEVOLO KAT NEPA TOUAVY ἀγείρει. 195
Φ 3 ἀν 5. ν ΄ / a e ΨΥ Hi Py
αἶψα δ᾽ ap ἐπλήσθη πεδίον πᾶν" οἱ δ᾽ ἐκέχυντο
, ΄,
ἀκρίσι πυροβόροισιν ἀλίγκιον, αἵ τε φέρονται
ς 4 x \ ” e \ \ > ‘
ὡς νέφος ἢ πολὺς ὄμβρος ὑπὲρ χθονὸς εὐρυπέδοιο
ἄπλητοι μερόπεσσιν ἀεικέα λιμὸν ἄγουσαι"
¢ / 5
ὡς οἱ ἴσαν πολλοί τε καὶ ὄβριμοι, ἀμφὶ &
> \
ayvial 200
/ raped / e ἣν be mae \ ’ὔ
στείνοντ᾽ ἐσσυμένων, ὑπὸ δ᾽ ἔγρετο ποσσὶ κονίη.
᾽ a δ᾽ » if θ 20 / be ae } ὃ
Αργεῖοι 0 ἀπάνευθεν ἐθάμβεον, εὖτ᾽ ἐσίδοντο
’ A. \ ¢
ἐσσυμένους:" εἶθαρ δὲ περὶ χροὶ χαλκὸν ἕσαντο
“ / ἃ ?
κάρτεϊ Ἰ]Πηλείδαο πεποιθότες" ὃς δ᾽ ἐνὶ μέσσοις
BA / θ / 9 \
ἤιε Τιτήνεσσι πολυσθενέεσσιν ἐοικὼς 205
82
THE? PALE JOR) TROY; (BOOK. II
For in exceeding awe they stood of him.
Yet to their several mansions and their rest
With sore hearts went they. O’er their deathless
eyes
The blessing-bringer Sleep his light veils spread.
When o'er precipitous crests of mountain-walls
Leapt up broad heaven the bright morning-star
Who rouseth to their toils from slumber sweet
The binders of the sheaf, then his last sleep
Unclasped the warrior-son of her who brings
Light to the world, the Child of Mists of Night.
Now swelled his mighty heart with eagerness
To battle with the foe forthright. And Dawn
With most reluctant feet began to climb
Heaven’s broad highway. Then did the Trojans
gird
Their battle-harness on ; then armed themselves
The Aethiop men, and all the mingled tribes
Of those war-helpers that from many lands
‘To Priam’s aid were gathered. Forth the gates
Swiftly they rushed, like darkly lowering clouds
Which Cronos’ Son, when storm is rolling up,
Herdeth together through the welkin wide.
Swiftly the whole plain filled. Onward they streamed
Like harvest-ravaging locusts drifting on
In fashion of heavy-brooding rain-clouds o'er
Wide plains of earth, an irresistible host
Bringing wan famine on the sons of men ;
So in their might and multitude they went.
The city streets were all too strait for them
Marching: upsoared the dust from underfoot.
From far the Argives gazed, and marvelling saw
Their onrush, but with speed arrayed their limbs
In brass, and in the might of Peleus’ son
Put their glad trust. Amidst them rode he on
Like to a giant Titan, glorying
83
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
κυδιόων ἵπποισι Kal ἅρμασι" τοῦ δ᾽ apa τεύχη
πάντῃ μαρμαίρεσκον ἀλίγκιον ἀστεροπῇσιν.
οἷος δ᾽ ἐκ περάτων γαιηόχου ὠκεανοῖο
ἔρχεται ἠέλιος φαεσίμβροτος οὐρανὸν εἴσω
παμφανόων, τραφερὴ δὲ γελᾷ περὶ γαῖα καὶ
αἰθήρ: 210
τοῖος ἐν ᾿Αργείοισι τότ᾽ ἔσσυτο Ἰ]Πηλέος υἱός.
ὡς δὲ καὶ ἐν Τρώεσσιν ἀρήιος ἤιε Μέμνων
᾿Αρεῖ μαιμώωντι πανείκελος, ἀμφὶ δὲ λαοὶ
προφρονέως ἐφέποντο παρεσσύμενοι βασιλῆι.
Aiwa δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἀμφοτέρων δολιχαὶ πονέοντο φά-
λαγγες 215
Τρώων καὶ Δαναῶν, μετὰ δ᾽ ἔπρεπον Αἰθιοπῆες"
σὺν δ᾽ ἔπεσον καναχηδὸν ὁμῶς, ἅτε κύματα
πόντου
πάντοθεν ἐγρομένων ἀνέμων ὑπὸ χείματος ὥρῃ"
ἀλλήλους δ᾽ ἐδάϊξον ἐὐξέστῃς μελίῃσι
βάλλοντες, μετὰ δέ σφι γόος καναχή τε δεδήει" 220
ὡς δ᾽ ὅτ᾽ ἐρίγδουποι ποταμοὶ μεγάλα -στενάχωσιν
εἰς ἅλα χευόμενοι, ὅτε λαβρότατος πέλει ὄμβρος
ἐκ Διός, εὖτ᾽ ἀλίαστον ἐπὶ νέφεα κτυπέωσι
θηγόμεν᾽ ἀλλήλοισι, πυρὸς δ᾽ ἐξέσσυτ᾽ ἀὐτμή:
ὡς τῶν μαρναμένων μέγ᾽ ὑπαὶ ποσὶ γαῖα πελώρη 225
ἔβραχε, θεσπεσίου δὲ δι’ ἠέρος ἔσσυτ᾽ avn
σμερξαλέη: δεινὸν γὰρ ἀὕτεον ἀμφοτέρωθεν.
Ἔνθ᾽ ἕλε ἸΠ]ηλείδης Θάλιον καὶ ἀμύμονα Μέντην
ἄμφω ἀριγνώτω, βάλε δ᾽ ἄλλων πολλὰ κάρηνα.
εὖτ᾽ αἰγὶς βερέθροισιν' ὑποχθονίοις ἐπορούσϑμ 280
λάβρος, ἄφαρ δέ τε πάντα κατὰ χθονὸς ἀμφι-
χέηται
ἐκ θεμέθλων: μάλα γάρ pa περιτρομέει βαθὺ
γαῖα:
1 Zimmermann, for εὖτε γαίης μελάθροισιν of MSS.
84
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK II
In steeds and chariot, while his armour flashed
Splendour around in sudden lightning-gleams.
It was as when the sun from utmost bounds
Of earth-encompassing ocean comes, and brings
Light to the world, and flings his splendour wide
Through heaven, and earth and air laugh all around.
So glorious, mid the Argives Peleus’ son
Rode onward. Mid the Trojans rode the while
Memnon the hero, even such to see
As Ares furious-hearted. Onward swept
The eager host arrayed about their lord.
Then in the grapple of war on either side
Closed the long lines, Trojan and Danaan ;
But chief in prowess still the Aethiops were.
Crashed they together as when surges meet
On the wild sea, when, in a day of storm,
From every quarter winds to battle rush.
Foe hurled at foe the ashen spear, and slew:
Screams and death-groans went up like roaring fire.
As when down-thundering torrents shout and rave
On-pouring seaward, when the madding rains
Stream from God’s cisterns, when the huddling
clouds
Are hurled against each other ceaselessly,
And leaps their fiery breath in flashes forth ;
So ‘neath the fighters’ trampling feet the earth
Thundered, and leapt the terrible battle-yell
Through frenzied air, for mad the war-cries were.
For firstfruits of death's harvest Peleus’ son
Slew Thalius and Mentes nobly born,
Men of renown, and many a head beside
Dashed he to dust. As in its furious swoop
A whirlwind shakes dark chasms underground,
And earth’s foundations crumble and melt away
Around the deep roots of the shuddering world,
85
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
“ ᾽ , ΄ = ,
ὡς οἵ γ᾽ ἐν κονίησι κατήριπον ὠκέϊ πότμῳ
᾽ “ ’ e \ / / lal
αἰχμῇ 1Πηλείωνος" ὁ yap μέγα μαΐνετο θυμῷ.
«εἰ Ὺ ἥ ~
Ὡς δ᾽ αὕτως ἑτέρωθεν ἐὺς πάϊς ᾿Ηριγενείηῆς 285
᾿Αργείους ἐδάϊζε κακῇ ἐναλίγκιος Αἴση,
[2 / - \ \ » 7 ,
ἥ τε φέρει λαοῖσι κακὸν καὶ ἀεικέα λοιγόν.
~ ᾽ , \ / ΄
πρῶτον δ᾽ εἷλε Φέρωνα διὰ στέρνοιο τυχήσας
δούρατι λευγαλέῳ, ἐπὶ δ᾽ ἔκτανε δῖον “EpevOov,
» / \
ἄμφω ἐελδομένω πόλεμον Kal ἀεικέα χάρμῃν, 240
οἱ Θρύον ἀμφενέμοντο παρ᾽ ᾿Αλφειοῖο ῥεέθροις,
καί ῥ᾽ ὑπὸ Νέστορι βῆσαν ἐς ᾿Ιλίου ἱερὸν ἄστυ"
\ Θ᾿: ¢ ms os / > ’ τ / ey
tous δ᾽ ὁπότ᾽ ἐξενάριξεν, ἐπῴχετο Νηλέος υἱὸν
«- , , ~ 2 > | , \
κτεῖναί μιν μεμαώς: τοῦ δ᾽ ᾿Αντίλοχος θεοειδὴς
/ es ‘ » \ / / ce.
πρόσθ᾽ ἐλθὼν ἴθυνε μακρὸν δόρυ, καί οἱ ἅμαρτε 245
τυτθὸν ἀλευαμένοιο: φίλον δέ οἱ εἷλεν ἑταῖρον
" 7] γ΄
Αἴθοπα Iluppaciénu: ὁ δὲ χωσάμενος κταμένοιο
᾿ , ΄“ / ’ /
Avtihoy@ ἐπιᾶλτο, λέων ὡς ὀβριμόθυμος
΄ ΄ ‘ i.
καπρίῳ, ὅς pa καὶ αὐτὸς ἐναντίον οἷδε μάχεσθαι
’ ΄ \ ΄ / TIRED ΄ ἢ ἯΙ
ἀνδράσι καὶ θήρεσσι, πέλει δέ οἱ ἄσπετος ὁρμή: 250
a . a > ΄ ΄ ’ » 7-- / /
ὡς ὁ θοῶς ἐπόρουσεν, ὁ δ᾽ εὐρέϊ μιν βάλε πέτρῳ
" ’ “ ’ » 4 / “ ᾽ V9
Αντίλοχος: τοῦ δ᾽ οὔτι λύθη κέαρ, οὕνεκ᾽ ἄρ
αὐτοῦ
ἀλγινόεντ᾽ ἀπάλαλκε φόνον κρατερὴ τρυφάλεια"
/ / Εὖ 9 3: 1% / ’ /
σμερδαλέον δέ οἱ ἦτορ ἐνὶ στέρνοισιν ὀρίνθη
βλημένου: ἀμφὶ δέ οἱ κόρυς ἴαχε: καί ῥ᾽ ἔτι
μᾶλλον 255
/ , »
μαίνετ᾽ ἐπ᾽ ᾿Αντιλόχῳ. κρατερὴ δέ οἱ ἔζεεν ἀλκή"
τοὔνεκα Νέστορος υἷα καὶ αἰχμητήν περ ἐόντα
τύψεν ὑπὲρ μαζοῖο' διήλασε δ᾽ ὄβριμον ἔγχος
/ “-“ ti ’ »
ἐς κραδίην, θνητοῖσιν ὅπῃ πέλει ὠκὺς ὄλεθρος.
86
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK II
So the ranks crumbled in swift doom to the dust
Before the spear and fury of Peleus’s son.
But on the other side the hero child
Of the Dawn-goddess slew the Argive men,
Like to a baleful Doom which bringeth down
On men a grim and ghastly pestilence.
First slew he Pheron; for the bitter spear
Plunged through his breast, and down on him he
hurled
Goodly Ereuthus, battle-revellers both,
Dwellers in Thryus by Alpheus’ streams,
Which followed Nestor to the god-built burg
Of Ilium. But when he had laid these low,
Against the son of Neleus pressed he on
Eager to slay. Godlike Antilochus
Strode forth to meet him, sped the long spear’s
flight,
Yet missed him, for a little he swerved, but slew
His Aethiop comrade, son of Pyrrhasus.
Wroth for his fall, against Antilochus
He leapt, as leaps a lion mad of mood
Upon a boar, the beast that flincheth not
From fight with man or brute, whose charge is a
flash
Of lightning ; so was his swift leap. His foe
Antilochus caught a huge stone from the ground,
Hurled, smote him ; but unshaken abode his strength,
For the strong helm-crest fenced his head from
death ;
But rang the morion round his brows. His heart
Kindled with terrible fury at the blow
More than before against Antilochus.
Like seething cauldron boiled his maddened might.
He stabbed, for all his cunning of fence, the son
Of Nestor above the breast; the crashing spear
Plunged to the heart, the spot of speediest death.
87
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
Tod δ᾽ ὑποδηωθέντος a ἄχος Δαναοῖσιν ἐτύχθη 260
πᾶσι, μάλιστα δὲ πατρὶ περὶ φρένας ἤλυθε
πένθος
Νέστορι παιδὸς ἑοῖο παρ᾽ ὀφθαλμοῖσι δαμέντος"
οὐ γὰρ δὴ μερόπεσσι κακώτερον ἄλγος ἔπεισιν,
ἢ ὅτε παῖδες ὄλωνται ἑοῦ πατρὸς εἰσορόωντος"
τοὔνεκα καὶ στερεῇσιν ἀρηράμενος φρεσὶ θυμὸν 565
ἄχνυτο παιδὸς ἑ ἑοῖο κακῇ περὶ Κηρὶ δαμέντος"
κέκλετο δ᾽ ἐσσυμένως Θρασυμήδεα νόσφιν ἐόντα:
“ ὄρσο μοι, ὦ Θρασύμηδες ἀγακλεές, ὄφρα φονῆα
σεῖο κασιγνήτοιο καὶ υἱέος ἡμετέροιο
νεκροῦ ἑκὰς σεύωμεν ἀεικέος, ἡ ne καὶ αὐτοὶ 270
ἀμφ᾽ αὐτῷ στονόεσσαν ἀναπλήσωμεν ὀϊξύν.
εἰ δὲ σοὶ ἐν στέρνοισι πέλει δέος, οὐ σύ γ᾽ ἐμεῖο
υἱὸς ἔφυς οὐδ᾽ ἐσσὶ Ἰ]Περικλυμένοιο γενέθλης,
ὅς τε καὶ Ηρακλῆι καταντίον ἐλθέμεν ἔτλη.
ἀλλ᾽ ἄγε δὴ πονεώμεθ᾽, ἐπεὶ μέγα κάρτος ἀνάγκη 275
πολλάκι μαρναμένοισι. καὶ οὐτιδανοῖσιν ὀπάξει.᾽"
Ὡς gato: τοῦ δ᾽ ἀΐοντος ὑπὸ φρεσὶ σύγχυτο
θυμὸς
πένθεσι λευγαλέοισιν' ἄφαρ δέ οἱ ἤλυθεν a ἄγχι
Φηρεύς, ὃ ὅν ῥα καὶ αὐτὸν ἀποκταμένοιο ἄνακτος
εἷλεν ἄχος" κρατεροῖο δ᾽ ἐναντία δηριάασθαι 280
Μέμνονος ὡρμήθησαν ἀν αἱματόεντα κυδοιμόν.
ὡς δ᾽ ὅταν ἀγρευτῆρε κατὰ πτύχας ὑληέσσας
οὔρεος ἠλιβάτοιο λιλαιόμενοι μέγα θήρης
ἢ συὸς ἢ ἄρκτοιο καταντίον ἀΐσσωσι"
κτεινέμεναι μεμαῶτες, ὁ δ᾽ ἀμφοτέροις ἐπορούσας 285
)υμῷ μαιμώωντι βίην ἀπαμύνεται ἀνδρῶν"
ὡς τότε καὶ Μέμνων “φρόνεεν μέγα' τοὶ δέ οἱ ἄγχι
ἤλυθον: ἀλλά μιν οὔτι κατακτανέειν ἐδύναντο
μακρῇσιν μελίῃσιν' ἀπέπλαγχθεν δέ οἱ αἰχμαὶ
τῆλε χροός" μάλα γάρ που ἀπέτραπεν ᾿Ηριγένεια" 290
1 Zimmermann, for ἀΐσσουσι of v.
88
THE! FALLIOF “TROY; BOOK Il
Then upon all the Danaans at his fall
Came grief; but anguish-stricken was the heart
Of Nestor most of.all, to see his child
Slain in his sight; for no more bitter pang
Smiteth the heart of man than when a son
Perishes, and his father sees him die.
Therefore, albeit unused to melting mood,
His soul was torn with agony for the son
By black death slain. A wild cry hastily
To Thrasymedes did he send afar:
‘‘ Hither to me, Thrasymedes war-renowned !
Help me to thrust back from thy brother’s corse,
Yea, from mine hapless son, his murderer,
That so ourselves may render to our dead
All dues of mourning. If thou flinch for fear,
No son of mine art thou, nor of the line
Of Periclymenus, who dared withstand
Hercules’ self. Come, to the battle-toil !
For grim necessity oftentimes inspires
The very coward with courage of despair.”
Then at his cry that brother's heart was stung
With bitter grief. Swift for his help drew nigh
Phereus, on whom for his great prince’s fall
Came anguish Charged these warriors twain to face
Strong Memnon in the gory strife. As when
Two hunters ’mid a forest’s mountain-folds,
Eager to take the prey, rush on to meet
A wild boar or a bear, with hearts afire
To slay him, but in furious mood he leaps
On them, and holds at bay the might of men;
So swelled the heart of Memnon. Nigh drew they,
Yet vainly essayed to slay him, as they hurled
The long spears, but the lances glanced aside
Far from his flesh: the Dawn-queen turned them
thence.
89
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
Sovpata δ᾽ οὐχ ἁλίως χαμάδις πέσεν: ἀλλ᾽ ὁ μὲν
ὦκα
ἐμμεμαὼς κατέπεφνε ἸΠολύμνιον υἷα Μέγητος
Φηρεὺς ὀβριμόθυμος, ὁ δ᾽ ἔκτανε Λαομέδοντα
Νέστορος ὄβριμος υἱὸς ἀδεχλφειοῖο χολωθείς,
ὃν Μέμνων ἐδάϊξε κατὰ μόθον, ἀμφὶ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ αὐτῷ 295
χερσὶν ὑπ᾽ ἀκαμάτῃησι λύεν παγχάλκεα τεύχη
οὔτε βίην ἀλέγων Θρασυμήδεος οὔτε μὲν ἐσθλοῦ
Φηρέος, οὕνεκα πολλὸν ὑπείροχος. οἱ δ᾽ ἅτε θῶε
ἀμφ᾽ ἔλαφον βεβαῶτα μέγαν φοβέοντο λέοντα
οὔτι πρόσω μεμαῶτες ἔτ᾽ ἐλθέμεν: αἰνὰ δὲ
Νέστωρ 800
ἐγγύθεν εἰσορόων ὀλοφύρετο, κέκλετο δ᾽ ἄλλους
σφοὺς ἑτάρους δηίοισιν ἐπελθέμεν" ἂν δὲ καὶ αὐτὸς
ὥρμαινεν πονέεσθαι ἀφ᾽ ἅρματος, οὕνεκ᾽ ἄρ᾽ αὐτὸν
παιδὸς ἀποφθιμένοιο ποθὴ ποτὶ μῶλον ἄγεσκε
πὰρ δύναμιν: μέλλεν δὲ φίλῳ περὶ παιδὶ καὶ
αὐτὸς 305
κεῖσθαι ὁμῶς κταμένοις ἐναρίθμιος, εἰ μὴ ap
αὐτὸν
Μεμνων ὀβριμόθυμος ἐπεσσύμενον προσέειπεν
αἰδεσθεὶς ἀνὰ θυμὸν ὁμήλικα πατρὸς ἑοῖο"
“ὦ γέρον, οὔ μοι ἔοικε καταντία. σεῖο μάχεσθαι
πρεσβυτέροιο γεγῶτος, ἐπεί γ᾽ εὖ οἶδα νοῆσαι" 810
7) yap ἔγωγ᾽ ἐφάμην σε νέον καὶ ἀρήιον ἄνδρα
ἀντιάαν δηίοισι" θρασὺς δέ μοι ἔλπετο θυμὸς
χειρὸς ἐμῆς καὶ δουρὸς ἐπάξιον ἔμμεναι ἔργον.
ἀλλ᾽ avaxateo τῆλε μόθου στυγεροῦ τε φόνοιο,
χάζεο, μή σε βάλοιμι καὶ οὐκ ἐθέλων περ ἀνάγκῃ, 315
μηδὲ τεῷ περὶ παιδὶ πέσῃς μέγ᾽ ἀμείνονι φωτὶ
μαρνάμενος, μὴ δή σε καὶ ἄφρονα μυθήσωνται
ἀνέρες" οὐ γὰρ ἔοικεν ὑπερτέρῳ ἀντιάασθαι.᾽
9°
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK Ii
Yet fell their spears not vainly to the ground :
The lance of fiery-hearted Phereus, winged
With eager speed, dealt death to Meges’ son,
Polymnius: Laomedon was slain
By the wrath of Nestor’s son for a brother dead,
The dear one Memnon slew in battle-rout,
And whom the slayer’s war-unwearied hands
Now stripped of his all-brazen battle-gear,
Nought recking, he, of Thrasymedes’ might,
Nor of stout Phereus, who were unto him
But weaklings. A great lion seemed he there
Standing above a hart, as jackals they,
That, howso hungry, dare not come too nigh.
But hard thereby the father gazed thereon
In agony,.and cried the rescue-cry
To other his war-comrades for their aid
Against the foe. Himself too burned to fight
From his war-car ; for yearning for the dead
Goaded him to the fray beyond his strength.
Ay, and himself had been on his dear son
Laid, numbered with the dead, had not the voice
Of Memnon stayed him even in act to rush
Upon him, for he reverenced in his heart
The white hairs of an age-mate of his sire :
« Ancient,” he cried, “ it were my shame to fight
With one so much mine elder: I am not
Blind unto honour. Verily I weened
That this was some young warrior, when I saw
Thee facing thus the foe. My bold heart hoped
For contest worthy of mine hand and spear.
Nay, draw thou back afar from battle-toil
And bitter death. Go, lest, how loth soe’er,
I smite thee of sore need. Nay, fall not thou
Beside thy son, against a mightier man
Fighting, lest men with folly thee should charge,
For folly it is that braves o’ermastering might.”
ΟΙ
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
Ως puto: τὸν δ᾽ ἑτέρωθι γέρων ἠμείβετο μύθῳ'
“ὦ Μέμνον, τὰ μὲν ἄρ που ἐτώσια πάντ᾽ ἀγο-
ρεύεις" 820
οὐ μὲν γὰρ δηίοισι πονεύμενον εἵνεκα παιδὸς
ἀφραίνειν ἐρέει τις ἀνηλέα παιδοφονῆα
νεκροῦ ἑκὰς σεύοντα κατὰ μόθον" ὡς ὄφελόν μοι
ἀλκὴ ἔτ᾽ ἔμπεδος ἢ ἦεν, ἵνα γνώῃς ἐμὸν ἔγχος"
νῦν δὲ σὺ μὲν μάλα πάγχυ μέγ᾽ εὔχεαι, οὕνεκα
θυμὸς 325
θαρσαλέος νέου ἀνδρὸς ἐλαφρότερον δὲ νόημα"
τῷ ῥα καὶ ὑψηλὰ φρονέων ἀποφώλια βάζεις.
aS: pou ἡβώωντι καταντίον εἰληλούθεις,
οὐκ ἄν τοι κεχάροντο φίλοι κρατερῷ περ ἐόντι"
νῦν δ᾽ ὥς τίς τε λέων ὑπὸ γήραος ἄχθομαι αἰνοῦ, 330
ὅν τε κύων σταθμοῖο πολυρρήνοιο δίηται
θαρσαλέως, ὁ 0 δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ οὔτι λιλαιόμενός περ ἀμύνει
οἵ αὐτῷ, οὐ γάρ οἱ ἔτ᾽ ἔμπεδοί εἰσιν ὀδόντες
οὐδὲ βίη, κρατερὸν δὲ χρόνῳ ἀμαθύνεται ἢ ἦτορ:
as ἐμοὶ οὐκέτι κάρτος ἐνὶ στήθεσσιν ¢ ὄρωρεν, 335
οἷόν περ τὸ πάροιθεν: ὅμως δ᾽ ἔτι φέρτερός εἰμι
πολλῶν ἀνθρώπων, παύροισι δὲ γῆρας ὑπείκει
[ἡμέτερον, τοῖς κάρτος ὁμῶς πέλει ἠδὲ καὶ ἥβη."
Ὡς εἰπὼν ἀπὸ βαιὸν ἐ ἐ ἄάσσατο" λεῖπε δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ υἷα
κείμενον ἐν κονίῃσιν, ἐπεί νύ οἱ οὐκέτι πάμπαν
γναμπτοῖς ἐν μελέεσσι πέλε σθένος ὡς τὸ
πάροιθεν" 340
γήραϊ γὰρ καθύπερθε πολυτλήτῳ βεβάρητο.
ὡς δ᾽ αὕτως ἀπόρουσεν ἐὐμμελίης Θρασυμήδης
Φηρεύς τ᾽ ὀβριμόθυμος io ἄλλοι πάντες ἑταῖροι
δειδιότες: μάλα γάρ σφιν ἐπῴχετο λοίγιος ἀνήρ.
Ὥς δ᾽ ὅτ᾽ ἀπὸ μεγάλων ὀρέων ποταμὸς
βαθυδίνης 845
καχλάζων φορέηται ἀπειρεσίῳ ὀρυμαγδῷ,
ὁππότε συννεφὲς ἦμαρ ἐπ᾽ ἀνθρώποισι τανύσσῃ
92
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK II
He spake, and answered him that warrior old:
“Nay, Memnon, vain was that last word of thine.
None would name fool the father who essayed,
Battling with foes for his son’s sake, to thrust
The ruthless slayer back from that dear corpse,
But ah that yet my strength were whole in me,
That thou might’st know my spear! Now canst
thou vaunt
Proudly enow : a young man’s heart is bold
And light his wit. Uplifted is thy soul
And vain thy speech. If in my strength of youth
Thou hadst met me—ha, thy friends had not
rejoiced,
For all thy might! But me the grievous weight
Of age bows down, like an old lion whom
A cur may boldly drive back from the fold,
For that he cannot, in his wrath’s despite,
Maintain his own cause, being toothless now,
And strengthless, and his strong heart tamed by
time.
So well the springs of olden strength no more
Now in my breast. Yet am I stronger still
Than many men ; my grey hairs yield to few
That have within them all the strength of youth.”
So drew he back a little space, and left
Lying in dust his son, since now no more
Lived in the once lithe limbs the olden strength,
For the years’ weight lay heavy on his head.
Back leapt Thrasymedes likewise, spearman good,
And battle-eager Phereus, and the rest
Their comrades ; for that slaughter-dealing man
Pressed hard on them. As when from mountains
high
A aHoutire river with wide-echoing din
Sweeps down its fathomless whirlpools through the
gloom,
93
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
Ζεὺς κλονέων μέγα χεῖμα, περικτυπέουσι δὲ πάντῃ
βρονταὶ ὁμῶς στεροπῇσιν ἄδην νεφέων συνιόντων
θεσπεσίων, κοῖλαι δὲ περικλύζονται ἄρουραι 350
Μ > / / > \ \ \
ὄμβρου ἐπεσσυμένοιο δυσηχέος, ἀμφὶ δὲ μακραὶ
’
σμερδαλέον βοόωσι κατ᾽ οὔρεα πάντα χαράδραι:
a 7 η Siig, DT, ς 7
ὡς Μέμνων σεύεσκεν ἐπ᾽ novas λλησποντου
’ ’, f 3... Ὁ ios
Ἀργείους: μετόπισθε δ᾽ ἐπισπόμενος Kepaite
, 6, \ -
πολλοὶ δ᾽ ἐν κονίῃσι καὶ αἵματι θυμὸν ἔλειπον 85
Ἀ 3 A
Αἰθιόπων ὑπὸ χερσί: λύθρῳ δ᾽ ἐφορύνετο γαῖα
ὀλλυμένων Δαναῶν. μέγα δ᾽ ἐν φρεσὶ γήθεε
Μέμνων
\ > 7 7 , » \ \ la!
αἰὲν ἐπεσσύμενος δηίων στίχας: ἀμφὶ δὲ νεκρῶν
,ὕ , 2 ew ᾽ 5) 7 a
στείνετο Τρώιον οὖδας" ὁ δ᾽ οὐκ ἀπέληγε κυδοιμοῦ"
ἔλπετο γὰρ Τρώεσσι φάος, Δαναοῖσι δὲπῆμα 860
ἔσσεσθ᾽- ἀλλά ἑ Μοῖρα πολύστονος ἠπερόπευεν
ἐγγύθεν ἱσταμένη καὶ ἐπὶ κλόνον ὀτρύνουσα.
> \ λ e , d- ΄ "G
ἀμφὶ δὲ οἱ θεράποντες ἐυσθενέες πονέοντο,
᾿Αλκυονεὺς Νύχιός τε καὶ ᾿Ασιάδης ἐρίθυμος
αἰχμητής τε Μένεκλος ᾿Αλέξιππός τε Κλύδων τε 365
ἄλλοι T ἰωχμοῖο μεμαότες, οἵ pa καὶ αὐτοὶ
δ, ae. \ “ tr / An
καρτύναντ᾽ ava δῆριν ἑῷ πίσυνοι βασιλῆι.
\ / ty rt / > 4 A
καὶ τότε δή pa Μένεκλον ἐπεσσύμενον Δαναοῖσι
Νηλείδης κατέπεφνεν. ὁ δ᾽ ἀσχαλόων ἑτάροιο
Μέμνων ὀβριμόθυμος ἐνήρατο πουλὺν ὅμιλον" 370
΄ > of a > ΄ /
ὡς δ᾽ ὅτε τις κραιπνῇσιν ἐπιβρίσας ἐλάφοισι
θηρητὴρ ἐν ὄρεσσι λίνων ἔντοσθεν ἐρεμνῶν
ἰλαδὸν ἀγρομένησιν ἐς ὑστάτιον δόλον ἄγρης
αἰζηῶν ἰότητι, κύνες δ᾽ ἐπικαγχαλόωσιν,
94
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK II
When God with tumult of a mighty storm
Hath palled the sky in cloud from verge to verge,
When thunders crash all round, when thick and fast
Gleam lightnings from the huddling clouds, when
fields
Are flooded as the hissing rain descends,
And all the air is filled with awful roar
Of torrents pouring down the hill-ravines ;
So Memnon toward the shores of Hellespont
Before him hurled the Argives, following hard
Behind them, slaughtering ever. Many a man
Fell in the dust, and left his life in blood
‘Neath Aethiop hands. Stained was the earth with
gore
As Danaans died. Exulted Memnon’s soul
As on the ranks of foemen ever he rushed,
And heaped with dead was all the plain of Troy.
And still from fight refrained he not; he hoped
To be a light of safety unto Troy
And bane to Danaans. But all the while
Stood baleful Doom beside him, and spurred on
To strife, with flattering smile. To right, to left
His stalwart helpers wrought in battle-toil,
Aleyoneus and Nychius, and the son
Of Asius furious-souled; Meneclus’ spear,
Clydon and Alexippus, yea, a host
Eager to chase the foe, men who in fight
Quit them like men, exulting in their king.
Then, as Meneclus on the Danaans charged,
The son of Neleus slew him. Wroth for his friend,
Whole throngs of foes tierce-hearted Memnon slew.
As when a hunter midst the mountains drives
Swift deer within the dark lines of his toils—
The eager ring of beaters closing in
Presses the huddled throng into the snares
Of death: the dogs are wild with joy of the chase
95
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
- 4 e f e ie os A ΄ Φ. ον τ
πυκνὸν ὑλακτιόωντες, ὁ δ᾽ ἐμμεμαὼς UT ἄκοντε 375
κεμμάσιν ὠκυτάτησι φόνον στονόεντα τίθησιν"
a 4 > /- A / > 3 a
ὡς Μέμνων ἐδάιζε πολὺν στρατόν" audi δ᾽ ἑταῖροι
/ > ~ ~ A Ν » Fh /
γήθεον: ᾿Αργεῖοι δὲ περικλυτὸν ἄνδρ᾽ ἐφέβοντο.
΄ 4 “- 8.5.9 “ > ᾽ »Γ > ΄
ὡς δ᾽ ὁπότ᾽ ἐξεριπόντος ἀπ᾽ οὔρεος ἠλιβάτοιο
> / x ΄ ΄ > / ‘
WETpov ἀπειρεσίοιο, TOV ὑψόθεν ἀκάματος Ζεὺς 380
ὥσῃ ἀπὸ κρημνοῖο βαλὼν στονόεντι κεραυνῷ,
τοῦ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἀνὰ δρυμὰ πυκνὰ καὶ ἄγκεα μακρὰ
ῥαγέντος
βῆσσαι ἐπικτυπέουσι, περιτρομέουσι δ᾽ av ὕλην,
εἴπου μῆλ᾽ ὑπένερθε κυλινδομένοιο νέμονται
a Ld 57 » ww A > A a7 -
ῆ βοες 7€ TW αλλα, και εἐξαλέονται ἑοντος 385
ῥιπὴν ἀργαλέην καὶ ἀμείλεχον" ὡς ἄρ᾽ ᾿Αχαιοὶ
Μέμνονος ὄβριμον ἔ ἔγχος ἐπεσσυμένοιο φέβοντο.
Καὶ τότε δὴ κρατεροῖο μόλε σχεδὸν Αἰακίδαο
Νέστωρ, ἀμφὶ δὲ παιδὶ μέγ᾽ ἀχνύμενος φάτο μῦθον"
“ὦ ᾿Αχιλεῦ μέγα ἔρκος ἐὐσθενέων. ᾿Αργείων, 390
ὦλετό μοι φίλος υἱός, ἔχει δέ μοι ἔντεα Μέμνων
τεθνεότος, δείδω δὲ κυνῶν μὴ κῦρμα γένηται"
> 4 a > , > 4 ’ ΄ ΄ 4
ἀλλὰ θοῶς ἐπάμυνον, ἐπεὶ φίλος ὅστις ἑταίρου
μέμνηται κταμένοιο καὶ ἄχνυται. οὐκέτ᾽ ἐόντος."
“Os φάτο: τοῦ δ᾽ ἀΐοντος ὑπὸ φρένας ἔμπεσε
πένθος" 395
Μέμνονα δ᾽ ws ἐνόησεν ava στονόεντα κυδοιμὸν
4 ΄ -- ΄
᾿Αργείους ἰληδὸν ὑπ᾽ ἔγχεϊ δηιόωντα,
> , / ΄ a Jj 4A 4 I a
αὐτίκα κάλλιπε Τρῶας, ὅσους ὑπὸ χερσὶ δάϊξεν
ἀμφ᾽ ἄλλησι φάλαγξι, καὶ ἰσχανόων πολέμοιο
wo ΄ . / ΄ > /
ἤλυθέ οἱ κατέναντα χολούμενος ᾿Αντιλόχοιο 400
ἠδ᾽ ἄλλων κταμένων" ὁ δ᾽ ἀνείλετο χείρεσι πέτρην,
τήν pa βροτοὶ θέσαν οὖρον evatayvos πεδίοιο,
A / > sf , }] ὔ /
καὶ βάλεν ἀκαμάτοιο Kat ἀσπίδα IInreiwvos
δῖος ἀνήρ' ὁ δ᾽ ap οὔτι τρέσας περιμήκεα πέτρην
΄ 4 sf
αὐτίκα of σχεδὸν ἦλθε μακρὸν δόρυ πρόσθε
τιταίνων, 405
96
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK Ii
Ceaselessly giving tongue, the while his darts
Leap winged with death on brocket and on hind;
So Memnon slew and ever slew: his men
Rejoiced, the while in panic-stricken reut
Before that glorious man the Argives fled.
As when from a steep mountain's precipice-brow
Leaps a huge crag, which all-resistless Zeus
By stroke of thunderbolt hath hurled trom the crest ;
Crash oakwood copses, echo long ravines,
Shudders the forest to its rattle and roar,
And flocks therein and herds and wild things flee
Seattering, as bounding, wturling, it descends
With deadly pitiless onrush; so his foes
Fled from the lhghtning-flash of Memnon’s spear.
Then to the side of Aeacus mighty son
Came Nestor. Anguished for his son he cried:
“ Acluiles, thou great bulwark of the Greeks,
Slain is my child" The armour of my dead
Hath Memnon, and I fear me lest his corse
Be cast a prey to dogs. Haste to his help!
True friend is he who still remembereth
A friend though slain, and grieves for one no more.”
Achilles heard; his heart was thrilled with grief:
He glanced across the rolling battle, saw
Memnon, saw where in throngs the Argives fell
Beneath his spear. Forthright he turned away
From where the rifted ranks of Troy fell fast
Before his hands, and, thirsting for the fight,
Wroth for Antilochus and the others slain,
Came face to face with Memnon. In his hands
That godlike hero caught up from the ground
A tone a boundary-mark ‘twixt fields of wheat,
And hurled. Down on the shield of Peleus’ son
It crashed. But he, the invincible, shrank not
Before the huge rock-shard, but, thrusting out
97
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
πεζός, ἐπεί ῥά οἱ ἵπποι ἔσαν μετόπισθε κυδοιμοῦ,
Kat οἱ δεξιὸν ὧμον ὑπὲρ σακεος στυφέλιξεν"
ὃς δὲ Kal οὐτἀμενὸς περ ἀταρβέϊ μάρνατο θυμῷ:
τύψε δ᾽ ap’ Αἰακίδαο βραχίονα δουρὶ κραταιῷ"
a ’ b] 4 id z ΄ 2 91S ? ΄
τοῦ δ᾽ ἐχύθη φίλον αἷμα: χάρη δ᾽ ap ἐτώσιον
ἥρως, 410
’ v ΄ ΄ ’᾽ ᾽ ΄
καί μιν ἄφαρ προσεείιπεν νυπερφιάᾶάλοις ἐπεεσσι"
“νῦν σ᾽ ὀΐω μόρον αἶνον ἀναπλήσειν ὑπ᾽ ὀλέθρῳ
χερσὶν ἐμῇσι δαμέντα Kat οὐκέτι μῶλον ἀλύξαι.
σχέτλιε, τίπτε σὺ Tpwas ἀνηλεγέως ὀλέεσκες
΄ τ ᾿ wv A
πάντων εὐχόμενος πολὺ φέρτατος ἔμμεναι ἀνδρῶν, 415
, 3.59 ΄ , . Ὰ \ »
μητρός T aGavatns Nypyidos; ἀλλὰ σοὶ ἤδη
ἤλυθεν αἴσιμον ἧμαρ, ἐπεὶ θεόθεν γένος εἰμὶ
᾿Ηοῦς ὄβριμος υἱός, ὃν ἔκποθι λειριόεσσαι
\ ἄς. 5» ad
‘Eomrepiées θρέψαντο παρὰ ῥόον ὠκεανοῖο.
τοὔνεκά σευ καὶ δῆριν ἀμείλιχον οὐκ ἀλεείνω 420
εἰδὼς μητέρα δῖαν, ὅσον προφερεστέρη ἐστὶ
Νηρεΐδος, τῆς αὐτὸς ἐπεύχεαι ἔκγονος εἶναι"
ἡ μὲν γὰρ μακάρεσσι καὶ ἀνθρωποισι φαείνει,
τῇ ἐπὶ πάντα τελεῖται ἀτείρεος ἔνδον Ὀλύμπου
ἐσθλά τε καὶ κλυτὰ ἔργα, Ta T ἀνδράσι γίνετ᾽
ὄνειαρ" 425
ς “Ἢ ΄ \ “ ΄ ᾽ ,
ἡ ὃ ἐν ἁλὸς κευθμῶσι καθημένη ἀτρυγέτοισι
ναίει ὁμῶς κήτεσσι μετ᾽ ἰχθύσι κυδιόωσα
ἄπρηκτος καὶ ἀΐστος" ἐγὼ δέ μιν οὐκ ἀλεγίζω
οὐδέ μιν ἀθανάτῃσιν € ἐπουρανίῃσιν ἐΐσκω.
“Os φάτο: τὸν δ᾽ ἐνένιπε θρασὺς πάϊς Αἰακίδαο" 430
“ὦ Μέμνον, πῇ νῦν σε κακαὶ φρένες ἐξορόθυναν
΄ >’ nm 3 al Blt! U 3 /
ἐλθέμεν ἀντί ἐμεῖο καὶ ἐς μόθον ἰσοφαρίζειν;
΄ , ’ An lol
ὃς σέο φέρτερος εἰμι Bin γενεῇ τε φυῇ τε
Ζηνὸς ὑπερθύμοιο λαχὼν ἀριδείκετον ai
η ρθύμ μα
καὶ σθεναροῦ Νηρῆος, ὃς εἰναλίας τέκε κούραςε 435
98
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK II
His long lance, rushed to close with him, afoot,
For his steeds stayed behind the battle-rout.
On the right shoulder above the shield he smote
And staggered him; but he, despite the wound,
Fought on with heart unquailing. Swiftly he thrust
And pricked with his strong spear Achilles’ arm.
Forth gushed the blood: rejoicing with vain joy
To Aeacus’ son with arrogant words he cried:
«‘ Now shalt thou in thy death fill up, I trow,
Thy dark doom, overmastered by mine hands.
Thou shalt not from this fray escape alive !
Fool, wherefore hast thou ruthlessly destroyed
Trojans, and vaunted thee the mightiest man
Of men, a deathless Nereid’s son? Ha, now
Thy doom hath found thee! Of birth divine am I,
The Dawn-queen’s mighty son, nurtured afar
By lily-slender Hesperid Maids, beside
The Ocean-river. Therefore not from thee
Nor from grim battle shrink I, knowing well
How far my goddess-mother doth transcend
A Nereid, whose child thou vauntest thee.
To Gods and men my mother bringeth light;
On her depends the issue of all things,
Works great and glorious in Olympus wrought
Whereof comes blessing unto men. But thine—
She sits in barren crypts of brine: she dwells
Glorying mid dumb sea-monsters and mid fish,
Deedless, unseen! Nothing I reck of her,
Nor rank her with the immortal Heavenly Ones.”
In stern rebuke spake Aeacus’ aweless son:
“Memnon, how wast thou so distraught of wit
That thou shouldst face me, and to fight defy
Me, who in might, in blood, in stature far
Surpass thee? From supremest Zeus I trace
My glorious birth; and from the strong Sea-god
Nereus, begetter of the Maids of the Sea,
99
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
Νηρεΐδας, τὰς δή pa θεοὶ τίουσ᾽ ἐν ᾿Ολύμπῳ,
πασάων δὲ μάλιστα Θέτιν κλυτὰ μητιόωσαν,
οὕνεκά που Διόνυσον ἑοῖς ὑπέδεκτο μελάθροις,
ὁππότε δειμαίνεσκε βίην ὀλοοῖο Λυκούργου,
ἠδὲ καὶ ὡς“ Ηφαιστον evppova χαλκεοτέχνην 440
as Βα. ἃ ΄ > >] ᾽ / 7
δέξαθ᾽ ἑοῖσι δόμοισιν ἀπ᾿ Οὐλύμποιο πεσόντα,
αὐτόν T ᾿Αργικέραυνον ὅπως ὑπελύσατο δεσμῶν"
τῶν μιμνησκόμενοι πανδερκέες Οὐρανίωνες
ἀνε. \ , ΄ ’ > > 4
μητέρ᾽ ἐμὴν τίουσι Θέτιν ζαθέῳ ἐν ᾿Ολύμπῳ.
, Ἵ ΄ ΄ ,’ pI \ / VA wv
γνώσῃ δ᾽ ws θεὸς ἐστιν, ἐπὴν δόρυ χάλκεον εἴσω 445
ἐς τεὸν ἧπαρ ἵκηται ἐμῇ βεβλημένον ἀλκῇ;
Ἕκτορα γὰρ Πατρόκλοιο, σὲ δ᾽ ᾿Αντιλόχοιο
χοχωθεὶς
/ 5 > \ v ᾽ , > \
τίσομαι. ov yap ὄλεσσας ἀνάλκιδος ἀνδρὸς
ἑταῖρον.
᾽ \ , , Ἵ , > ,
ἀλλὰ τί νηπιάχοισιν ἐοικότες ἀφραδέεσσιν
ἕσταμεν ἡμετέρων μυθεύμενοι ἔργα τοκήων 450
ΟΣ > ‘a ᾽ \ \oov ’ ‘ \ ‘ > 7”
ἠδ᾽ αὐτῶν; ἐγγὺς Kat” Apns, ἐγγὺς δὲ Kal ἀλκή.
“Ὁ “δ ‘ , ΄ , 2
Ὡς εἰπὼν παλάμησι λάβεν πολυμήκετον ἄορ
Μέμνων δ᾽ αὖθ᾽ ἑτέρωθι, καὶ ὀτραλέως συνόρουσαν'"
τύπτον δ᾽ ἀλλήλων ἄμοτον φρεσὶ μαιμώωντες
᾽ / “a “ ΄ ᾽ ᾽ / / 4,
ἀσπίδας, ἃς “Ἥφαιστος ὑπ᾽ ἀμβροσίη κάμε τέχνῃ, 455
πυκνὰ συναΐσσοντες" ἐπέψαυον δὲ λόφοισιν
ἀλλήλαις ἑκάτερθεν ἐρειδόμεναι τρυφάλειαι.
Ζεὺς δὲ μέγ᾽ ἀμφοτέροισι φίλα φρονέων βάλε
κάρτος,
r 5 2 > ’ ‘ Υ͂ > \ € ,
τεῦξε δ᾽ ap ἀκαμάτους καὶ μείζονας, οὐδὲν ὁμοίους
ἀνδράσιν, ἀλλὰ θεοῖσιν" “Epis δ᾽ ἐπεγήθεεν ἄμφω. 460
οἱ δ᾽ αἰχμὴν. μεμαῶτες ἄφαρ χροὸς ἐντὸς ἐλάσσαι
μεσσηγὺς σάκεός τε καὶ ὑ λόφου τρυφαλείης
πολλάκις ἰθύνεσκον ἑὸν μένος, ἄλλοτε δ᾽ αὖτε
100
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK II
The Nereids, honoured of the Olympian Gods.
And chiefest of them all is Thetis, wise
With wisdom world-renowned ; for in her bowers
She sheltered Dionysus, chased by might
Of murderous Lycurgus from the earth.
Yea, and the cunning God-smith welcomed she
Within her mansion, when from heaven he fell.
Ay, and the Lightning-lord she once released
From bonds. The all-seeing Dwellers in the Sky
Remember all these things, and reverence
My mother Thetis in divine Olympus.
Ay, that she is a Goddess shalt thou know
When to thine heart the brazen spear shall pierce
Sped by my might. Patroclus’ death I avenged
On Hector, and Antilochus on thee
Will I avenge. No weakling’s friend thou hast slain ἡ
But why like witless children stand we here
Babbling our parents’ fame and our own deeds?
Now is the hour when prowess shall decide.”’
Then from the sheath he flashed his long keen
sword,
And Memnon his ; and swiftly in fiery fight
Closed they, and rained the never-ceasing blows
Upon the bucklers which with craft divine
Hephaestus’ self had fashioned. Once and again
Clashed they together, and their cloudy crests
‘Touched, mingling all their tossing storm of hair.
And Zeus, for that he loved them both, inspired
With prowess each, and mightier than their wont
He made them, made them tireless, nothing like
To men, but Gods: and gloated o’er the twain
The Queen of Strife. In eager fury these
Thrust swiftly out the spear, with fell intent
To reach the throat ‘twixt buckler-rim and helm,
Thrust many a time and oft, and now would aim
The point beneath the shield, above the greave,
Io!
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
βαιὸν ὑπὲρ κνημῖδος, ἔνερθε δὲ δαιδαλέοιο
’ “-“ Ld \ /
θῴρηκος βριαροῖσιν ἀρηρότος ἀμφὶ μέλεσσιν, 465
ἄμφω ἐπειγόμενοι" περὶ δέ σφισιν ἄμβροτα τεύχη
᾽ » » ’ , A Sh CF. δ} b , “-
ἀμφ᾽ ὦμοις ἀράβησε: βοὴ δ᾽ ἵκετ᾽ αἰθέρα δῖον
Τρώων Αἰθιόπων τε καὶ ᾿Αργείων ἐριθύμων
μαρναμένων ἑκάτερθε: κόνις δ᾽ ὑπὸ ποσσὶν ὀρώρει
ἄχρις ἐς οὐρανὸν εὐρύν, ἐπεὶ μέγα κίνυτο ἔργον. 470
’ wv A
Ebr’ ὀμίχλη Kat’ ὄρεσφιν ὀρινομένου ὑετοῖο,
e / \ / > , ”
ὁππότε δὴ κελάδοντες ἐνιπλήθονται EvavrAOL
ὕδατος ἐσσυμένοιο, βρέμει δ᾽ ἄρα πᾶσα χαράδρη
ἄσπετον, οἱ δ᾽ ἄρα πάντες ἐπιτρομέουσι νομῆες
χειμάρρους ὀμίχλην τε φίλην ὀλοοῖσι λύκοισιν 475
»Q> Ἂν / «“ (i Μ εἴ
nO ἄλλοις θήρεσσιν, ὅσους τρέφει ἄσπετος ὕλη:
ὡς τῶν ἀμφὶ πόδεσσι κόνις πεπότητ᾽ ἀλεγεινή,
(An Od \ / SNe / > ,
ἥ pa τε καὶ φάος nv κατέκρυφεν ἠελίοιο
> | de ae | / \ 80 6 , 9 Yaga
αἰθέρ᾽ émicKiaovaa’ κακὴ δ᾽ ὑπεδάμνατ᾽ ὀϊζὺς
λαοὺς ἐν Kovin τε καὶ αἰνομόρῳ ὑσμίνη. 480
καὶ τὴν μὲν μακάρων τις ἀπώσατο δηιοτῆτος
» / ’ \ \ \ . ΄ ,
ἐσσυμένως" ὀλοαὶ δὲ θοὰς ἑκάτερθε φάλαγγας
Κῆρες ἐποτρύνεσκον ἀπειρέσιον πονέεσθαι
δῆριν ἀνὰ στονόεσσαν: “Apns δ᾽ ov λῆγε φόνοιο
λευγαλέου, πάντη δὲ πέριξ ἐφορύνετο γαῖα 485
[24 3 ΄ / 2) ͵ ae
αἵματος ἐκχυμένοιο" μέλας δ᾽ ἐπετέρπετ᾽ "Ολεθρος"
στείνετο δὲ κταμένων πεδίον μέγα θ᾽ ἱππόβοτόν τε,
ὁππόσον ἀμφὶ ῥοαῖς Σιμόεις καὶ Ἐάνθος ἐέργει
Ἴδηθεν κατιόντες ἐς ἱερὸν ᾿Ι'λλήσποντον.
᾿Αλλ᾽ ὅτε δὴ πολλὴ μὲν ἄδην μηκύνετο δῆρις 490
μαρναμένων, ἶσον δὲ μένος τέτατ᾽ ἀμφοτέροισι,
δὴ τότε τούς γ᾽ ἀπάνευθεν ᾿᾽Ολύμπιοι εἰσορόωντες,
e \ δ yA > 7." ’
οἱ μὲν θυμὸν ἔτερπον ἀτειρέϊ ἸΤ]ηλείωνιυ,
102
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK II
Now close beneath the corslet curious-wrought
That lapped the stalwart frame: hard, fast they
lunged,
And on their shoulders clashed the arms divine.
Roared to the very heavens the battle-shout
Of warring men, of ‘Trojans, Aethiops,
And Argives mighty-hearted, while the dust
Rolled up from ‘neath their feet, tossed to the sky
In stress of battle-travail great and strong.
As when a mist enshrouds the hills, what time
Roll up the rain-clouds, and the torrent-beds
Roar as they fill with rushing floods, and howls
Each gorge with fearful voices; shepherds quake
To see the waters’ downrush and the mist,
Screen dear to wolves and all the wild fierce things
Nursed in the wide arms of the forest; so
Around the fighters’ feet the choking dust
Hung, hiding the fair splendour of the sun
And darkening all the heaven. Sore distressed
With dust and deadly conflict were the folk.
Then with a sudden hand some Blesséd One
Swept the dust-pall aside ; and the Gods saw
The deadly Fates hurling the charging lines
Together, in the unending wrestle locked
Of that grim conflict, saw where never ceased
Ares from hideous slaughter, saw the earth
Crimsoned all round with rushing streams of blood,
Saw where dark Havoc gloated o’er the scene,
Saw the wide plain with corpses heaped, even all
Bounded ’twixt Simois and Xanthus, where
They sweep from Ida down to Hellespont.
But when long lengthened out the conflict was
Of those two champions, and the might of both
In that strong tug and strain was equal-matched,
Then, gazing from Olympus’ far-off heights,
The Gods joyed, some in the invincible son
Of Peleus, others in the goodly child
103
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
οἱ δ᾽ ἄρα Τιθωνοῖο καὶ ᾿Ηοῦς υἱέϊ δίῳ.
ὑψόθι & οὐρανὸς εὐρὺς ἐπέβραχεν: ἀμφὶ δὲ πόντος 495
ἴαχε: κυανέη δὲ πέριξ ἐλελίζετο γαῖα
ἀμφοτέρων ὑπὸ ποσσί: περιτρομέοντο δὲ πᾶσαι
ἀμφὶ Θέτιν Νηρῆος ὑπερθύμοιο θύγατρες
ὀβρίμου ἀμφ᾽ ᾿Αχιλῆος iO ἄσπετα δειμαίνοντο"
δειδιε δ᾽ ᾿Ηριγένεια φίλῳ περὶ παιδὶ καὶ αὐτὴ 500
ἵπποις ἐμβεβαυῖα bv αἰθέρος: αἱ δέ οἱ ἄγχι
᾿Ηελίοιο θύγατρες ἐθάμβεον ἑστηυῖαι
θεσπέσιον περὶ κύκλον, ὃν ἠελίῳ ἀκάμαντι
Ζεὺς πόρεν εἰς ἐνιαυτὸν ἐὺν δρόμον, ᾧ περὶ πάντα
ζώει τε φθινύθει τε περιπλομένοιο KAT ἦμαρ 505
νωλεμέως αἰῶνος ἐλισσομένων ἐνιαυτῶν.
καί νύ κε δὴ μακάρεσσιν ἀμείλιχος ἔμπεσε δῆρις,
εἰ μὴ ὑπ᾽ ἐννεσίησι Διὸς μεγαλοβρεμέταο
δοιαὶ ap ἀμφοτέροισι θοῶς ἑκάτερθε παρέσταν
Κῆρες, ἐρεμναίη μὲν ἔβη ποτὶ Μέμνονος ἦτορ, 510
φαιδρὴ δ᾽ ἀμφ᾽ ᾿Αχιλῆα δαΐφρονα: τοὶ δ᾽ ἐσιδόντες
ἀθάνατοι μέγ᾽ avoav, ἄφαρ δ᾽ ἕλε τοὺς μὲν avin
λευγαλέη, τοὺς δ᾽ ἠῦ καὶ ἀγλαὸν ἔλλαβε χάρμα.
“Howes δ᾽ ἐμάχοντο καθ᾽ αἱματόεντα κυδοιμὸν
ἔμπεδον, οὐδέ τι Κῆρας ἐποιχομένας ἐνόησαν 515
θυμὸν Kai μέγα κάρτος ἐπ᾽ ἀλλήλοισι φέροντες"
φαίης κε στονόεντα κατὰ μόθον ἤματι κείνῳ
μάρνασθ᾽ ἠὲ Γίγαντας ἀτειρέας ἠὲ κραταιοὺς
Τιτῆνας: σθεναρὴ γὰρ ἐπί σφισι δῆρις ὀρώρει,
ἡμὲν ὅτε ξιφέεσσι συνέδραμον, ἠδ᾽ ὅτε λᾶας 520
βάλλον ἐπεσσύμενοι περιμήκεας" οὐδέ τις αὐτῶν
χάζετο βαλλομένων, οὐδ᾽ ἔτρεσαν, ἀλλ᾽ ἅτε πρώνες
ἔστασαν ἀδμῆτες καταείμενοι ἄσπετον ἀλκήν"
ἄμφω γὰρ μεγάλοιο Διὸς γένος εὐχετόωντο"
104
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK II
Of old Tithonus and the Queen of Dawn.
Thundered the heavens on high from east to west,
And roared the sea from verge to verge, and rocked
The dark earth ‘neath the heroes’ feet, and quaked
Proud Nereus’ daughters all round Thetis thronged
In grievous fear for mighty Achilles’ sake ;
And trembled for her son the Child of the Mist
As in her chariot through the sky she rode.
Marvelled the Daughters of the Sun, who stood
Near her, around that wondrous splendour-ring
Traced for the race-course of the tireless sun
By Zeus, the limit of all Nature’s life
And death, the daily round that maketh up
The eternal circuit of the rolling years.
And now amongst the Blesséd bitter feud
Had broken out; but by behest of Zeus
The twin Fates suddenly stood beside these twain,
One dark—her shadow fell on Memnon’s heart ;
One bright—her radiance haloed Peleus’ son.
And with a great cry the Immortals saw,
And filled with sorrow they of the one part were,
They of the other with tnumphant joy
Still in the midst of blood-stained battle-rout
Those heroes fought, unknowing of the Fates
Now drawn so nigh, but each at other hurled
His whole heart’s courage, all his bodily might.
Thou hadst said that in the strife of that dread day
Huge tireless Giants or strong Titans warred,
So fiercely blazed the wildfire of their strife,
Now, when they clashed with swords, now when they
leapt
Hurling huge stones. Nor either would give back
Before the hail of blows, nor quailed. They stood
Like storm-tormented headlands steadfast, clothed
With might past words, unearthly ; for the twain
Alike could boast their lineage of high Zeus.
105
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
> 7 X -
τοὔνεκ᾽ apa σφίσι δῆριν ἴσην ἐτάνυσσεν Evum 525
x 5 , a. ? ᾿ L ,
πολλὸν ἐρειδομένοισιν ἐπὶ χρόνον ἐν δαὶ κείνη,
αὐτοῖς nd ἑτώροισιν atapSéouw, οὗ μετ᾽ ἀνάκτων
, ᾿ ’ i
νωλεμέως πονέοντο μεμαύτες, ἄχρι καμόντων
᾽ ? ’ , =
atyual ἀνεγνάμφθησαν ἐν ἀσπίσιν: οὐδέ τις ἣεν
, e 2 ᾽ ° 3 > ΄
θεινομένων ἑκάτερθεν ἀνούτατος, ἀλλ᾽ apa πάντων 530
’ ᾿] ς ᾿" ᾿ com ΄ .
ἐκ μελέων εἰς ovdas ἀπέρρεεν αἷμα καὶ ἱδρὼς
αἰὲν ἐρειδομένων, κεκάλυπτο δὲ γαῖα νέκυσσιν
x ΄ ’ - - ΄
οὐρανὸς ὡς νεφέεσσιν ἐς αἰγοκερῆα κιόντος
; »" ᾿ ᾿΄ . ’ ’
ἠελίου, ὅτε πόντον ὑποτρομεέεει μέγα ναύτης.
. 9 δ΄ ΄ " . bad = ©
τοὺς δ᾽ ἵπποι χρεμέθοντες ETETOUMEVOLS αμα λαοῖς 535
’ , wv Y » - >
τεθνεότας στείβεσκον, ἅτ᾽ ἄσπετα φύλλα κατ
ἄλσος
. ΄ . ,
χείματος ἀρχομένου μετὰ τηλεθόωσαν ὀπώρην.
΄ : » ?
Οὐ δέ που ἐν νεκύεσσι και αἵματι δηριόωντο
υἱῆες μακάρων ἐρικυδέες, οὐδ᾽ ἀπέληγον
᾽ , » 2 ᾿
ἀλλήλοις κοτέοντες" “Epis δ᾽ ἴθυνε τάλαντα 540
vopivns ἀλεγεινα, τὰ δ᾽ οὐκ ETL ἶσα. TEAOVTO™
᾽ > wv ΄ ~ e x , ,
ἀλλ᾽ apa Μέμνονα δῖον ὑπὸ στέρνοιο θέμεθλα
> » . " . ΄ —
Πηλείδης οὔτησε" τὸ δ᾽ ἀντικρὺ μέλαν ἄορ
? ΄ lo > ΄ , 27
ἐξέθορεν: τοῦ δ᾽ αἶψα λύθη πολύηρατος αἰών"
΄ ν᾿ Ὁ ; . ΄ , εν
κάππεσε δ᾽ ἐς μέλαν αἷμα, βράχεν δέ οἱ ἄσπετα
τεύχη; δ45
al e » ? La A
γαῖα δ᾽ ὑπεσμαράγησε, καὶ ἀμφεφόβηθεν ἑταῖροι:
τὸν δ᾽ ἄρα Μυρμιδόνες μὲν ἐσύλεον" ἀμφὶ δὲ Τρῶες
= roa ς- ΄ ΄ , ΄ τι
φεῦγον" ὁ δ᾽ αἶψα δίωκε μένος μέγα λαΐλαπι ἰσος.
> Ν
Has δ᾽ ἐστονάχησε καλυψαμένη νεφέεσσιν'"
ἠχλύνθη δ᾽ ἄρα γαῖα. θοοὶ δ᾽ ἅμα πάντες ἀῆται 550
x ΄ 7 ’
μητρὸς ἐφημοσύνησι μίη φορέοντο κελεύθῳ
τοῦ
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK II
Therefore ’twixt these Enyo lengthened out
The even-balanced strife, while ever they
In that grim wrestle strained their uttermost,
They and their dauntless comrades, round their
kings
With ceaseless fury toiling, till their spears
Stood shivered all in shields of warriors slain,
And of the fighters woundless none remained ;
But from all limbs streamed down into the dust
The blood and sweat of that unresting strain
Of fight, and earth was hidden with the dead,
As heaven is hidden with clouds when meets the sun
The Goat-star, and the shipman dreads the deep.
As charged the lines, the snorting chariot-steeds
Trampled the dead, as on the myriad leaves
Ye trample in the woods at entering-in
Of winter, when the autumn-tide is past.
Still mid the corpses and the blood fought on
Those glorious sons of Gods, nor ever ceased
From wrath of fight. But Eris now inclined
The fatal scales of battle, which no more
Were equal-poised. Beneath the breast-bone then
Of godlike Memnon plunged Achilles’ sword ;
Clear through his body all the dark-blue blade
Leapt: suddenly snapped the silver cord of life.
Down in a pool of blood he fell, and clashed
His massy armour, and earth rang again.
Then turned to flight his comrades panic-struck,
And of his arms the Myrmidons stripped the dead,
While fled the Trojans, and Achilles chased,
As whirlwind swift and mighty to destroy.
Then groaned the Dawn, and palled herself in
clouds,
And earth was darkened. At their mother’s hest
All the light Breathings of the Dawn took hands,
And slid down one long stream of sighing wind
107
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
bd , £ ‘ ? / ,
ἐς πεδίον Πριάμοιο καὶ ἀμφεχέοντο θανόντι,
φ 9 33 , ° 3 , -
ἧκα δ᾽ ἀνηρείψαντο θοῶς ᾿Ηώιον υἷα,
we , la eM eh 1 v "τ
καί ἑ φέρον πολιοῖο δι’ ἠέρος: ἄχνυτο δέ σφι
. - , Dias.
θυμὸς ἀδελφειοῖο δεδουπότος: audi δ᾽ dp αἰθὴρ 555
ἔστενε. τοῦ δ᾽ ἐπὶ γαῖαν ὅσαι πέσον αἱματόεσσαι
ἐκ μελέων ῥαθάμιγγες, ἐν ἀνθρώποισι τέτυκται
“- δ oe / \ \S eZ »
σῆμα καὶ ἐσσομένοις" τὰς γὰρ θεοὶ ἄλλοθεν ἄλλην
εἰς ἐν ἀγειράμενοι ποταμὸν θέσαν ἠχήεντα,
΄ / Ἄ ‘ =
tov pa τε ἸΤαφλαγόνειον ἐπιχθόνιοι καλέουσι δ60
’, fol : ,
πάντες, ὅσοι Valovat μακρῆς ὑπὸ δειράσιν "Ἴδης"
ὅς τε καὶ αἱματόεις τραφερὴν ἐπινίσσεται αἶαν,
, ΄ » ; e a
ὁππότε Μέμνονος ἦμαρ én λυγρόν, ᾧ ἔνι κεῖνος
κάτθανε" λευγαλέη δὲ καὶ ἄσχετος ἔσσυται ὀδμὴ
ἐξ ὕδατος: φαίης κεν ἔθ᾽ ἕλκεος οὐλομένοιο 565
“ “ “ ’
πυθομένους ἰχῶρας ἀποπνείειν ἀλεγεινόν.
‘\ ‘ ΄“ re ΄ > ΄
ἀλλὰ τὸ μὲν βουλῆσι θεῶν γένεθ᾽- οἱ δ᾽ ἐπέτοντο
» “ v Ka ν᾿ / IA
Ηοῦς ὄβριμον via Poor dopéovtes ἀῆται
Ν \ ’ lal
τυτθὸν ὑπὲρ γαίης δνοφερῇ κεκαλυμμένον ὄρφνῃ.
‘ ΄“- > /
Οὐδὲ μὲν Αἰθιοπῆες ἀποκταμένοιο ἄνακτος 570
νόσφιν ἀπεπλάγχθησαν, ἐπεὶ θεὸς αἶψα καὶ
αὐτοὺς
ἣγε λιλαιομένοισι βαλὼν τάχος, οἷον ἔμελλον
οὐ μετὰ δηρὸν ἔχοντες ἐπηέριοι φορέεσθαι:"
τοὔνεχ᾽ ἕποντ᾽ ἀνέμοισιν ὀδυρόμενοι βασιλῆα.
ὡς δ᾽ ὅταν ἀγρευτῆρος ἐνὶ ξυλόχοισι δαμέντος 575
ἢ συὸς ἠὲ λέοντος ὑπὸ βλοσυρῇσι γένυσσι
σῶμ’ ἀναειρόμενοι μογεροὶ φορέουσιν ἑ ἑταῖροι
ἀχνύμενοι, μετὰ δέ σφι κύνες ποθέοντες ὁ ἄνακτα
κνυξζηθμῷ ἐφέπονται͵ ἀνιηρῆς ἕνεκ᾽ ἄγρης"
ὡς οἵ γε προλιπόντες ἀνηλέα δηιοτῆτα 580
λαιψηροῖς ἐφέποντο μέγα στενάχοντες ἀήταις
108
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK II
To Priam’s plain, and floated round the dead,
And sottly, swiftly caught they up, and bare
Through silver mists the Dawn-queen’s son, with
hearts
Sore aching for their brother’s fall, while moaned
Around them all the air. As on they passed,
Fell many blood-gouts from those piercéd limbs
Down to the earth, and these were made a sign
To generations yet to be. The Gods
Gathered them up from many lands, and made
Thereof a far-resounding river, named
Of all that dwell beneath long Ida’s flanks
Paphlagoneion. As its waters flow
’Twixt fertile acres, once a year they turn
To blood, when comes the woeful day whereon
Died Memnon. Thence a sick and choking reek
Steams: thou wouldst say that from a wound
unhealed
Corrupting humours breathed an evil stench.
Ay, so the Gods ordained: but now flew on
Bearing Dawn’s mighty son the rushing winds
Skimming earth’s face and palled about with night.
Nor were his Aethiopian comrades left
To wander of their King forlorn: a God
Suddenly winged those eager souls with speed
Such as should soon be theirs for ever, changed
To flying fowl, the children of the air.
Wailing their King in the winds’ track they sped.
As when a hunter mid the forest-brakes
Is by a boar or grim-jawed lion slain,
And now his sorrowing friends take up the corse,
And bear it heavy-hearted ; and the hounds
Follow low-whimpering, pining for their lord
In that disastrous hunting lost; so the
Left far behind that stricken field of blood,
And fast they followed after those swift winds
109
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
ἀχλύϊ θεσπεσίη κεκαλυμμένοι. audi δὲ Τρῶες
καὶ Δαναοὶ θάμβησαν ἅμα σφετέρῳ βασιλῆι
πάντας ἀϊστωθέντας, ἀπειρεσίῃ δ᾽ ἀνὰ θυμὸν
ἀμφασίῃ βεβόληντο. νέκυν δ᾽ ἀκάμαντες ἀῆται 585
Μέμνονος ἀγχεμάχοιο θέσαν βαρέα στενάχοντες
πὰρ ποταμοῖο ῥέεθρα βαθυρρόου Αἰσήποιο,
ἧχί τε Νυμφάων καλλιπλοκάμων πέλει ἄλσος
καλόν, ὃ δὴ μετόπισθε μακρὸν περὶ σῆμα βάλοντο
Αἰσηποῖο θύγατρες ἀδην πεπυκασμένον ὕλῃ 590
παντοίῃ" καὶ πολλὰ θεαὶ περικωκύσαντο,
υἱέα κυδαίνουσαι ἐὐθρόνου ᾿Ηριγενείης.
Δύσετο δ᾽ ἠελίοιο φάος" κατὰ δ᾽ ἤλυθεν "Haws
οὐρανόθεν κλαίουσα φίλον τέκος, ἀμφὶ δ᾽ ap αὐτῇ
κοῦραι ἐὐπλόκαμοι δυοκαίδεκα, τῇσι μέμηλεν 595
αἰὲν ἑλισσομένου Ὑπερίονος αἰπὰ κέλευθα
νύξ τε καὶ ἠριγένεια καὶ ἐκ Διὸς ὁππόσα βουλῆς
γίνεται, οὗ περὶ δῶμα καὶ ἀρρήκτους πυλεῶνας
στρωφώντ᾽ ἔνθα καὶ ἔνθα πέριξ λυκάβαντα
φέρουσαι
καρποῖσι βρίθοντα κυλινδομένου περὶ κύκλου 600
χειμῶνος κρυεροῖο καὶ εἴαρος ἀνθεμόεντος
ἠδὲ θέρευς ἐ ἐρατοῖο πολυσταφύλοιό T ὁπώρης.
αἱ τότε δὴ κατέβησαν a ἀπ᾽ αἰθέρος ἠλιβάτοιο
ἄσπετ᾽ ὀδυρόμεναι περὶ Μέμνονα, σὺν δ᾽ ἄρα τῆσι
Πληιάδες μύροντο' περίαλχ ε δ᾽ οὔρεα μακρὰ 605
καὶ ῥόος Αἰσήποιο' γόος ᾿ ἄλληκτος ὀρώρει.
ἡ δ᾽ ap’ ἐνὶ μέσσῃσιν E@ περὶ παιδὶ χυθεῖσα
μακρὸν ἀνεστονάχησε πολύστονος Ἤριγένεια:
“ὦλεό μοι, φίλε τέκνον, ἑῇ δ᾽ ἄρα μητέρι πένθος
ἀργαλέον περίθηκας" ἐγὼ δ᾽ οὐ σεῖο δαμέντος 610
τλήσομαι ἀθανάτοισιν ἐπουρανίοισι φαείνειν,
ἀλλὰ καταχθονίων ἐσδύσομαι αἰνὰ βέρεθρα,
110
THE FALL! OF (TROY BOOK II
With multitudinous moaning, veiled in mist
Unearthly. Trojans over all the plain |
And Danaans marvelled, seeing that great host
Vanishing with their King. All hearts stood still
In dumb amazement. But the tireless winds
Sighing set hero Memnon’s giant corpse
Down by the deep flow of Aesopus’ stream,
Where is a fair grove of the bright-haired Nymphs,
The which round his long barrow afterward
Aesopus’ daughters planted, screening it
With many and manifold trees: and long and loud
Wailed those Immortals, chanting his renown,
The son of the Dawn-goddess splendour-throned.
Now sank the sun: the Lady of the Morn
Wailing her dear child from the heavens came down.
Twelve maidens shining-tressed attended her,
The warders of the high paths of the sun
For ever circling, warders of the night
And dawn, and each world-ordinance framed of
Zeus,
Around whose mansion’s everlasting doors
From east to west they dance, froin west to east,
Whirling the wheels of harvest-laden years, 600
While rolls the endless round of winter’s cold,
And flowery spring, and lovely summer-tide,
And heavy-clustered autumn. These came down
From heaven, for Memnon wailing wild and high ;
And mourned with these the Pleiads. Echoed
round
Far-stretching mountains, and Aesopus’ stream.
Ceaseless uprose the keen, and in their midst,
Fallen on her son and clasping, wailed the Dawn ;
«ς Dead art thou, dear, dear child, and thou hast clad
Thy mother with a pall of grief. Oh, I,
Now thou art slain, will not endure to light
The Immortal Heavenly Ones! No, I will plunge
Itt
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
ψυχὴ 6 ὅπου σέο νόσφιν ἀποφθιμένοιο ποτᾶται,
[γαῖαν ἀμαυρώσουσα καὶ οὐρανὸν ἡδὲ θάλασσαν)
πάντ᾽ ἐπικιδναμένου χάεος καὶ ἀεικέος ὄρφνης,
v A (ὃ \ / » “ Ἔ 5
oppa TL καὶ Κρονί ao περὶ φρένας ἄλγος ἱκηται" 615
οὐ “γὰρ ἀτιμοτέρη Νηρηίδος ἐ ἐκ Διὸς αὐτοῦ
πάντ᾽ ἐπιδερκομένη, T πάντ᾽ ἐς τέλος ἄχρις ἄγουσα"
μαψιδίως γὰρ ἐμὸν φάος οὐ νῦν ὠπίσατο Ζεύς.
tovvex ὑπὸ ζόφον εἶμι: Θέτιν δ᾽ ἐς "Ὄλυμπον
ἀγέσθω
ἐξ ἁλός, ὄφρα θεοῖσι καὶ ἀνθρώποισι φαείνῃ" 620
αὐτὰρ ἐμοὶ στονύόεσσα μετ᾽ οὐρανὸν εὔαδεν ὄρφνη,
\ \ a A , \ a ΄ 39
μὴ δὴ σεῖο φονῆι φάος περὶ σῶμα βάλοιμι.
ἋὯ ΄ ἘΠ ὃ , 37°53 B ,
s φαμένης ῥέε δάκρυ κατ᾽ ἀμβροσίοιο προσ-
ώπου
ἀενάῳ ποταμῷ ἐναλίγκιον: ἀμφὶ δὲ νεκρῷ
δεύετο γαῖα μέλαινα" συνάχνυτο δ᾽ ἀμβροσίη Νὺξ 625
παιδὶ φίλῃ, καὶ πάντα κατέκρυφεν οὐρανὸς ἄστρα
ἀχλύϊ καὶ νεφέεσσι φέρων χάριν Ἡριγενείῃ.
Τρῶες δ᾽ ἄστεος ἔνδον ἔσαν περὶ Μέμνονι θυμον
ἀχνύμενοι: πόθεον γὰρ ὁμῶς ἑτάροισιν ἄνακτα.
οὐδὲ μὲν ᾿Αργεῖοι μέγ᾽ ἐγήθεον, ἀλλὰ καὶ αὐτοὶ 680
ἐν πεδίῳ κταμένοισι παρ᾽ ἀνδρώσιν αὗλιν ἔχοντες
» Dee , \ >) ’ ,
ἄμφω ἐϊμμελίην μὲν ᾿Αχιλλέα κυδαίνεσκον,
᾽ , ᾽ » rc » tL? fd 4
Αντίλοχον δ᾽ dpa κλαῖον" ἔχον δ᾽ ἅμα χάρματι
πένθος.
Παννυχίη δ᾽ ἀλεγεινὸν ἀνεστονάχιζε γοῶσα
» ’ > \ ΄ ς / / be 4 n
Hos: ἀμφὶ δέ οἱ κέχυτο ζόφος" οὐδέ τι θυμῷ 635
> » ᾿ / / > + Vv
ἀντολίης ἀλέγιζε, μέγαν δ᾽ ἤχθηρεν "Ολυμπον.
Μ / e / \ / » [2
ἄγχι δέ οἱ μάλα πολλὰ ποδώκεες ἔστενον ἵπποι
γαῖαν ἐπιστείβοντες ἀηθέα, καὶ βασίλειαν
ἀχνυμένην ὁρόωντες, ἐελδόμενοι μέγα νόστου.
112
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK II
Down to the dread depths of the underworld,
Where thy lone spirit flitteth to and fro,
And will to blind night leave earth, sky, and sea,
Till Chaos and formless darkness brood o’er all,
That Cronos’ Son may also learn what means
Anguish of heart. For not less worship-worthy
Than Nereus’ Child, by Zeus’s ordinance,
Am I, who look on all things, I, who bring
All to their consummation. Recklessly
My light Zeus now despiseth' Therefore I
Will pass into the darkness. Let him bring
Up to Olympus Thetis from the sea
To hold for him light forth to Gods and men!
My sad soul loveth darkness more than day,
Lest I pour light upon thy slayer’s head.”
Thus as she cried, the tears ran down her face
Immortal, hike a river brimming aye:
Drenched was the dark earth round the corse The
Night
Grieved in her daughter's anguish, and the heaven
Drew over all his stars a veil of mist
And cloud, of love unto the Lady of Light.
Meanwhile within their walls the Trojan folk
For Memnon sorrowed sore, with vain regret
Yearning for that lost king and all his host.
Nor greatly joyed the Argives, where they lay
Camped in the open plain amidst the dead.
There, mingled with Achilles’ praise, uprose
Wails for Antilochus: joy clasped hands with grief.
All night in groans and sighs most pitiful
The Dawn-queen lay: a sea of darkness moaned
Around her. Of the dayspring nought she recked :
She loathed Olympus’ spaces. At her side
Fretted and whinnied still her fleetfoot steeds,
Trampling the strange earth, gazing at their Queen
Grief-stricken, yearning for the fiery course.
113
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
\ 3 , .
Ζεὺς δ᾽ ἄμοτον βρόντησε yorovpevos, ἀμφὶ δὲ
γαια 640
, a ᾿ a
κινήθη περὶ πᾶσα' τρόμος δ᾽ ἕλεν ἄμβροτον Ho.
Τὸν δ᾽ ἄρα καρπαλίμως μελανόχροες Αἰθιοπῆες
΄ 3 , \ b ihe) / i
θάψαν ὀδυρόμενοι: τοὺς δ᾽ ᾿Ηριγένεια βοῶπις
πόλλ᾽ ὀλοφυρομένους κρατεροῦ περὶ σήματι
παιδὸς
’ \ ΄ A Sie Lal ’
οἰωνοὺς ποίησε καὶ ἠέρι δῶκε φέρεσθαι, 645
τοὺς Kal νῦν καλέουσι βροτῶν ἀπερείσια φῦλα
Μέμνονας: οἵ ῥ᾽ ἐπὶ τύμβον ἔτι σφετέρου
βασιλῆος
, , ’
ἐσσύμενοι γοόωσι κόνιν καθύπερθε χέοντες
7 ? f \ ’ \
σήματος" ἀλλήλοις δὲ περικλονέουσι κυδοιμὸν
, « ᾽ 2 wht ’ -
Μέμνονι ἦρα φέροντες" ὁ δ᾽ εἰν ᾿Αἴδαο δόμοισιν 650
’ ΄ ’ ’ , ’
né που ἐν μακάρεσσι Kat’ ᾿Ηλύσιον πέδον αἴης
καγχαλάᾳ: καὶ θυμὸν ἰαίνεται ἄμβροτος ‘Has
δερκομένη" τοῖσιν δὲ πέλει πόνος ἄχρι καμόντες
εἷς ἕνα δηώσωνται ἀνὰ κλόνον, ἠὲ καὶ ἄμφω
πότμον ἀναπλήσωσι πονεύμενοι ἀμφὶς ἄνακτα. 655
Καὶ τὰ μὲν ἐννεσίησι φαεσφόρου ᾿Ηριγενείης
,
οἰωνοὶ τελέουσι Boot: τότε δ᾽ ἄμβροτος "Haws
? \ ? , EMS δέ vA
οὐρανὸν εἰσανόρουσεν ὁμῶς πολυαλδέσιν “Ὥραις,
Chee th: ᾽ ’ / ᾽ / ᾽ \ 93
ai ῥά μιν οὐκ ἐθέλουσαν ἀνήγαγον ἐς Διὸς οὖδας
, eo \
παρφάμεναι μύθοισιν, ὅσοις βαρὺ πένθος ὑπείκει, 660
, Ws 8 , e ᾽ by my ᾿] ᾿ ,
καίπερ ἔτ᾽ ἀχνυμένην. ἡ δ᾽ οὐ λάθεθ᾽ οἷο δρόμοιο'
, \ \ ἊΝ »Μ » 5 /
δείδιε yap δὴ Ζηνὸς ἄδην ἄλληκτον ἐνιπήν,
’ ? , / [χὰ ᾽ > -“ Cp:
ἐξ οὗ πάντα πέλονται, ὅσ᾽ ὠκεανοῖο ῥέεθρα
ἐντὸς ἔχει καὶ γαῖα καὶ αἰθομένων ἕδος ἄστρων.
a ” / / Μ ς δὲ \ IN
TNS apa Πληιάδες προτέεραι ἰσαν" ἢ OE καὶ αὑτὴ Θθὅ
? , » UA Das, SORE AT) ”
αἰθερίας ake πύλας, ἐκέδασσε δ᾽ ap αἴγλην.
[14
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK II
Suddenly crashed the thunder of the wrath
Of Zeus; rocked round her all the shuddering earth,
And on immortal Eos trembling came.
Swiftly the dark-skinned Aethiops from her sight
Buried their lord lamenting. As they wailed
Unceasingly, the Dawn-queen lovely-eyed
Changed them to birds sweeping through air around
The barrow of the mighty dead. And these
Still do the tribes of men “ The Memnons”’ call ;
And still with wailing cries they dart and wheel
Above their king’s tomb, and they scatter dust
Down on his grave, still shrill the battle-cry,
In memory of Memnon, each to each.
But he in Hades’ mansions, or perchance
Amid the Blesséd on the Elysian Plain,
Laugheth. Divine Dawn comforteth her heart
Beholding them: but theirs is toil of strife
Unending, till the weary victors strike
The vanquished dead, or one and all fill up
The measure of their doom around his grave.
So by command of Eos, Lady of Light,
The swift birds dree their weird. But Dawn divine
Now heavenward soared with the _ all-fostering
Hours,
Who drew her to Zeus’ threshold, sorely loth,
Yet conquered by their gentle pleadings, such
As salve the bitterest grief of broken hearts.
Nor the Dawn-queen forgat her daily course,
But quailed before the unbending threat of Zeus,
Of whom are all things, even all comprised
Within the encircling sweep of Ocean’s stream,
Earth and the palace-dome of burning stars.
Before her went her Pleiad-harbingers,
Then she herself flung wide the ethereal gates,
And, scattering spray of splendour, flashed there-
through.
115
ΛΟΓΟΣ ΤΡΙΤΟΣ
Αὐτὰρ ἐπεὶ φάος ἦλθεν ἐὐθρόνου ᾿ Ηριγενείης,
δὴ τότ᾽ ap ᾿Αντιλόχοιο νέκυν ποτὶ νῆας ἔνεικαν
αἰχμηταὶ Πύλιοι μεγάλα στενάχοντες ἄνακτα
Kal μιν ταρχύσαντο παρ᾽ yoow ᾿Ελλησπόντου
πολλὰ μάλ᾽ ἀχνύμενοι: περὶ δ᾽ ἔστενον ὄβριμοι
υἷες
᾿Αργείων" πάντας γὰρ ἀμείλιχον ἄμφεχε πένθος
Νέστορι ἦρα φέροντας" ὁ δ᾽ οὐ μέγα δώμνατο
VEO"
ἀνδρὸς yap πινυτοῖο περὶ φρεσὶ τλήμεναι ἄλγος
θαρσαλέως καὶ μή τι κατηφιόωντ᾽ ἀκάχησθαι.
qn
Πηλείδης δ᾽ ἑτάροιο χολούμενος ᾿Αντιλόχοιο 10
σμερδνὸν ἐπὶ Τρώεσσι κορύσσετο' τοὶ δὲ καὶ
αὐτοὶ
καίπερ ὑποτρομέοντες ἐὐμμελίην ᾿Αχιλῆα
τείχεος ἐξεχέοντο μεμαότες, οὕνεκ᾽ ἄρα σφι
Κῆρες ἐνὶ στέρνοισι θράσος βάλον: ἣ γὰρ ἔμελλον
πολλοὶ ἀνοστήτοιο κατελθέμεν ᾿Αἰδονῆος. 15
χερσὶν ὕπ᾽ Αἰακίδαο δαΐφρονος, ὃ ὅς ῥα καὶ αὐτὸς
φθεῖσθαι ὁ ὁμῶς ἤμελλε παρὰ Πριάμοιο πόληι.
αἶψα δ᾽ ἄρ ᾿ ἀμφοτέρωθε συνήλυθον εἰς ἕνα χῶρον
Τρώων ἔθνεα πολλὰ μενεπτολέμων T ᾿Αργείων
μαιμώωντ᾽ ἐς "Ἄρηα διεγρομένου πολέμοιο. 20
Πηλείδης δ᾽ ἐν τοῖσι πολὺν περιδάμνατο λαὸν
δυσμενέων: πάντῃ δὲ φερέσβιος αἵματι γαῖα
116
BOOK Ill
How by the shaft of a God laid low was Hero
Achilles
Wuewn shone the light of Dawn the splendour-
throned,
Then to the ships the Pylian spearmen bore
Antilochus’ corpse, sore sighing for their prince,
And by the Hellespont they buried him
With aching hearts. Around him groaning stood
The battle-eager sons of Argives, all,
Of love for Nestor, shrouded o’er with grief.
But that grey hero’s heart was nowise crushed
By sorrow ; for the wise man’s soul endures
Bravely, and cowers not under affiction’s stroke.
But Peleus’ son, wroth for Antilochus
His dear friend, armed for vengeance terrible
Upon the Trojans. Yea, and these withal,
Despite their dread of mighty Achilles’ spear,
Poured battle-eager forth their gates, for now
The Fates with courage filled their breasts, of whom
Many were doomed to Hades to descend,
Whence there is no return, thrust down by hands
Of Aeacus’ son, who also was foredoomed
To perish that same day by Priam’s wall.
Swift met the fronts of conflict: all the tribes
Of Troy’s host, and the battle-biding Greeks,
Afire with that new-kindled fury of war.
Then through the foe the son of Peleus made
Wide havoc: all around the earth was drenched
Tig
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
δεύετο, καὶ νεκύεσσι περιστείνοντο ῥέεθρα
Ξάνθου καὶ Σιμόεντος" ὁ δ᾽ ἑσπόμενος κεράϊξζε
μέχρις ἐπὶ πτολίεθρον, € ἐπεὶ φόβος ἄμφεχε λαούς. 25
καί νύ κε πώντας ὄλεσσε, πύλας δ᾽ εἰς οὖδας
ἔρεισε
θαιρῶν ἐξερύσας, ἢ καὶ συνέαξεν ὀχῆας
δόχμιος ἐγχριμφθείς, Δαναοῖσι δὲ θῆκε κέλευθον
ἐς Πριάμοιο πόληα, διέπραθε δ᾽ ὄλβιον ἄστυ,
εἰ μή οἱ μέγα Φοῖβος ἀνηλέϊ χώσατο θυμῷ, 80
ὡς ἴδεν ἄσπετα φῦλα δαϊκταμένων ἡρώων.
aiva δ᾽ ἀπ᾿ Οὐλύμποιο κατήλυθε θηρὶ ἐοικὼς
ἰοδόκην ὦμοισιν ἔχων καὶ ἀναλθέας Lous:
ἔστη δ᾽ Αἰακίδαο καταντίον" ἀμφὶ δ᾽ ap’ αὐτῷ
γωρυτὸς καὶ τόξα μέγ᾽ ἰαχεν" ἐκ δὲ οἱ ὄσσων 35
πῦρ ἄμοτον μάρμαιρε' ποσὶν δ᾽ ὑπεκίνυτο γαῖα.
σμερδαλέον δ᾽ ἤῦσε μέγας θεὸς, ὄφρ᾽ ᾿Αχιλῆα
τρέψη ἀπὸ πτολέμοιο θεοῦ ὅπα ταρβήσαντα
θεσπεσίην, καὶ Τρῶας ὑπὲκ θανάτοιο σαώση:
“ yaleo, Πηλείδη, Τρώων ἐκάς, οὐ γὰρ ἔοικεν 40
οὔ σ᾽ ἔτι δυσμενέεσσι κακὰς ἐπὶ κῆρας ἰάλλειν,
μή σε καὶ ἀθανάτων as ἀπ᾽ Οὐλύμποιο χαλέψη."
Ὡς ἄρ᾽ ἔφη: ὁ δ᾽ ap’ οὔτι θεοῦ τρέσεν ἄμβροτον
αὐδὴν'
ἤδη γάρ οἱ Κῆρες ἀμείλεχοι ἀμφεποτῶντο:
τοὔνεκ᾽ ap οὐκ ἀλέγιζε θεοῦ, μέγα δ᾽ ἴαχεν ἄντην" 45
“Φοῖβε, τί ἢ με θεοῖσι καὶ οὐ μεμαῶτα μάχεσθαι
ὀτρύνεις Τρώεσσιν ὑπερφιάλοισιν ἀμύνων;
ἤδη γὰρ καὶ πρόσθε μ᾽ ἀποστρέψας ὀρυμαγδοῦ
ἤπαφες, ὁππότε πρῶτον ὑπεξεσάωσας ὀλέθρου
“Ἕκτορα, τῷ μέγα Τρῶες ἀνὰ πτόλιν εὐχετόωντο. δ0
118
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK III
With gore, and choked with corpses were the
streams
Of Simois and Xanthus. Still he chased,
Still slaughtered, even to the city’s walls ;
For panic fell on all the host. And now
All had he slain, had dashed the gates to earth,
Rending them from their hinges, or the bolts,
Hurling himself against them, had he snapped,
And for the Danaans into Priam’s burg
Had made a way, had utterly destroyed
That goodly town—but now was Phoebus wroth
Against him with grim fury, when he saw
Those countless troops of heroes slain of him.
Down from Olympus with a lion-leap
He came: his quiver on his shoulders lay,
And shafts that deal the wounds incurable.
Facing Achilles stood he; round him clashed
Quiver and arrows; blazed with quenchless flame
His eyes, and shook the earth beneath his feet.
Then with a terrible shout the great God cried,
So to turn back from war Achilles awed
By the voice divine, and save from death the
Trojans:
“Back from the Trojans, Peleus’ son! Beseems not
That longer thou deal death unto thy foes,
Lest an Olympian God abase thy pride.”
But nothing quailed the hero at the voice
Immortal, for that round him even now
Hovered the unrelenting Fates. He recked
Naught of the God, and shouted his defiance.
‘“ Phoebus, why dost thou in mine own despite
Stir me to fight with Gods, and wouldst protect
The arrogant Trojans? Heretofore hast thou
By thy beguiling turned me from the fray,
When from destruction thou at the first didst save
Hector, whereat the Trojans all through Troy
[10
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
» ~ ΄
ἀλλ᾽ ἀναχάζεο τῆλε καὶ ἐς μακάρων ἕδος ἄλλων
ἔρχεο, μή σε βάλοιμι καὶ ἀθάνατόν περ ἐόντα.
ΜᾺ > & ’ ΄ x , = 3 af
Ὡς εἰπὼν ἀπάτερθε θεὸν λίπε, BH δ᾽ ἐπὶ
Τρῶας,
vy ΟὉ .Ψ ’ ; % / ’
οἵ ῥ᾽ ἔτι που φεύγεσκον ἀεὶ προπάροιθε πόληος,
καὶ τοὺς μὲν σεύεσκεν" ὁ δ᾽ ἀσχαλόων ἐνὶ θυμῷ
Φοῖβος ἑὸν κατὰ θυμὸν ἔπος ποτὶ τοῖον ἔειπεν"
’ e a , > , e
“@ πόποι, ὡς 6 γε palveT ava φρένας: ἀλλά οἱ
οὔτι
» 4 ’ ᾽ ΄ »
οὐδ᾽ αὐτὸς Κρονίδης ἔτ᾽ ἀλέξεταιϊ οὔτε τις ἄλλος
~ / ΄ ΕΝ
οὕτω μαργαίνοντι καὶ ἀντιόωντιἶ θεοῖσιν."
a vw?>»y ‘ ».- e ~ / ’ “3
Os dp’ ἔφη, καὶ ἄϊστος ὁμοῦ νεφέεσσιν ἐτύχθη"
ἠέρα & ἑσσάμενος στυγερὸν προέηκε βέλεμνον,
fee lad ” A U > ἥδε ὁ ee
καί ἑ θοῶς οὔτησε κατὰ σφυρόν: αἷψα δ᾽ ἀνῖαι
τ ΄ ‘ ΄ ΄ » ΄
δῦσαν ὑπὸ κραδίην" ὁ δ᾽ ἀνετράπετ᾽ nite πύργος,
ὅν τε βίη τυφῶνος ὑποχθονίη στροφάλυγγι
ῥήξη ὑπὲρ δαπέδοιο κραδαινομένης βαθὺ γαίης"
Δ ᾽ ΄ 7 > Δ. > » > ΄
ὡς ἐκλίθη δέμας HU κατ᾽ οὔδεος Αἰακίδαο.
ἀμφὶ δὲ παπτήνας ὀλοὸν καὶ = =
= = ἔπος ἀκράαντον ὁμόκλα-
“ris νύ μοι αἰνὸν ὀϊστὸν ἐπιπροέηκε κρυφηδόν;
τλήτω μευ κατέναντα καὶ εἰς ἀναφανδὸν ἱκέσθαι,
ὄφρα κέ οἱ μέλαν αἷμα καὶ ἔγκατα πάντα χυθείη
ἡμετέρῳ περὶ δουρὶ καὶ “Aida λυγρὸν ἵκηται"
“-“ A ΄ » / > v4 A
οἶδα yap ws οὔτις με δυνήσεται ἐγγύθεν ἐλθὼν
ἐγχείη δαμάσασθαι ἐπιχθονίων ἡρώων,
οὐδ᾽ εἴπερ στέρνοισι μάλ᾽ ἄτρομον ἦτορ ἔχησιν,
ἄτρομον ἧτορ ἔχησι λίην καὶ χάλκεος εἴη"
κρύβδα δ᾽ ἀνάλκιδες αἰὲν ἀγανοτέρους λοχόωσι.
τῷ μευ ἴτω κατέναντα, καὶ εἰ θεὸς εὔχεται εἶναι
χωόμενος Δαναοῖς, ἐπεὶ ἦ νύ μοι ἦτορ ἔολπεν
»“ 3 U fol ΄ Ψ
ἔμμεναι ᾿Απόλλωνα λυγρῇ κεκαλυμμένον ὀρφνῃ.
1 Zimmermann, for ἀνέξεται of v.
2 Zimmermann, for ἀντιόωντα.
120
60
70
75
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK III
Exulted. Nay, thou get thee back: return
Unto the mansion of the Blesséd, lest
I smite thee—ay, immortal though thou be!”
Then on the God he turned his back, and sped
After the Trojans fleeing cityward,
And harried still their flight ; but wroth at heart
Thus Phoebus spake to his indignant soul :
‘Out on this man! he is sense-bereft! But now
Not Zeus himself nor any other Power
Shall save this madman who defies the Gods !"”
From mortal sight he vanished into cloud,
And cloaked with mist a baleful shaft he shot
Which leapt to Achilles’ ankle : sudden pangs
With mortal sickness made his whole heart faint.
He reeled, and like a tower he fell, that falls
Smit by a whirlwind when an earthquake cleaves
A chasm for rushing blasts from underground ;
So fell the goodly form of Aeacus’ son.
He glared, a murderous glance, to right, to left,
[Upon the Trojans, and a terrible threat]
Shouted, a threat that could not be fulfilled:
“Who shot at me a stealthy-smiting shaft ?
Let him but dare to meet me face to face!
So shall his blood and all his bowels gush out
About my spear, and he be hellward sped!
I know that none can meet me man to man
And quell in fight—of earth-born heroes none,
Though such an one should bear within his breast
A heart unquailing, and have thews of brass.
But dastards still in stealthy ambush lurk
For lives of heroes. Let him face me then !—
Ay ! though he be a God whose anger burns
Against the Danaans! Yea, mine heart forebodes
That this my smiter was Apollo, cloaked
12!
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
ὡς yap μοι τὸ πάροιθε φίλη διεπέφραδε μήητθρ 80
κείνου ὑπαὶ βελέεσσιν ὀιζυρῶς ἀπολέσθαι
- 5 Α ΄ ᾿ ᾽ » 2 ΄ o >
Σκαιῆς ἀμφὶ TUAnGL τὸ δ᾽ οὐκ ἀνεμώλιον Fev.
Ἦ καὶ λυγρὸν ὀιστὸν ἀμειλίκτοισι χέρεσσιν
ἕλκεος ἐξείρυσσεν ἀναλθέος": ἐκ δέ οἱ αἷμα
ἔσσυτο τειρομένοιο: πότμος δέ οἱ ἦτορ ἐδάμνα. 85
ἀσχαλόων & ἔρριψε βέλος. τὸ δ᾽ ap αἶψα
κιοῦσαι
πνοιαὶ ἀνηρείψαντο, δοσαν δέ μιν ᾿ΑἈπόλλωνι
ἐς Διὸς οἰχομένῳ ζάθεον πέδον: οὐ yap ἐώκει
» Ba 3 r 3 Φ 59 ΄ εὐ
ἄμβροτον ἰὸν ὀλέσθαι ἀπ᾽ ἀθανάτοιο μολόντα.
δεξάμενος 6 ὅ γε κραιπνὸς ἀφίκετο μακρὸν
Ὄλυμπον 90
ἄλλων ἀθανάτων ἐς ομήγυριν, ἧχι μάλιστα
πανσυδίη ἀγέροντο μάχην ἐσορώμενοι ἀνδρῶν"
οἱ μὲν γὰρ Τρώεσσι μενοίνεον εὖχος ὀρέξαι
. - ee) ΄ ; > Ψ -
οἱ δ᾽ avt ᾿Αργείοις, διὰ δ᾽ ἄνδιχα μητιόωντες
δέρκοντο κτείνοντας ἀνὰ μόθον ολλυμένους τε. 95
Tov δ᾽ ὁπότ᾽ εἰσενόησε Διὸς πινυτὴ παράκοιτις,
αὐτίκα μιν νείκεσσεν ἀνιηροῖς ἐπέεσσιν"
“Φοῖβε, τί ἡ τόδ᾽ ἔρεξας ἀτάσθαλον ἤματι τῷδε,
΄ A . ΄ ΄
λησάμενος κείνοιο, τὸν ἀθάνατοι γάμον αὐτοι
> ΄ - ΄ > 4 ‘ ’
ἀντιθέω Πηλῆι συνήρσαμεν; ἐν δὲ σὺ μέσσοις 100
δαινυμένοις ἤειδες, ὅπως Θέτιν ἀργυρόπεξαν
Πηλεὺς ἤγετ᾽ ἄκοιτιν ἁλὸς μέγα λαῖτμα λι-
ποῦσαν,
καί σευ ν φορμίζοντος ἐπήιεν ἀθρόα φῦλα,
θηρές 7 τ οἰωνοί τε βαθυσκόπελοί τε κολῶναι
καὶ ποταμοὶ καὶ πᾶσα βαθύσκιος ἤιεν ὕλη. 105
ἀλλὰ τά γ᾽ ἐξελάθου, καὶ ἀμείλειχον ἔργον ἔρεξας
, 3 ΄ ~ ᾽ ΄ 4 » ,
κτείνας ἀνέρα δῖον, ὃν ἀθανάτοισι σὺν ἄλλοίς
νέκταρ ἀποσπένδων ἠἡρήσαο παῖδα γενέσθα:
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In deadly darkness 80 in days gone by
My mother told me how that by his shafts
I was to die before the Scaean Gates
A piteous death. Her words were not vain words.”
Then with unflinching hands from out the wound
Incurable he drew the deadly shaft
In agonized pain Forth gushed the blood ; his heart
Waxed faint beneath the shadow of coming doom.
Then in indignant wrath he hurled from him
The arrow : a sudden gust of wind swept by,
And caught it up, and, even as he trod
Zeus’ threshold, to Apollo gave it back ;
For it beseemed not that a shaft divine,
Sped forth by an Immortal, should be lost.
He unto high Olympus swiftly came,
To the great gathering of immortal Gods,
Where all assembled watched the war of men,
These longing for the Trojans’ triumph, those
For Danaan victory ; so with diverse wills
Watched they the strife, the slayers and the slain.
Him did the Bride of Zeus behold, and straight
Upbraided with exceeding bitter words:
«“ What deed of outrage, Phoebus, hast thou done
This day, forgetful of that day whereon
To godlike Peleus’ spousals gathered all
The Immortals? Yea, amidst the feasters thou
Sangest how Thetis silver-footed left
The sea’s abysses to be Peleus’ bride:
And as thou harpedst all earth's children came
To hearken, beasts and birds, high craggy hills,
Rivers, and all deep-shadowed forests came.
All this hast thou forgotten, and hast wrought
A ruthless deed, hast slain a godlike man,
Albeit thou with other Gods didst pour
The nectar, praying that he might be the son
By Thetis given to Peleus. But that prayer
123
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
ἐκ Θέτιδος Πηλῆι: τεῆς δ᾽ ἐπελήσαο ἀρῆς
ἦρα φέρων λαοῖσι κραταιοῦ Λαομέδοντος, 110
ᾧ πάρα βουκολέεσκες" ὁ δ᾽ ἀθάνατόν περ ἐόντα
θνητὸς ἐὼν ἀκάχιζε: σὺ δ᾽ ἀφρονέων ἐνὶ θυμῷ
ἦρα φέρεις Τρώεσσι λελασμένος ὅσσ᾽ ἐμόγησας.
σχέτλιος, οὔ νύ τι οἶδας ἐνὶ φρεσὶ λευγαλέῃσιν,
οὔθ᾽ ὅτις ἀργαλέος καὶ ἐπάξιος ἄλγεα πάσχειν, 115
οὔθ᾽ ὅτις ἀθανάτοισι τετιμένος: ἣ γὰρ ᾿Αχιλλεὺς
ἤπιος ἄμμι τέτυκτο καὶ ἐξ ἡμέων γένος ἧεν.
ἀλλ᾽ οὐ μὰν Γρώεσσιν ἐλαφρότερον πόνον οἴω
ἔσσεσθ᾽ Αἰακίδαο δεδουπότος, οὕνεκ᾽ ἄρ᾽ αὐτοῦ
υἱὸς ἀπὸ Σκύροιο θοῶς ἐς ἀπηνέα δῆριν 120
᾿Αργείοις ἐπαρωγὸς ἐλεύσεται εἴκελος ἀλκὴν
πατρὶ ἐφ’ πολέσιν δὲ κακὸν δηίοισι πελάσσει.
7) νυ σοὶ οὐ Τρώων ἐπιμέμβλεται, ἀλλ᾽ ᾿Αχιλῆι
ἀμφ᾽ ἀρετῆς ἐμέγηρας, ἐπεὶ πέλε φέρτατος ἀν-
ρῶν;
νήπιε, πῶς ἔτι σοῖσιν ἐν ὄμμασι Νηρηίνην 125
ὄψει ἐν ἀθανάτοισι Διὸς ποτὶ δώματ᾽ ἰοῦσαν,
ἥ σε πάρος κύδαινε καὶ ὡς φίλον ἔδρακεν via;”
ἪἮ μέγα νεικείουσα πολυσθενέος Διὸς υἷα
Ἥρη ἀκηχεμένη: ὁ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ οὐκ ἀπαμείβετο μύθῳ"
ἅζετο γὰρ παράκοιτιν ἑοῦ πατρὸς ἀκαμάτοιο" 130
οὐδέ οἱ ὀφθαλμοῖσι καταντίον εἰσοράασθαι
ἔσθενεν, ἀλλ᾽ ἀπάνευθε θεῶν ἄλληκτον ἐόντων
ἧστο κατωπιόων: ἄμοτον δέ οἱ ἐσκύζοντο
ἀθάνατοι κατ᾽ "᾽Ολυμπον ὅσοι Δαναοῖσιν ἄμυνον"
ὅσσοι δ᾽ αὖ Τρώεσσι μενοίνεον εὖχος ὀρέξαι, 13ὅ
κεῖνοί μεν κύδαινον € ἐνὶ φρεσὶ καγχαλόωντες
κρύβδ᾽ " ‘Hpns: πάντες γὰρ ἐναντίον Οὐρανίωνες
ἅξοντ᾽ ἀσχαλόωσαν. ὁ δ᾽ οὔπω λήθετο θυμοῦ
Πηλείδης: ἔτι γάρ οἱ ἀμαιμακέτοις ἐνὶ γυίοις
ἔζεεν αἷμα κελαινὸν ἐελδομένοιο μάχεσθαι. 140
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Hast thou forgotten, favouring the folk
Of tyrannous Laomedon, whose kine
Thou keptest. He, a mortal, did despite
To thee, the deathless! O, thou art wit-bereft !
Thou favourest Troy, thy sufferings all forgot.
Thou wretch, and duth thy false heart know not
this,
What man is an offence, and meriteth
Suffering, and who is honoured of the Gods?
Ever Achilles showed us reverence—yea,
Was of our race. Ha, but the punishment
Of Troy, I ween, shall not be lighter, though
Aeacus’ son have fallen; for his son
Right soon shall come from Scyros to the war
To help the Argive men, no less in might
Than was his sire, a bane to many a foe.
But thou—thou for the Trojans dost not care,
But for his valour enviedst Peleus’ son,
Seeing he was the mightest of all men.
Thou fool! how wilt thou meet the Nereid’s eyes,
When she shall stand in Zeus’ hall midst the Gods,
Who praised thee once, and loved as her own son? ”’
So Hera spake, in bitterness of soul
Upbraiding, but he answered her not a word,
Of reverence for his mighty Father's bride;
Nor could he lift his eyes to meet her eyes,
But sat abashed, aloof from all the Gods
Eternal], while in unforgiving wrath
Scowled on him al] the Immortals who maintained
The Danaans’ cause ; but such as tain would bring
Triumph to Troy, these with exultant hearts
Extolled him, hiding it from Hera’s eyes,
Before whose wrath all Heaven-abiders shrank.
But Peleus’ son the while forgat not yet
War’s fury: still in his invincible limbs
The hot blood throbbed, and still he longed for fight.
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ΟΝ e “ γ ΄ > κ « ’
οὐδ᾽ ἄρα οἱ Τρωων τις ἐτόλμα ἐγγὺς ἱκέσθαι
βλημένου, ἀλλ᾽ ἀπάνευθεν ἀφέστασαν, evte λέον-
τος
ἀγρόται ἐν ξυλόχοισι τεθηπότες, ὅν τε βάλῃσι
θηρητήρ, ὁ δ᾽ ap οὔτι πεπαρμένος ἧτορ ἄκοντι
λήθεται ἠνορέης, ἀλλὰ στρέφετ᾽ ἄγριον ὄμμα 145
/ A e \ / 4
σμερδαλέον βλοσυρῇσιν ὑπαὶ γενύεσσι βεβρυχως.
ὡς ἄρα Πηλείδαο χόλος καὶ Nolyov ἕλκος
θυμὸν ἄδην ὀρόθυνε: θεοῦ δέ μιν ἰὸς ἐδάμνα.
᾽ \ ἌΝ » Δ nig 4 ΄
ἀλλὰ καὶ ὡς ἀνόρουσε καὶ ἔνθορε δυσμενέεσσι
πάλλων ὄβριμον ἔγχος: ἕλεν δ᾽ ᾽Ορυθάονα δῖον, 150
"Extopos ἐσθλὸν ἑταῖρον, ἔσω! κροτάφοιο τυχή-
σας"
οὐ yap οἱ κόρυς ἔσχε μακρὸν δόρυ, μαιμώωντος"
’ \ > > a = A? 3 , wv os
ἀλλὰ δι’ αὐτῆς αἶψα καὶ ὀστέου ἔνδον ἵκανεν
ivas ἐς ἐγκεφάλοιο, κέδασσε ὃ δέ οἱ θαλερὸν κῆρ.
Ἱππόνοον δ᾽ ἐδάμασσε Kat ὀφρύος ἔγχος ἐρείσας 155
ἐς θέμεθλ᾽ ὀφθαλμοῖο: χαμαὶ δέ οἱ ἔκπεσε γλήνη
ἐκ βλεφάρων: ψυχὴ δὲ κατ᾽ “Ardos ἐξεποτηθη.
» / v3» \ a 5
Αλκαθόου δ᾽ ap ἔπειτα διὰ γναθμοῖο περησας
γλῶσσαν ὅλην ἀνέκερσεν' ὁ δ᾽ ἐς πέδον ἤριπε
’
γαίης
᾿ἐκπνείων, αἰχμὴ δὲ δι’ οὔατος ἐξεφαανθη. 160
καὶ τοὺς μὲν κατέπεφνε καταντίον ἀΐσσοντας
δῖος ἀνήρ' πολλῶν δὲ καὶ ἄλλων θυμὸν ἔλυσε
φευγόντων" ἔτι γάρ οἱ ἐνὶ φρεσὶν ἔζεεν αἷμα.
> 9 [Ἐπ e ΄ ΄ “oS , ,
Αλλ᾽ ὅτε οἱ ψύχοντο μέλη Kal ἀπήιε θυμός,
ἔστη ἐρεισάμενος μελίῃ ἔπι" τοὶ δ᾽ ἐπέτοντο 165
πανσυδίῃ τρομέοντες, ὁ δέ σφισι τοῖον ὁμόκλα"
1 Zimmermann, for ἀνὰ of MSS.
2 Ludwich, for καὶ μεμαῶτος of v.
3 Zimmermann, for κέασε of MSS.
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THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK III
Was none of all the Trojans dared draw nigh
The stricken hero, but at distance stood,
As round a wounded lion hunters stand
Mid forest-brakes afraid, and, though the shaft
Stands in his heart, yet faileth not in him
His royal courage, but with terrible glare
Roll his fierce eyes, and roar his grimly jaws ;
So wrath and anguish of his deadly hurt
To fury stung Peleides’ soul; but aye
His strength ebbed through the god-envenomed
wound.
Yet leapt he up, and rushed upon the foe,
And flashed the lightning of his lance; it slew
The goodly Orythaon, comrade stout
Of Hector, through his temples crashing clear :
His helm stayed not the long lance fury-sped
Which leapt therethrough, and won within the
bones
The heart of the brain, and spilt his lusty life.
Then stabbed he ‘neath the brow Hipponous
Even to the eye-roots, that the eyeball fell
To earth: his soul to Hades flitted forth.
Then through the jaw he pierced Alcathous,
And shore away his tongue: in dust he fell
Gasping his life gut, and the spear-head shot
Out through his ear. These, as they rushed on him,
That hero slew; but many a fleer’s life
He spilt, for in his heart still leapt the blood.
But when his limbs grew chill, and ebbed away
His spirit, leaning on his spear he stood,
While still the Trojans fled in huddled rout
Of panic, and he shouted unto them:
127
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
“ἃ δειλοὶ Τρῶες καὶ Δάρδανοι, οὐδὲ θανόντος
ἔγχος ἐμὸν φεύξεσθε ἀμείλιχον, ἀλλ᾽ ἅμα πάντες
τίσετ᾽ ἄρ᾽ αἰνὸν ὄλεθρον ᾿Εριννύσιν ἡμετέρῃσιν."
“Os φάτο: τοὶ δ᾽ ἀΐοντες ὑπέτρεσαν, εὗτ᾽ ἐν
ὄρεσσι 170
φθόγγον ἐριβρύχοιο νεβροὶ τρομέωσι λέοντος
δείλαιοι μέγα θῆρα πεφυζότες: ὡς ἄρα λαοὶ
Τρώων ἱπποπόλων ἠδ᾽ ἀλλοδαπῶν ἐπικούρων
ὑστατίην ᾿Αχιλῆος ὑποτρομέεσκον ὁμοκλήν,
ἐλπόμενοί μιν ἔτ᾽ ἔμμεν ἀνούτατον. ὃς δ᾽ ὑπὸ
πότμῳ 175
θυμὸν τολμήεντα καὶ ὄβριμα γυῖα βαρυνθεὶς
ἤριπεν ἀμφὶ νέκυσσιν ἀλίγκιος οὔρεϊ μακρῷ'
γαῖα δ᾽ ὑπεπλατάγησε,. καὶ ἄσπετον ἔβραχε τεύχη
Πηλείδαο πεσόντος ἀμύμονος. οἱ δ᾽ ἔτι θυμῷ
δήιοι εἰσορόωντες ἀπειρέσιον τρομέεσκον'᾽ 180
ὡς δ᾽ ὅτε θῆρα δαφοινὸν ὑ ὑπ᾽ αἰζηοῖσι δαμέντα
μῆλα περιτρομέουσι παρὰ σταθμὸν ἀθρήσαντα
βλήμενον, οὐδέ οἱ ἄγχι παρελθέμεναι μεμάασιν,
ἀλλά μὲν ὡς ζώοντα νέκυν περιπεφρίκασιν'
ὡς Τρῶες φοβέοντο. καὶ οὐκέτ᾽ ἐόντ᾽ ᾿Αχιλῆα. 185
᾿Αλλὰ καὶ ὡς ἐπέεσσι Πάρις μέγα θαρσύνεσκε
λαόν, ἐπεὶ φρεσὶν ἧσιν ἐγήθεεν: ἦ γὰρ ἐώλπει
᾿Αργείους παύσασθαι “ἀμαιμακέτοιο κυδοιμοῦ
Πηλείδαο πεσόντος" ὁ γὰρ Δαναοῖς πέλεν ἀλκή:
ὦ φίλοι, εἰ ἐτεόν μοι ἀρήγετε εὐμενέοντες, 190
σήμερον ἠὲ θάνωμεν ὑ ὑπ᾽ ᾿Αργείοισι δαμέντες,
ἠὲ σαωθέντες ποτὶ ἤλιον εἰρύσσωμεν
ἵπποις “Ἑκτορέοισι δεδουπότα Πηλείωνα,
οἵ μ᾽ ἐς δηιοτῆτα κασιγνήτοιο θανόντος
ἀχνύμενοι φορέουσιν ἑ ἑὸν ποθέοντες ἄνακτα: 195
τοῖς εἴ πως ἐρύσαιμεν ᾿Αχιλλέα δῃωθέντα,
ἵπποις μὲν μέγα κῦδος ὀρέξομεν ἠδὲ καὶ αὐτῷ
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THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK III
Trojan and Dardan cravens, ye shall not
Even in my death, escape my merciless spear,
But unto mine Avenging Spirits ye
Shall pay—ay, one and all—destruction’s debt!”
He spake ; they heard and quailed : as mid the hills
Fawns tremble at a lion’s deep-mouthed roar,
And terror-stricken flee the monster, so
The ranks of Trojan chariot-lords, the lines
Of battle-helpers drawn from alien lands,
Quailed at the last shout of Achilles, deemed
That he was woundless yet. But ’neath the weight
Of doom his aweless heart, his mighty limbs,
At last were overborne. Down midst the dead
He fell, as falls a beetling mountain-cliff.
Earth rang beneath him: clanged with a thunder-
crash
His arms, as Peleus’ son the princely fell.
And still his foes with most exceeding dread
Stared at him, even as, when some murderous beast
Lies slain by shepherds, tremble still the sheep
Eyeing him, as beside the fold he lies,
And shrinking, as they pass him, far aloof,
And, even as he were living, fear him dead ;
So feared they him, Achilles now no more.
Yet Paris strove to kindle those faint hearts};
For his own heart exulted, and he hoped,
Now Peleus’ son, the Danaans’ strength, had fallen,
Wholly to quench the Argive battle-fire :
“ Friends, if ye help me truly and loyally,
Let us this day die, slain by Argive men,
Or live, and hale to Troy with Hector’s steeds
In triumph Peleus’ son thus fallen dead,
The steeds that, grieving, yearning for thei» lord
To fight have borne me since my brother died.
Might we with these but hale Achilles slain,
Glory were this for Hector’s horses, yea,
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"Extopt, εἴ γέ tis ἐστι κατ᾽ "Αἴδος ἀνθρώποισιν
’ id \ if. “
ἢ νόος ἠὲ θέμιστες: ὁ γὰρ κακὰ μήσατο Τρῶας.
καί μιν Τρωιάδες μεγάλα φρεσὶ καγχαλόωσαι 200
ἀμφιπεριστήσονται ἀνὰ πτόλιν, HUTE λυγραὶ
/ / / ᾽Ν /
πορδάλιες τεκέων κεχοχωμέναι ἠὲ λέαιναι
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ἀνδρὶ πολυκμήτῳ μογερῆς ἐπιίστορι θήρης"
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ὡς Tpwai περὶ νεκρὸν ἀποκταμένου ᾿Αχιλῆος
ἀθρόαι ἀΐξουσιν ἀπειρέσιον κοτέουσαι, 205
αἱ μὲν ὑπὲρ τοκέων κεχολωμέναι, αἱ δὲ καὶ ἀνδρῶν,
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αἱ δ᾽ ap ὑπὲρ παίδων, αἱ δὲ γνωτῶν ἐριτίμων.
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ynOnoe δὲ μάλιστα πατὴρ ἐμὸς ἠδὲ γέροντες,
ὅσσους οὐκ ἐθέλοντας ἐν ἄστεϊ γῆρας ἐρύκει,
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τόνδ᾽ ἡμεῖς εἴπερ τε ποτὶ πτόλιν εἰρύσσαντες 210
θήσομεν οἰωνοῖσιν ἀερσιπέτῃσιν ἐδωδήν."
“Os φάτο" τοὶ δὲ νέκυν κρατερόφρονος Αἰακίδαο
v : 2 » “ / ΄
ἄμφεβαν ἐσσυμένως, οἵ μιν φοβέοντο πάροιθεν,
Γλαῦκός τ᾽ Αἰνείας τε καὶ ὀβριμόθυμος ᾿Αγήνωρ
ἄλλοι T οὐλομένοιο δαήμονες ἰωχμοῖο, 215
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εἰρύσσαι μεμαῶτες ἐς ᾽Ιλίου ἱερὸν ἄστυ.
ἀλλά οἱ οὐκ ἀμέλησε θεοῖς ἐναλίγκιος Αἴας,
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ὦθει ἀπὸ véxvos. τοὶ δ᾽ οὐκ ἀπέληγον ὁμοκλῆς,
ἀλλά οἱ ἀμφεμάχοντο περισταδὸν ἀΐσσοντες 220
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For Hector—if in Hades men have sense
Of righteous retribution. This man aye
Devised but mischief for the sons of Troy ;
And now Troy’s daughters with exultant hearts
From all the city streets shall gather round,
As pantheresses wroth for stolen cubs,
Or lionesses, might stand around a man
Whose craft in hunting vexed them while he lived.
So round Achilles—a dead corpse at last !—
In hurrying throngs Troy’s daughters then shall
come
In unforgiving, unforgetting hate,
For parents wroth, for husbands slain, for sons,
For noble kinsmen. Most of all shall joy
My father, and the ancient men, whose feet
Unwillingly are chained within the walls
By eld, if we shall hale him through our gates,
And give our foe to fowls of the air for meat.”
Then they, which feared him theretofore, in haste
Closed round the corpse of strong-heart Aeacus’ son,
Glaucus, Aeneas, battle-fain Agenor,
And other cunning men in deadly fight,
Eager to hale him thence to Ilium
The god-built burg. But Aias failed him not.
Swiftly that godlike man bestrode the dead :
Back from the corpse his long lance thrust them all.
Yet ceased they not from onslaught; thronging
round,
Still with swift rushes fought they for the prize,
One following other, like to long-lipped bees
Which hover round their hive in swarms on swarms
To drive aman thence ; but he, recking naught
Of all their fury, carveth out the combs
Of nectarous honey : harassed sore are they
By smoke-reek and the robber ; spite of all
Ever they dart against him; naught cares he;
131
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
ὡς Αἴας τῶν οὔτι μάλ᾽ ἐσσυμένων ἀλέγιξεν,
ἀλλ᾽ ἄρα πρῶτον ἐνήραθ᾽ ὑπὲρ μαζοῖο τυχήσας
Μαιονίδην ᾿Αγέλαον, ἐ ἔπειτα δὲ Θέστορα ὃῖον.
εἷλε δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ᾿᾽Ωκύθοον καὶ ᾿Αγέστρατον ἠδ᾽ ᾿Αγά-
aE 230
2 wpov te Νίσσον τε ᾿περικλειτόν τ᾽ ᾿Ερύμαντα,
ὃς “υκίηθεν ἵ, ἵκανεν ὑπὸ μεγαλήτορι Γλαύκῳ,
ναῖε δ᾽ ὅ γ᾽ αἰπεινὸν Μελανίππιον ἱρὸν ᾿Αθήνης
ἀντία Μασσικύτοιο Χελιδονίης σχεδὸν ἄ ἄκρης,
τὴν μέγ᾽ ὑποτρομέουσι τεθηπότες εἰν ἁλὶ ναῦται, 235
εὖτε περιγνάμπτωσι μάλα στυφελὰς περὶ πέτρας.
τοῦ δ᾽ ἄρ ᾿ ἀποφθιμένοιο κλυτὸς πάϊς Ἱππολόχοιο
πα νώθη κατὰ θυμόν, ἐ ἐπεί ῥά οἱ ἔσκεν ἑταῖρος"
καί ῥα θοῶς Αἴαντα κατ᾽ ἀσπίδα πουλυβόειαν
οὔτασεν, ἀλλά οἱ οὔτι διήλασεν ἐ ἐς χρόα καλόν: 240
ῥινοὶ γάρ μιν ἔρυντο βοῶν καὶ ὑπ᾽ ἀσπίδι θώρηξ,
ὅς ῥά οἱ ἀκαμάτοισι περὶ μελέεσσιν. ἀρήρει.
Γλαῦκος δ᾽ οὐκ ἀπέληγεν ἀταρτηροῖο κυδοιμοῦ
Αἰακίδην Αἴαντα δαμασσέμεναι μενεαίνων,
Kab οἱ ἐπευχόμενος μέγ᾽ ἀπείλεεν ἄφρονι θυμῷ: 245
“Αἷαν, ἐπεί νύ σέ φασι μέγ᾽ ἔξοχον ἔμμεναι
ἄλλων
᾿Αργείων, σοὶ δ᾽ αἰὲν ἐπιφρονέουσι μάλιστα
ἄσπετον, ὡς ᾿Αχιλῆι δαΐφρονι, τῷ σε θανόντι
οἴω συνθανέεσθαι ἐπ᾽ ἤματι τῷδε καὶ αὐτόν."
Ὡς ἔφατ᾽ ἀκράαντον iels ἔπος" οὐδέ τι ἤδη, 260
ὅσσον ἀμείνονος ἀνδρὸς ἐναντίον ἔγχος ἐνώμα.
τὸν δ᾽ ὑποδερκόμενος προσέφη μενεδήιος Αἴας"
“a@ δείλ᾽, οὔ νύ τι οἶδας, ὅσον σέο φέρτερος
“Ἕκτωρ
ἔπλετ᾽ ἐνὶ πτολέμοισι; μένος δ᾽ ἀλέεινε καὶ ἔγχος
ἡμέτερον. Tepe τὸν γὰρ ὁμῶς ἔχε κάρτεϊ θυμόν. 255
σοὶ δ᾽ ἤτοι νόος ἐστὶ ποτὶ ζόφον, ὃ ὅς ῥά μοι ἔτλης
ἐς μόθον ἐλθέμεναι μέγ᾽ ἀμείνονί περ γεγαῶτι"
132
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK II)
So naught of all their onsets Aias recked ;
But first he stabbed Agelaus in the breast,
And slew that son of Maion: Thestor next :
Ocythoiis he smote, Agestratus,
Aganippus, Zorus, Nessus, Erymas
The war-renowned, who came from Lycia-land
With mighty-hearted Glaucus, from his home
In Melanippion on the mountain-ridge,
Athena’s fane, which Massikyton fronts
Anigh Chelidonia’s headland, dreaded sore
Of scared seafarers, when its lowering crags
Must needs be doubled. For his death the blood
Of famed Hippolochus’ son was horror-chilled ;
For this was his dear friend. With one swift thrust
He pierced the sevenfold hides of Aias’ shield,
Yet touched his flesh not ; stayed the spear-head was
By those thick hides and by the corset-plate
Which lapped his battle-tireless limbs. But still
From that stern conflict Glaucus drew not back,
Burning to vanquish Aias, Aeacus’ son,
And in his folly vaunting threatened him:
« Aias, men name thee mightiest man of al]
The Argives, hold thee in passing-high esteem
Even as Achilles: therefore thou, I wot,
By that dead warrior dead this day shalt lie !”’
So hurled he forth a vain word, knowing not
How far in might above him was the man
Whom his spear threatened. Battle-bider Aias
Darkly and scornfully glaring on him, said:
“Thou craven wretch, and knowest thou not this,
How much was Hector mightier than thou
In war-craft ?>—yet before my might, my spear,
He shrank. Ay, with his valour was there blent
Discretion. Thou—thy thoughts are deathward set,
Who dar’st defy me to the battle, me,
A mightier far than thou! Thou canst not say
133
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
οὐ yap peu ξεῖνος TAT PWLOS εὔχεαι εἶναι,
οὐδέ με δωτίνῃσι παραιφάμενος πολέμοιο
νόσφιν ἀποστρέψεις ὡς Τυδέος ὄβριμον υἷα' 260
ἀλλὰ καὶ εἰ κείνοιο φύγες μένος, οὔ σ᾽ ἔτ᾽ ἔγωγε
ξωὸν a ἀπὸ πτολέμοιο μεθήσομαι ἀπονέεσθαι.
ἦ ἄλλοισι πέποιθας ἀ ἀνὰ κλόνον, οἱ μετὰ σεῖο
μυίης οὐτιδανῇσιν ἐ ἐοικότες ἀΐϊσσουσιν
ἀμφὶ νέκυν ᾿Αχιλῆος ἀμύμονος; ἄλλ᾽ ἄρα καὶ τοῖς 265
δώσω ἐπεσσύμενος θάνατον καὶ κῆρας ἐρεμνάς."
Ὡς εἰπὼν Τρώεσσιν ἐνεστρωφᾶτο, λέων ὡς
ἐν κυσὶν ἀγρευτῇσι κατ᾽ ἄγκεα μακρὰ καὶ ὕλην.
πολλοὺς δ᾽ aify ἐδάμασσε μεμαότας εὖχος
ἀρέσθαι
Τρῶας ὁμῶς Λυκίοισι" περιτρομέοντο δὲ λαοί, 210
ἰχθύες ὡς ἀνὰ πόντον ἐπερχομένου ἀλεγεινοῦ
κήτεος ἢ δελφῖνος ἁλυτρεφέος μεγάλοιο"
ὡς Τρῶες φοβέοντο βίην Τελαμωνιάδαο
αἰὲν ἐπεσσυμένοιο κατὰ κλόνον: ἀλλ᾽ ἄρα καὶ ὡς
μάρναντ᾽, ἀμφὶ δὲ νεκρὸν ᾿Αχιλλέος ἄλλοθεν ἄλλοι 275
μυρίοι ἐν κονίῃσιν, ὅπως σύες ἀμφὶ λέοντα,
κτείνοντ᾽" οὐλομένη δὲ περὶ σφίσι δῆρις ὀρώρει.
ἔνθα καὶ Ἱππολόχοιο δαΐφρονα δάμνατο παῖδα
Αἴας ὀβριμόθυμος" ὁ δ᾽ ὕπτιος ἀμφ᾽ ᾿Αχιλῆα
κάππεσεν, εὖτ᾽ ἐν ὄρεσσι περὶ στερεὴν δρύα
θάμνος" 280
ὃς ὅ γε δουρὶ δαμεὶς περικάππεσε Πηλείωνι
βλήμενος. ἀμφὶ δέ οἱ κρατερὸς πάϊς ᾿Αγχίσαο
πολλὰ πονησάμενος σὺν ἀρηιφίλοις ἑτάροισιν
εἴρυσεν ἐς Τρῶας, καὶ ἐς Ἰλίου ἑ ἱερὸν ἄστυ
δῶκε φέρειν ἑτάροισι μέγ᾽ ἀχνυμένοις περὶ θυμῷ. 285
αὐτὸς δ᾽ ἀμφ᾽ ᾿Αχιλῆι μαχέσκετο' τὸν δ᾽ ἄρα δουρὶ
μυῶνος καθύπερθεν ἀ ἀρήιος οὔτασεν Αἴας
χειρὸς δεξιτερῆς" ὁ δ᾽ ἄρ’ ἐσσυμένως ἀπόρουσεν
ἐξ ὀλοοῦ πολέμοιο, κίεν δ᾽ ἄφαρ ἄστεος εἴσω"
134
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK III
That friendship of our fathers thee shall screen;
Nor me thy gifts shall wile to let thee pass
Scatheless from war, as once did Tydeus’ son.
Though thou didst ’scape his fury, will not I
Suffer thee to return alive from war.
Ha, in thy many helpers dost thou trust
Who with thee, like so many worthless flies,
Flit round the noble Achilles’ corpse? ‘To these
Death and black doom shall my swift onset deal.”
Then on the Trojans this way and that he turned,
As mid long forest-glens a lion turns
On hounds, and ‘lrojans many and Lycians slew
That came for honour hungry, till he stood
Mid a wide ring of flinchers ; like a shoal
Of darting fish when sails into their midst
Dolphin or shark, a huge sea-fosterling ;
So shrank they from the might of Telamon’s son,
As aye he charged amidst the rout. But still
Swarmed fighters up, till round Achilles’ corse
To right, to left, lay in the dust the slain
Countless, as boars around a lion at bay ;
And evermore the strife waxed deadlier.
Then too Hippolochus’ war-wise son was slain
By Aias of the heart of fire. He fell
Backward upon Achilles, even as falls
A sapling on a sturdy mountain-oak ;
So quelled by the spear on Peleus’ son he fell.
But for his rescue Anchises’ stalwart son
Strove hard, with all his comrades battle-fain,
And haled the corse forth, and to sorrowing friends
Gave it, to bear to Ilium’s hallowed burg.
Himself to spoil Achilles still fought on,
Till warrior Aias pierced him with the spear
Through the right forearm. Swiftly leapt he back
From murderous war, and hasted thence to Troy.
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QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
ἀμφὶ δέ οἱ πονέοντο περίφρονες ἰητῆρες, 290
ne SF e 4. 4 > 3 y ,
of ῥά ot αἷμα κάθηραν ad ἕλκεος, ἄλλα τε πάντα
τεῦχον, ὅσ᾽ οὐταμένων ὀλοὰς ἀκέονται ἀνίας.
Αἴας δ᾽ αἰὲν ἐμάρνατ᾽ ἀλύίγκιος ἀστεροπῆσι
, Μ Μ > \ ’ ’ ‘ A
κτείνων ἄλλοθεν ἄλλον, ἐπεὶ μέγα τείρετο θυμῷ
> ΄ f » » A ͵ : a
ἀχνύμενος κέαρ ἔνδον ἀνεψιοῖο δαμέντος. 295
wv \ / fh eX by /
ἄγχι δὲ Λαέρταο δαΐφρονος vids ἀμύμων
΄ / / ts / ,
papvato δυσμενέεσσι: φέβοντο δέ μιν μέγα λαοί.
κτεῖνε δὲ Πεισάνδροιο θοὸν καὶ ἀρήϊον υἷα
Μαίναλον, ὃς ναίεσκε περικλυτὸν οὖδας ᾿Αβύδου"
τῷ δ᾽ ἔπι δῖον ἔπεφνεν ᾿Ατύμνιον, ὅν ποτε Νύμφη 300
\ > Sf. “ / > /
Πηγασὶς ἠὔκομος σθεναρῷ τέκεν Ἡμαθίωνι
»-“" « > a
Τρηνίκου ποταμοῖο παρὰ ῥόον ἀμφὶ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ αὐτῷ
Πρωτέος υἷα δάϊξεν ᾽Ορέσβιον, ὅς τε μακεδνῆς
Ἴδης ναιετάασκεν ὑπὸ πτύχας, οὐδέ ἑ μήτηρ
δέξατο νοστήσαντα περικλειτὴ Πανάκεια, 305
ἀλλ᾽ ἐδάμη παλάμῃσιν 'Odvacéos, ὅς Te καὶ ἄλλων
πολλῶν θυμὸν ἔλυσεν ὑπ᾽ ἔγχεϊ μαιμώωντι
κτείνων ὅν κε κίχησι περὶ νέκυν. ἀλλά μιν
“AXKov
υἱὸς ἀρηϊθόοιο Μεγακλέος ἔ ἔγχεϊ τύψε
πὰρ γόνυ δεξιτερόν' περὶ δὲ κνημῖδα φαεινὴν 310
ἔβλυσεν αἷμα. κελαινόν' ὁ δ᾽ ἕλκεος οὐκ ἀλέγιξεν,
ἀλλ᾽’ ἄφαρ οὐτήσαντι κακὸν γένεθ᾽, οὕνεκ᾽ ap’
αὐτὸν
es / a ».F ’ὔ Μ /
ἱέμενον πολέμοιο δι ἀσπίδος οὔτασε δουρί:
ὧσε δέ μιν μεγάλῃ τε Bin καὶ κάρτεϊ χειρὸς
ὕπτιον ἐς γαῖαν" κανάχησε δέ οἱ πέρι τεύχη 315
βλημένου ἐν κονίησι, περὶ μελέεσσι δὲ θώρηξ
δεύετο φοινήεντι λύθρῳ. ὁ δὲ λοίγιον ἔγχος
ἐκ χροὸς ἐξείρυσσε καὶ ἀσπίδος, ἕσπετο δ᾽ αἰχμῇ
θυμὸς ἀπὸ μελέων, ἔλιπεν δέ μιν ἄμβροτος αἰών.
136
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK III
There for his healing cunning leeches wrought,
Who stanched the blood-rush, and laid on the gash
Balms, such as salve war-stricken warriors’ pangs.
But Aias still fought on: here, there he slew
With thrusts like lightning-flashes. His great heart
Ached sorely for his mighty cousin slain.
And now the warrior-king Laertes’ son
Fought at his side: before him blenched the foe,
As he smote down Peisander’s fleetfoot son,
The warrior Maenalus, who left his home
In far-renowned Abydos: down on him
He hurled Atymnius, the goodly son
Whom Pegasis the bright-haired Nymph had borne
To strong Emathion by Granicus’ stream.
Dead by his side he laid Orestius’ son,
Proteus, who dwelt ’neath lofty Ida’s folds.
Ah, never did his mother welcome home
That son from war, Panaceia beauty-famed !
He fell by Odysseus’ hands, who spilt the lives
Of many more whom his death-hungering spear
Reached in that fight around the mighty dead.
Yet Alcon, son of Megacles battle-swift,
Hard by Odysseus’ right knee drave the spear
Home, and about the glittering greave the blood
Dark-crimsom welled. He recked not of the wound,
But was unto his smiter sudden death ;
For clear through his shield he stabbed him with his
spear
Amidst his battle-fury: to the earth
Backward he dashed him by his giant might
And strength of hand: clashed round him in the dust
His armour, and his corslet was distained
With crimson life-blood. Forth from flesh and shield
The hero plucked the spear of death: the soul
Followed the lance-head from the body forth,
And life forsook its mortal mansion, Then
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
τοῦ δ᾽ ἑτάροις ἐπόρουσε καὶ οὐτάμενός περ ᾽Οδυσ-
σεύς, 820
οὐδ᾽ ἀπέληγε μόθοιο δυσηχέος. ὡς δὲ καὶ ἄλλοι
πάντες ὁμῶς ἐπιμὶξ Δαναοὶ μέγαν ἀμφ᾽ ᾿Αχιλῆα
προφρονέως ἐμάχοντο, πολὺν δ᾽ ὑπὸ χείρεσι λαὸν
ἐσσυμένως ἐδάϊζον ἐὐξέστῃς μελίῃσιν.
εὖτ᾽ ἄνεμοι θοὰ φύλλα κατὰ χθονὸς ἀμφιχέωνται 325
λάβρον ἐπιβρίσαντες av’ ἄλσεα ὑλήεντα
ἀρχομένου λυκάβαντος, ὅτε φθινύθουσιν ὀπῶραι"
ὡς τοὺς ἐγχείῃσι βάλον Δαναοὶ μενεχάρμαι:
μέμβλετο γὰρ πάντεσσιν ᾿Αχιλλέος ἀμφὶ θανόντος,
ἐκπάγλως δ᾽ Αἴαντι δαΐφρονι" τοὔνεκ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἔμπης 380
Τρῶας ἄδην ἐδάϊξε κακῇ ἐναλίγκιος Αἴσῃ.
τῷ δ᾽ ἔπι TOE ἐτίταινε Πάρις: τὸν δ᾽ αἶψα νοήσας
κάββαλε χερμαδίῳ κατὰ κράατος" ἐν δ᾽ ap
ἔθλασσεν
ἀμφίφαλον κυνέην ὀλοὸς λίθος: ἀμφὶ δέ μεν νὺξ
μάρψεν. ὁ δ᾽ ἐν κονίῃσι κατήριπεν, οὐδέ οἱ ἰοὶ 330
ἤρκεσαν ἱεμένῳ" ἐκέχυντο δ᾽ ap ἄλλυδις ἄλλοι
ἐν Kovin, Keven δὲ παρεκτετάνυστο φαρέτρη"
τόξον δ᾽ ἔκφυγε χεῖρε. φίλοι δέ μὲν ἁρπάξαντες
ἵπποις ᾿Ἑκτορέοισι φέρον ποτὶ Τρώιον ἄστυ
βαιὸν ἐ eT ἀμπνείοντα καὶ ἀργαλέον στενάχοντα" 840
οὐδὲ μὲν ἔντε᾽ ἄνακτος ἑκὰς λίπον, ἀλλὰ καὶ αὐτὰ
ἐκ πεδίοιο κόμισσαν. E@ βασιλῆι φέροντες.
τῷ δ᾽ Αἴας ἐπὶ μακρὸν ἀὕτεεν ἀσχαλόων κῆρ᾽
“© ὦ κύον, ὡς θανάτοιο βαρὺ σθένος ἐξυπάλυξας
σήμερον" ἀλλὰ σοὶ εἶθαρ ἐλεύσεται ὕστατον nmap 345
ἣν τινος ᾿Αργείων ὑπὸ χείρεσιν ἢ ἐμεῦ αὐτοῦ.
νῦν δ᾽ ἐμοὶ ἄλλα μέμηλε περὶ φρεσίν, ὡς ᾿Αχιλῆος
ἐκ φόνου ἀργαλέοιο νέκυν Δαναοῖσι σαώσω.
Ὡς εἰπὼν δηΐοισι κακὰς ἐπὶ κῆρας ἴαλλεν,
οἵ ῥ᾽ ἔτι δηριόωντο νέκυν πέρι Πηλείωνος. 350
138
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK III
Rushed on his comrades, in his wound’s despite,
Odysseus, nor from that stern battle-toil
Refrained him. And by this a mingled host
Of Danaans eager-hearted fought around
The mighty dead, and many and many a foe
Slew they with those smooth-shafted ashen spears.
Even as the winds strew down upon the ground
The flying leaves, when through the forest-glades
Sweep the wild gusts, as waneth autumn-tide,
And the old year is dying; so the spears
Of dauntless Danaans strewed the earth with slain,
For loyal to dead Achilles were they all,
And loyal to hero Aias to the death.
For like black Doom he blasted the ranks of Troy.
Then against Aias Paris strained his bow ;
But he was ware thereof, and sped a stone
Swift to the archer’s head: that bolt of death
Crashed through his crested helm, and darkness closed
Round him. In dust down fell he: naught availed
His shafts their eager lord, this way and that
Scattered in dust: empty his quiver lay,
Flew from his hand the bow. In haste his friends
Upcaught him from the earth, and Hector’s steeds
Hurried him thence to Troy, searce drawing breath,
And moaning in his pain. Nor left his men
The weapons of their lord, but gathered up
All from the plain, and bare them to the prince ;
While Aias after him sent a wrathful shout :
“‘ Dog, thou hast ’scaped the heavy hand of death
To-day! But swiftly thy last hour shall come
By some strong Argive’s hands, or by mine own,
But now have I a nobler task in hand,
From murder’s grip to rescue Achilles’ corse.”
Then turned he on the foe, hurling swift doom
On such as fought around Peleides yet.
139
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
ot δε οἱ ὡς ἄθρησαν ὑπὸ σθεναρῇσι έρεσσι
πολλοὺς ἐκπνείοντας, ὑπέτρεσαν οὐδ᾽ ἔτ᾽ ἔμιμνον,
οὐτιδανοῖς γύπεσσιν ἐοικότες, οὕς τε φοβήσῃ
αἰετὸς οἰωνῶν προφερέστατος, εὖτ᾽ ἐν ὄρεσσι
πώεα δαρδάπτωσι λύκοις ὕπο δηωθέντα" 355
ὡς τοὺς ἄλλυδις ἄλλον ἀπεσκέδασε θρασὺς Αἴας
χερμαδίοισι θοοῖσι καὶ ἄορι καὶ μένεϊ ᾧ.
οἱ δὲ μέγα τρομέοντες ἀπὸ πτολέμοιο φέβοντο
πανσυδίῃ, ψήρεσσιν ἐοικότες, οὕς τε δαΐξων
κίρκος ἐπισσεύει, τοὶ δ᾽ ἰλαδὸν ἄλλος ἐ ἐπ᾿ ἄλλῳ 860
ταρφέες ἀΐσσουσιν ἀλευόμενοι μέγα πῆμα.
ὡς οἵ γ᾽ ἐκ πολέμοιο ποτὶ Πριάμοιο πόληα
φεῦγον ὀϊξυρῶς ἐ ἐπιειμένοι ἀκλέα φύξαν
Αἴαντος μεγάλοιο περιτρομέοντες ὁμοκλήν,
ὅς p emer avd pope πεπαλαγμένος αἵματι χεῖρας. 365
καί. νύ κε δὴ μάλα πάντας ἐπασσυτέρους ἀπό-
λεσσεν,
εἰ μὴ πεπταμένῃσι πύλῃς ἐσέχυντο πόληα
βαιὸν a ἀναπνείοντες, ἐπεὶ φόβος ἢ ἦτορ ἵκανε"
τοὺς δ᾽ ἔλσας ἀνὰ ἄστυ, νομεὺς ὡς αἰόλα μῆλα,
ἤϊεν ἐς πεδίον, χθόνα δ᾽ οὐ ποσὶ μάρπτεν ἑοῖσιν 370
ἐμβαίνων τεύχεσσι καὶ αἵματι καὶ “κταμένοισι"
κεῖτο γὰρ εὐρὺς ὅμιλος ἀπει ἐσίῃ ἐπὶ γαίῃ
ἄχρις ἐφ᾽ Ἑλλήσποντον ἀ ἀπ εὐρυχόροιο πόληος
αἰζηῶν κταμένων, ὁπόσους λάχε δαίμονος Αἶσα.
ὡς δ᾽ ὅτε “λήιον. αὖον ὑπ᾽ ἀμητῆρσι πέσῃσι 375
πυκνὸν. ἐόν, τὰ δὲ πολλὰ καταυτόθιε δράγματα
κεῖται
βριθόμενα σταχύεσσι, γέγηθε δὲ θυμὸς ἐ ἐπ᾽ ἔργῳ
ἀνέρος εἰσορόωντος, ὅτις κλυτὸν οὖδας ἔχῃησιν'
ὡς οἵ γ᾽ ἀμφοτέρωθε κακῷ δμηθέντες ὀλέθρῳ
κεῖντο πολυκλαύτοιο λελασμένοι ἰωχμοῖο 380
πρηνέες" οὐδέ σι Τρῶας ᾿Αχαιῶν φέρτατοι υἷες
σύλεον ἐν κονίησε καὶ αἵματι δῃωθέντας,
140
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK IIl
‘These saw how many yielded up the ghost
Neath his strong hands, and, with hearts failing them
For fear, against him could they stand no more.
As rascal vultures were they, which the swoop
Of an eagle, king of birds, scares far away
From carcases of sheep that wolves have torn ;
So this way, that way scattered they before
The hurtling stones, the sword, the might of Aias.
In utter panic from the war they fled,
In huddled rout, like starlings from the swoop
Of a death-dealing hawk, when, fleeing bane,
One drives against another, as they dart
All terror-huddled in tumultuous flight.
So from the war to Priam’s burg they fled
Wretchedly clad with terror as a cloak,
Quailing from mighty Aias’ battle-shout,
As with hands dripping blood-gouts he pursued.
Yea, all, one after other, had he slain,
Had they not streamed through city-gates flung wide
Hard-panting, pierced to the very heart with fear.
Pent therewithin he left them, as a shepherd
Leaves folded sheep, and strode back o’er the plain ;
Yet never touched he with his feet the ground,
But aye he trod on dead men, arms, and blood ;
For countless corpses lay o’er that wide stretch
Even from broad-wayed Troy to Hellespont,
Bodies of strong men slain, the spoil of Doom.
As when the dense stalks of sun-ripened corn
Fall ’neath the reapers’ hands, and the long swaths,
Heavy with full ears, overspread the field,
And joys the heart of him who oversees
The toil, lord of the harvest; even so,
By baleful havoc overmastered, lay
All round face-downward men remembering not
The death-denouncing war-shout. But the sons
Of fair Achaea left their slaughtered foes
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\ / = A / Ὁ Μ
πρὶν ἸΠηλήιον υἷα πυρῇ δόμεν, ὅς σφιν ὄνειαρ
¥ mer as Ss / ta / ΄ - /
ἔπλετ᾽ ἐνὶ πτολέμοισιν ἑῷ μέγα κάρτεϊ θύων.
» ΄ A 58 ey , ate Ἂ
τοὔνεκά μιν βασιλῆες ἀπὸ πτολέμου ἐρύσαντες 385
᾽ \ , 7, » 7, Φ \ ,
ἀμφὶ νέκυν πονέοντο ἀπείριτον, εὖ δὲ φέροντες
κάτθεσαν ἐν κλισίῃσι νεῶν προπάροιθε θοάων'"
> Ν , / / ? , 7
ἀμφὶ δέ μιν μάλα πάντες ἀγειράμενοι στενάχοντο
ἀχνύμενοι κατὰ θυμόν ὃ γὰρ πέλε κάρτος
᾿Αχαιῶν,
/
καὶ TOT ἐνὶ κλισίῃσι λελασμένος ἐγχειάων 890
~ 7 > 7 2 « ,
κεῖτο βαρυγδούποιο Tap ἠόσιν Ἑλλησπόντου,
οἷος ὑπερφίαλος Titvds πέσεν, ὁππότε Λητὼ
ἐρχομένην ἸΤυθώδε βιάξετο, καί ἑ χολωθεὶς
> / / 37 Lal e / > ty ’
ἀκάματόν περ ἐόντα θοῶς ὑπεδάμνατ᾽ ᾿Απόλλων
lal / e ἣν ΠΝ / > / =
λαιψηροῖς βελέεσσιν, ὁ δ᾽ ἀργαλέῳ ἐνὶ λύθρῳΡῳ 895
, Μ) \ \ > /
πουλυπέλεθρος ἔκειτο κατὰ χθονὸς εὐρυπέδοιο
μητρὸς ἑῆς" ἡ δ᾽ υἷα περιστονάχησε πεσόντα
Σ ΄ I \ , ᾿Ξ
ἐχθόμενον μακάρεσσι, γέλασσε δὲ πότνια Λητώ
a Μ᾽ » / af > 4 ’
τοῖος ἄρ᾽ Αἰακίδης δηΐων ἐπικάππεσε yain
χάρμα φέρων Τρώεσσι, γόον δ᾽ ἀλίαστον ᾿Αχαιῶν 400
a > / / |
λαῷ μυρομένων" περὶ δ᾽ ἔβρεμε βένθεα πόντου.
X 3 > / a / / Μ
θυμὸς δ᾽ αὐτίκα πᾶσι κατεκλάσθη φίλος ἔνδον
, \ A e X ΄ > /
ἐλπομένων κατὰ δῆριν ὑπὸ Τρώεσσιν ὀλέσθαι"
, 3 “) ’, \ \
μνησάμενοι δ᾽ ἄρα τοί ye φίλων παρὰ νηυσὶ
τοκήων,
\ , > ᾽ὔὕ / ~
TOUS λίπον ἐν μεγάροισι, νεοδμήτων τε γυναικῶν, 405
ai που ὀδυρόμεναι μίνυθον κενεοῖς λεχέεσσι
/ \ \ , ’, ΝΜ) ὃ
νηπιάχοις σὺν παισὶ φίλους ποτιδέγμεναι ἄνδρας,
- > ΄, - , ὟΥ Μ Ae
μᾶλλον ἀνεστενάχοντο᾽" yoou δ᾽ ἔρος ἔμπεσε θυμῷ
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In dust and blood unstripped of arms awhile
Till they should lay upon the pyre the son
Of Peleus, who in battle-shock had been
Their banner of victory, charging in his might.
So the kings drew him from that stricken field
Straining beneath the weight of giant limbs,
And with all loving care they bore him on,
And laid him in his tent before the ships.
And round him gathered that great host, and wailed
Heart-anguished him who had been the Achaeans
strength,
And now, forgotten all the splendour of spears,
Lay mid the tents by moaning Hellespont,
In stature more than human, even as lay
Tityos, who sought to force Queen Leto, when
She fared to Pytho: swiftly in his wrath
Apollo shot, and laid him low, who seemed
Invincible: in a foul lake of gore
There lay he, covering many a rood of ground,
On the broad earth, his mother; and she moaned
Over her son, of blesséd Gods abhorred ;
But Lady Leto laughed. So grand of mould
There in the foemen’s land lay Aeacus’ son,
For joy to Trojans, but for endless grief
To Achaean men lamenting. Moaned the air
With sighing from the abysses of the sea ;
And passing heavy grew the hearts of all,
Thinking: “ Now shall we perish by the hands
Of Trojans!” Then by those dark ships they
thought
Of white-haired fathers left in halls afar,
Of wives new-wedded, who by couches cold
Mourned, waiting, waiting, with their tender babes
For husbands unreturning; and they groaned
In bitterness of soul. A passion of grief
Came o’er their hearts; they fell upon their faces
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κλαῖον δ᾽ αὖτ᾽ ἀλίαστον ἐπὶ ψαμάθοισι βαθείης
πρηνέες ἐκχύμενοι μεγάλῳ περὶ ἸΠηλείωνι 410
χαίτας ἐκ κεφαλῆς προθελύμνους δηϊόωντες,
χευάμενοι δ᾽ ἤσχυναν ἄδην ψαμάθοισι κάρηνα.
οἵη δ᾽ ἐκ πολέμοιο βροτῶν ἐς τεῖχος ἀλέντων
οἰμωγὴ πέλεται, ὅτε δήϊοι ἐμμεμαῶτες
καίωσιν μέγα ἄστυ, κατακτείνωσι δὲ λαοὺς 415
πανσυδίῃ, πάντῃ δὲ διὰ κτῆσιν φορέωνται"
τοίη τίς παρὰ νηυσὶν ᾿Αχαιῶν ἔπλετ᾽ ἀὐτή,
οὕνεκ᾽ ἀοσσητὴρ͵ Δαναῶν πάϊς Αἰακίδαο
κεῖτο μέγας παρὰ νηυσὶ θεοκμήτοισι βελέμνοις,
οἷος “Apns, ὅτε μιν δεινὴ θεὸς ὀβριμοπάτρη 420
Τρώων ἐν πεδίῳ πολυαχθέϊ κάββαλε πέτρῃ.
“Μυρμιδόνες δ᾽ ἄλληκτον ἀνεστενάχοντ᾽ ᾿Αχιλῆα
εἰλόμενοι περὶ νεκρὸν ἀμύμονος οἷο ἄνακτος"
ἠπίου, ὃς πάντεσσιν ἴσος πάρος ἦεν ἑταῖρος"
οὐ γὰρ ὑπερφίαλος πέλεν ἀνδράσιν οὐδ᾽ ὀλοόύφρων, 425
ἀλλὰ σαοφροσύνῃ καὶ κάρτεϊ πάντ᾽ ἐκέκαστο.
Αἴας δ᾽ ἐν πρώτοισι μέγα στενάχων ἐγεγώνει
πατροκασιγνήτοιο φίλον ποθέων ἅμα παῖδα,
βλήμενον ἐκ θεόφιν᾽ θνητῶν γε μὲν οὔτινι βλητὸς
ἦεν, ὅσοι ναίουσιν ἐπὶ χθονὸς εὐρυπέδοιο. 430
TOV TOTE κῆρ ἀχέων ὀλοφύρετο φαίδιμος Αἴας,
ἄλλοτε μὲν κλισίας Πηληιάδαο δαμέντος
ἐσφοιτῶν, ὁτὲ δ᾽ αὖτε παρὰ ψαμάθοισι θαλάσσης
ἐκχύμενος μάλα πουλύς, ἔπος δ᾽ ὀλοφύρατο τοῖον"
ὦ ᾿Αχιλεῦ μέγα ἕρκος ἐὐσθενέων ᾿Αργείων, 435
i sel ἐν Τροίῃ Φθίης ἑκὰς εὐρυπέδοιο
ἔκποθεν ἀπροφάτοιο λυγρῷ βεβλημένος ἰῷ,
τόν pa ποτὶ κλόνον ἄνδρες ἀνάλκιδες ἰθύνουσιν'
οὐ γάρ τις πίσυνός γε σάκος μέγα νωμήσασθαι
ἠδὲ περὶ κροτάφοισιν ἐπισταμένως ἐ ἐς "Apna 440
εὖ θέσθαι πήληκα καὶ ἐν παλάμῃ δόρυ πῆλαι
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THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK III
On the deep sand flung down, and wept as men
All comfortless round Peleus’ mighty son,
And clutched and plucked out by the roots their
hair,
And cast upon their heads defiling sand.
Their cry was like the cry that goeth up
From folk that after battle by their walls
Are slaughtered, when their maddened foes set fire
To a great city, and slay in heaps on heaps
Her people, and make spoil of all her wealth;
So wild and high they wailed beside the sea,
Because the Danaans’ champion, Aeacus’ son,
Lay, grand in death, by a God’s arrow slain,
As Ares lay, when She of the Mighty Father
With that huge stone down dashed him on Troy’s
plain.
Ceaselessly wailed the Myrmidons Achilles,
A ring of mourners round the kingly dead,
That kind heart, friend alike to each and all,
To no man arrogant nor hard of mood,
But ever tempering strength with courtesy.
Then Aias first, deep-groaning, uttered forth
His yearning o’er his father’s brother's son
God-stricken—ay, no man had smitten him
Of all upon the wide-wayed earth that dwell!
Him glorious Aias heavy-hearted mourned,
Now wandering to the tent of Peleus’ son,
Now cast down all his length, a giant form,
On the sea-sands; and thus lamented he:
“ Achilles, shield and sword of Argive men,
Thou hast died in Troy, from Phthia’s plains afar,
Smitten unwares by that accursed shaft,
Such thing as weakling dastards aim in fight!
For none who trusts in wielding the great shield,
None who for war can skill to set the helm
Upon his brows, and sway the spear in grip,
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\ \ /. / “
καὶ χαλκὸν δηΐοισι περὶ στέρνοισι δαΐξαι
ἰοῖσίν γ᾽ ἀπάνευθεν ἀπεσσύμενος πολεμίζει"1}
> / J. PD eM, ro ee 3 3Λ
εἰ yap σευ κατέναντα TOT ἤλυθε;;, ὅς σ᾽ ἔβαλέν
περ,
οὐκ ἂν ἀνουτητί γε τεοῦ φύγεν ἔ ἔγχεος ὁρμήν. 445
ἀλλὰ Ζεὺς τάχα που τάδε μήδετο πάντ᾽ ἀπο-
λέσσαι,
ἡμέων δ᾽ ἐν καμάτοισιν ἐτώσια ἔργα τίθησιν'
ἤδη γὰρ Τρώεσσι κατ᾽ ᾿Αργείων τάχα νίκην
νεύσει, ἐπεὶ τόσσον περ ᾿Αχαιῶν ἕ ἕρκος ἀπηύρα.
ὦ πόποι, ὡς ἄρα πάγχυ γέρων ἐν δώμασι Πηλεὺς 450
ὀχθήσει μέγα πένθος ἀτερπέϊ γήραϊ κύρσας"
αὐτὴ μὲν φήμη μιν ἀπορραίσει τάχα θυμόν"
ὧδε δέ οἱ καὶ ἄμεινον ὀϊζύος αἶψα λαθέσθαι"
εἰ δέ κεν οὐ φθίσῃ ἑ κακὴ περὶ υἱέος ὄσσα,
ὦ δειλὸς χαλεποῖς ἐνὶ πένθεσι γῆρας ἰάψει 455
αἰὲν ἐπ᾽ ἐσχαρόφιν βίοτον κατέδων ὀδύνῃσι,
Πηλεύς, ὃς μακάρεσσι φίλος περιώσιον rev"
ἀλλ᾽ οὐ πάντα τελοῦσι θεοὶ μογεροῖσι βροτοῖσιν."
“Os ὁ μὲν ἀσχαλόων ὀλοφύρετο Πηλείωνα.
Φοῖνιξ δ᾽ αὖθ᾽ ὁ γεραιὸς ἀάσπετα κωκύεσκεν 460
ἀμφιχυθεὶς δέμας ἠὺ θρασύφρονος Αἰακίδαο"
καί ῥ ᾿ὀλοφυδνὸν a ἄῦσε μέγ᾽ ἀχνύμενος πινυτὸν Kip"
“@heo μοι, φίλε τέκνον, ἐμοὶ δ᾽ ἄχος αἰὲν
ἄφυκτον
κάλλιπες" ὡς ὄφελόν με χυτὴ κατὰ γαῖα κεκεύθει
πρὶν σέο πότμον ἰδέσθαι ἁμείλιχον" οὐ γὰρ ἔμοιγε 465
ἄλλο “ερειότερον. ποτ᾽ ἐσήλυθεν ἐ ἐς φρένα πῆμα,
οὐδ᾽ ὅτε πατρίδ᾽ ἐμὴν λιπόμην ἀγανούς τε τοκῆας
φεύγων ἐς Πηλῆα bv “Ἑλλάδος, ὅς μ᾽ ὑπέδεκτο,
καί μοι δῶρα πόρεν, Δολόπεσσι δὲ θῆκεν ἀνάσσειν
καὶ σέ γ᾽ ἐν ἀγκοίνησι φορεύμενος ἀμφὶ μέλαθρον 470
1 Zimmermann, for ἐπεσσύμενος πολεμίζειν of MSS.
2 Zimmermann, for αὐτῇ σὺν φήμῃ, With lacuna, of Koechly.
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And cleave the brass about the breasts of foes,
Warreth with arrows, shrinking from the tray.
Not man to man he met thee, whoso smote ;
Else woundless never had he ’scaped thy lance !
But haply Zeus purposed to ruin all,
And maketh all our toil and travail vain—
Ay, now will grant the Trojans victory
Who from Achaea now hath reft her shield!
Ah me! how shall old Peleus in his halls
Take up the burden of a mighty grief
Now in his joyless age! His heart shall break
At the mere rumour of it. Better so,
Thus in a moment to forget all pain.
But if these evil tidings slay him not,
Ah, laden with sore sorrow eld shall come
Upon him, eating out his heart with grief
By a lone hearth—Peleus so passing dear
Once to the Blesséd! But the Gods vouchsate
No perfect happiness to hapless men.”
So he in grief lamented Peleus’ son.
‘Then ancient Phoenix made heart-stricken moan,
Clasping the noble form of Aeacus’ seed,
And in wild anguish wailed the wise of heart :
“Thou art reft from me, dear child, and cureless
pain
Hast left to me! Oh that upon my face
The veiling earth had fallen, ere I saw
Thy bitter doom! No pang more terrible
Hath ever stabbed mine heart—no, not that hour
Of exile, when I fled from fatherland
And noble parents, fleeing Hellas through,
Till Peleus welcomed me with gifts, and lord
Of his Dolopians made me. ἴῃ his arms
Thee through his halls one day he bare, and set
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
κόλπῳ ἐμῷ κατέθηκε Kal ἐνδυκέως ἐπέτελλε
νηπίαχον κομέειν, ὡσεὶ φίλον. υἷα γεγῶτα"
τῷ πιθόμην" σὺ δ᾽ ἐμοῖσι περὶ στέρνοισι γεγηθὼς
πολλάκι παππάξεσκες ἔ ἔτ᾽ “ἄκριτα χείλεσι βάζων,
καί μευ νηπιέῃσιν ἄδην ἐ ἐνὶ σῆσι δίηνας 475
στήθεά τ᾽ ἠδὲ χιτῶνας" ἔχον δέ σε χερσὶν ἐμῇσι
πολλὸν καγχαλόων, ἐπεὶ ἢ i νύ μοι ἦτορ ἐώλπει
θρέψειν κηδεμονῆα βίου καὶ γήραος. ἄλκαρ.
καὶ τὰ μὲν ἐλπομένῳ βαιὸν χρόνον ἔπλετο πάντα.
νῦν δὲ avy’ οἴχῃ ἄϊστος ὑπὸ ζόφον: ἀμφὶ δ᾽ ἐμὸν
κῆρ 480
ἄχνυτ᾽ ὀϊξυρῶς, ἐ ἐπεὶ ἢ νύ με κῆδος} ἰάπτει
λευγαλέον' τὸ καὶ εἴθε καταφθίσειε γοῶντα
πρὶν Πηλῆα πυθέσθαι ἀ ἀμύμονα, τόν περ ὀΐω
κωκύσειν ἀλίαστον, ὅτ᾽ ἀμφί ἑ φῆμις ἵ ἱκηται"
οἴκτιστον γὰρ νῶιν ὑπὲρ, σέθεν ἔ τ ἄλγος 48ῦ
πατρί τε σῷ καὶ ἐμοί, τοί περ μέγα σεῖο θανόντος
ἀχνύμενοι τάχα γαῖαν ὑπὲρ Διὸς ἄσχετον Αἶσαν
δυσόμεθ' ἐσσυμένως" καί κεν πολὺ λώιον εἴη,
ὴ ζώειν an dvevbev ἀοσσητῆρος ἑοῖο."
Ἦ ῥ ᾿ ὁ γέρων ἀλίαστον ἐνὶ φρεσὶ πένθος ἀέξων. 490
πὰρ δέ οἱ ᾿Ατρείδης ὀλοφύρετο δάκρυα χεύων"
ὥμωξεν δ᾽ ὀδύνῃσι μέγ᾽ αἰθόμενος κέαρ ἔνδον'
“«ὥλεο, Πηλείδη, Δαναῶν μέγα φέρτατε πάντων,
ὥλεο, καὶ στρατὸν εὐρὺν ἀνερκέα θῆκας ᾿Αχαιῶν"
ῥηίτεροι δ᾽ ἄρα σεῖο καταφθιμένοιο πέλονται 495
vopevéowy’ σὺ δὲ χάρμα πεσὼν μέγα Τρωσὶν
ἔθηκας,
οἵ σε πάρος φοβέοντο λέονθ᾽ ὡς αἰόλα μῆλα"
νῦν δ᾽ ἐπὶ νηυσὶ θοῇσι λελαιόμενοι μαχέονται.
Ζεῦ πάτερ, ἢ ῥά τι καὶ σὺ βροτοὺς ψευδέσσι
λόγοισι
θέλγεις, ὃς κατένευσας ἐμοὶ Πριάμοιο ἄνακτος 500
1 Zimmermann, for θυμὸς of MSS.
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Upon my knees, and bade me foster thee,
His babe, with all love, as mine own dear child:
I hearkened to him: blithely didst thou cling
About mine heart, and, babbling wordless speech,
Didst call me ‘father’ oft, and didst bedew
My breast and tunic with thy baby lips.
Ofttimes with soul that laughed for glee I held
Thee in mine arms; for mine heart whispered me
‘ This fosterling through life shall care for thee,
Staff of thine age shall be.’ And that mine hope
Was for a little while fulfilled ; but now
Thou hast vanished into darkness, and to me
Is left long heart-ache wild with all regret.
Ah, might my sorrow slay me, ere the tale
To noble Peleus come! When on his ears
Falleth the heavy tidings, he shall weep
And wail without surcease. Most piteous griet
We twain for thy sake shall inherit aye,
Thy sire and I, who, ere our day of doom,
Mourning shall go down to the grave for thee—
Ay, better this than life unholpen of thee!”
So moaned his ever-swelling tide of grief.
And Atreus’ son beside him mourned and wept
With heart on fire with inly smouldering pain :
“Thou hast perished, chiefest of the Danaan men,
Hast perished, and hast left the Achaean host
Fenceless! Now thou art fallen, are they left
An easier prey to foes. Thou hast given joy
To Trojans by thy fall, who dreaded thee
As sheep a lion. These with eager hearts
Even to the ships will bring the battle now.
Zeus, Father, thou too with deceitful words
Beguilest mortals! Thou didst promise me
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ἄστυ διαπραθέειν, viv δ᾽ οὐ τελέεις ὅσ᾽ ὑπέστης,
) b , 2 ΄ > \ / > \ >
ἀλλὰ λίην ἀπάφησας ἐμὰς φρένας" ov yap οἴω
δ / / , / >’ “ ”
εὑρέμεναι πολέμοιο τέκμωρ φθιμένου ᾿Αχιλῆος.
Ὡς ἔφατ᾽ ἀχνύμενος κέαρ ἔνδοθεν" ἀμφὶ δὲ λαοὶ
΄ > - \ \ ’
κώκυον ἐκ θυμοῖο θρασὺν περὶ ἸΠηλείωνα: 505
τοῖς δ᾽ ap ἐπεβρόμεον νῆες περιμυρομένοισιν"
nxn δ᾽ ἄσπετος ὦρτο δι᾽ αἰθέρος ἀκαμάτοιο.
ὡς δ᾽ ὅτε κύματα μακρὰ βίη μεγάλου ἀνέμοιο
ὀρνύμεν᾽ ἐκ πόντοιο πρὸς ἠιόνας φορέονται
/ / \ / i \ ΜΝ
σμερδαλέον, πάντη δὲ προσαγνυμένης ἁλὸς αἰεὶ 510
ἀκταὶ ὁμῶς ῥηγμῖσιν ἀπειρέσιαι βοόωσι"
τοῖος ἄρ᾽ ἀμφὶ νέκυν Δαναῶν στόνος αἰνὸς ὀρώρει
/ + > / ,
μυρομένων ἄλληκτον ἀταρβέα IInrelwva.
Καί σφιν ὀδυρομένοισα τάχ᾽ ἤλυθε κυανέη νύξ,
> \ Mia? ἃ / ΄ ὃ ἢ ey
εἰ μὴ ap ᾿Ατρείδην προσεφώνεε Νηλέος υἱὸς 515
/ [τὰ ΕΝ Siw. δ ΓᾺ, Ν ’, ΝΜ
Νέστωρ, ὅς ῥά τ᾽ ἔχεσκεν ἐνὶ φρεσὶ μυρίον adyos
μνησάμενος σφοῦ παιδὸς ἐὔΐφρονος ᾿Αντιλόχοιο"
“᾿Αργείων σκηπτοῦχε μέγα κρατέων ᾿Αγά-
μεμνον,
lel \ > , / s /
νῦν μὲν ἀποσχώμεσθα δυσηχέος αἶψα γόοιο
σήμερον: οὐ γὰρ ἔτ᾽ αὖθις ἐ ἐρωήσει τίς ᾿Αχαιοὺς δ20
κλαυθμοῦ ἄδην κορέσασθαι ἐπ᾽ ἤματα πολλὰ
γοῶντας.
ἀλλ᾽ ἄγε δὴ βρότον αἰνὸν ἀταρβέος Αἰακίδαο
λούσαντες λεχέεσσ᾽ ἐνιθείομεν" οὐ γὰρ ἔοικεν
αἰσχύνειν ἐπὶ δηρὸν ἀκηδείῃσι θανόντας."
Καὶ τὰ μὲν ὡς ἐπέτελλε περίφρων Νηλέος υἱός" 525
αὐτὰρ ὅ ἯΙ οἷς ἑ ἑτάροισιν ἐπισπέρχων ἐκέλευεν
ὕδατος ἐν πυρὶ θέντας ἄφαρ κρυεροῖο λέβητας
θερμῆναι λοῦσαί τε νέκυν, περί θ᾽ εἵματα ἕσσαι
καλά, τά οἱ πόρε παιδὶ φίλῳ ἁλιπόρφυρα μήτηρ
ἐς Τροίην ἀνιόντι. θοῶς δ᾽ ἐπίθησαν ἄνακτι" 530
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That Priam’s burg should be destroyed ; but now
That promise given dost thou not fulfil,
But thou didst cheat mine heart: I shall not win
The war’s goal, now Achilles is no more.”
So did he cry heart-anguished. Mourned all round
Wails multitudinous for Peleus’ son:
The dark ships echoed back the voice of grief,
And sighed and sobbed the immeasurable air.
And as when long sea-rollers, onward driven
By a great wind, heave up far out at sea,
And strandward sweep with terrible rush, and aye
Headland and beach with shattered spray are
scourged,
And roar unceasing ; so a dread sound rose
Of moaning of the Danaans round the corse,
Ceaselessly wailing Peleus’ aweless son.
And on their mourning soon black night had ceme,
But spake unto Atreides Neleus’ son,
Nestor, whose own heart bare its load of grief
Remembering his own son Antilochus:
“O mighty Agamemnon, sceptre-lord
Of Argives, from wide-shrilling lamentation
Refrain we for this day. None shall withhold
Hereafter these from all their heart’s desire
Of weeping and lamenting many days.
But now go to, from aweless Aeacus’ son
Wash we the foul blood-gouts, and lay we him
Upon a couch: unseemly it is to shame
The dead by leaving them untended long.”
So counselled Neleus’ son, the passing-wise.
Then hasted he his men, and bade them set
Caldrons of cold spring-water o’er the flames,
And wash the corse, and clothe in vesture fair,
Sea-purple, which his mother gave her son
At his first sailing against Troy. With speed
They did their lord’s command: with loving care,
[51
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ἐνδυκέως δ᾽ ἄρα πάντα πονησάμενοι κατὰ κόσμον
4 bJ / / ΄
κάτθεσαν ἐν κλισίησι δεδουπότα ἸΠηλείωνα.
Τὸν δ᾽ ἐσιδοῦσ᾽ ἐλέησε περίφρων Τριτογένεια:
͵ 9, es i , X ΄ νὰ Pils
στάζε δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἀμβροσίην κατὰ κράατος, ἥν ῥά τέ
φασι
δηρὸν ἐρυκακέειν νεαρὸν χρόα κηρὶ δαμέντων" 535
θῆκε δ᾽ ap ἑρσήεντα καὶ εἴκελον ἀμπνείοντι"
σμερδαλέον δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἐπισκύνιον νεκρῷ περ ἔτευξεν,
, ca Be 3. £ / - / ΄
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χωομένῳ ἐπέκειτο κατὰ βλοσυροῖο προσώπου"
βριθύτερον δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἔθηκε δέμας καὶ ἄρειον ἰδέσθαι. 540
᾿Αργείους δ᾽ ἕλε θάμβος ὁμιλαδὸν ἀθρήσαντας
Πηλείδην ζώοντι πανείκελον, ὅς ῥ᾽ ἐπὶ λέκτροις
Η ͵ ΄, ᾿ ” “ γ 7
ἐκχύμενος μάλα πουλὺς ἄδην εὕδοντε ἐῴκει.
> / \ / “ c 7 ᾽ > \
Audi δέ μιν μογεραὶ ληίτιδες, ἅς ῥά ποτ᾽ αὐτὸς
Λῆμνόν τε ζαθέην Κιλίκων τ᾽ αἰπὺ πτολίεθρον δ45
Θήβην ᾿Ηετίωνος ἑλὼν ληίσσατο κούρας,
ἱστάμεναι γοάασκον ἀμύσσουσαι χρόα καλόν,
στήθεά τ᾽ ἀμφοτέρησι πεπληγυῖαι παλάμῃσιν
ἐκ θυμοῦ στενάχεσκον ἐΐφρονα Πηλείωνα"
τὰς γὰρ δὴ τίεσκε καὶ ἐκ δηΐων περ ἐούσας" 550
πασάων δ᾽ ἔκπαγλον ἀκηχεμένη κέαρ ἔνδον
Βρισηὶς παράκοιτις ἐὐπτολέμου ᾿Αχιλῆος
ἀμφὶ νέκυν στρωφᾶτο καὶ ἀμφοτέρῃς παλάμῃσι
δρυπτομένη χρόα καλὸν ἀὕτεεν' ἐκ δ᾽ ἁπαλοῖο
στήθεος αἱματόεσσαι ἀνὰ σμώδιγγες ἄερθεν 555
θεινομένης" φαίης κεν ἐπὶ γλάγος αἷμα χέασθαι
φοίνιον' ἀγλαΐη δὲ καὶ ἀχνυμένης ἀλεγεινῶς
ἱμερόεν μάρμαιρε' χάρις δέ οἱ ἄμφεχεν εἶδος.
τοῖον δ᾽ ἔκφατο μῦθον ὀϊξυρὸν γοόωσα"
“ὦ μοι ἐγὼ πάντων περιώσιον αἰνὰ παθοῦσα' 560
οὐ γάρ μοι τόσσον περ ἐπήλυθεν ἄλλο TL πῆμα,
152
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK III
All service meetly rendered, on a couch
Laid they the mighty fallen, Peleus’ son.
The Trito-born, the passing-wise, beheld
And pitied him, and showered upon his head
Ambrosia, which hath virtue aye to keep
Taintless, men say, the flesh of warriors slain.
Like softly-breathing sleeper dewy-fresh
She made him: over that dead face she drew
A stern frown, even as when he lay, with wrath
Darkening his grim face, clasping his slain friend
Patroclus; and she made his frame to be
More massive, like a war-god to behold.
And wonder seized the Argives, as they thronged
And saw the image of a living man,
Where all the stately length of Peleus’ son
Lay on the couch, and seemed as though he slept.
Around him all the woeful captive-maids,
Whom he had taken for a prey, what time
He had ravaged hallowed Lemnos, and had scaled
The towered crags of Thebes, Eétion’s town,
Wailed, as they stood and rent their fair young flesh,
And smote their breasts, and from their hearts
bemoaned
That lord of gentleness and courtesy,
Who honoured even the daughters of his foes.
And stricken most of all with heart-sick pain
Briseis, hero Achilles’ couchmate, bowed
Over the dead, and tore her fair young flesh
With ruthless fingers, shrieking: her soft breast
Was ridged with gory weals, so cruelly
She smote it—thou hadst said that crimson blood
Had dripped on milk. Yet, in her grief’s despite,
Her winsome loveliness shone out, and grace
Hung like « veil about her, as she wailed:
“ Woe for this grief passing all griefs beside!
Never on me came anguish like to this—
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οὔτε κασιγνήτων OUT εὐρυχόρου περὶ πάτρης,
ὅσσον σεῖο θανόντος" ἐπεὶ σύ μοι ἱερὸν ἦμαρ
\ fp > / UA \ / IN
καὶ φάος ἠελίοιο πέλες καὶ μειλίχος αἰὼν
a ey aed lal \ », ΚΝ > / ~
ἐλπωρή T ἀγαθοῖο Kal ἄσπετον ἀλκαρ avins 565
/ > 3 of \ / ᾽ /
πάσης T ἀγλαΐης πολὺ φέρτερος ἠδὲ τοκήων
ἔπλεο' πάντα γὰρ οἷος ἔης δμωῇ περ ἐούσῃ:
/ εν 2) ἂν ΝΜ e \ » iA »
καί ῥά μ᾽ ἔθηκας ἄκοιτιν ἑλὼν ἄπο δούλια ἔργα.
a ’ > / ’ a Ld ”
νῦν δέ τις ἐν νήεσσιν ᾿Αχαιῶν ἄξεται ἄλλος
Σπάρτην εἰς ἐρίβωλον ἢ ἐς πολυδίψιον ΓΑργος: 570
καί νύ κεν ἀμφιπολεῦσα κακὰς ὑποτλήσομ᾽ ἀνίας
σεῦ ἀπονοσφισθεῖσα δυσάμμορος: ὡς ὄφελόν με
A \ 2 / if / , γ2κΧ.ᾷ32] 32
γαῖα χυτὴ ἐκάλυψε, πάρος σέο πότμον ἰδέσθαι.
Ὡς ἡ μὲν δμηθέντ᾽ ὀχοφύρετο Πηλείωνα
δμωῇς σὺν μογερῇσι καὶ ἀχνυμένοισιν ᾿Αχαιοῖς 575
μυρομένη καὶ ἄνακτα καὶ ἀνέρα: τῆς δ᾽ ἀλεγεινὸν
οὔποτ᾽ ἐτέρσετο δάκρυ, κατείβετο δ᾽ ἄχρις ἐπ᾽
οὗδας
ἐκ βχεφάρων, ὡσεί τε μέλαν κατὰ πίδακος ὕδωρ
πετραίης, ἧς πουλὺς ὕπερ παγετός τε χιών τε
EKKEXUTAL στυφελοῖο κατ᾽ οὔδεος, ἀμφὶ δὲ πάχνη 580
τήκεθ᾽ ὁμῶς εὔρῳ τε καὶ ἠελίοιο βολῇσι.
Καὶ τότε δή ῥ᾽ ἐσάκουσαν ὀρινομένοιο γόοιο
θυγατέρες Νηρῆος, ὃ ὅσαι μέγα βένθος ἔ ἔχουσι"
πάσῃσιν δ᾽ ᾿ἀλεγεινὸν ὑπὸ κραδίην πέσεν ἄλγος"
οἰκτρὸν δ᾽ ἐστονάχησαν, ἐπίαχε δ᾽ 'Ῥλλήσποντος. 585
ἀμφὶ δὲ κυανέοισι καλυψάμεναι χρόα πέπλοις
ἐσσυμένως οἴμησαν, ὅπη στόλος ἔπλετ᾽ ᾿Αχαιῶν,
πανσυδίῃ πολιοῖο δι᾽ οἴδματος" ἀμφὶ δ᾽ ἄρα σφι
νισσομένῃσι θάλασσα διίστατο. ταὶ δ᾽ “ἐφέροντο
κλαγγηδόν, κραιπνῇσιν ἐειδόμεναι γεράνοισιν 590
ὀσσομένῃς μέγα χεῖμα: πα ναῷ λων δὲ λυγρὸν
κήτεα μυρομένῃσιν: ἔσαν δ᾽ ἄφαρ ἧχι νέοντο
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THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK III
Not when my brethren died, my fatherland
Was wasted—like this anguish for thy death!
Thou wast my day, my sunlight, my sweet life,
Mine hope of good, my strong defence from harm,
Dearer than all my beauty—yea, more dear
Than my lost parents! Thou wast all in all
To me, thou only, captive though I be.
Thou tookest from me every bondmaid’s task
And like a wife didst hold me. Ah, but now
Me shall some new Achaean master bear
To fertile Sparta, or to thirsty Argos.
The bitter cup of thraldom shall I drain,
Severed, ah me, from thee! Oh that the earth
Had veiled my dead face ere I saw thy doom!”
So for slain Peleus’ son did she lament
With woeful handmaids and heart-anguished Greeks,
Mourning a king, a husband. Never dried
Her tears were: ever to the earth they streamed
Like sunless water trickling from a rock
While rime and snow yet mantle o’er the earth
Above it; yet the frost melts down before
The east-wind and the flame-shafts of the sun.
Now came the sound of that upringing wail
To Nereus’ Daughters, dwellers in the depths
Unfathomed. With sore anguish all their hearts
Were smitten: piteously they moaned: their cry
Shivered along the waves of Hellespont.
Then with dark mantles overpalled they sped
Swiftly to where the Argive men were thronged.
As rushed their troop up silver paths of sea,
The flood disported round them as they came.
With one wild cry they floated up; it rang,
A sound as when fleet-flying cranes forebode
A great storm. Moaned the monsters of the deep
Plaintively round that train of mourners. Fast
On sped they to their goal, with awesome cry
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παῖδα κασιγνήτης κρατερόφρονα κωκύουσαι
ἐκπάγλως. Μοῦσαι δὲ θοῶς ᾿Ελικῶνα λιποῦσαι
δ) BA BA ΦΙΦΝ ”
ἤλυθον ἄλγος ἄλαστον ἐνὶ στέρνοισιν ἔχουσαι 595
ἀρνύμεναι τιμὴν ἑλικώπιδι Νηρηίνῃ.
l4 ,
Ζεὺς δὲ μέγ᾽ ᾿Αργείοισι καὶ ἄτρομον ἔμβαλε
θάρσος,
ὄφρα μὴ ἐσθλὸν ὅμιλον ὑποδδείσωσι θεάων
᾽ Ν ᾽ / 2 Ν / € 3, 9 a
ἀμφαδὸν ἀθρήσαντες ava στρατόν" ai δ᾽ ᾿Αχιλῆος
ἀμφὶ νέκυν στενάχοντο καὶ ἀθάνατοί περ ἐοῦσαι 600
a A /
πᾶσαι ὁμῶς" ἀκταὶ δὲ περίαχον ᾿Ελλησπόντου"
, \ \ a \ ’ 2 ,
δεύετο δὲ χθὼν πᾶσα περὶ νέκυν Αἰακίδαο
’ a Ik / 3. 4 > \ \
δάκρυσιν: ὡς μέγα πένθος ἀνέστενον: audi δὲ
λαῶν
7 4 / 4 ,
μυρομένων δακρύοισι φορύνετο τεύχεα πάντα
καὶ κλισίαι καὶ νῆες, ἐπεὶ μέγα πένθος ὀρώρει. Θ06
7 3... ND θ rc 4 , TI ,
μήτηρ δ᾽ ἀμφιχυθεῖσα κύσε στόμα Ἰ]ηλείωνος
παιδὸς ἑοῦ, καὶ τοῖον ἔπος φάτο δακρυχέουσα"
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γηθείτω ῥοδόπεπλος av’ οὐρανὸν Hpiyévera,
γηθείτω φρεσὶν ἧσι μεθεὶς χόλον ᾿Αστεροπαίου
“Ἄξιος εὐρυρέεθρος ἰδὲ Πριάμοιο γενέθλη" 610
αὐτὰρ ἐγὼ πρὸς Ὄλυμπον ἀφίξομαι, ἀμφὶ δὲ
ποσσὶ
κείσομαι ἀθανάτοιο Διὸς μεγάλα στενάχουσα,
οὕνεκά μ᾽ οὐκ ἐθέλουσαν ὑπ᾽ ὠνέρι δῶκε δαμῆναι,
ἀνέρι, τὸν τάχα. γῆρας ἀμείλιχον ἀμφιμέμαρπε,
Κῆρές T ἐγγὺς ἔασι τέλος θανάτοιο φέρουσαι. 615
ada μοι οὐ κείνοιο μέλει τόσον, ὡς ᾿Αχιλῆος,
ὅν μοι Ζεὺς κατένευσεν ἐν Αἰακίδαο δόμοισιν
ἴφθιμον θήσειν, ἐπεὶ οὔτι μοι ἥνδανεν εὐνή:"
ἀλλ᾽ ὁτὲ μὲν fans a ἄνεμος πέλον, ἄλλοτε δ᾽ ὕδωρ,
ἄλλοτε δ᾽ οἰωνῷ ἐναλίγκιος ἢ πυρὸς ὁρμῇ: 620
οὐδέ με θνητὸς ἀνὴρ δύνατ᾽ ἐν λεχέεσσι δαμάσσαι
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Wailing the while their sister's mighty son.
Swiftly from Helicon the Muses came
Heart-burdened with undying grief, for love
And honour to the Nereid starry-eyed.
Then Zeus with courage filled the Argive men,
That eyes of flesh might undismayed behold
That glorious gathering of Goddesses.
Then those Divine Ones round Achilles’ corse
Pealed forth with one voice from immortal lips
A lamentation. Rang again the shores
Of Hellespont. As rain upon the earth
Their tears fell round the dead man, Aeacus’ son;
For out of depths of sorrow rose their moan.
And all the armour, yea, the tents, the ships
Of that great sorrowing multitude were wet
With tears from ever-welling springs of grief.
His mother cast her on him, clasping him,
And kissed her son’s lips, erying through her tears :
“ Now let the rosy-vestured Dawn in heaven
Exult! Now let broad-flowing Axius
Exult, and for Asteropaeus dead
Put by his wrath! Let Priam’s seed be glad
But I unto Olympus will ascend,
And at the feet of everlasting Zeus
Will cast me, bitterly plaining that he gave
Me, an unwilling bride, unto a man—
A man whom joyless eld soon overtook,
To whom the Fates are near, with death for gift.
Yet not so much for his lot do I grieve
As for Achilles ; for Zeus promised me
To make him giorious in the Aeacid halls,
In recompense for the bridal I so loathed
That into wild wind now I changed me, now
To water, now in fashion as a bird
I was, now as the blast of flame ; nor might
A mortal win me for his bride, who seemed
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
“ \
φαινομένην, ὅσα γαῖα καὶ οὐρανὸς ἐντὸς ἐέργει,
/ Res / 3 ΄ es a
μέσφ᾽ ὅτε μοι κατένευσεν ᾿Ολύμπιος υἱέα δῖον
ΝΜ 7 Ve 7. ) \ \ /
ἔκπαγλον θήσειν Kal apniov. ἀλλὰ τὰ μέν που
e an
ἀτρεκέως ἐτέλεσσεν'" ὁ γὰρ TENE φέρτατος ἀνδρῶν" 625
ἀλλά μιν ὠκύμορον ποιήσατο καί μ᾽ ἀκάχησε.
» > 9 ἢ \ ee \ > 9 , 22 δ
τοὔνεκ᾽ ἐς οὐρανὸν εἶμι Διὸς δ᾽ ἐς δώματ᾽ ἰοῦσα
΄ / Ne , , 355,
κωκύσω φίλον υἷα, καὶ ὁππόσα πρόσθ᾽ ἐμόγησα
ἀμφ᾽ αὐτῷ καὶ παισὶν ἀεικέα τειρομένοισι
/ > / “ ς \ \ 3 ’ b>
μνήησω AKNYELEVYN, LVA OL συν θυμὸν ορίνω. 630
ἃ \ a ,
Ὡς ἔφατ᾽ αἰνὰ γοῶσ᾽ arin Θέτις" ἡ δέ οἱ αὐτὴ
Καλλιόπη φάτο μῦθον ἀρηραμένη φρεσὶ θυμόν"
co 2." θεὰ "Θέ yw is
ἴσχεο KwWKUTOLO, θεὰ Θέτι, μηδ᾽ ἀλύουσα
4 Ἃ en A / VES A
εἵνεκα παιδὸς ἑοῖο θεῶν μεδέοντι καὶ ἀνδρῶν
΄ Ν \ \ > / y
σκύζεο' καὶ yap Ζηνὸς ἐριβρεμέταο ἄνακτος 635
υἷες ὁμῶς ἀπόλοντο κακῇ περὶ κηρὶ δαμέντες"
» >] e\ > al \ > an 2 /
κάτθανε δ᾽ vids ἐμεῖο καὶ αὐτῆς ἀθανάτοιο
Ὀρφεύς, οὗ μολπῇσιν ἐφέσπετο πᾶσα μὲν ὕλη,
a / A
πᾶσα δ᾽ dp ὀκριόεσσα πέτρη ποταμῶν τε ῥέεθρα
/ / ᾿
πνοιαΐί Te λιγέων ἀνέμων ἀμέγαρτον ἀέντων 640
οἰωνοί τε θοῇσι διεσσύμενοι πτερύγεσσιν'
>? > Ἂν / / 2 \ \ ” Μ
ἀλλ᾽ ἔτλην μέγα πένθος, ἐπεὶ θεὸν οὔτι ἔοικεν
΄ Yd NPV: . \ 3 "4
πένθεσι λευγαλέοισι Kal ἄλνγεϊ θυμὸν ἀχεύειν.
A U4 e a
TO σε καὶ ἀχνυμένην μεθέτω γόος υἱέος ἐσθλοῦ'
΄ 7
καὶ γάρ οἱ κλέος αἰὲν ἐπιχθονίοισιν ἀοιδοὶ 645
ow /
καὶ μένος ἀείσουσιν ἐμῇ τ᾽ ἰότητι Kal ἄλλων
Πιερίδων. σὺ δὲ μή τι κελαινῷ πένθεϊ θυμὸν
δάμνασο θηλυτέρῃσιν ἴσον γοόωσα γυναιξίν.
ἡ οὐκ ἀΐεις ὅτι πάντας, ὅσοι χθονὶ ναιετάουσιν,
3 , 2 \ / Μ 3
ἀνθρώπους ὀλοὴ περιπέπταται ἄσχετος Αἶσα 650
1538
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK III
All shapes in turn that earth and heaven contain,
Until the Olympian pledged him to bestow
A godlike son on me, a lord of war.
Yea, in a manner this did he fulfil
Faithfully ; for my son was mightiest
Of men. But Zeus made brief his span of life
Unto my sorrow. Therefore up to heaven
Will I: to Zeus’s mansion will I go
And wail my son, and will put Zeus in mind
Of all my travail for him and his sons
In their sore stress, and sting his soul with shame.’
So in her wild lament the Sea-queen cried.
But now to Thetis spake Calliope,
She in whose heart was steadfast wisdom throned :
“ From lamentation, Thetis, now forbear,
And do not, in the frenzy of thy grief
For thy lost son, provoke to wrath the Lord
Of Gods and men. Lo, even sons of Zeus,
The Thunder-king, have perished, overborne
By evil fate. Immortal though I be,
Mine own son Orpheus died, whose magic song
Drew all the forest-trees to follow him,
And every craggy rock and river-stream,
And blasts of winds shrill-piping stormy-breathed,
And birds that dart through air on rushing wings.
Yet I endured mine heavy sorrow : Gods
Ought not with anguished grief to vex their souls.
Therefore make end of sorrow-stricken wail
For thy brave child; for to the sons of earth
Minstrels shall chant his glory and his might,
By mine and by my sisters’ inspiration,
Unto the end of time. Let not thy soul
Be crushed by dark grief, nor do thou lament
Like those frail mortal women. Know’st thou not
That round all men which dwell upon the earth
Hovereth irresistible deadly Fate,
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οὐδὲ θεῶν ἀλέγουσα; τόσον σθένος ἔλλαχε μούνη"
ἣ καὶ νῦν Πριάμοιο πολυχρύσοιο πόληα
> 4 ΄ > , 3 /
ἐκπέρσει Τρώων te καὶ ᾿Αργείων ὀλέσασα
Sines, [τὰ 3. wd a > ” 3. 39
ἀνέρας, ὅν K ἐθέλησι" θεῶν δ᾽ οὔτις μιν ἐρύξει.
A
“Qs φάτο Καλλιόπη πινυτὰ φρεσὶ μητιόωσα. 655
ἠέλιος δ᾽ ἀπόρουσεν ἐς ὠκεανοῖο ῥέεθρα,
> \ \ 4 ἶ > TL 3, /
ὦρτο δὲ νὺξ μεγάλοιο Kat’ ἠέρος ὀρφνήεσσα,
ἥ τε καὶ ἀχνυμένοισι πέλει θνητοῖσιν ὄνειαρ.
αὐτοῦ δ᾽ ἐν ψαμάθοισιν ᾿Αχαιῶν ἔδραθον υἷες
ἰλαδὸν ἀμφὶ νέκυν μεγάλῃ βεβαρηότες ἄτῃ. 660
ἀλλ᾽ οὐχ ὕπνος ἔμαρπτε θεὴν Θέτιν: ἄγχι δὲ
παιδὸς
ἧστο σὺν ἀθανάτῃς Νηρηϊσιν: ἀμφὶ δὲ Μοῦσαι
ἀχνυμένην ἀνὰ θυμὸν ἀμοιβαδὶς ἄλλοθεν ἄλλη
πολλὰ παρηγορέεσκον, ὅπως λελάθοιτο γόοιο.
᾿Αλλ᾽ ὅτε καγχαλόωσα δι᾽ αἰθέρος ἤλυθεν ἠὼς 665
λαμπρότατον πᾶσίν τε φάος Τρῶεσσι φέρουσα
καὶ ἸΙριάμῳ--- Δαναοὶ δὲ μέγ᾽ ἀχνύμενοι ᾿Αχιλῆα
κλαῖον ἐπ᾿ ἤματα πολλά, περιστενάχοντο δε
μακραὶ
ἠιόνες πόντοιο, μέγας δ᾽ ὀλοφύρετο Νηρεὺς
ἧρα φέρων κούρῃ Νηρηίδι, σὺν δέ οἱ ἄλλοι 670
εἰνάλιοι μύροντο θεοὶ φθιμένου ᾿Αχιλῆος ----
καὶ τότε δὴ μεγάλοιο νέκυν Πηληιάδαο
᾿Αργεῖοι πυρὶ δῶκαν ἀάσπετα νηήσαντες
δοῦρα, τά οἱ φορέοντες ἀπ᾽ οὔρεος Ἴ δαίοιο
πάντες ὁμῶς ἐμόγησαν, ἐπεί o peas ὀτρύνοντες 618
᾿Ατρεῖδαι προέηκαν ἀπείριτον οἰσέμεν ὕλην,
ὄφρα θοῶς καίοιτο νέκυς κταμένου ᾿Αχιλῆος.
ἀμφὶ δὲ τεύχεα πολλὰ πυρῇ περινηήσαντο
αἰζηῶν κταμένων, πολλοὺς δ᾽ ἐφύπερθε βάλοντο
160
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK III
Who recks not even of the Gods? Such power
She only hath for heritage. Yea, she
Soon shall destroy gold-wealthy Priam’s town,
And Trojans many and Argives doom to death,
Whomso she will. No God can stay her hand.”
So in her wisdom spake Calliope.
Then plunged the sun down into Ocean’s stream,
And sable-vestured Night came floating up
O’er the wide firmament, and brought her boon
Of sleep to sorrowing mortals. On the sands
There slept they, all the Achaean host, with heads
Bowed ‘neath the burden of calamity.
But upon Thetis sleep laid not his hand :
Still with the deathless Nereids by the sea
She sate; on either side the Muses spake
One after other comfortable words
To make that sorrowing heart forget its pain.
But when with a triumphant laugh the Dawn
Soared up the sky, and her most radiant light
Shed over all the Trojans and their king,
Then, sorrowing sorely for Achilles still,
The Danaans woke to weep. Day after day,
For many days they wept. Around them moaned
Far-stretching beaches of the sea, and mourned
Great Nereus for his daughter Thetis’ sake ;
And mourned with him the other Sea-gods all
For dead Achilles. Then the Argives gave
The corpse of great Peleides to the flame.
A pyre of countless tree-trunks built they up
Which, all with one mind toiling, from the heights
Of Ida they brought down; for Atreus’ sons
Sped on the work, and charged them to bring thence
Wood without measure, that consumed with speed
Might be Achilles’ body. All around
Piled they about the pyre much battle-gear
Of strong men slain; and slew and cast thereon
161
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
Τρώων δῃώσαντες ὁμῶς περικαλλέας vias 680
ἵππους τε χρεμέθοντας ἐὐσθενέας θ᾽ ἅμα ταύρους,
σὺν δ᾽ dias τε σύας T ἔβαλον βρίθοντας ἀλοιφῆ"
φάρεα δ᾽ ἐκ χηλῶν φέρον ἄσπετα κωκύουσαι
δμωιάδες, καὶ πάντα πυρῆς καθύπερθε βάλοντο,
, >» ’ 29 s ’ VQ , Η
χρυσόν T ἤλεκτρόν τ᾽ ἐπενήεον: ἀμφὶ δὲ χαίτας 685
Μυρμιδόνες κείραντο, νέκυν δ᾽ ἐκάλυψαν ἄνακτος"
καὶ δ᾽ αὐτὴ Βρισηὶς ἀκηχεμένη περὶ νεκρῷ
κειραμένη πλοκάμους πύματον πόρε δῶρον ἄνακτι.
πολλοὺς δ᾽ ἀμφιφορῆας ἀλείφατος ἀμφεχέοντο,
ἄλλους δ᾽ ἀμφὶ πυρῇ μέλιτος θέσαν ἠδὲ καὶ οἴνου 690
Ce / Φ / \ 5 ΄, 7, 3
ἡδέος, οὗ μέθυ λαρὸν ὀδώδεε νέκταρι ἶσον.
ἄλλα δὲ πολλὰ βάλοντο θυώδεα θαῦμα βρο-
τοῖσιν,
ὅσσα χθὼν φέρει ἐσθλὰ καὶ ὁππόσα δῖα θάλασσα.
᾿Αλλ᾽ ὅτε δὴ περὶ πάγχυ πυρὴν διεκοσμήσαντο,
πεζοὶ ἅμ᾽ ἱππήεσσι σὺν ἔντεσιν ἐρρώσαντο 695
ἀμφὶ πυρὴν πολύδακρυν. ὁ δ᾽ ἔκποθεν Οὐλύμποιο
Ζεὺς ψεκάδας κατέχευεν ὑπὲρ νέκυν Αἰακίδαο
ἀμβροσίας, δίῃ δὲ φέρων Νηρηίδι τιμὴν
id , 4 > Μ ” /
Ἑρμείην προέηκεν ἐς Αἴολον, ὄφρα καλέσσῃ
λαιψηρῶν ἀνέμων ἱερὸν μένος" ἢ γὰρ ἔμελλε 700
T. , , / / lal > “Φ /
καίεσθ᾽ Αἰακίδαο νέκυς. τοῦ δ᾽ αἶψα μολόντος
Αἴολος οὐκ ἀπίθησε: καλεσσάμενος δ᾽ ἀλεγεινὸν
καρπαλίμως Βορέην Ζεφύροιό τε λάβρον ἀήτην
ἐς Τροίην προέηκε θοῇ θύοντας ἀέλλῃ:
« \ a ” « Ν / /
οἱ δὲ θοῶς οἴμησαν ὑπὲρ πόντοιο φέρεσθαι 705
ῥιπῇ ἀπειρεσίῃ: περὶ δ᾽ ἴαχεν ἐσσυμένοισι
πόντος ὁ ὁμοῦ καὶ γαῖα" περικλονέοντο δ᾽ ὕπερθε
πάντα νέφη μεγάλοιο δι᾿’ ἠέρος ἀΐσσοντα.
οἱ δὲ Διὸς βουλῇσι δαϊκταμένου ᾿Αχιλῆος
162
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK III
Full many goodly sons of Trojan men,
And snorting steeds, and mighty bulls withal,
And sheep and fatling swine thereon they cast.
And wailing captive maids from coffers brought
Mantles untold; all cast they on the pyre:
Gold heaped they there and amber. All their
hair
The Myrmidons shore, and shrouded with the same
The body of their king. Briseis laid
Her own shorn tresses on the corpse, her gift,
Her last, unto her lord. Great jars of oil
Full many poured they out thereon, with jars
Of honey and of wine, rich blood of the grape
That breathed an odour as of nectar, yea,
Cast incense-breathing perfumes manifold
Marvellous sweet, the precious things put forth
By earth, and treasures of the sea divine.
Then, when all things were set in readiness
About the pyre, all, footmen, charioteers,
Compassed that woeful bale, clashing their arms,
While, from the viewless heights Olympian, Zeus
Rained down ambrosia on dead Aeacus’ son.
For honour to the Goddess, Nereus’ child,
He sent to Aeolus Hermes, bidding him
Summon the sacred might of his swift winds,
For that the corpse of Aeacus’ son must now
Be burned. With speed he went, and Aeolus
Refused not: the tempestuous North in haste
He summoned, and the wild blast of the West;
And to Troy sped they on their whirlwind wings.
Fast in mad onrush, fast across the deep
They darted ; roared beneath them as they flew
The sea, the land; above crashed thunder-voiced
Clouds headlong hurtling through the firmament.
Then by decree of Zeus down on the pyre
Of slain Achilles, like a charging host
163
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
2 a 3 7 > / = ie οὦ Ἁ
αἶψα πυρῇ ἐνόρουσαν ἀολλέες, ὧρτο δ᾽ ἀτπμ͵ ~——710
c , A , ’ ’ , > ,
Ηφαίστου μαλεροῖο: γόος δ᾽ ἀλίαστος ὀρώρει
’ 4 ,
Μυρμιδόνων: ἄνεμοι δὲ καὶ ἐσσύμενοί περ ἀέλλῃ
- > \ ΄ , ,
πᾶν ἦμαρ καὶ νύκτα νέκυν περιποιπνύοντες
- = , e lal
καῖον eUTVELoVTEs ὁμῶς" ava δ᾽ ἔγρετο πουλὺς
X ? ἣν ἃ A ἃ ἄνα > Ψ
καπνὸς ἐς ἠέρα δῖαν, ἐπέστενε δ᾽ ἄσπετος ὕλη 715
/ - ‘ ,
δαμναμένη πυρὶ πᾶσα, μέλαινα δὲ γίνετο τέφρη.
οἱ δὲ μέγ᾽ ἐκτελέσαντες ἀτειρέες ἔργον ἀῆται
εἰς ἑὸν ἄντρον ἕκαστος ὁμοῦ νεφέεσσι φέροντο.
“ 3 α΄. » 4 e/
Μυρμιδόνες δ᾽, ὅτ᾽ ἄνακτα πελώριον ὕστατον
ἄλλων
Mv ~ 5. » / \ a
ἤνυσε πῦρ ἀΐδηλον ἀποκταμένων περὶ νεκρῷ 720
“ > 2 “a Ὧν 7 Ὁ ya ’
ἵππων T αἰζηῶν τε, καὶ ἀλλ ὅσα δακρυχέοντες
Μ 3 \ / ΄ - > ,
ὄβριμον ἀμφὶ νέκυν κειμήλια θῆκαν ᾿Αχαιοΐ,
a x » ᾽
δὴ τότε πυρκαϊὴν οἴνῳ σβέσαν" ὀστέα δ᾽ αὐτοῦ
φαίνετ᾽ ἀριφραδέως, ἐπεὶ οὐχ ἑτέροισιν ὁμοῖα
ἣν, ἀλλ᾽ οἷα Viyavtos ἀτειρέος, οὐδὲ μὲν ἄλλα 725
, ? ? ’
σὺν κείνοις ἐμέμικτ᾽, ἐπεὶ ἢ βόες NOE καὶ ἵπποι
καὶ παῖδες Τρώων μίγδα κταμένοισι καὶ ἄλλοις
, e ,
βαιὸν ἄπωθε κέοντο περὶ νέκυν, ὃς δ᾽ ἐνὶ μέσσοις
id ~ e - / / 3 wv
ῥιπῇ Up ᾿Ηφαίστοιο δεδμημένος οἷος ἔκειτο.
τοῦ δὲ καὶ ὀστέα πάντα περιστενάχοντες ἑταῖροι 730
/
ἄλλεγον ἐς χηλὸν πολυχανδέα, τε βριαρήν τε
Σ /
ἀργυρέην, χρυσῷ δὲ διαυγέϊ πᾶσ᾽ ἐκέκαστο"
καὶ τὰ μὲν ἀμβροσίῃ καὶ ἀλείφασι πάγχυ δίηναν
κοῦραι Νηρῆος μέγ᾽ ᾿Αχιλλέα κυδαίνουσαι,
ΕῚ \ “ἢ \ / > , / 7
ἐς δὲ βοῶν δημὸν θέσαν ἀθροα παγχὺυ χεασαῖ 735
\ a - 7 / δι. --
σὺν μέλιτι λιαρῷ" μήτηρ δέ οἱ ἀμφιφορῆα
ὦπασε, τόν ῥα πάροιθε Διώνυσος πόρε δῶρον,
ς / \ » 2 oh ihe a
Ηφαίστου κλυτὸν ἔργον ἐΐῴφρονος" ᾧ ἔνι θῆκαν
> a> 72 a / ᾽ \ δὲ /
ὀστέ ᾿Αχιλλῆος μεγαλήτορος: ἀμφὶ δὲ τύμβον
164
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK III
Swooped they; upleapt the Fire-god’s madding
breath :
Uprose a long wail from the Myrmidons.
Then, though with whirlwind rushes toiled the winds
All day, all night, they needs must fan the flames
Ere that death-pyre burned out. Up to the heavens
Vast-volumed rolled the smoke. The huge tree-trunks
Groaned, writhing, bursting, in the heat, and dropped
The dark-grey ash all round. So when the winds
Had tirelessly fulfilled their mighty task,
Back to their cave they rode cloud-charioted.
Then, when the fire had last of al] consumed
That hero-king, when all the steeds, the men
Slain round the pyre had first been ravined up,
With all the costly offerings laid around
The mighty dead by Achaia’s weeping sons,
The glowing embers did the Myrmidons quench
With wine. Then clear to be discerned were seen
His bones ; for nowise like the rest were they,
But like an ancient Giant’s; none beside
With these were blent; for bulls and steeds, and sons
Of Troy, with all that mingled hecatomb,
Lay in a wide ring round his corse, and he
Amidst them, flame-devoured, lay there alone.
So his companions groaning gathered up
His bones, and in a silver casket laid
Massy and deep, and banded and bestarred
With flashing gold; and Nereus’ daughters shed
Ambrosia over them, and precious nards
For honour to Achilles: fat of kine
And amber honey poured they over all.
A golden vase his mother gave, the gift
In old time of the Wine-god, glorious work
Of the craft-master Fire-god, in the which
They laid the casket that enclosed the bones
Of mighty-souled Achilles. All around
2
τός
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
᾿Αργεῖοι καὶ σῆμα πελώριον ἀμφεβάλοντο 740
ἀκτῇ ἐπ᾽ ἀκροτάτη παρὰ βένθεσιν ᾿Βλλησπόντου
Μυρμιδόνων βασιλῆα θρασὺν περικωκύοντες.
Οὐδὲ μὲν ἄμβροτοι ἴ ἵπποι ἀταρβέος Αἰακίδαο
μίμνον ἀδάκρυτοι παρὰ νήεσιν, ἀλλὰ καὶ αὐτοὶ
μύροντο σφετέροιο δαϊκταμένου βασιλῆος, 745
οὐδ᾽ ἔθελον μογεροῖσιν ἔτ᾽ ἀνδράσιν οὐδὲ μὲν
ἵπποις
μίσγεσθ᾽ ᾿Αργείων ὀλοὸν περὶ πένθος ἔχοντες,
ἀλλ᾽ ὑπὲρ ὠκεανοῖο ῥοὰς καὶ Τηθύος ἄντρα
ἀνθρώπων ἀπάτερθεν ὀϊξυρῶν φορέεσθαι,
nxt σφεας TO πάροιθεν ἐγείνατο δῖα Ποδάργη 750
ἄμφω ἀελλόποδας Ζεφύρῳ κελάδοντι μιγεῖσα.
καί νύ κεν αἶψ᾽ ἐτέλεσσαν ὅσα σφίσι μήδετο
θυμός,
εἰ μή σφεας κατέρυξε θεῶν νόος, ὄφρ᾽ ᾿Αχιλῆος
ἔλθοι ἀπὸ Σκύροιο θοὸς πάις, ὅν ῥα καὶ αὐτοὶ
δέχνυνθ᾽, ὁππόθ᾽ ἵκοιτο ποτὶ στρατόν, οὕνεκ᾽
ἄρα σφι 755
θέσφατα γεινομένοισι Χάους ἱεροῖο θύγατρες
Μοῖραι ἐπεκλώσαντο καὶ ἀθανάτοις περ ἐοῦσι
πρῶτα ἸΠοσειδάωνι δαμήμεναι, αὐτὰρ ἔπειτα
θαρσαλέῳ IInd καὶ ἀκαμάτῳ ᾿Αχιλῆι,
τέτρατον αὖτ᾽ ἐπὶ τοῖσι Νεοπτολέμῳ μεγαθύμῳ, 760
τὸν καὶ ἐς ᾿Ηλύσιον πεδίον μετόπισθεν ἔμελλον
Ζηνὸς ὑ ὑπ᾽ ἐννεσίῃσι φέρειν μακάρων ἐπὶ γαῖαν.
τοὔνεκα καὶ στυγερῇ BeBornpévor ἡ ἦτορ avin
μίμνον πὰρ νήεσσιν ἐὸν κατὰ θυμὸν ἄνακτα
τὸν μὲν ἀκηχέμενοι τὸν δ᾽ αὖ ποθέοντες ἰδέσθαι. 765
Καὶ τότ᾽ ἐριγδούποιο λιπὼν ἁλὸς ὄβριμον
οἶδμα
ἤλυθεν ᾿Εννοσίγαιος ἐπ᾽ ἠόνας" οὐδέ μιν ἄνδρες
ἔδρακον, ἀλλὰ θεῇσι παρίστατο Nnpnivys:
καί ῥα Θέτιν προσέειπεν ἔτ᾽ ἀχνυμένην ᾿Αχιλῆος"
166
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK III
The Argives heaped a barrow, a giant sign,
Upon a foreland’s uttermost end, beside
The Hellespont’s deep waters, wailing loud
Farewells unto the Myrmidons’ hero-king.
Nor stayed the immortal steeds of Aeacus’ son
Tearless beside the ships ; they also mourned
Their slain king: sorely loth were they to abide
Longer mid mortal men or Argive steeds
Bearing a burden of consuming grief ;
But fain were they to soar through air, afar
From wretched men, over the Ocean’s streams,
Over the Sea-queen’s caverns, unto where
Divine Podarge bare that storm-foot twain
Begotten of the West-wind clarion-voiced.
Yea, and they had accomplished their desire,
But the Gods’ purpose held them back, until
From Scyros’ isle Achilles’ fleetfoot son
Should come. Him waited they to welcome, when
He came unto the war-host; for the Fates,
Daughters of holy Chaos, at their birth
Had spun the life-threads of those deathless foals,
Even to serve Poseidon first, and next
Peleus the dauntless king, Achilles then
The invincible, and, after these, the fourth,
The mighty-hearted Neoptolemus,
Whom after death to the Elysian Plain
They were to bear, unto the Blesséd Land,
By Zeus’ decree. For which cause, though their hearts
Were pierced with bitter anguish, they abode
Still by the ships, with spirits sorrowing
For their old lord, and yearning for the new.
Then from the surge of heavy-plunging seas
Rose the Earth-shaker. No man saw his feet
Pace up the strand, but suddenly he stood
Beside the Nereid Goddesses, and spake
To Thetis, yet for Achilles bowed with grief:
167
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
ce od ~ A δὸ > ’ ᾿
ἰσχέεο νυν περὶ παιὸος ἀαπειρέσιον γοοὼσα" 770
᾽ A ef ΄ 4 ? \ a
ov yap 0 ye φθιμένοισι μετέσσεται, ἀλλὰ θεοῖσιν
e ν 4 , 8 A ’ ΄ ~
ὡς nus Διόνυσος ἰδὲ σθένος ᾿Ηρακλῆος:"
, , ’ aN e Ν 2 oN > 4
οὐ yap μιν μόρος αἰνὸς ὑπὸ ζόφον αἰὲν ἐρύξει
οὐδ᾽ “Aidns, ἀλλ᾽ αἶψα καὶ ἐς Διὸς ἵξεται αὐγάς"
καί οἱ δῶρον ἔγωγε θεουδέα νῆσον ὀπάσσω 775
Ιὑὔξεινον κατὰ πόντον, ὅπῃ θεὸς ἔσσεται αἰεὶ
Ν 7- ᾽ A \ - , ΄ -
σὸς πάϊς" ἀμφὶ δὲ φῦλα περικτιόνων μέγα λαῶν
“- » a
κεῖνον κυδαίνοντα θνηπολίῃς ἐρατεινῇς
ἶσον ἐμοὶ τίσουσι" σὺ δ᾽ ἴσχεο κωκύουσα
> , A / / / - , ᾽ν»
ἐσσυμένως καὶ μή τι χαλέπτεο πένθεϊ θυμόν. 780
A > Ν 3. ἀν / » , Μ» ”
Ὡς εἰπὼν ἐπὶ πόντον ἀπήιεν εἴκελος avpn
, 4 , a DL a? \ \
παρφάμενος μύθοισι Θέτιν' τῆς δ᾽ ἐν φρεσὶ θυμὸς
βαιὸν ἀνέπνευσεν' τὰ δέ οἱ θεὸς ἐξετέλεσσεν.
᾽ a \ “-“ > 4, τ e ,
Αργεῖοι δὲ γοῶντες ἀπήιον, ἧχι ἑκάστῳ
fol ” = ᾽ / € SP ee,
νῆες ἔσαν, Tas ἦγον ἀφ᾽ Ελλάδος: ai δ᾽ “Ἔλι-
κῶνα 785
Πιερίδες νίσσοντο, καὶ εἰς ἅλα Νηρηῖναι
δῦσαν ἀναστενάχουσαι ἐΐφρονα Πηλείωνα.
168
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK III
‘Refrain from endless mourning for thy son.
Not with the dead shall he abide, but dwell
With Gods, as doth the might of Herakles,
And Dionysus ever fair. Not him
Dread doom shall prison in darkness evermore,
Nor Hades keep him. To the light of Zeus
Soon shall he rise; and I will give to him
A holy island for my gift: it lies
Within the Euxine Sea: there evermore
A God thy son shall be. The tribes that dwell
Around shall as mine own self honour him
With incense and with steam of sacrifice.
Hush thy laments, vex not thine heart with grief.”
Then like a wind-breath had he passed away
Over the sea, when that consoling word
Was spoken ; and a little in her breast
Revived the spirit of Thetis: and the God
Brought this to pass thereafter. All the host
Moved moaning thence, and came unto the ships
That brought them o’er from Hellas. Then returned
To Helicon the Muses: ‘neath the sea,
Wailing the dear dead, Nereus’ Daughters sank.
169
AOTOD ΤΈΤΑΡΤΟΣ
Οὐδὲ μὲν Ἱππολόχοιο δαΐφρονος ὄβριμον υἷα
Τ ρῶες ἀδάκρυτον δειλοὶ λίπον, ἀλλὰ καὶ αὐτοὶ
Δαρδανίης προπάροιθε πύλης ἐρικυδέα φῶτα
πυρκαϊῆς καθύπερθε βάλον: τὸν δ᾽ αὐτὸς
᾿Απόλλων
ἐκ πυρὸς αἰθομένοιο μάλ᾽ ἐσσυμένως ἀναείρας
δῶκε θοοῖς ἀ ἀνέμοισι φέρειν Λυκίης σχεδὸν αἴης"
οἱ δέ μεν αἶψ ἀπένεικαν ὑπ᾽ ἄγκεα Τηλάνδροιο
@pov ἐς ἱμερόεντα, πέτρην δ᾽ ἐφύπερθε βάλοντο
ἄρρηκτον" Νύμφαι δὲ περίβλυσαν ἱ ἱερὸν ὕδωρ
ἀενάου ποταμοῖο, τὸν εἰσέτι φῦλ᾽ ἀνθρώπων
Γλαῦκον ἐπικλείουσιν ἐύρροον' ἀλλὰ τὰ μέν πον
ἀθάνατοι τεύξαντο γέρας Λυκίων βασιλῆι.
᾿Αργεῖοι δ᾽ ἐρίθυμον a ἀνεστενάχοντ᾽ ᾿Αχιλῆα
νηυσὶ Tap ὠκυπόροισιν' ἔτειρε δὲ πάντας avin
λευγαλέη καὶ πένθος, ἐ ἐπεί ῥά μιν ὡς ἑὸν υἷα
δίζοντ᾽, οὐδέ τις ἦεν ἀνὰ στρατὸν εὐρὺν adakpus:
Τρῶες δ᾽ αὗτ᾽ ἀλίαστον ἐγήθεον εἰσορόωντες
τοὺς μὲν ἀκηχεμένους, τὸν δ᾽ ἐν πυρὶ δηωθέντα:
καί τις ἐπευχόμενος μῦθον ποτὶ τοῖον ἔειπεν"
“νῦν πάντεσσιν ἄελπτον am Οὐλύμποιο Kpo-
νίων
ἡμῖν ὦπασε χάρμα λιλαιομένοισιν ἰδέσθαι
ἐν Τροίῃ ᾿Αχιλῆα δεδουπότα: τοῦ γὰρ ὀΐω
βλημένου ἀμπνεύσειν Τρώων ἐρικυδέα φῦλα
170
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BOOK IV
Hon in the Funeral Games of Achilles heroes contended.
Nor did the hapless Trojans leave unwept
The warrior-king Hippolochus’ hero-son,
But laid, in front of the Dardanian gate,
Upon the pyre that captain war-renowned.
But him Apollo’s self caught swiftly up
Out of the blazing fire, and to the winds
Gave him, to bear away to Lycia-land ;
And fast and far they bare him, ’neath the glens
Of high Telandrus, to a lovely glade ;
And for a monument above his grave
Upheaved a granite rock. The Nymphs therefrom
Made gush the hallowed water of a stream
For ever flowing, which the tribes of men
Still call fair-fleeting Glaucus. This the gods
Wrought for an honour to the Lycian king.
But for Achilles still the Argives mourned
Beside the swift ships: heart-sick were they all
With dolorous pain and grief. Each yearned for him
As for a son; no eye in that wide host
Was tearless. But the Trojans with great joy
Exulted, seeing their sorrow from afar,
And the great fire that spake their foe consumed.
And thus a vaunting voice amidst them cried :
«* Now hath Cronion from his heaven vouchsafed
A joy past hope unto our longing eyes,
To see Achilles fallen before Troy.
Now he is smitten down, the glorious hosts
171
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
αἵματος ἐξ ὀλοοῖο καὶ ἀνδροφόνου ὑσμίνης"
αἰεὶ, γὰρ φρεσὶν How ἐμήδετο ἀν ρωσιὶν “ὄλεθρον
αἰνὰ δέ οἱ χείρεσσιν ἐμαίνετο λοίγιον ἔ εγχος 25
λύθρῳ ὑπ᾽ apyaréw πεπαλαγμένον, οὐδέ τις
ἡμέων
κείνῳ ἔναντα κιὼν ἔτ᾽ ἐσέδρακεν ᾿Ηριγένειαν'
νῦν δ᾽ ὀΐω φεύξεσθαι ᾿Αχαιῶν ὄβριμα τέκνα
νηυσὶν ἐὐπρώροισι δαϊκταμένου ᾿Αχιλῆος"
ὡς ὄφελον μένος ἦεν ἔθ᾽ “Extopos, opp ἅμα
πάντας 30
᾿Αργείους σφετέρησιν ἐνὶ κλισίῃσιν ὄλεσσεν."
“Ὡς ap ἔφη Τρώων τις ἐνὶ φρεσὶ πάγχυ γε-
Gas"
ἄλλος δ᾽ αὖθ᾽ ἑτέρωθι πύκα φρονέων φάτο pibov:
“φῆσθα σὺ μὲν Δαναῶν ὀλοὸν στρατὸν ἔνδοθι
νηῶν.
πόντον ἐπ᾽ ἠερόεντα πεφυζότας αἶψα νέεσθαι" 35
ἀλλ᾽ οὐ μὰν δείσουσι λελαιόμενοι μέγα χάρμης"
εἰσὶ γάρ ἧ κρατεροί τε καὶ ὄβριμοι a ἀνέρες ἄλλοι,
Τυδείδης. Αἴας τε καὶ ᾿Ατρέος ὄβριμοι υἷες"
τοὺς ἔτ᾽ ἐγὼ δείδοικα κατακταμένου ᾿Αχιλῆος'
τοὺς εἴθ᾽ “ἀργυρότοξος ἀναιρήσειεν ᾿Απόλλων, 40
καί κεν ἀνάπνευσις πολέμου καὶ ἀεικέος οἴτου
ἡμῖν εὐχομένοισιν ἐλεύσεται ἤματι κείνῳ.
“Ὡς ἔφατ᾽. ἀθάνατοι δὲ Kat οὐρανὸν ἐστενά-
οντο,
ὅσσοι ἔσαν Δαναοῖσιν ἐνσθενέεσσιν ἀρωγοί,
ἀμφὶ δὲ κρᾶτ᾽ ἐκάλυψαν ἀπειρεσίοις νεφέεσσι 45
θυμὸν ἀ ἀκή) ἐμενοι" ἑτέρωθι ὃ δε γήθεον ἄλλοι
εὐχόμενοι ρώεσσι πέρας θυμηδὲς ὀρέξαι.
καὶ τότε δὴ Κρονίωνα KNUTH προσεφώνεεν΄ Ή βρη"
“ Ζεῦ πάτερ ἀργικέραυνε, τί ἢ Τ ρώεσσιν ἀρήγεις
κούρης ἠύκόμοιο λελασμένος, ἥν ῥα πάροιθεν 50)
ἀντιθέῳ Ἰ]Πηλῆι πόρες θυμήρε᾽ dxovrw
172
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Of Troy, I trow, shall win a breathing-space
From blood of death and from the murderous fray.
Ever his heart devised the Trojans’ bane ;
In his hands maddened aye the spear of doom
With gore besprent, and none of us that faced
Him in the fight beheld another dawn.
But now, I wot, Achaea’s valorous sons
Shall flee unto their galleys shapely-prowed,
Since slain Achilles lies. Ah that the might
Of Hector still were here, that he might slay
The Argives one and all amidst their tents!”
So in unbridled joy a Trojan cried ;
But one more wise and prudent answered him:
“Thou deemest that yon murderous Danaan host
Will straightway get them to the ships, to flee
Over the misty sea. Nay, still their lust
Is hot for fight: us will they nowise fear.
Still are there left strong battle-eager men,
As Aias, as Tydeides, Atreus’ sons :
Though dead Achilles be, I still fear these.
Oh that Apollo Silverbow would end them!
Then in that day were given to our prayers
A breathing-space from war and ghastly death.”
In heaven was dole among the Immortal Ones,
Even all that helped the stalwart Danaans’ cause.
In clouds like mountains piled they veiled their
heads
For grief of soul. But glad those others were
Who fain would speed Troy to a happy goal.
Then unto Cronos’ Son great Hera spake :
“ Zeus, Lightning-father, wherefore helpest thou
Troy, all forgetful of the fair-haired bride
Whom once to Peleus thou didst give to wife
173
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
Πηλίου ἐν βήσσησι; γάμον δέ οἱ αὐτὸς ἔτευξας
ἄμβροτον, οἱ δέ νυ πάντες ἐδαινύμεθ᾽ ἤματι κείνῳ
ἀθάνατοι καὶ πολλὰ δόμεν περικαλλέα δῶρα"
ἀλλὰ τά γ᾽ ἐξελάθου, μέγα δ᾽ ᾿Ελλάδι μήσαο
πένθος."
“Os ap ἔφη: τὴν δ᾽ οὔτι προσέννεπεν ἀκάματος
Ζεύς"
ἧστο γὰρ ἀχνύμενος κραδίην καὶ πολλὰ μενοινῶν,
οὕνεκεν ἤμελλον Πριάμου πόλιν ἐξαλαπάξειν
᾿Αργεῖοι, τοῖς αἰνὸν ἐμήδετο λοιγὸν ὀπάσσαι
ἐν πολέμῳ στονόεντι καὶ ἐν βαρυηχέϊ πόντῳ"
καὶ τὰ μὲν ὡς ὥρμαινε, τὰ δὴ μετόπισθε τέλεσ-
σεν.
"Has δ᾽ ὠκεανοῖο βαθὺν ῥόον εἰσαφίκανε,
κυανέην δ᾽ ἄρα γαῖαν ἐπήιεν ἄσπετος ὄρφνη,
ἦμος ἀναπνείουσι βροτοὶ βαιὸν καμάτοιο"
᾿Αργεῖοι δ᾽ ἐπὶ νηυσὶν ἐδόρπεον a ἀχνύμενοί περ"
οὐ γὰρ νηδύος ἐστὶν ἀπωσέμεναι μεμαυίης
λιμὸν ἀταρτηρόν, ὁπόταν στέρνοισιν ἴκηται.
ἀλλ᾽ εἶθαρ θοὰ γυῖα βαρύνεται, οὐδέ τι μῆχος
γίνεται, ἣν μή τις κορέσῃ θυμαλγέα νηδύν'
τοὔνεκα δαῖτ᾽ ἐπάσαντο καὶ ἀχνύμενοι ᾿Αχιλῆος'
αἰνὴ γὰρ μάλα πάντας ἐποτρύνεσκεν ἀνάγκη.
τοῖσι δὲ πασσαμένοισιν ἐπήλυθε νήδυμος ὕπνος,
λῦσε δ᾽ ἀπὸ μελέων ὀδύνας, ἐπὶ δὲ σθένος ὧρσεν.
᾿Αλλ᾽ ὅτε δὴ κεφαλὰς μὲν ἐπ᾽ ἀντολίην ἔχον
»
ἄρκτοι,
δέγμεναι ἠελίοιο θοὸν φάος, ἔγρετο δ᾽ ἠώς,
δὴ τότ᾽ ἀνέγρετο λαὸς ἐὐσθενέων ᾿Αργείων
πορφύρων Τρώεσσι φόνον. καὶ κῆρ ᾿ ἀΐδηλον.
κίνυτο δ᾽ ἠὔτε πόντος ἀπείριτος Ἱκαρίοιο
ἠὲ καὶ αὐαλέον βαθὺ λήιον, ὁππόθ᾽ ἵκηται
174
δῦ
60
70
75
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK IV
Midst Pelion’s glens? Thyself didst bring to pass
Those spousals of a Goddess : on that day
All we Immortals feasted there, and gave
Gifts passing-fair. All this dost thou forget,
And hast devised for Hellas heaviest woe.”’
So spake she ; but Zeus answered not a word ;
For pondering there he sat with burdened breast,
Thinking how soon the Argives should destroy
The city of Priam, thinking how himself
Would visit on the victors ruin dread
In war and on the great sea thunder-voiced.
Such thoughts were his, ere long to be fulfilled.
Now sank the sun to Ocean's fathomless flood :
O’er the dim land the infinite darkness stole,
Wherein men gain a little rest from toil.
Then by the ships, despite their sorrow, supped
The Argives, for ye cannot thrust aside
Hunger’s importunate craving, when it comes
Upon the breast, but straightway heavy and faint
Lithe limbs become ; nor is there remedy
Until one satisfy this clamorous guest.
Therefore these ate the meat of eventide
In grief for Achilles: hard necessity
Constrained them all. And, when they had broken
bread,
Sweet sleep came on them, loosening from their
frames
Care’s heavy chain, and quickening strength anew
But when the starry Bears had eastward turned
Their heads, expectant of the uprushing light
Of Helios, and when woke the Queen of Dawn,
Then rose from sleep the stalwart Argive men
Purposing for the Trojans death and doom.
Stirred were they like the roughly-ridging sea
Icarian, or as sudden-rippling corn
In harvest field, what time the rushing wings
175
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
ῥιπὴ ἀπειρεσίη νεφεληγερέος Ζεφύροιο" 80
ὡς ἄρα κίνυτο λαὸς ἐπ᾽ nootv ᾿Ελλησπόντον.
καὶ τότε Τυδέος υἱὸς ἐελδομένοισιν ἔειπεν"
“ὦ φίλοι, εἰ ἐτεόν γε μενεπτόλεμοι πελόμεσθα,
νῦν μᾶλλον στυγεροῖσι μαχώμεθα δυσμενέεσσι,
μή πως θαρσήσωσιν ᾿Αχιλλέος οὐκέτ᾽ ἐόντος" 85
ἀλλ᾽ aye, σὺν τεύχεσσι καὶ ἅρμασιν ἠδὲ καὶ
ἵπποις
ἴομεν ἀμφὶ πόληα' πόνος δ᾽ ἄρα κῦδος ορέξει."
“Os ἔφατ᾽ ἐν Δαναοῖσιν: ἀμείβετο δ᾽ ὄβριμος
Αἴας"
“Τυδείδη, σὺ μὲν ἐσθλὰ καὶ οὐκ ἀνεμωλια βάζεις
ὀτρύνων Τρώεσσιν ἐὐπτολέμοισι μάχεσθαι 90
ἀγχεμάχους Δαναούς, οἴπερ μεμάασι καὶ αὐτοί:
ἀλλὰ χρὴ ἐν νήεσσι μένειν, ἄχρις ἐξ ἁλὸς ἔλθη
δῖα Θέτις: μάλα γάρ οἱ ἐνὶ φρεσὶ μήδεται ἧτορ
υἱέος ἀμφὶ τάφῳ περικαλλέα θεῖναι ἄεθλα:
ὡς χθιζή μοι ἔειπεν, ὅτ᾽ εἰς ἁλὸς ἥιε βένθος, 95
νόσφ᾽ ἄλλων Aavawy: καί ἑ σχεδὸν ἔλπομαι εἶναι
ἐσσυμένην: Τρῶες δέ, καὶ εἰ θάνε Πηλέος υἱός,
ov μάλα θαρσήσουσιν ἔτι ζώοντος ἐμεῖο
καὶ σέθεν ἠδὲ καὶ αὐτοῦ ἀμύμονος ᾿Ατρείδαο.
Ὡς ἄρ᾽ ἔφη Τελαμῶνος ἐ ἐὺς πάϊς, οὐδέ τι ἤδη, 100
ὅττι ῥά οἱ μετ᾽ ἄεθλα κακὸν μόρον ἔντυε δαίμων
ἀργαλέον" τὸν δ᾽ αὖθις ἀμείβετο Τυδέος υἱός"
“ἃ ὦ φίλος, εἰ ἐτεὸν Θέτις ἔρχεται ἤματι τῷδε
υἱξος ἀμφὶ τάφῳ περικαλλέα θεῖναι ἄεθλα,
πὰρ νήεσσι μένωμεν ἐρυκανόωντε καὶ ἄλλους" 105
καὶ γὰρ δὴ μακάρεσσι θεοῖς πείθεσθαι ἐ ἔοικε"
καὶ δ᾽ ἄλλως ᾿Αχιλῆι καὶ ἀθανάτων ἀέκητι
αὐτοὶ φραζώμεσθα δόμεν θυμηδέα τιμήν.
“Os φάτο Τυδείδαο δαίφρονος ὄβριμον ἧτορ.
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THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK IV
Of the cloud-gathering West sweep over it ;
So upon Hellespont’s strand the folk were stirred.
And to those eager hearts cried Tydeus’ son:
“If we be battle-biders, friends, indeed,
More fiercely fight we now the hated foe,
Lest they take heart because Achilles lives
No longer. Come, with armour, car, and steed
Let us beset them. Glory waits our toil?”
But battle-eager Aias answering spake
‘“ Brave be thy words, and nowise idle talk,
Kindling the dauntless Argive men, whose hearts
Before were battle-eager, to the fight
Against the Trojan men, O Tydeus’ son.
But we must needs abide amidst the ships
Till Goddess Thetis come forth of the sea;
For that her heart is purposed to set here
Fair athlete-prizes for the funeral-games.
This yesterday she told me, ere she plunged
Into sea-depths, yea, spake to me apart
From other Danaans; and, I trow, by this
Her haste hath brought her nigh. Yon Trojan men,
Though Peleus’ son hath died, shall have small heart
For battle, while myself am yet alive,
And thou, and noble Atreus’ son, the king.”
So spake the mighty son of Telamon,
But knew not that a dark and bitter doom
For him should follow hard upon those games
By Fate’s contrivance. Answered Tydeus’ son
“ O friend, if Thetis comes indeed this day
With goodly gifts for her son’s funeral-games,
Then bide we by the ships, and keep we here
All others. Meet it is to do the will
Of the Immortals: yea, to Achilles too,
Though the Immortals willed it not, ourselves
Must render honour grateful to the dead.”’
So spake the battle-eager Tydeus’ son.
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
καὶ ToT ἄρ᾽ ἐκ πόντοιο Kiev Πηλῆος ἄκοιτις 110
αὔρῃ ὑπηώῃ ἐναλίγκιον: αἷψα δ᾽ ἵκανεν
᾿Αργείων ἐς ὅμιλον, ὅπῃ μεμαῶτες ἔμιμνον,
οἱ μὲν ἀεθλεύσοντες ἀπειρεσίῳ ἐν ἀγῶνι,
οἱ δὲ φρένας καὶ θυμὸν ἀεθλητῆρσιν ἰῆναι.
τοῖσι δ᾽ ἅμ᾽ ἀγρομένοισι Θέτις κυανοκρήδεμνος 11
θῆκεν. ἄεθλα φέρουσα καὶ ὀτρύνεσκεν ᾿Αχαιοὺς
αὐτίκ᾽ ἀεθλεύειν'" τοὶ δ᾽ ἀθανάτῃ πεπίθοντο.
Πρῶτος δ᾽ ἐν »μέσσοισιν ἀνίστατο Νηλέος υἱός,
οὐ μὲν πυγμαχίῃσι λιλαιόμενος πονέεσθαι
οὔτε παλαισμοσύνῃ πολυτειρέϊ' τοῦ γὰρ ὕπερθε 120
γυῖα καὶ ἅψεα πάντα λυγρὸν κατεδάμνατο γῆρας"
ἀλλά οἱ ἐν στέρνοισιν ἔτ᾽ ἔμπεδος ἔπλετο θυμὸς
καὶ νόος, οὐδέ τις ἄλλος ἐριδμαίνεσκεν ᾿Αχαιῶν
κείνῳ, ὅτ᾽ εἰν ἀγορῇ ἐπέων πέρι δῆρις ἐτύχθη:
τῷ καὶ Λαέρταο κλυτὸς πάϊς εἵνεκα μύθων 125
εἰν ἀγορῇ ὑπόεικε, καὶ ὃς βασιλεύτατος ἣεν
πάντων ᾿Αργείων μέγ᾽ ἐὐμμελίης ᾿Αγαμέμνων.
τοὔνεκ᾽ ἐνὶ μέσσοισιν eippova Νηρηίνην
ὕμνεεν, ὡς πάσῃσι μετέπρεπεν εἰναλίῃσιν
εἵνεκ᾽ ἐὐφροσύνης τε καὶ εἴδεος" 78 ἀΐουσα 180
τέρπεθ'. ο δ᾽ ἱ ἱμερόεντα γάμον Πηλῆος ἐ ἔνισπε,
τόν ῥά οἱ ἀθάνατοι μάκαρες συνετεκτήναντο
Πηλίου ἀμφὶ κάρηνα, καὶ ἄμβροτον ὡς ἐπάσαντο
δαῖτα παρ᾽ εἰλαπίνῃσιν, ὅτ᾽ εἴδατα θεῖα φέρουσαι
χερσὶν ὑπ᾽ ἀμβροσίῃσι θεαὶ παρενήνεον Ὧραι 135
χρυσείοις κανέοισι, Θέμις δ᾽ ἄρα καγχαλόωσα
ἀργυρέας ἐτίταινεν ἐπισπέρχουσα τραπέζας,
πῦρ δ᾽ Ἥφαιστος ἔκαιεν ἀκήρατον, ἀμφὶ δὲ
Νύμφαι
ἀμβροσίην ἐκέραιον ἐνὶ χρυσέοισι κυπέλλοις,
αἱ δ᾽ ap ἐς ὀρχηθμὸν Χάριτες τράπεν ἱμερόεντα, 140
Μοῦσαι δ᾽ ἐς μολπήν, ἐπετέρπετο δ᾽ οὔρεα πάντα
178
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And lo, the Bride of Peleus gliding came
Forth of the sea, like the still breath of dawn,
And suddenly was with the Argive throng
Where eager-faced they waited, some, that looked
Soon to contend in that great athlete-strife,
And some, to joy in seeing the mighty strive.
Amidst that gathering Thetis sable-stoled
Set down her prizes, and she summoned forth
Achaea’s champions: at her hest they came.
But first amidst them all rose Neleus’ son,
Not as desiring in the strife of fists
To toil, nor strain of wrestling; for his arms
And all his sinews were with grievous eld
Outworn, but still his heart and brain were strong.
Of all the Achaeans none could match himself
Against him in the folkmote’s war of words ;
Yea, even Laertes’ glorious son to him
Ever gave place when men for speech were met ;
Nor he alone, but even the kingliest
Of Argives, Agamemnon, lord of spears.
Now in their midst he sang the gracious Queen
Of Nereids, sang how she in witsomeness
Of beauty was of all the Sea-maids chief.
Well-pleased she hearkend. Yet again he sang,
Singing of Peleus’ Bridal of Delight,
Which all the blest Immortals brought to pass
By Pelion’s crests; sang of the ambrosial feast
When the swift Hours brought in immortal hands
Meats not of earth, and heaped in golden maunds ;
Sang how the silver tables were set forth
In haste by Themis blithely laughing; sang
How breathed Hephaestus purest flame of fire;
Sang how the Nymphs in golden chalices
Mingled ambrosia; sang the ravishing dance
Twined by the Graces’ feet ; sang of the chant
The Muses raised, and how its spell enthralled
179
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
a /
καὶ ποταμοὶ Kal θῆρες, taiveto δ᾽ ἄφθιτος αἰθὴρ
” / / \ \ > δ
ἄντρα τε Χείρωνος περικαλλέα καὶ θεοὶ αὐτοί.
\ \ \ Ἃ a >a. fu 9 /
Kai ta μὲν ap Νηλῆος evs πάϊς ᾿Αργείοισι
, ξεν 0c , ͵ NS! Bae
πάντα μάλ᾽ ἱεμένοις κατελέξατο" τοὶ δ᾽ ἀΐοντες 145
/ ’ A 73> a > / v Μ
τέρπονθ᾽" ὃς δ᾽ ᾿Αχιλῆος ἀμύμονος ἄφθιτα ἔργα
/ / > > fal \ 3. 9 / \
μέλπε μέσῳ ἐν ἀγῶνι: πολὺς δ᾽ ἀμφίαχε λαὸς
2] / e δι | ae) REY a « \ 2 / a
ἀσπασίως. ὁ δ᾽ ap ἔνθεν ἑλὼν ἐρικυδέα φῶτα
ἐκπάγλως κύδαινεν ἀρηραμένοις ἐπέεσσι,
δώδεχ᾽ ὅπως διέπερσε κατὰ πλόον ἄστεα φωτῶν, 150
[τὰ 5 τς \ a 3 , ς νι
ἕνδεκα δ᾽ av κατὰ γαῖαν ἀπείριτον, ὡς δ᾽ ἐδαϊξε
’, ,
Τήλεφον, ἠδὲ βίην ἐρικυδέος ᾿Ηετίωνος
Θήβης ἐν δαπέδοισι, καὶ ὡς Κύκνον ἔκτανε δουρὶ
υἷα ἸΠοσειδάωνος ἰδ᾽ ἀντίθεον Πολύδωρον
, A ΄ r
καὶ Τρώιλον θηητὸν ἀμύμονά τ᾽ ᾿Αστεροπαῖον, 155
7 νῷ b dis ” a C2
αἵματι δ᾽ ws épvOnvev ἄδην ποταμοῖο ῥέεθρα
“αν \ / 2 Ψ ,
Ξάνθου καὶ νεκύεσσιν ἀπειρεσίοισι κάλυψε
/ ev / ’ e ’ \
πάντα ῥόον κελάδοντα, Λυκάονος ὁππότε θυμὸν
νοσφίσατ᾽ ἐκ μελέων ποταμοῦ σχεδὸν ἠχήεντος,
“Ἕκτορά θ᾽ ὡς ἐδάμασσε, καὶ ὡς ἕλε Πενθε-
,
σίλειαν, 160
"ὃ Ν ἃ Ὁ, a d- / 3 /
ἠδὲ Kal viéa δῖον ἐὐθρόνου Hpvyeveins.
καὶ Ta μὲν ᾿Αργείοισιν ἐπισταμένοισι Kal αὐτοῖς
μέλπε, καὶ ὡς ἐτέτυκτο πελώριος, ὥς τέ οἱ οὔτις
» uA 2 / a ἃ » 2
ἔσθενε δηριάασθαι ἐναντίον, οὔτ᾽ ἐν ἀέθλοις
αἰζηῶν, ὅτε ποσσὶ νέοι περιδηριόωνται, 165
» \ N e / » Ν ’ὔ aN 7
οὐδὲ μὲν ἱππασίῃ, οὐδὲ oTadin ἐνὶ χάρμῃ,
/ fh ᾽ id 3 \ a are / 4 ϑ e
κάλλεϊ θ᾽ ὡς Δαναοὺς μέγ ὑπείρεχεν, WS TE οἱ
ἀλκὴ
’ a
ἔπλετ᾽ ἀπειρεσίη, ὁπότ᾽ “Apeos ἔσσυτο δῆρις.
a /
εὔχετο δ᾽ ἀθανάτοισι καὶ vida τοῖον ἰδέσθαι
/ > \ / 4 ,
κείνου ἀπὸ Σκύροιο πολυκλύστοιο μολοντα. 170
180
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK IV
All mountains, rivers, al] the forest brood ;
How raptured was the infinite firmament,
Cheiron’s fair caverns, yea, the very Gods.
Such noble strain did Neleus’ son pour out
Into the Argives’ eager ears; and they
Hearkened with ravished souls. Then in their midst
He sang once more the imperishable deeds
Of princely Achilles. All the mighty throng
Acclaimed him with delight. From that beginning
With fitly chosen words did he extol
The glorious hero; how he voyaged and smote
Twelve cities; how he marched o’er Jeagues on
leagues
Of land, and spoiled eleven; how he slew
Telephus and Eétion’s might renowned
In Thebe ; how his spear laid Cyenus low,
Poseidon’s son, and godlike Polydorus,
Troilus the goodly, princely Asteropaeus ;
And how he dyed with blood the river-streams
Of Xanthus. and with countless corpses choked
His murmuring flow, when from the limbs he tore
wu, ~oOn’s life beside the sounding river ;
And how he smote down Hector; how he slew
Penthesileia, and the godlike son
Of splendour-throned Dawn ;—-all this he sang
To Argives which already knew the tale ;
Sang of his giant mould, how no man’s strength
In fight could stand against him, nor in games
Where strong men strive for mastery, where the swift
Contend with flying feet or hurrying wheels
Of chariots, nor in combat panoplied ;
And how in goodlihead he far outshone
All Danaans, and how his bodily might
Was measureless in the stormy clash of war.
Last, he prayed Heaven that he might see a son
Like that great sire from sea-washed Scyros come.
IST
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
᾿Αργεῖοι δ᾽ ἄρα πᾶσιν ἐπευφημησαν ἔπεσσιν
αὐτή T ἀργυρόπεζα Θέτις, Kai οἱ πόρεν ἵππους
ὠκύποδας, τοὺς πρόσθεν ev ppErin ᾿Αχιλῆε
Τήλεφος ὦπασε δῶρον ἐπὶ προχοῇσι Καΐκου,
εὖτέ ἑ μοχθίζοντα κακῷ περὶ ἕλκεϊ θυμὸν 175
ἠκέσατ᾽ ἐγχείῃ, TH μιν Bare δηριόωντα
αὐτὸς ἔσω μηροῖο, διήλασε δ᾽ ὄβριμον αἰχμήν.
καὶ τοὺς μὲν Νέστωρ Νηλήιος οἷς ἑτάροισιν
ὠπασεν'" οἱ δ᾽ ἐς νῆας ἄγον μέγα κυδαίνοντες
ἀντίθεον βασιλῆα. Θέτις δ᾽ ἐς μέσσον ἀγῶνα 180
θῆκεν ap ἀμφὶ δρόμοιο βόας δέκα" τῇσι δὲ πάσης
καλαὶ πόρτιες ἦσαν ὑπὸ μαζοῖσιν ἐ ἰοῦσαι"
τάς ποτε Πηλείδαο θρασὺ σθένος ἀκαμάτοιο
ἤλασεν €& "ldns μεγάλῳ ἐπὶ δουρὶ πεποιθώς.
Τῶν πέρι δοιοὶ ἀνέσταν ἐελδόμενοι μέγα νίκης" 185
Τεῦκρος μὲν πρῶτος Τελαμώνιος, ἂν δὲ καὶ Αἴας,
Αἴας, ὅς τε Λοκροῖσι μετέπρεπεν ἰοβόλοισιν.
ἀμφὶ δ᾽ ἄρα ζώσαντο θοῶς περὶ μήδεα χερσὶ
φάρεα, πάντα δ᾽ ἔνερθεν, ἅπερ θέμις, ἐκρύψαντο
αἰδόμενοι ΠΠηλῆος ἐὐσθενέος παράκοιτιν 190
ἄλλας τ᾽ εἰναλίας Νηρηίδας, ¢ ὅσσαι ἅμ᾽ αὐτῇ
ἤλυθον ᾿Αργείων κρατεροὺς ἐσιδέσθαι ἀέθλους.
τοῖσι δὲ σημαίνεσκε δρόμου τέλος ὠκυτάτοιο
᾿Ατρείδης, ὃς πᾶσι μετ᾽ ᾿Αργείοισιν ἄνασσε.
τοὺς δ᾽ “Epis ὀτρύνεσκεν ἐπήρατος" οἱ δ᾽ ἀπὸ
νύσσης 195
καρπαλίμως οἴμησαν ἐοικοτες ἰρήκεσσι'
τῶν δὲ καὶ ἀμφήριστος ἐ ἔην δρόμος" οἱ δ᾽ ἑκάτερθεν
᾿Αργεῖοι λεύσσοντες ἐπίαχον ἄλλυδις ἄλλος.
ἀλλ᾽ ὅτε τέρματ᾽ ἔμελλον ἱκανέμεναι μεμαῶτες,
δὴ τότε που Τεύκροιο μένος καὶ γυΐα πέδησαν 200
ἀθάνατοι" τὸν γάρ ῥα θεὸς βάλεν ἡ ἠέ τις ἄτη
ὄζον ἐς ἀλγινόεντα βαθυρρίζοιο μυρίκης"
182
THE FALL ΟΕ TROY, BOOK IV
That noble song acclaiming Argives praised ;
Yea, silver-footed Thetis smiled, and gave
The singer fleetfoot horses, given of old
Beside Caicus’ mouth by Telephus
To Achilles, when he healed the torturing wound
With that same spear wherewith himself had pierced
Telephus’ thigh, and thrust the point clear through.
These Nestor Neleus’ son to his comrades gave,
And, glorying in their godlike lord, they led
The steeds unto his ships. Then Thetis set
Amidst the athlete-ring ten kine, to be
Her prizes for the footrace, and by each
Ran a fair suckling calf. These the bold might
Of Peleus’ tireless son had driven down
From slopes of Ida, prizes of his spear.
To strive for these rose up two victory-fain,
Teucer the first, the son of Telamon,
And Aias, of the Locrian archers chief.
These twain with swift hands girded them about
With loin-cloths, reverencing the Goddess-bride
Of Peleus, and the Sea-maids, who with her
Came to behold the Argives’ athlete-sport.
And Atreus’ son, lord of all Argive men,
Showed them the turning-goal of that swift course.
Then these the Queen of Rivalry spurred on,
As from the starting-line like falcons swift
They sped away. Long doubtful was the race:
Now, as the Argives gazed, would Aias’ friends
Shout, now rang out the answering cheer from friends
Of Teucer. But when in their eager speed
Close on the end they were, then Teucer’s feet
Were trammelled by unearthly powers: some ged
Or demon dashed his foot against the stock
183
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
τῷ δ᾽ ap ἐνιχριμφθεὶς χαμάδις πέσε: τοῦ δ᾽
ἀλεγεινῶς
ἄκρον ἀνεγνάμφθη λαιοῦ ποδός, αἱ δ᾽ ὑπανέσταν
οἰδαλέαι ἑκάτερθε περὶ φλέβες. οἱ δ᾽ ἰάχησαν 205
᾿Αργεῖοι κατ᾽ ἀγῶνα" παρήιξεν δέ μιν Αἴας
γηθόσυνος" λαοὶ δὲ συνέδραμον, οἵ οἱ ἕποντο,
Λοκροί: αἶψα δὲ χάρμα περὶ φρένας ἤλυθε
πάντων"
ἐκ δ᾽ ἔλασαν κατὰ νῆας ἀγοῦ βόας, ὄφρα νέμωνται.
Τεῦκρον δ᾽ ἐσσυμένως ἕταροι περιττοιπτνύοντες Φ10
ἦγον ἐπισκάζοντα: θοῶς δέ οἱ ἰητῆρες
ἐκ ποδὸς αἷμ᾽ ἀφέλοντο, θέσαν δ᾽ ἐφύπερθε μοτάων
εἴρι᾽ ἄδην δεύσαντες ἀλείφασιν' ἀμφὶ δὲ μέτρην
δήσαντ᾽ ἐνδυκέως" ὀλοὰς δ᾽ ἐκέδασσαν ἀ ἀνίας.
ἼΛλλω δ᾽ αὖθ᾽ ἑτέρωθι παλαισμοσύνης ὑπερ-
όπλου 215
καρπαλίμως μνώοντο δύω κρατερόφρονε φῶτε,
Ῥυδέος ἱπποδάμοιο πάϊς καὶ ὑπέρβιος Αἴας,
οἵ ῥ᾽ ἴσαν ἐς μέσσον" θάμβος δ᾽ ἔχεν ἀθρήσαντας
᾿Αργείους" ἄμφω γὰρ ἔσαν μακάρεσσιν ὁ ὁμοῖοι.
σὺν δ᾽ ἔβαλον θήρεσσιν ἐ ἐοικότες, οἵ τ᾽ ἐν ὄρεσσιν 220
ἀμφ᾽ ἐλάφοιο μάχονται ἐδητύος ἰσχανόωντες,
ἶσον δ᾽ ἀμφοτέροισι πέλει σθένος, οὐδέ τις αὐτῶν
λείπεται οὐδ᾽ ἠβαιὸν ἀταρτηρῶν μάλ᾽ ἐόντων"
ὡς οἵ γ᾽ ἶσον ἔχον κρατερὸν μένος. ὀψὲ δ᾽ dp’ Αἴας
Τυδείδην συνέμαρψεν ὑ ὑπὸ στιβαρῇσι χέρεσσιν 225
aka é ἐπειγόμενος. ὁ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἰδρείῃ τε καὶ ἀλκῇ
πλευρὸν ὑποκλίνας Τελαμώνιον ὄβριμον υἷα
ἐσσυμένως ἀνάειρεν. ὑπὸ μνῶνος ἐρείσας
ὦμον, καὶ ποδὶ μηρὸν ὑποπλίξας € ἑτέρωσε
κάββαλεν. ὄβριμον ἄνδρα κατὰ χθονός: ἀμφὶ ὃ
ap αὐτῷ 230
ἕζετο’ τοὶ δ᾽ ᾿ὁμάδησαν. ὁ δ᾽ ἀσχαλόων ἐνὶ θυμῷ
Αἴας ὀβριμόθυμος ἀνίστατο δεύτερον αὖθις
τ84
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK IV
Of a deep-rooted tamarisk. Sorely wrenched
Was his left ankle: round the joint upswelled
The veins high-ridged. A great shout rang from all
That watched the contest. Aias darted past
Exultant: ran his Locrian folk to hail
Their lord, with sudden joy in all their souls.
Then to his ships they drave the kine, and cast
Fodder before them. Eager-helpful friends
Led Teucer halting thence. The leeches drew
Blood from his foot: then over it they laid
Soft-shredded linen ointment-smeared, and swathed
With smooth bands round, and charmed away the
pain.
Then swiftly rose two mighty-hearted ones
Eager to match their strength in wrestling strain,
The son of Tydeus and the giant Aias.
Into the midst they strode, and marvelling gazed
The Argives on men shapen like to gods.
Then grappled they, like lions famine-stung
Fighting amidst the mountains o’er a stag,
Whose strength is even-balanced ; no whit less
Is one than other in their deadly rage ;
So these long time in might were even-matched,
Till Aias locked his strong hands round the son
Of Tydeus, straining hard to break his back ;
But he, with wrestling-craft and strength combined,
Shifted his hip “neath Telamon’s son, and heaved
The giant up; with a side-twist wrenched free
From Aias’ ankle-lock his thigh, and so
With one huge shoulder-heave to earth he threw
That mighty champion, and himself came down
Astride him: then a mighty shout went up.
But battle-stormer Aias, chafed in mind,
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QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
ὁρμαίνων ἐς δῆριν ἀμείλιχον' αἶψα δὲ χερσὶ
σμερδαλέῃσι κόνιν κατεχεύατο, καὶ μέγα θύων
Τυδείδην ἐς μέσσον ἀύτεεν' ὃς δέ μιν οὔτι 235
ταρβήσας οἴμησε καταντίον" ἀμφὶ δὲ πολλὴ
ποσσὶν ὕπ᾽ ἀμφοτέρων κόνις wpvuto: τοὶ δ᾽
ἑκάτερθε
ταῦροι ὅπως συνόρουσαν ἀταρβέες, οἵ T ἐν ὄρεσσι
θαρσαλέου μένεος πειρώμενοι εἰς ἕν ἵκωνται
ποσσὶ κονιόμενοι, περὶ δὲ βρομέουσι κολῶναι 240
βρυχῇ ὕ ὕπ᾽ ἀμφοτέρων, τοὶ δ᾽ ἄσχετα μαιμώωντες
κράατα συμφορέουσιν ἀτειρέα καὶ μέγα κάρτος
δηρὸν ἐπ᾽ ἀλλήλοισι πονεύμενοι, ἐκ δὲ μόγοιο
λάβρον ἀνασθμαίνοντες ἀμείλιχα δηριόωνται,
πουλὺς δ᾽ ἐκ στομάτων χαμάδις καταχεύεται
ἀφρός" 245
ὡς οἵ γε στιβαρῇσιν ἄδην πονέοντο χέρεσσιν.
ἀμφοτέρων δ᾽ ἄρα νῶτα καὶ αὐχένες ἀλκήεντες
χερσὶ περικτυπέοντο τετριγότες, εὖτ᾽ ἐν ὄρεσσι
δένδρε᾽ ἐπ᾽ ἀλλήλοισι βαλόντ᾽ ἐριθηλέας ὄξους.
πολλάκι δ᾽ Αἴαντος μέγαλου στιβαροὺς ὑπο
μηροὺς 250
κάββαλε Τυδείδης κρατερὰς χέρας, ἀλλά μιν οὔτι
ἂψ ὦσαι δύνατο στιβαροῖς ποσὶν ἐμβεβαῶτα:'
τὸν δ᾽ Αἴας καθύπερθεν ἐ ἐπεσσύμενος ποτὶ γαῖαν
ἐξ ὦμων ἐτίνασσε κατὰ χθονὸς οὗδας ἐρείδων"
ἄλλοτε δ᾽ ἀλλοίως ὑπὸ χείρεσι δηριόωντο. 255
λαοὶ δ᾽ ἔνθα καὶ ἔνθα μέγ᾽ ἴαχον εἰσορόωντες,
οἱ μὲν Τυδείδην ἐρικυδέα θαρσύνοντες,
οἱ δὲ βίην Αἴαντος" ὁ δ᾽ ἄλκιμον ἄνδρα τινάξας
ἐξ ὦμων ἑκάτερθε, βαλὼν δ᾽ ὑπὸ νηδύα χεῖρας
ἐσσυμένως ἐφέηκε κατὰ χθονὸς NUTE πέτρην 260
ἀλκῇ ὑπὸ σθεναρῇ᾽ μέγα δ᾽ ἴαχε Τρώιον οὖδας
Τυδείδαο πεσόντος" ἐπηὔτησε δὲ λαός.
ἀλλὰ καὶ ὡς ἀνόρουσεν ἐελδόμενος πονέετθαι
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THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK IV
Sprang up, hot-eager to essay again
That grim encounter. From his terrible hands
He dashed the dust, and challenged furiously
With a great voice Tydeides: not a whit
That other quailed, but rushed to close with him.
Rolled up the dust in clouds from ‘neath their feet :
Hurtling they met like battling mountain-bulls
That clash to prove their dauntless strength, and
spurn
The dust, while with their roaring all the hills
Re-echo: in their desperate fury these
Dash their strong heads together, straining long
Against each other with their massive strength,
Hard-panting in the fierce rage of their strife,
While from their mouths dmp foam-flakes to the
ground ;
So strained they twain with grapple of brawny hands.
"Neath that hard grip their backs and sinewy necks
Cracked, even as when in mountain-glades the trees
Dash storm-tormented boughs together. ΟἿ
Tydeides clutched at Aias’ brawny thighs,
But could not stir his steadfast-rooted feet.
Oft Aias hurled his whole weight on him, bowed
His shoulders backward, strove to press him down ;
And to new grips their hands were shifting aye.
All round the gazing people shouted, some
Cheering on glorious Tydeus’ son, and some
The might of Aias. Then the giant swung
The shoulders of his foe to right, to left ;
Then gripped him ’neath the waist; with one fierce
heave
And giant effort hurled him like a stone
To earth. The floor of Troyland rang again
As fell Tydeides: shouted all the folk.
Yet leapt he up all eager to contend
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QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
τὸ τρίτον ἀμφ Αἴαντα πελώριον: ἀλλ᾽ ἄρα
Νέστωρ
ἔστη ἐνὶ μέσσοισι καὶ ἀμφοτέροισι μετηύδα: 265
“ἴσχεσθ', ἀγλαὰ τέκνα, παλαισμοσύνης ὑπερ-
όπλου"
ἴδμεν γὰρ δὴ πάντες, ὅσον προφερέστεροί ἐστε
᾿Αργείων μεγάλοιο καταφθιμένου ᾿Αχιλῆος."
“Os φάτο' τοὶ δ᾽ ἴσχοντο πονεύμενοι: ἐκ δὲ
μετώπων
χερσὶν ἄδην μόρξαντο κατεσσύμενόν περ ἱδρῶτα" 210
κύσσαν δ᾽ ἀλλήλους, φιλότητι δὲ δῆριν ἔθεντο.
τοῖς δ᾽ ἄρα ληιάδας πίσυρας πόρε πότνα θεάων
δῖα Θέτις: τὰς δ᾽ αὐτοὶ ἐθηήσαντο ἰδόντες
ἥρωες κρατεροὶ καὶ ἀταρβέες, οὕνεκα πασέων
ληνάδων προφέρεσκον ἐὐφροσύνῃ τε καὶ ἔργοις 27
νόσφιν ἐὐπλοκάμου Βρισηίδος, ἅ ἅς ποτ᾽ ᾿Αχιλλεὺς
ληίσατ᾽ ἐκ Λέσβοιο, νόον δ᾽ ἐπετέρπετο τῆσι"
καί ῥ᾽ ἡ μὲν δόρποιο πέλεν ταμίη καὶ ἐδωδῆς,
ἡ δ᾽ ἄρα δαινυμένοισι παροινοχόει μέθυ λαρόν,
ἄλλη δ᾽ αὖ μετὰ δόρπον ὕδωρ ἐπέχευε χέρεσσιν 280
ἡ δ᾽ ἑτέρη ἀπὸ δαιτὸς a ἀεὶ φορέεσκε τράπεζξας.
τὰς δ᾽ ἄρα Τυδείδαο μένος καὶ ὑπέρβιος Αἴας
δασσάμενοι προέηκαν ἐὐπρώρους ἐπὶ νῆας.
᾿Αμφὶ δὲ “πυγμαχίης πρῶτον σθένος ᾿Ιδομενῆος
ὥρνυτ᾽, ἐπεί οἱ θυμὸς ἴδρις πέλε παντὸς ἀέθλου. 285
τῷ δ᾽ οὔτις κατένᾶντα Kiev" μάλα yap μιν ἅπαντες
αἰδόμενοι ὑπόειξαν, ἐ ἐπεί ῥα γεραίτερος ἢ ἦεν.
τῷ δ᾽ ap ἐνὶ μέσσοισι Θέτις πόρεν ἅρμα καὶ
ἵππους
ὠκύποδας, τοὺς πρόσθε βίη μεγάλου Πατρόκλοιο
ἤλασεν ἐκ Τρώων Σαρπηδόνα δῖον ὀλέσσας" 290
καὶ τοὺς μὲν θεράποντι πόρεν ποτὶ νῆας ἄγεσθαι
᾿Ιδομενεύς" αὐτὸς δὲ κλυτῷ ἐν ἀγῶνι μένεσκε.
Φοῖνιξ δ᾽ ᾿Αργείοισιν ἐὐσθενέεσσι μετηύδα:
188
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK IV
With giant Aias for the third last fall:
But Nestor rose and spake unto the twain:
“From grapple of wrestling, noble sons, forbear ;
For all we know that ye be mightiest
Of Argives since the great Achilles died.”
Then these from toil refrained, and from their brows
Wiped with their hands the plenteous-streaming
sweat :
They kissed each other, and forgat their strife.
Then Thetis, queen of Goddesses, gave to them
Four handmaids; and those strong and aweless ones
Marvelled beholding them, for these surpassed
All captive-maids in beauty and household-skill,
Save only lovely-tressed Briseis. These
Achilles captive brought from Lesbos’ Isle,
And in their service joyed. The first was made
Stewardess of the feast and lady of meats ;
The second to the feasters poured the wine ;
The third shed water on their hands thereafter ;
The fourth bare all away, the banquet done.
These Tydeus’ son and giant Aias shared,
And, parted two and two, unto their ships
Sent they those fair and serviceable ones.
Next, for the play of fists Idomeneus rose,
For cunning was he in all athlete-Jore ;
Bat none came forth to meet him, yielding all
To him, the elder-born, with reverent awe.
So in their midst gave Thetis unto him
A chariot and fleet steeds, which theretofore
Mighty Patroclus from the ranks of Troy
Drave, when he slew Sarpedon, seed of Zeus,
These to his henchmen gave Idomeneus
To drive unto the ships: himself remained
Still sitting in the glorious athlete-ring.
Then Phoenix to the stalwart Argives cried:
189
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
fel >? A .
“νῦν μὲν ap ᾿ΙἸδομενῆι θεοὶ δόσαν ἐσθλὸν ἄεθλον
αὕτως, οὔτι καμόντι βίῃ καὶ χερσὶ καὶ ὠμοις, 295
ἀλλ᾽ ap’ ἀναιμωτὶ προγενέστερον ἄνδρα τίοντες"
ἀλλ᾽ ἄλλον, νέοι ἄνδρες, ἐπεντύνεσθαι ἄεθλον
A 5 3 / / » /
χεῖρας ἐπ᾽ ἀλλήλοισι δαήμονας ἰθύνοντες
πυγμαχίης, καὶ θυμὸν invate IIndeiwvos.”
“Os φάτο" τοὶ δ᾽ ἀΐοντες ἐπέδρακον ἀλλήλοισιν" 300
ἧκα δὲ πάντες ἔμιμνον ἀναινόμενοι τὸν ἄεθλον,
εἰ μή σφεας ἐνένιπεν ἀγαυοῦ Νηλέος υἱός"
“ὦ ὦ φίλοι, οὔτι ἔοικε δαήμονος ἄνδρας ἀ ἀὑτῆς
πυγμαχίην ἀλέασθαι ἐπήρατον, ἥ τε νέοισι
τερπωλὴ πέλεται, καμώτῳ δ᾽ ἐπὶ κῦδος ἀγινεῖ, 806
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οἷον ὅτ᾽ ἀντίθεον Πελίην κατεθάπτομεν ἡμεῖς,
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αὐτὸς ἐγὼ καὶ ἴἤλκαστος, ἀνεψιοὶ εἰς ἕν ἰόντες,
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ὁππότ᾽ ἄρ ἀμφήριστος ἐγὼ ἸΠολυδεύκεϊ δίῳ
πυγμαχίῃ γενόμην, ἔλαβον δέ οἱ ἶσον ἄεθλον. 810
ἐν δὲ παλαισμοσύνῃ με καὶ ὁ κρατερώτατος ἄλλων
᾿Αγκαῖος θάμβησε καὶ ἔτρεσεν, οὐδέ μοι ἔτλη
ἀντίον ἐλθέμεναι νίκης ὕπερ, οὕνεκ᾽ ἄρ᾽ αὐτὸν
ἤδη που τὸ πάροιθε παρ᾽ ἀγχεμάχοισιν. ᾿Επειοῖς
νίκησ᾽ ἠὺν ἐόντα, πεσὼν δ᾽ ἐκονίσατο νῶτα 315
σῆμα πάρα φθιμένου ᾿Αμαρυγκέος, ἀμφὶ δ᾽ ap
αὐτῷ
, nm
πολλοὶ θηήσαντο βίην καὶ κάρτος ἐμεῖο"
τῷ νύ μοι οὐκέτι κεῖνος ἐναντίον ἤρατο χεῖρας
καὶ κρατερός περ ἐών, ἔλαβον δ᾽ ἀκόνιτος ἄεθλον"
νῦν δέ με γῆρας ἔπεισι καὶ ἄλγεα" τοὔνεκ᾽ ἄνωγα 320
ὑμέας, οἷσιν ἔ ἔοικεν, ἀέθλια χερσὶν ἀρέσθαι:
κῦδος γὰρ νέῳ ἀνδρὶ φέρειν ἀπ᾽ ἀγῶνος ἄεθλον."
"Qs φαμένοιο γέροντος ἀνίστατο θαρσαλέος φώς,
υἱὸς ὑπερθύμοιο καὶ ἀντιθέου Ἰ]ανοπῆος,
190
ΤΗΕ ΚΑῚ, ΟΕ TROY; BOOK IV
“ Now to Idomeneus the Gods have given
A fair prize uncontested, free of toil
Of mighty arms and shoulders, honouring
The elder-born with bloodless victory.
But lo, ye younger men, another prize
Awaiteth the swift play of cunning hands.
Step forth then: gladden great Peleides’ soul.”
He spake, they heard ; but each on other looked,
And, loth to essay the contest, all sat still,
Till Neleus’ son rebuked those laggard souls :
“ Friends, it were shame that men should shun the
pla
Of εἰν ἡ hands, who in that noble sport
Have skill, wherein young men delight, which links
Glory to toil. Ah that my thews were strong
As when we held King Pelias’ funeral-feast,
I and Acastus, kinsmen joining hands,
When I with godlike Polydeuces stood
In gauntlet-strife, in even-balanced fray,
And when Ancaeus in the wrestlers’ ring
Mightier than all beside, yet feared and shrank
From me, and dared not strive with me that day,
For that ere then amidst the Epeian men—
No battle-blenchers they !—1 had vanquished him,
For all his might, and dashed him to the dust
By dead Amaryncus’ tomb, and thousands round
Sat marvelling at my prowess and my strength.
Therefore against me not a second time
Raised he his hands, strong wrestler though he were ;
And so I won an uncontested prize.
But now old age is on me, and many griefs.
Therefore I bid you, whom it well beseems,
To win the prize; for glory crowns the youth
Who bears away the meed of athlete-strife.”
Stirred by his gallant chiding, a brave man
Rose, son of haughty godlike Panopeus,
191
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
ὅς Te Kal ἵππον ἔτευξε κακὸν Πριάμοιο πόληη 325
e/ 3 ’ ΝΜ / » / ᾽ \ e ΄
ὕστερον: ἀλλ᾽ οὔ οἵ τις ἐτόλμα ἐγγὺς ἱκέσθαι
εἵνεκα πυγμαχίης" πολέμου δ᾽ οὐ πάγχυ δαήμων
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/ > \ / “ > \
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ἤμελλεν TOT ἄεθλα φέρειν ποτὶ νῆας ᾿Αχαιῶν, 880
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εἰ μή οἱ σχεδὸν ἦλθεν ἀγαυοῦ Θησέος υἱὸς
> \ ? 4 Di TED LS \ / Wd
αἰχμητὴς ᾿Ακάμας μέγ ἐνὶ φρεσὶ κάρτος ἀέξων,
ἀζαλέους ἱμάντας ἔχων περὶ χερσὶ θοῇσι,
/ ἘῸΝ “ ᾽ ’ ᾿] 7
τούς οἱ ἐπισταμένως Εὐηνορίδης ᾿Αγέλαος
ἀμφέβαλεν παλάμῃσιν ἐποτρύνων βασιλῆα. 335
ὡς δ᾽ αὕτως ἕταροι ἸΠανοπηιάδαο ἄνακτος
Φ
θαρσύνεσκον ᾿Επειόν' ὁ δ᾽ ἐν μέσσοισι λέων ὡς
εἱστήκει περὶ χερσὶν ἔχων βοὸς ἶφι δαμέντος
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pwovs afaréas. μέγα δ᾽ ἴαχον ἔνθα καὶ ἔνθα
3 >’ / 5... , Υ̓́ > nA
λαοὶ ἐποτρύνοντες ἐὐσθενέων μένος ἀνδρῶν 340
μῖξαι ἐν αἵματι χεῖρας ἀτειρέας" οἱ δὲ καὶ αὐτοὶ
ἔσταν μαιμώωντες ἐνὶ ξυνοχῇσιν a ἀγῶνος,
ἄμφω χεῖρας ἑὰς πειρώμενοι, εἴπερ ἔασιν
e \ " 4 .. ΄ δ᾽ ᾿] / 10
ὡς mpl) ἐύτρόχαλοι, μηδ᾽ ἐκ πολέμου βαρύθοιεν.
αἶψα δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἀλλήλοισι καταντία χεῖρας ἄειραν 845
ταρφέα παπταίνοντες, ἐπ᾿ ἀκροτάτοις δὲ πόδεσσι
βαίνοντες κατὰ βαιὸν ἀεὶ γόνυ γουνὸς ἄμειβον
» / IN Ν > / / ΄
ἀλλήλων ἐπὶ δηρὸν ἀλευόμενοι μέγα κάρτος.
σὺν δ᾽ ἔβαλον νεφέλῃσιν ἐοικότες αἰψηρῇσιν,
CAL 5...) « A IAS! 5 ΄ A x
αἵ T ἀνέμων ῥιπῆσιν ἐπ᾽ ἀλλήλῃσι θοροῦσαι 350
ἀστεροπὴν προϊᾶσι, μέγας δ᾽ ὀροθύνεται αἰθὴρ
θηγομένων νεφέων, βαρὺ δὲ κτυπέουσιν ἄελλαι"
ὡς τῶν ἀζαλέησι περικτυπέοντο γένεια
ῥινοῖς" αἷμα δὲ πουλὺ κατέρρεεν, ἐκ δὲ μετώπων
1 Zimmermann, from P; for ὥς ποτ᾽ of v.
192
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK IV
The man who framed the Horse, the bane of Troy,
Not long thereafter. None dared meet him now
In play of fists, albeit in deadly craft
Of war, when Ares rusheth through the field,
He was not cunning. But for strife of hands
The fair prize uncontested had been won
By stout Epeius—yea, he was at point
To bear it thence unto the Achaean ships ;—
But one strode forth to meet him, Theseus’ son,
The spearman Acamas, the mighty of heart,
Bearing already on his swift hands girt
The hard hide-gauntlets, which Evenor’s son
Agelaus on his prince’s hands had drawn
With courage-kindling words. The comrades then
Of Panopeus’ princely son for Epeius raised
A heartening cheer. He like a lion stood
Forth in the midst, his strong hands gauntleted
With bull’s hide hard as horn. Loud rang the cheers
From side to side of that great throng, to fire
The courage of the mighty ones to clash
Hands in the gory play. Sooth, little spur
Needed they for their eagerness for fight.
But, ere they closed, they flashed out proving blows
To wot if still, as theretofore, their arms
Were limber and lithe, unclogged by toil of war;
Then faced each other, and upraised their hands
With ever-watching eyes, and short quick steps
A-tiptoe, and with ever-shifting feet,
Each still eluding other’s crushing might.
Then with a rush they closed like thunder-clouds
Hurled on each other by the tempest-blast,
Flashing forth lightnings, while the welkin thrills
As clash the clouds and hollow roar the winds ;
So ’neath the hard hide-gauntlets clashed their jaws.
Down streamed the blood, and from their brows the
sweat
193
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
ἱδρὼς αἱματόεις θαλερὰς ἐρύθαινε παρειάς. 355
οἱ δ᾽ ἄμοτον πονέοντο μεμαότες" οὐδ᾽ ap ᾿Επειὸς
λῆγεν, ἐπέσσυτο δ᾽ αἰὲν ἑῷ μέγα κάρτεϊ θύων.
\ iw / eN d- / 2 »>/
τὸν δ᾽ ἄρα Oncéos υἱὸς evippovéwy ἐν ἀέθλῳ
πολλάκις ἐς κενεὸν κρατερὰς χέρας ἰθύνεσθαι
θῆκε, καὶ ἰδρείησι διατμήξας ἑκάτερθε 360
- > 2 / / bd / Μ Ἐν ἢ
χεῖρας ἐς ὀφρύα τύψεν ἐπάλμενος, ἄχρις ἱκέσθαι
ὀστέον: ἐκ δέ οἱ αἷμα κατέρρεεν ὀφθαλμοῖο.
ἀλλὰ καὶ ὡς ᾿Ακάμαντα βαρείῃ χειρὶ τυχήσας
τύψε κατὰ κροτάφοιο, χαμαὶ δέ οἱ ἤλασε γυῖα"
ΣΕ | “ ’ = ek re ἡ πεῖν ἃ \ \ A
αὐτὰρ ὅ γ᾽ aly ἀνόρουσε καὶ ἔνθορε φωτὶ κραταιῷ, 365
a / « / e 9 (M52) 98 > Af
πλῆξε δέ οἱ κεφαλήν" ὁ δ᾽ ap ἔμπαλιν ἀΐσσοντος
βαιὸν ὑποκλίνας σκαιῇ χερὶ τύψε μέτωπον,
” > + ta > ΄ A \ \ Da ΓΝ
ἄλλῃ δ᾽ ἤλασε ῥῖνας ἐπάλμενος" ὃς δὲ Kai αὐτὸς
μήτι παντοίῃ χέρας ὥρεγε: τοὺς δ᾽ ap’ ᾿Αχαιοὶ
ἀλλήλων ἀπέρυξαν ἐελδομένους πονέεσθαι 370
νίκης ἀμφ᾽ ἐρατῆς. τῶν δ᾽ ἐσσυμένως θεράποντες
ῥινοὺς αἱματόεντας ἄφαρ σθεναρῶν a ἀπὸ χειρῶν
λῦσαν" τοὶ δ᾽ ἄρα τυτθὸν ἀπέπνευσαν καμάτοιο
μορξάμενοι σπόγγοισι πολυτρήτοισι μέτωπα.
τοὺς δ᾽ ἕταροί τε φίλοι τε παρηγορέοντες ἄγεσκον 375
ἄντικρυς ἀλλήλων, WS κεν χόλου ἀλγινόεντος
ἐσσυμένως λελάθωνται ἀρεσσάμενοι φιλότητι.
ἀλλ᾽ οἱ μὲν πεπίθοντο παραιφασίῃσιν ἑταίρων"
ἀνδράσι γὰρ πινυτοῖσι πέλει νόος ἤπιος αἰεί"
i ie / 4 > Oe 7 Ν
κύσσαν δ᾽ ἀλλήλους, ἔριδος δ᾽ ἐπελήθετο θυμὸὲξ 380
λευγαλέης. τοῖς δ᾽ αἶψα Θέτις κυανοκρήδεμι ος
ἀργυρέους κρητῆρας ἐελδομένοισιν ὄπασσε
δοιώ, τοὺς Εὔνηος ᾿Ιήσονος ὄβριμος υἱὸς
ὧνον ὑπὲρ κρατεροῖο Λυκάονος ἐγγυάλιξεν
ἀντιθέῳ ᾿Αχιλῆι περικλύστῳ ἐνὶ Λήμνῳ. 385
TOUS Ἥφαιστος ἔτευξεν ἀριπρεπέϊ Διονύσῳ
194
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK IV
Blood-streaked made on the flushed cheeks crimson
bars.
Fierce without pause they fought, and never flagged
Epeius, but threw all his stormy strength
Into his onrush. Yet did Theseus’ son
Never lose heart, but baffled the straight blows
Of those strong hands, and by his fighting-craft
Flinging them right and left, leapt in, brought home
A blow to his eyebrow, cutting to the bone.
Even then with counter-stroke Epeius reached
Acamas’ temple, and hurled him to the ground.
Swift he sprang up, and on his stalwart foe
Rushed, smote his head : as he rushed in again,
The other, slightly swerving, sent his left
Clean to his brow; his right, with all his might
Behind it, to his nose. Yet Acamas still
Warded and struck with all the manifold shifts
Of fighting-craft. But now the Achaeans all
Bade stop the fight, though eager still were both
To strive for coveted victory. Then came
Their henchmen, and the gory gauntlets loosed
In haste from those strong hands. Now drew they
breath
From that great labour, as they bathed their brows
With sponges myriad-pored. Comrades and friends
With pleading words then drew them face to face,
And prayed,“In friendship straight forget yourwrath.”’
So to their comrades’ suasion hearkened they ;
For wise men ever bear a placable mind.
They kissed each other, and their hearts forgat
That bitter strife. Then Thetis sable-stoled
Gave to their glad hands two great silver bowls
The which Eunéus, Jason’s warrior son
In sea-washed Lemnos to Achilles gave
To ransom strong Lycaon from his hands.
These had Hephaestus fashioned for his gift
195
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
δῶρ v, OT εἰς Οὔλυμπον ἀνήγαγε δῖαν ἄκοιτιν
Mip vos κούρην ἐρικυδέα, τήν ποτε Θησεὺς
κάλλ omev οὐκ ἐθέλων γε περικλύστῳ ἐνὶ Δίῃ.
τοὺς δ᾽ ἠὺς Διόνυσος ἐῷ πόρεν υἱέϊ δῶρον 390
νέκταρος ἐμπλήσας, ὁ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ὦπασεν “Ὑψιπυλείῃ
πολλοῖς σὺν κτεάτεσσι Θόας, ἡ δ᾽ υἱέϊ δίῳ
κάλλεπεν, | ὃς δ᾽ ᾿Αχιλῆι Λυκάονος εἵνεκα δῶκε.
τῶν δ᾽ ἕτερον μὲν ἕλεσκεν ἀγαυοῦ Θησέος υἱός,
ἄλλον δ᾽ nS ᾿Επειὸς ἑὰς ἐπὶ νῆας ἴαλχλε 395
γηθόσυνος. τῶν δ᾽ ἀμφιδεδρυμμένα τύμματα πάντα
ἠκέσατ᾽ ἐνδυκέως Ποδαλείριος, οὕνεκ᾽ ἄρ᾽ αὐτὸς
πρῶτα μὲν ἐκμύζησεν, ἔπειτα δὲ χερσὶν ἑῆσι
ῥάψεν ἐπισταμένως, καθύπερθε δὲ φάρμακ᾽ ἔθηκε
(ns \ \ > /
κεῖνα, τά οἱ TO πάροιθε πατὴρ EOS ἐγγυάλιξε: 400
τοῖσι δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἐσσυμένως καὶ ἀναλθέα τύμματα
φωτῶν
αὐτῆμαρ μορόεντος ὑπὲκ κακοῦ ἰαίνονται:
τῶν δ᾽ ἄφαρ ἀμφὶ πρόσωπα καὶ εὐκομόωντα
κάρηνα
τύμματ᾽ ἀπαλθαΐνοντο, κατηπιόωντο δ᾽ ἀνῖαι.
᾿Αμφὶ δὲ τοξοσύνης Τεῦκρος καὶ Oiréos vids 406
ἕστασαν, οἱ καὶ πρόσθε δρόμου πέρι πειρήσαντο.
τῶν δ ἄρα τηλόσε θῆκεν ἐὐμμελίης ᾿Αγαμέμνων͵
ἱππόκομον τρυφάλειαν, ἔφη δέ Te ““πολλὸν
ἀμείνων
ἔσσεται, ὃς κερσειεν ἄπο τριχας ὀξέϊ χαλκῷ."
Αἴας δ᾽ αὐτίκα πρῶτος ἑὸν προέηκε βέλειμνον, 410
πλῆξε δ᾽ ἄρα τρυφάλειαν, ἐπηύτησε δὲ χαλκὸς
ὀξύτατον. Τεῦκρος δὲ μέγ᾽ ἐγκονέων ἐνὶ θυμῷ,
δεύτερος ἧκεν ὀϊστόν, apap δ᾽ ἀπέκερσεν ἐθείρας
ὀξὺ βέλος: λαοὶ δὲ μέγ᾽ ἴαχον ἀθρήσαντες,
καί Hey κυδαίνεσκον a ἀπείριτον, οὕνεκ᾽ ἄρ᾽ αὐτὸν 415
πληγὴ ἔτ᾽ ἀλγύνεσκε Good ποδός, ἀλλά μιν οὔτι
βλάψεν ὑπαὶ παλάμῃσι θοὸν βέλος ἰθύνοντα.
196
THE FALL OF TROY, BUOK IV
To glorious Dionysus, when he brought
His bride divine to Olympus, Minos’ child
Far-famous, whom in sea-washed Dia’s isle
Theseus unwitting left. The Wine-god brimmed
With nectar these, and gave them to his son;
And Thoas at his death to Hypsipyle
With great possessions left them. She bequeathed
The bowls to her godlike son, who gave them up
Unto Achilles for Lycaon’s life.
The one the son of lordly Theseus took,
And goodly Epeius sent to his ship with joy
The other. Then their bruises and their scars
Did Podaleirius tend with loving care.
First pressed he out black humours, then his hands
Deftly knit up the gashes: salves he laid
Thereover, given him by his sire of old,
Such as had virtue in one day to heal
The deadliest hurts, yea, seeming-cureless wounds.
Straight was the smart assuaged, and healed the scars
Upon their brows and ‘neath their clustering hair
Then for the archery-test Oileus’ son
Stood forth with Teucer, they which in the race
Erewhile contended. Far away from these
Agamemnon, lord of spears, set up a helm
Crested with plumes, and spake: “ The master-shot
Is that which shears the hair-crest clean away.”
Then straightway Aias shot his arrow first,
And smote the helm-ridge: sharply rang the brass.
Then Teucer second with most earnest heed
Shot: the swift shaft hath shorn the plume away
Loud shouted all the people as they gazed,
And praised him without stint, for still his foot
Halted in pain, yet nowise marred his aim
When with his hands he sped the flying shaft.
107
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
καί οἱ τεύχεα Kana πόρεν InAs ἄκοιτις
ἀντιθέου ρωίλοιο, τὸν ἠιθέων μέγ᾽ ἄριστον
Τροίῃ ἐν ἠγαθέη ‘ExaBn τέκετ᾽, οὐδ᾽ ἀπόνητο 420
ἀγλαΐης" δὴ γάρ μιν ἀταρτηροῦ ᾿Αχιλῆος
ἔγχος ὁμοῦ καὶ κάρτος ἀπήμερσαν βιότοιο"
ὡς δ᾽ ὁπόθ᾽ ἑρσήεντα καὶ εὐθαλέοντ᾽ ἀνὰ κῆπον
ὑδρηλῆς καπέτοιο μάλ᾽ ἀγχόθι τηλεθάοντα
ἢ στάχυν ἢ μήκωνα, πάρος καρποῖο τυχῆσαι, 425
κέρσῃ τις δρεπάνῳ νεοθηγέϊ, μηδ᾽ ap ἐάσῃ
ἐς τέλος ἡδὺ μολεῖν μηδ᾽ ἐς σπόρον ἄλλον ἱκέσθαι,
ἀμήσας κενεόν τε καὶ ἄσπορον ἐσσομένοισι]
μέλλονθ᾽ ἑρσήεντος ὑπ᾽ εἴαρος ἀλδαίνεσθαι"
ὡς υἱὸν Πριάμοιο θεοῖς ἐναλίγκιον εἶδος 430
Πηλείδης κατέπεφνεν, ἔτ᾽ ἄχνοον, εἰσέτι νύμφης
νηίδα, νηπιάχοισιν ὁμῶς ἔτι κουρίζοντα"
ἀλλά μιν ἐς πόλεμον φθισίμβροτον ἤγαγε Μοῖρα
ἥβης ἀρχόμενον πολυγηθέος, ὁππότε φῶτες
θαρσαλέοι τελέθουσιν, ὅτ᾽ οὐκέτι δεύεται ἦτορ. 435
Αὐτίκα δ᾽ αὖτε σόλον περιμήκεά τε βριαρόν τε
πολλοὶ πειρήσαντο θοῆς ἀπὸ χειρὸς ἰῆλαι:
τὸν δ᾽ οὔτις βαλέειν δύνατο στιβαρὸν μάλ᾽ ἐόντα
᾿Αργείων" οἷος δ᾽ ἔβαλεν μενεδήιος Αἴας
χειρὸς ἀπὸ κρατερῆς, ὡς εἰ δρυὸς ἀγρονόμοιο 440
ὄζον ἀπαυανθέντα θέρευς εὐθαλπέος ὥ ὥρῃ,
ὁππότε λήια πάντα κατὰ χθονὸς αὐαίνηται.
θάμβησαν δ᾽ ἄρα πάντες, ὅσον χερὸς ἐξεποτήθη
χαλκός, ὃ ὃν ἀνέρε χερσὶ δύω μογέοντες ἄειραν"
τόν pa μὲν ᾿Ανταίοιο Bin ῥίπτασκε πάροιθε 440
ῥηιδίως ἀπὸ χειρὸς ἑῆς πειρώμενος ἀλκῆς,
πρὶν κρατερῇσι χέρεσσι δαμήμεναι Ἡρακλῆος"
1 Zimmermann, from P; for αἰθομένοισι, with lacuna, of
Koechly.
χοῦ
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK IV
Then Peleus’ bride gave unto him the arms
Of godlike Troilus, the goodliest
Of all fair sons whom Hecuba had borne
In hallowed Troy ; yet of his goodlihead
No joy she had; the prowess and the spear
Of fell Achilles reft his life from him.
As when a gardener with new-whetted scythe
Mows down, ere it may seed, a blade of corn
Or poppy, in a garden dewy-fresh
And blossom-flushed, which by a water-course
Crowdeth its blooms—mows it ere it may reach
Its goal of bringing offspring to the birth,
And with his scythe-sweep makes its life-work vain
And barren of all issue, nevermore
Now to be fostered by the dews of spring ;
So did Peleides cut down Priam’s son
The god-like beautiful, the beardless yet
And virgin of a bride, almost a child !
Yet the Destroyer Fate had lured him on
To war, upon the threshold of glad youth,
When youth is bold, and the heart feels no void.
Forthwith a bar of iron massy and long
From the swift-speeding hand did many essay
To hurl; but not an Argive could prevail
To cast that ponderous mass. Aias alone
Sped it from his strong hand, as in the time
Of harvest might a reaper fling from him
A dry oak-bough, when all the fields are parched.
And all men marvelled to behold how far
Flew from his hand the bronze which scarce two men
Hard-straining had uplifted from the ground.
Even this Antaeus’ might was wont to hurl
Erstwhile, ere the strong hands of Hercules
O’ermastered him. This, with much spoil beside,
199
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
Ἡρακλέης δέ μιν ἠὺς ἑλὼν σὺν ληΐίδι πολλῇ
ἀκαμάτης ἔχε eh ἀέθλιον, ἀλλά μιν ἐσθλῷ
ὕστερον Αἰακί δῶρον πόρεν, ὁππότ᾽ ἄρ᾽ αὐτῷ 450
Ἰλίου εὐπύργοιο συνέπραθε κύδιμον ἐ ἄστυ,
κεῖνος δ᾽ υἱέϊ δῶκεν, ὁ ὁ δ᾽ ὠκυπόροις ἐνὶ νηυσὶν
ἐς Τροίην μιν ἔνεικεν, ἵνα σφετέροιο τοκῆος
μνωόμενος Τρώεσσιν ἐὐσθενέεσσι μάχηται
προφρονέως, εἴη δὲ πόνος “πειρωμένῳ ἀλκῆς" 455
Tov p Alas μάλα πολλὸν ἀπὸ στιβαρῆς βάλε
eLpos.
καὶ τότε οἱ Νηρηὶς ἀγακλυτὰ τεύχεα δῶκε
Μέμνονος ἀντιθέοιο, τὰ καὶ μέγα θηήσαντο
᾿Αργεῖοι" λίην γὰρ ἔσαν περιμήκεα πάντα"
καὶ τά γε καγχαλόων ὑπεδέξατο κύδιμος ἀνήρ'᾽ 460
οἴῳ γὰρ κείνῳ γε περὶ βριαροῖσι μέλεσσιν
ἥρμοσεν ἀπλήτοιο κατὰ χροὸς ἀμφιτεθέντα"
αὐτὸς δ᾽ αὖτ᾽ ἀνάειρε μέγαν σόλον, ὄφρα οἱ εἴη
τερπωλὴ μένος NU λιλαιομένῳ πονέεσθαι.
Οἱ δ᾽ ἄρα δηριόωντες ἐφ᾽ ἅλματι πολλοὶ
ἀνέσταν. 465
τῶν δ᾽ ἄρ ᾿ ὑπέρθορε πολλὸν ἐὐμμελίης ᾿Αγαπήνωρ
σήματα" τοὶ δ᾽ ὁμάδησαν ἐ ἐπ᾽ ἀνέρι μακρὰ θορόντι"
καί οἱ τεύχεα καλὰ πόρεν μεγάλοιο Κύκνοιο
dia Θέτις: τὸν γάρ pa φόνῳ ἔπι ἸΤρωτεσιλάον
πολλῶν θυμὸν ἑλόντα κατέκτανε Πηλέος υἱὸς 470
πρῶτον ἀριστήων' Τρῶας δ᾽ ἄχος ἀμφεκάλυψεν.
Αὐγανέῃ δ᾽ ἄρα πολλὸν ὑπέρβαλε δῃριόωντας
Εὐρύαλος" λαοὶ δὲ μέγ᾽ ἴαχον' οὐ γὰρ ἔφαντο
κεῖνον ὑπερβαλέειν οὐδὲ πτερόεντι βελέμνῳ.
τοὔνεκά οἱ φιάλην πολυχανδέα δῶκε φέρεσθαι 475
μήτηρ, Αἰακίδαο δαΐφρονος, ἡ ἥν ποτ᾽ ᾿Αχιλλεὺς
ἀργυρέην κτεάτισσε βαλὼν ὑπὸ δουρὶ Μύνητα,
ὁππότε Λυρνησσοῖο διέπραθεν ὄλβιον" ἄστυ.
1 Zimmermann, from P, for Τρώιον οὗ v.
200
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK IV
Hercules took, and kept it to make sport
For his invincible hand ; but afterward
Gave it to valiant Peleus, who with him
Had smitten fair-towered Ilium’s burg renowned ;
And he to Achilles gave it, whose swift ships
Bare it to Troy, to put him aye in mind
Of his own father, as with eager will
He fought with stalwart Trojans, and to be
A worthy test wherewith to prove his strength.
Even this did Aias from his brawny hand
Fling far. So then the Nereid gave to him
The glorious arms from godlike Memnon stripped.
Marvelling the Argives gazed on them: they were
A giant’s war-gear. Laughing a glad laugh
That man renowned received them: he alone
Could wear them on his brawny limbs; they seemed
As they had even been moulded to his frame.
The great bar thence he bore withal, to be
His joy when he was fain of athlete-toil.
Still sped the contests on; and many rose
Now for the leaping. Far beyond the marks
Of all the rest brave Agapenor sprang :
Loud shouted all for that victorious leap ;
And Thetis gave him the fair battle-gear
Of mighty Cycnus, who had smitten first
Protesilaus, then had reft the life
From many more, till Peleus’ son slew him
First of the chiefs of grief-enshrouded Troy.
Next, in the javelin-cast Euryalus
Hurled far beyond all rivals, while the folk
Shouted aloud: no archer, so they deemed,
Could speed a winged shaft farther than his cast ;
Therefore the Aeacid hero’s mother gave
To him a deep wide silver oil-flask, ta’en
By Achilles in possession, when his spear
Slew Mynes, and he spoiled Lyrnessus’ wealth.
207
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
Αἴας δ᾽ ὀβριμόθυμος ἐελδόμενος πονέεσθαι
χερσὶν ὁμῶς καὶ ποσσὶν ἀνιστάμενος καλέεσκεν 480
ἐς μέσον ἡρώων τὸν ὑπέρτατον. οἱ δ᾽ ὁρόωντες
θάμβεον ὄβριμον ἄνδρα καὶ ἄλκιμον: οὐδέ τις
ἔτλη
ἄντα μολεῖν: πάντων γὰρ ὑπέκλασε Seip’ ἀλε-
γεινὸν
ἠνορέην, φοβέοντο δ᾽ ἀνὰ φρένα, μή τινα χερσὶ
τύψας ἀκαμάτῃσιν ὑπὸ πληγῇσι πρόσωπον 485
συγχέῃ ἐσσυμένως, μέγα δ᾽ ἀνέρι πῆμα γένηται.
ὀψὲ δὲ πάντες ἔνευσαν ἐπ᾽ Εὐρυάλῳ μενεχάρμῃ
ἴδμονα πυγμαχίης εὖ εἰδότες": ὃς δ᾽ ἐνὶ μέσσοις
τοῖον ἔπος προέηκεν ὑποτρομέων θρασὺν ἄνδρα:
“ὦ φίλοι, ἄλλον μέν τιν᾽ ᾿Αχαιῶν, ὅν κ᾽ ἐθέλητε, 490
τλήσομαι ἀντιόωντα, μέγαν δ᾽ Αἴαντα τέθηπα"
πολλὸν γὰρ προβέβηκε: Svappaicer δέ μοι ἦτορ,
ἤν μιν ἐπιβρίσαντα λάβῃ χόλος" οὐ γὰρ ὀΐω
ἀνδρὸς a ἀπ᾽ ἀκαμάτοιο σόος ποτὶ νῆας ἱκέσθαι."
“Os φαμένοιο γέλασσαν" ὁ δ᾽ ἐν φρεσὶ πάμπαν
ἰάνθη 495
Αἴας ὀβριμόθυμος" ἄειρε δὲ δοιὰ τάλαντα
ἀργύρου αἰγλήεντος, ἅ οἱ Θέτις εἵνεκ᾽ ἀέθλον
ὥκεν ἄτερ καμάτοιο" φίλου δ᾽ ἐμνήσατο παιδὸς
Αἴαντ᾽ εἰσορόωσα' γόος δέ οἱ ἔμπεσε θυμῷ.
Ou δ᾽ αὖθ᾽ ἱππασίῃ μεμελημένον ἦτορ ἔχοντες 500
ἐσσυμένως ἀνόρουσαν ἐποτρύνοντος ἀέθλου"
πρῶτος μὲν Μενέλαος id Εὐρύπυλος θρασυ-
χάρμης
Εὔμηλος δὲ Θόας τε καὶ ἰσόθεος Πολυποίτης.
ἵπποις δ᾽ ἀμφὶ λέπαδνα βάλον καὶ ὑφ᾽ appar
ἔρυσσαν
πάντες ἐπειγόμενοι, πολυγηθέος εἵνεκα νίκης" 505
αἶψα δ᾽ dp’ εἰς ἕν ἅμα ξύνισαν δίφροις βεβαῶτες
χῶρον ἀν᾽ ἠμαθόεντ᾽-: ἐπὶ νύσσης δ᾽ ἔσταν ἕκαστοι"
202
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK IV
Then fiery-hearted Aias eagerly
Rose, challenging to strife of hands and feet
The mightiest hero there; but marvelling
They marked his mighty thews, and no man dared
Confront him. Chilling dread had palsied all
Their courage: from their hearts they feared him,
lest
His hands invincible should all to-break
His adversary’s face, and naught but pain
Be that man’s meed. But at the last all men
Made signs to battle-bider Euryalus,
For well they knew him skilled in fighting-craft ;
But he too feared that giant, and he cried :
“ Friends, any other Achaean, whom ye will,
Blithe will I face ; but mighty Aias—no!
Far doth he overmatch me. He will rend
Mine heart, if in the onset anger rise
Within him: from his hands invincible,
1 trow, I should not win to the ships alive.”
Loud laughed they all: but glowed with triumph-
jo
The es of Aias. Gleaming talents twain
Of silver he from Thetis’ hands received,
His uncontested prize. His stately height
Called to her mind her dear son, and she sighed.
They which had skill in chariot-driving then
Rose at the contest’s summons eagerly:
Menelaus first, Eurypylus bold in fight,
Eumelus, Thoas, godlike Polypoetes
Harnessed their steeds, and led them to the cars
All panting for the joy of victory.
Then rode they in a glittering chariot rank
Out to one place, to a stretch of sand, and stood
Ranged at the starting-line. The reins they grasped
203
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
καρπαλίμως δ᾽ εὔληρα λάβον κρατερῇς παλά-
μῃσιν.
“, edn ν / > Ψ UA
ἵπποι δ᾽ ἐγχριμφθέντες ἐν ἅρμασι ποιπνύεσκον
ὅππως τις προάλοιτο, πόδας δ᾽ ὑπεκίνυον αὕτως, 510
οὔατα δ᾽ ὠρθώσαντο καὶ ἄμπυκας ἀφρῷ ἔδευσαν.
«ς 3. (SV, 2 / b] / / Cs
οἱ δ᾽ ἄφαρ ἐγκονέοντες ἐλαφροπόδων μένος ἵππων
μάστιον' οἱ δὲ θοῇσιν ἐοικότες ᾿Αρπυίῃσι
fd vA [Ames 2 /
καρπαλίμως ζεύγλῃσι μέγ᾽ ἔκθορον ἀσχαλόωντες,
ἅρματα δ᾽ ὦκα φέρεσκον ἀπὸ χθονὸς ἀΐσσοντα' 515
οὐδ᾽ ἁρματροχιὰς ἰδέειν ἦν οὐδὲ ποδοῖιν
ἐν χθονὶ σήματα, τόσσον ὑπεξέφερον δρόμον
ἵπποι.
πουλὺς δ᾽ αἰθέρ᾽ ἵκανε κονίσαλος ἐκ πεδίοιο,
καπνῷ ἢ ὀμίχλῃ ἐναλίγκιος, ἥν T ἐν ὄρεσσιν
ἀμφιχέῃ πρώνεσσι Νότου μένος ἢ Ζεφύροιο 520
χείματος ἐγρομένου, ὁπότ᾽ οὔρεα δεύεται ὄμβρῳ.
A ᾽ ᾽ ke gS) e > ies] 7
ἵπποι δ᾽ ᾿ὐμήλοιο μέγ᾽ ἔκθορον, οἱ δ᾽ ἐφέποντο
ἀντιθέοιο Θόαντος" ἐπ᾽ ἄλλῳ δ᾽ ἄλλος ἀὕτει
ἅρματι: τοὶ δ᾽ ἐφέροντο δι’ εὐρυχόρου πεδίοιο! δά
* * * * * * * *
"Ἤλιδος ἐκ Sins, é ἐπεὶ ἢ μέγα ἔργον ἔρεξε 526
παρφθάμενος θοὸν ἅ ἅρμα κακόφρονος Οἰνομάοιο,
ὅς pa TOT ἠιθέοισιν ἀνηλέα τεῦχεν ὄλεθρον
κούρης ἀμφὶ γάμοιο περίφρονος ἱπποδαμείης"
ἀλλ᾽ οὐ μὰν κεῖνός γε καὶ ἱππασίῃσι “μεμηλὼς 530
ἵππους ὠκύποδας τοίους ἔχεν, ἀλλ᾽ ἄρα πολλὸν
ποσσὶν ἀφαυροτέρους: οἱ γάρ ῥ ᾿ εἴδοντ᾽ ἀνέμοισιν."
Ἦ μέγα κυδαίνων ἵππων μένος ἠδὲ καὶ αὐτὸν
* There is a long hiatus here: the lost verses contained an
account of accidents to Thoas and Eurypylus, and the text
resumes in the middle of a speech (by Nestor ?) in praise of
the horses of Menelaus,
204
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK IV
In strong hands quickly, while the chariot-steeds
Shoulder to shoulder fretted, all afire
To take the lead at starting, pawed the sand,
Pricked ears, and o’er their frontlets flung the foam.
With sudden-stiffened sinews those car-lords
Lashed with their whips the tempest-footed steeds ;
Then swift as Harpies sprang they forth; they
strained
Furiously at the harness, onward whirling
The chariots bounding ever from the earth.
Thou couldst not see a wheel-track, no, nor print
Of hoof upon the sand—they verily flew.
Up from the plain the dust-clouds to the sky
Soared, like the smoke of burning, or a mist
Rolled round the mountain-forelands by the might
Of the dark South-wind or the West, when wakes
A tempest, when the hill-sides stream with rain.
Burst to the front Eumelus’ steeds : behind
Close pressed the team of godlike Thoas: shouts
Still answered shouts that cheered each chariot, while
Onward they swept across the wide-wayed plain.
" * * * * * κω *
“ From hallowed Elis, when he had achieved
A mighty triumph, in that he outstripped
The swift car of Oenomaus evil-souled,
The ruthless slayer of youths who sought to wed
His daughter Hippodameia passing-wise.
Yet even he, for all his chariot-lore,
Had no such fleetfoot steeds as Atreus’ son
Far slower !—the wind is in the feet of these.”
So spake he, giving glory to the might
Of those good steeds, and to Atreides’ self ;
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
᾿Ατρείδην" ὁ γὰρ ἧσι περὶ φρεσὶ γήθεε θυμῷ.
τοὺς δὲ μέγ᾽ ἀσ θμαίνοντας ἄφαρ θεράποντες ἔ ἔλυσαν 535
ζεύγλης" οἱ δὲ καὶ αὐτοὶ ἀελλόποδας λύον ἵππους
πάντες, ὅσοις ἐν ἀγῶνι δρόμου πέρι δῆρις ἐτύχθη.
ἀντίθεον δὲ Θόαντα καὶ ὐρύπυλον μενεχάρμην
ἠκέσατ᾽ ἐσσυμένως Ποδαλείριος ἕλκεα πάντα,
ὅσσα περιδρύφθησαν ἀ ἀπὲκ δίφροιο πεσόντες. 540
᾿Ατρείδης δ᾽ ἀλίαστον ἐγήθεεν εἵνεκα νίκης"
Kal οἱ ἐὐπλόκαμος Θέτις ὦπασε καλὸν ἄλεισον
χρύσεον, ἀντιθέοιο μέγα κτέαρ ᾿Ηετίωνος,
πρὶν Θήβης κλυτὸν ἄστυ διαπραθέειν ᾿Αχιλῆα.
"Αλλοι δ᾽ αὖθ᾽ ἑτέρωθι μονάμπυκας ἔντυον
ἵππους 545
ἐς δρόμον ἰθύνοντες, ἕλοντο δὲ χερσὶ βοείας
μάστιγας, καὶ πάντες ἀναΐξαντες ἐφ᾽ ἵππων
ἕζονθ᾽: οἱ δὲ χαλινὰ γενειάσιν ad pifovtes
δάπτον, καὶ ποσὶ γαῖαν ἐπέκτυπον ἐγκονέοντες
ἐκθορέειν. τοῖς δ᾽ αἶψα τάθη δρόμος" οἱ δ᾽ ἀπὸ
νύσσης 550
καρπαλίμως οἴμησαν ἐριδμαίνειν μεμαῶτες,
εἴκελοι ἢ Βορέαο μέγα πνείοντος ἀέλλαις
ἠὲ Νότου κελάδοντος, ὅτ᾽ εὐρέα πόντον ὀρίνει
λαίλαπι καὶ ῥιπῆσι, Θυτήριον εὖτ᾽ ἀλεγεινὸν
ἀντέλλῃ ναύτῃσι φέρον πολύδακρυν ὀϊξύν' 555
ὡς οἵ γ᾽ ἐσσεύοντο κόνιν ποσὶ καρπαλίμοισιν
ἐν πεδίῳ κλονέοντες ἀπείριτον" οἱ δ᾽ ἐλατῆρες
ἵπποις οἷσιν ἕκαστος ἐκέκλετο, τῇ μὲν ἱμάσθλην
ταρφέα πεπληγώς, ἑτέρῃ δ᾽ ἐνὶ χειρὶ τινάσσων
νωλεμὲς ἀμφὶ γένυσσι μέγα κτυπέοντα χαλινόν. 560
ἵπποι δ᾽ ἐρρώοντο: βοὴ δ᾽ ἀνὰ λαὸν ὀρώρει
ἄσπετος" οἱ δ᾽ ἐπέτοντο διὰ πλατέος πεδίοιο.
καί νύ κεν ἐσσυμένως ἐξΑργεος αἰόλος ἔππος
νίκησεν μάλα πολλὸν ἐφεζομένου Σθενέλοιο,
εἰ μὴ ap ἐξήρπαξε δρόμου, πεδίον δ᾽ ἀφίκανε 565
206
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK IV
And filled with joy was Menelaus’ soul.
Straightway his henchmen from the yoke-band
loosed
The panting team, and all those chariot-lords,
Who in the race had striven, now unyoked
Their tempest-footed steeds. Podaleirius then
Hasted to spread salves over all the wounds
Of Thoas and Eurypylus, gashes scored
Upon their frames when from the cars they fell
But Menelaus with exceeding joy
Of victory glowed, when Thetis lovely-tressed
Gave him a golden cup, the chief possession
Once of Eétion the godlike ; ere
Achilles spoiled the far-famed burg of Thebes.
Then horsemen riding upon horses came
Down to the course: they grasped in hand the whip
And bounding from the earth bestrode their steeds,
The while with foaming mouths the coursers champed
The bits, and pawed the ground, and fretted aye
To dash into the course. Forth from the line
Swiftly they darted, eager for the strife,
Wild as the blasts of roaring Boreas
Or shouting Notus, when with hurricane-swoop
He heaves the wide sea high, when in the east
Uprises the disastrous Altar-star
Bringing calamity to seafarers ;
So swift they rushed, spurning with flying feet
The deep dust on the plain. The riders cried
Each to his steed, and ever plied the lash
And shook the reins about the clashing bits.
On strained the horses : from the people rose
A shouting like the roaring of a sea.
On, on across the level plain they flew ;
And now the flashing-footed Argive steed
By Sthenelus bestridden, had won the race,
But from the course he swerved, and o’er the plain
207
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
πολλάκις" οὐδέ μιν ἐσθλὸς ἐὼν Καπανήιος υἱὸς
κάμψαι ἐπέσθενε χερσίν, ἐπεί ῥ᾽ ἔτι νῆις ἀέθλων
ἵππος ἔην" γενεῇ γε μὲν οὐ κακός, ἀλλὰ θοοῖο
θεσπέσιον γένος ἔσκεν ᾿Αρίονος, ὃν τέκεν ἵππων
“Αρπυια Ζεφύρῳ πολυηχέϊ φέρτατον ἄλλων 570
πολλόν, ἐπεὶ ταχέεσσιν ἐριδμαίνεσκε πόδεσσι
πατρὸς. ἑοῖο θοῇσι καταιγίσι, καί μιν ᾿Αδρηστος
ἐκ μακάρων EXE δῶρον, ὅθεν γένος ἔπλετο κείνου"
καί μιν Τυδέος υἱὸς ἑῷ πόρε δῶρον ἑταί ipo
Tpotn ἐνὶ ξαθέη: ὁ δέ οἱ μέγα ποσσὶ πεποιθὼς Βδδ
ὠκὺν ἐόντ᾽ ἐς ἀγῶνα καὶ εἰς ἔριν ἤγαγεν ἵππων
αὐτὸς ἐνὶ πρώτοισιν ὀϊόμενος μέγα κῦδος
ἱππασίης ἀνελέσθαι" ὁ δ᾽ οὔτι οἱ ἦτορ ἴηνεν
ἀμφ᾽ ᾿Αχιλῆος ἄεθλα πονεύμενος" 7) ἢ γὰρ ἔμιμνε"
δεύτερος, Ατρε εἰδης δὲ παρήλασεν ὠκὺν ἐόντα 580
ἰδρείῃ. λαοὶ δ᾽ ᾿Αγαμέμνονα κυδαίνεσκον,
ἵππον τε Σθενελοῖο θρασύφρονος ἠδὲ καὶ αὐτόν,
οὕνεκα δεύτερος ἦλθε, καὶ εἰ μάλα πολλάκι
νύσσης
ἐξέθορεν, μεγάλῳ περὶ κάρτεϊ οἷς ποσὶ θύων.
καὶ TOT’ ἄρ᾽ ᾿Ατρείδῃ Θέτις ὥπασε καγχαλόωντι 585
ἀργύρεον θώρηκα θεηγενέος Πολυδώρου'
δῶκε δ᾽ ἄρα Σθενέλῳ βριαρὴν κόρυν ᾿Αστεροπαίου
χαλκείην καὶ δοῦρε δύω καὶ ἀτειρέα μίτρην.
ἄλλοις δ᾽ ἱππήεσσι καὶ ὁππόσοι ἤματι κείνῳ
ἦλθον ἀεθλεύσοντες ᾿ Αχιλλῆος ποτὶ τύμβον, 590
δῶρα πόρεν πάντεσσιν. ἐπὶ σφίσι δ᾽ ἄχνυτο
θυμὸν
υἱὸς Λαέρταο δαΐφρονος, οὕνεκ᾽ ἄρ᾽ αὐτὸν
ἀλκῆς ἱέμενον κρατερῶν ἀπέρυξεν ἀέθλων
ἕλκος ἀνιηρόν, τό μιν οὔτασεν ὄβριμος "Αλκων
ἀμφὶ νέκυν κρατεροῖο πονεύμενον Αἰακίδαο. 595
2 Zimmermann, for ἔμελλεν ἱκάνειν of MSS.
208
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK IV
Once and again rushed wide; nor Capaneus’ son,
Good horseman though he were, could turn him back
By rein or whip, because that steed was strange
Still to the race-course ; yet of lineage
Noble was he, for in his veins the blood
Of swift Arion ran, the foal begotten
By the loud-piping West-wind on a Harpy,
The fleetest of all earth-born steeds, whose feet
Could race against his father’s swiftest blasts.
Him did the Blesséd to Adrastus give:
And from him sprang the steed of Sthenelus,
Which Tydeus’ son had given unto his friend
In hallowed Troyland. Filled with confidence
In those swift feet his rider led him forth
Unto the contest of the steeds that day,
Looking his horsemanship should surely win
Renown : yet victory gladdened not his heart
In that great struggle for Achilles’ prizes ;
Nay, swift albeit he was, the King of Men
By skill outraced him. Shouted all the folk,
“Glory to Agamemnon!” Yet they acclaimed
The steed of valiant Sthenelus and his lord,
For that the fiery flying of his feet
Still won him second place, albeit oft
Wide of the course he swerved. Then Thetis gave
To Atreus’ son, while laughed his lips for joy,
God-sprung Polydorus’ breastplate silver-wrought.
To Sthenelus Asteropaeus’ massy helm,
Two lances, and a taslet strong, she gave.
Yea, and to all the riders who that day
Came at Achilles’ funeral-feast to strive
She gave gifts. But the son of the old war-lord,
Laertes, inly grieved to be withheld
From contests of the strong, how fain soe’er,
By that sore wound which Alcon dealt to him
In the grim fight around dead Aeacas’ son.
209
AOTOS ΠΕΜΠΤΟΣ
᾿Αλλ᾽ ὅτε δή ῥ᾽ ἄλλοι μὲν ἀπηνύσθησαν ἄεθλοι,
δὴ τότ᾽ ᾿Αχιλλῆος μεγαλήτορος ἄμβροτα τεύχη
θῆκεν ἐνὶ μέσσοισι θεὰ Θέτις" ἀμφὶ δὲ πάντη
δαίδαλα μαρμαίρεσκεν, ὅσα σθένος «Ηφαίστοιο
ἀμφὶ σάκος ποίησε θρασύφρονος Αἰακίδαο.
IIp ὦτα μὲν εὖ ἤσκητο θεοκμήτῳ ἐπὶ ἔργῳ
οὐρανὸς ἠδ᾽ αἰθήρ, γαίῃ δ᾽ ἅμα κεῖτο θάλασσα"
ἐν δ᾽ ἄνεμοι νεφέλαι TE σελήνη τ᾽ ἠέλιός TE
κεκριμέν᾽ ἄλλυδις ἄλλα, τέτυκτο δὲ τείρεα πάντα,
ὁππόσα δινήεντα κατ᾽ οὐρανὸν ἀμφιφέρονται.
τῷ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ὁμῶς ὑπένερθεν ἀπειρέσιος κέχυτ᾽ ἀήρ'
ἐν τῷ δ᾽ ὄρνιθες τανυχειλέες ἀμφεποτῶντο"
φαίης κε ζώοντας ἅμα πνοιῇσι φέρεσθαι.
Τηθὺς δ᾽ ἀμφετέτυκτο καὶ ᾽Ωκεανοῦ βαθὺ χεῦμα:
τῶν δ᾽ ἄφαρ ἐξεχέοντο ῥοαὶ ποταμῶν κελαδεινῶν
κυκλόθεν ἄλλυδις ἄλλη ἑλισσομένων διὰ γαίης.
᾿Αμφὶ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ εὖ ἤσκηντο κατ᾽ οὔρεα μακρὰ
λέοντες
σμερδαλέοι καὶ θῶες ἀναιδέες" ἐν δ᾽ ἀλεγειναὶ
ἄρκτοι πορδάλιές τε, σύες θ᾽ ἅμα τῇσι πέλοντο
ὄβριμοι ἀλγινόεντας ὑπὸ βλοσυρῇσι γένυσσι
θήγοντες καναχηδὸν ἐ ἐὺ κτυπέοντας ὀδόντας"
ἐν δ᾽ ἀγρόται μετόπισθε κυνῶν μένος ἰθύνοντες,
210
10
15
BOOK V
How the Arms of Achilles were cause of madness and
death unto Atas.
So when all other contests had an end,
Thetis the Goddess laid down in the midst
Great-souled Achilles’ arms divinely wrought ;
And all around flashed out the cunning work
Wherewith the Fire-god overchased the shield
Fashioned for Aeacus’ son, the dauntless-souled.
Inwrought upon that labour of a God
Were first high heaven and cloudland, and beneath
Lay earth and sea: the winds, the clouds were there,
The moon and sun, each in its several place ;
There too were all the stars that, fixed in heaven,
Are borne in its eternal circlings round.
Above and through all was the infinite air
Where to and fro flit birds of slender beak :
Thou hadst said they lived, and floated on the breeze.
Here Tethys’ all-embracing arms were wrought,
And Ocean’s fathomless low. The outrushing flood
Of rivers crying to the echoing hills
All round, to right, to left, rolled o’er the land.
Round it rose league-long mountain-ridges, haunts
Of terrible lions and foul jackals: there
Fierce bears and panthers prowled ; with these were
seen
Wild boars that whetted deadly-clashing tusks
In grimly-frothing jaws. There hunters sped
211
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
9 A
ἄλλοι δ᾽ αὖ λάεσσι Kal αἰγανέησι θοῇσι
βάλλοντες πονέοντο καταντίον, ὡς ἐτεόν περ.
>] 8 Yi \ / θ / 3 ὃ
Ev apa καὶ πόλεμοι φθισήνορες, ἐν OE
κυδοιμοὶ 95
> , > / , \ \
ἀργαλέοι ἐνέκειντο" περικτείνοντο δὲ λαοὶ
Vi 7 δρι 9 CLA ¢/ / ’ ef “
μίγδ᾽ ἅμ᾽ ἑοῖς ἵπποισι: πέδον δ᾽ ἅπαν αἵματι
πολλῷ
δευομένῳ ἤικτο KAT ἀσπίδος ἀκαματοιο.
2 \ / \ a Μ , / bed \
ἐν δὲ Φόβος καὶ Δεῖμος ἔσαν στονόεσσά τ᾽ Kvuw
“ / / “ /
αἵματι λευγαλέῳ πεπαλαγμένη ἅψεα πάντα, 80
2 ὟΝ > / \ 3 ΄ 2 /
ἐν δ᾽ "Epis οὐλομένη καὶ ᾿Εριννύες ὀβριμόθυμοι,
ἡ μὲν ἐποτρύνουσα ποτὶ κλόνον ἄσχετον ἄνδρας
ἐλθέμεν, αἱ δ᾽ ὀλοοῖο πυρὸς πνείουσαι ἀϊτμήν.
> \ \ Qn 4 > / 3 Ἂ A
ἀμφὶ δὲ Κῆρες ἔθυνον ἀμείλιχοι, ἐν δ᾽ apa τῆσι
; , / Mey. ᾽ PANY ASST cs 3
φοίτα λευγαλέου Θανάτου μένος: ἀμφὶ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ αὐτῷ 35
‘Topivar ἐνέκειντο δυσηχέες, ὧν περὶ πάντη
ἐκ μελέων εἰς ovdas ἀπέρρεεν αἷμα καὶ ἱδρώς.
> δ.» ΄ ΝΜ 3 3 > \ are
ἐν δ᾽ apa Topyoves ἔσκον ἀναιδέες" ἀμφὶ δ᾽ apa σφι
σμερδαλέοι πεπόνηντο περὶ πλοχμοῖσι δράκοντες
\ ’ lal
αἰνὸν λιχμώωντες: ἀπειρέσιον 6 apa θαῦμα 40
δαίδαλα κεῖνα πέλοντο μέγ᾽ ἀνδράσι δεῖμα φέ
ροντα
“ > 7 a 3 ,
οὕνεκ᾽ ἔσαν ζωοῖσιν ἐοικότα κινυμενοισι.
\
Kai τὰ μὲν ἂρ πολέμοιο τεράατα πάντα
τέτυκτο.
>’ / FS 4 μέ / ”
εἰρήνης δ᾽ ἀπάνευθεν ἔσαν περικαλλέος Epya*
ἀμφὶ δὲ μυρία φῦλα πολυτλήτων ἀνθρώπων 45
Vv \ / / rye >) / 1 /
ἄστεα καλὰ νέμοντο' Δίκη δ᾽ émédepxeto! πάντα"
ἄλλοι δ᾽ ἄλλ᾽ ἐπὶ ἔργα χέρας φέρον: ἀμφὶ δ᾽ ἀλωαὶ
a , a
καρποῖς ἐβρίθοντο: μέλαινα δὲ γαῖα τεθήλει.
/ ᾽ ΄ »
Αἰπύτατον δ᾽ ἐτέτυκτο θεοκμήτῳ ἐπὶ ἔργῳ
\ \ / ? a ” > \ \ δὲ ὃν
καὶ τρηχὺ ζαθέης ᾿Αρετῆς ὄρος" ἐν δὲ καὶ αὐτὴ 50
1 Zimmermann, ex P; for ἐπιίκετο of v.
212
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK V
After the hounds: beaters with stone and dart,
To the life portrayed, toiled in the woodland sport
And there were man-devouring wars, and all
Horrors of fight : slain men were falling down
Mid horse-hoofs ; and the likeness of a plain
Blood-drenched was on that shield invincible.
Panic was there, and Dread, and ghastly Enyo
With limbs all gore-bespattered hideously,
And deadly Strife, and the Avenging Spirits
Fierce-hearted—she, still goading warriors on
To the onset—they, outbreathing breath of fire
Around them hovered the relentless Fates ;
Beside them Battle incarnate onward pressed
Yelling, and from their limbs streamed blood and
sweat.
There were the ruthless Gorgons: through their hair
Horribly serpents coiled with flickering tongues.
A measureless marvel was that cunning work
Of things that made men shudder to behold
Seeming as though they verily lived and moved.
And while here all war’s marvels were portrayed,
Yonder were all the works of lovely peace.
The myriad tribes of much-enduring men
Dwelt in fair cities Justice watched o'er all.
To diverse toils they set their hands ; the fields
Were harvest-laden ; earth her increase bore.
Most steeply rose on that god-laboured work
The rugged flanks of holy Honour’s mount,
213
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
εἱστήκει φοίνικος ἐπεμβεβαυΐα κατ᾽ ἄκρης
ὑψηλή, ψαύουσα πρὸς οὐρανόν: ἀμφὶ δὲ πάντη
ἀτραπιτοὶ θαμέεσσι διειργόμεναι σκοπέλοισιν
ἀνθρώπων ἀπέρυκον ἐὺν πάτον, οὕνεκα πολλοὶ
εἰσοπίσω χάξοντο τεθηπότες αἰπὰ κέλευθα, 55
παῦροι δ᾽ ἱερὸν οἶμον ἀνήιον ἱδρώοντες.
Ἔν δ᾽ ἔσαν ἀμητῆρες ἀνὰ πλατὺν ὄγμον ἰόντες
σπεύδοντες δρεπάνῃσι νεήκεσι, τῶν δ᾽ ὑπὸ χερσὶ
ἤνυτο λήιον αὖον" ἐφεσπόμενοι δ᾽ ἔσαν ἄλλοι τῶν 58:
πολλοὶ ἀμαλλοδετῆρες" ἀέξετο δ᾽ ἐς μέγα ἔργον.
ἐν δὲ βόες ζεύγληῃσιν ὑ ὑπ᾽ αὐχένας αἰὲν ἔχοντες, θ0
οἱ μὲν ἀπήνας εἷλκον ἐὐσταχύεσσιν ἀμάλλαις
βριθομένας, οἱ δ᾽ αὖθις ἀροτρεύεσκον ἀρούρας"
τῶν δὲ πέδον μετόπισθε μελαίνετο, τοὶ δ᾽ ἐφέποντο
αἰξηοὶ μετὰ τοῖσι βοοσσόα κέντρα φέροντες.
χερσὶν ἀμοιβαδίῃς: ἀνεφαίνετο δ᾽ ἄσπετον ἔργον. 65
Ἔν δ᾽ αὐλοὶ κιθάραι τε παρ᾽ εἰλαπίνῃσι πέλοντο"
ἐν δὲ νέων παρὰ ποσσὶ χοροὶ ἵσταντο γυναικῶν" 3
αἱ δ᾽ ap ἔσαν ζωῇσιν ἀλίγκια ποιπνύουσαι.
Αγχι δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ὀρχηθμοῦ τε καὶ εὐφροσύνης
ἐρατεινῆς
ἀφρὸν ἔτ᾽ ἀμφὶ κόμῃσιν ἔχουσ᾽ ἀνεδύετο πόντου ΤΟ
Κύπρις ἐὐστέφανος, τὴν δ᾽ ἽἽ[μερος ἀμφεποτᾶτο
μειδιόων ἐ ἐρατεινὰ σὺν ἠὐκόμοις Χαρίτεσσιν.
Ἔν δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἔσαν Νηρῆος ὑπερθύμοιο θύγατρες
ἐξ ἁλὸς εὐρυπόροιο κασιγνήτην ἀνάγουσαι
ἐς γάμον Αἰακίδαο δαΐφρονος" ἀμφὶ δὲ πάντες 75
ἀθάνατοι δαίνυντο μακρὴν ἀνὰ Ἰ]ηλίου ἄκρην'
ἀμφὶ δ᾽ ap ὕδρηλοί τε καὶ εὐθαλέες λειμῶνες
ἔσκον ἀπειρεσίοισι κεκασμένοι ἄνθεσι ποίης,
ἄλσεά τε κρῆναΐ τε διειδέες ὕδατι καλῷ.
Nijes δὲ στονόεσσαι ὑπὲρ πόντοιο φέροντο, 80
1 Verse inserted by Zimmermann, ex P.
2 Zimmermann’s order of words.
214
Se
σαν αν νον
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK V
And there upon a palm-tree throned she sat
Exalted, and her hands reached up to heaven.
All round her, paths broken by many rocks
Thwarted the climbers’ feet; by those steep tracks
Daunted ye saw returning many folk:
Few won by sweat of toil the sacred height.
And there were reapers moving down long swaths
Swinging the whetted sickles: ’neath their hands
The hot work sped to its close. Hard after these
Many sheaf-binders followed, and the work
Grew passing great. With yoke-bands on their
necks
Oxen were there, whereof some drew the wains
Heaped high with full-eared sheaves, and further on
Were others ploughing, and the glebe showed black
Behind them. Youths with ever-busy goads
Followed : a world of toil was there portrayed.
And there a banquet was, with pipe and harp,
Dances of maids, and flashing feet of boys,
All in swift movement, like to living souls.
Hard by the dance and its sweet winsomeness
Out of the sea was rising lovely-crowned
Cypris, foam-blossoms still upon her hair ;
And round her hovered smiling witchingly
Desire, and danced the Graces lovely-tressed.
And there were lordly Nereus’ Daughters shown
Leading their sister up from the wide sea
To her espousals with the warrior-king.
And round her all the Immortals banqueted
On Pelion’s ridge far-stretching. All about
Lush dewy watermeads there were, bestarred
With flowers innumerable, grassy groves,
And springs with clear transparent water bright.
There ships with sighing sheets swept oer the sea,
205
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
ai μὲν ap ἐσσύμεναι ἐπικάρσιαι, αἱ δὲ Kat ἰθὺ
νισσόμεναι: περὶ δέ σφιν ἀέξετο KOM ἀλεγεινὸν
ὀρνύμενον: ναῦται δὲ τεθηπότες ἄλλοθεν ἄλλος
ἐσσυμένας φοβέοντο καταιγίδας, ὡς ἐτεόν περ,
λαίφεα λεύκ᾽ ἐρύοντες, ἵν᾽ ἐκ θανάτοιο φύγωσιν: Β8δὺ
οἱ δ᾽ ἕξοντ᾽ ἐπ᾽ ἐρετμὰ πονεύμενοι" ἀμφὶ δὲ νηυσὶ
πυκνὸν ἐρεσσομένῃσι μέλας λευκαίνετο πόντος.
Τοῖς δ᾽ ἔπι κυδιόων μετὰ κήτεσιν εἰναλίοισιν
ἤσκητ᾽ ᾿ΕΨννοσίγαιος" ἀελλόποδες δέ μιν ἵπποι
ὡς ἐτεὸν σπεύδοντες ὑπὲρ πόντοιο φέρεσκον 90
χρυσείῃ μάστιγι πεπληγότες" ἀμφὶ δὲ κῦμα
στόρνυτ᾽ ἐπεσσυμένων, ὁμαλὴ δ᾽ ἄρα πρόσθε
γαλήνη
ἔπλετο" τοὶ δ᾽ ἑκάτερθεν ἀολλέες ἀμφὶς ἄνακτα
ἀγρόμενοι δελφῖνες ἀπειρέσιον κεχάροντο
σαίνοντες βασιλῆα, κατ᾽ ἠερόεν δ᾽ ἁλὸς οἷδμα 95
νηχομένοις εἴδοντο καὶ ἀργύρεοί περ ἐόντες.
“Ada δὲ μυρία κεῖτο κατ᾽ ἀσπίδα τεχνήεντα
χερσὶν ὑπ᾽ ἀθανάτῃς πυκινόφρονος Ἡφαίστοιο"
πάντα δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἐστεφάνωτο βαθὺς p ῥόος ᾿Ωκεανοῖο,
οὕνεκ᾽ ἔην ἔκτοσθε κατ᾽ ἄντυγος, 7) ἔνε πᾶσα 100
ἀσπὶς ἐνεστήρικτο, δέδεντο δὲ δαίδαλα πάντα.
Τῇ δ᾽ ἄρα παρκατέκειτο κόρυς μέγα BeBpiOvia:
Ζεὺς δέ οἱ ἀμφετέτυκτο μέγ᾽ ἀσχαλόωντι ἐοικώς,
οὐρανῷ ἐμβεβαώς: περὶ δ᾽ ἀθάνατοι πονέοντο
Τιτήνων ἐριδαινομένων Διὲ συμμεμαῶτες" 105
τοὺς δ᾽ ἤδη κρατερὸν πῦρ ἄμφεχεν" ἐκ δὲ κεραυνοὶ
ἄλληκτοι νιφάδεσσιν ἐοικότες ἐξεχέοντο
οὐρανόθεν: Ζηνὸς γὰρ ἀάσπετον ὦρνυτο κάρτος"
οἱ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἔτ᾽ αἰθομένοισιν ἐοικότες ἀμπνείεσκον.
᾿Αμφὲ δὲ θώρηκος γύαλον παρεκέκλιτο καλὸν 110
ἄρρηκτον βριαρόν τε, τὸ χάνδανε Πηλείωνα.
κνημῖδες δ᾽ ἤσκηντο πελώριαι: ἀμφὶ δ᾽ ἐλαφραὶ
μούνῳ ἔσαν ᾿Αχιλῆι μάλα στιβαραΐ περ ἐοῦσαι.
216
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK V
Some beating up to windward, some that sped
Before a following wind, and round them heaved
The melancholy surge. Scared shipmen rushed
This way and that, adread for tempest-gusts,
Hauling the white sails in, to scape the death—
It all seemed real—some tugging at the oars,
While the dark sea on either side the ship
Grew hoary ‘neath the swiftly-plashing blades.
And there triumphant the Earth-shaker rode
Amid sea-monsters: stormy-footed steeds
Drew him, and seemed alive, as o'er the deep
They raced, oft smitten by the golden whip.
Around their path of flight the waves fell smooth,
And all before them was unrippled calm.
Dolphins on either hand about their king
Swarmed, in wild rapture of homage bowing backs,
And seemed like live things o’er the hazy sea
Swimming, albeit all of silver wrought.
Marvels of untold craft were imaged there
By cunning-souled Hephaestus’ deathless hands
Upon the shield. And Ocean’s fathomless flood
Clasped like a garland all the outer rim,
And compassed all the strong shield’s curious work.
And therebeside the massy helmet lay.
Zeus in his wrath was set upon the crest
Throned on heaven’s dome; the Immortals all around
Fierce-battling with the Titans fought for Zeus.
Already were their foes enwrapped with flame,
For thick and fast as snowflakes poured from
heaven
The thunderbolts : the might of Zeus was roused,
Aud burning giants seemed to breathe out flames.
And therebeside the fair strong corslet lay,
Unpierceable, which clasped Peleides once:
There were the greaves close-lapping, light alone
To Achilles ; massy of mould and huge they were.
217
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
᾿Αγχόθι δ᾽ ἄσχετον ἄορ ἄδην περιμαρμαίρεσκε
χρυσείῳ τελαμῶνι κεκασμένον ἀργυρέῳ τε 115
κουλεῷ, ᾧ ἔπι κώπη ἀρηραμένη ἐλέφαντος
θεσπεσίοις τεύχεσσι μετέπρεπε παμφανόωσα.
τοῖς δὲ παρεκτετάνυστο κατὰ χθονὸς ὄβριμον
ἔγχος,
Πηλιὰς ὑψικόμῃσιν ἐειδομένη ἐλάτησι
λύθρου ἔ ἔτι πνείουσα καὶ αἵματος ᾿κτορέοιο. 120
Καὶ τότ᾽ ἐν ᾿Αργείοισι Θέτις “κνανοκρήδεμνος
θεσπέσιον φάτο μῦθον ἀκηχεμένη ᾿Αχιελῆος"
ἡ νῦν μὲν δὴ κατ᾽ ἀγῶνος, ἀέθλια πάντα τελέσθη,
ὅσσ᾽ ἐπὶ παιδὶ θανόντι μέγ᾽ ἀχνυμένη κατέθηκα'
ἀλλ᾽ ἴτω ὅς T ἐσάωσε νέκυν καὶ ἄριστος᾽ Αχαιῶν, 125
καί νύ κέ οἱ θηητὰ καὶ ἄμβροτα τεύχε᾽ ἕσασθαι
δώσω, ἃ καὶ COTS μέγ᾽ εὔαδεν ἀθανάτοισιν ”
‘Qs φάτο: τοὶ δ᾽ ἀνόρουσαν ἐριδμαίνοντ᾽
ἐπέεσσιν
υἱὸς Λαέρταο καὶ ἀντιθέου Τελαμῶνος
Αἴας, ὃ os μέγα πάντας ὑπείρεχεν ἐν Δαναοῖσιν, 180
ἀστὴρ ὡς ἀρίδηλος a av οὐρανὸν αἰγλήεντα
“Eo-mepos, ὃ ὃς “μέγα πᾶσι μετ᾽ ἀστράσι παμφαίνησι"
τῷ εἰκὼς τεύχεσσι παρίστατο Πηλείδαο"
TEE δ᾽ ᾿Ιδομενῆα “κριτὴν καὶ Νηλέος υἷα
ἠδ᾽ ἄρα μητιόεντ᾽ ᾿Αγαμέμνονα' τοὺς γὰρ ἐώλπει 185
ἴδμεναι ἀ ἀτρεκέως ἐρικυδέος ἔ ἔργα μόθοιο"
ὡς δ᾽ αὕτως ᾿Οδυσεὺς κείνοις ἐπὶ πάγχυ πεποίθει'
οἱ γὰρ ἔσαν πινυτοὶ καὶ ἀμύμονες ἐν “Δαναοῖσι.
Νέστωρ δ᾽ ᾿Ιδομενῆι καὶ ᾿Ατρέος υἱέϊ δίῳ
ἄμφω ἐελδομένοισιν ἔπος φάτο νόσφιν ἀπ᾽
ἄλλων" 140
“ὦ φίλοι, 7 μέγα πῆμα καὶ ἄσχετον ἤματι τῷδε
ἡμῖν συμφορέουσιν ἀκηδέες Οὐρανίωνες
Αἴαντος μεγάλοιο περιφραδέος τ᾽ ᾽Οδυσῆος
218
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK V
And _ hard by flashed the sword whose edge and
point
No mail could turn, with golden belt, and sheath
Of silver, and with haft of ivory:
Brightest amid those wondrous arms it shone.
Stretched on the earth thereby was that dread spear,
Long as the tall-tressed pines of Pelion,
Still breathing out the reek of Hector’s blood.
Then mid the Argives Thetis sable-stoled
In her deep sorrow for Achilles spake ;
“ Now all the athlete-prizes have been won
Which I set forth in sorrow for my child.
Now let that mightiest of the Argives come
Who rescued from the foe my dead: to him
These glorious and immortal arms I give
Which even the blesséd Deathless joyed to see.”
Then rose in rivalry, each claiming them,
Laertes’ seed and godlike Telamon’s son,
Aias, the mightiest far of Danaan men:
He seemed the star that in the glittering sky
Outshines the host of heaven, Hesperus,
So splendid by Peleides’ arms he stood ;
“ And let these judge,” he cried, “‘ lIdomeneus,
Nestor, and kingly-counselled Agamemnon,”
For these, he weened, would sureliest know the
truth
Of deeds wrought in that glorious battle-toil.
“To these I also trust most utterly,”
Odysseus said, “ for prudent of their wit
Be these, and princeliest of all Danaan men.”
But to Idomeneus and Atreus’ son
Spake Nestor apart, and willingly they heard :
“‘ Friends, a great woe and unendurable
This day the careless Gods have laid on us,
In that into this lamentable strife
Aias the mighty hath been thrust by them
219
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
ἐσσυμένων ἐπὶ δῆριν ἀάσχετον ἀργαλέην τε"
~ ΄ eo e¢ , , \ τ “ΠΝ
τῶν γάρ ῥ᾽ ὁπποτέρῳ δώῃ θεὸς εὖχος ἀρέσθαι 145
/ \ ’ ς > = / / Ν᾿ 2
γηθήσει κατὰ θυμόν, ὁ δ᾽ av μέγα πένθος ἀέξει
πάντας ἀτεμβόμενος Δαναούς, περὶ δ᾽ ἔξοχα
πάντων
ε ’ »ΟΣ ¥ “a > e a e Ν /
ἡμέας" οὐδ᾽ ἔτι κεῖνος ἐν ἡμῖν ὡς τὸ πάροιθε
2
στήσεται ἐν πολέμῳ: μέγα δ᾽ ἔσσεται ἄλγος
᾿Αχαιοῖς,
κείνων ὅντινα δεινὸς ἕλῃ χόλος, οὕνεκα πάντων 150
ἡρώων προφέρουσιν, ὁ μὲν πολέμῳ, ο δὲ βουλῇ.
ἀλλ᾽ ἄγ᾽ ἐμοὶ πείθεσθον, ἐ ἐπεί pa γεραίτερός εἶμι
λίην, οὐκ ὀλίγον περ, ἔχω δ᾽ ἐπὶ γήραϊ πολλῷ
καὶ νόον, οὕνεκεν ἐσθλὰ καὶ ἄλγεα πολλὰ μόγησα'
αἰεὶ δ᾽ ἐν βουλῇσι γέρων πολύϊδρις ἀμείνων 155
ὁπλοτέρου πέλει ἀνδρός, ἐπεὶ μάλα μυρία οἷδε:
τοὔνεκα Τρωσὶν ἐφῶμεν ἐὔφροσι [ταῦτα] δικάσσαι
ἀντιθέῳ τ᾽ Αἴαντι φιλοπτολέμῳ τ᾽ Οδυσῆι,
ὄντινα δήιοι ἄνδρες ὑποτρομέουσι μάλιστα." 158a
nO ὅτις ἐξεσάωσε νέκυν Πηληιάδαο
ἐξ ὀλοοῦ πολέμοιο" δορύκτητοι γὰρ ἐν ἡμῖν 160
πολλοὶ Τρῶες ἔασι “νεοδμήτῳ ὑ ὑπ᾽ ᾿ ἀνάγκῃ"
οἵ ῥα δίκην ἰθεῖαν ἐπὶ σφίσι ποιήσονται.
οὔτινι ἦρα φέροντες, ἐπεὶ μάλα πάντας ᾿Αχαιοὺς
ἶσον ἀπεχθαίρουσι κακῆς μεμνημένοι ἄτης.
Ὡς φάμενον προσέειπεν ἐὐμμελίης ᾿Αγαμέμνων' 165
ὦ γέρον, ὡς οὔτις πινυτώτερος ἄλλος ἐν ἡμῖν
σεῖο πέλει Δαναῶν οὔτ᾽ ἂρ νέος οὔτε παλαιός,
ὃς φὴς ᾿Αργείοισιν ἀνηλεγέως χαλεπῆναι
ἄν ρα τόν, ὅντινα τῶνδε θεοὶ μετόπισθε βάλωνται
νίκης" οἱ γὰρ ἄριστοι ἐπὶ σφίσι δηριόωνται: 170
καί ῥά μοι ἔνδοθεν ἦτορ ἐνὶ φρεσὶ ταῦτα μενοινᾷ,
ὄφρα δορυκτήτοισι δικασπολίην ὀπάσωμεν'
1 Transposed by Treu from lacuna after iv. 524,
220
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK V
Against Odysseus passing-wise. For he,
To whichsoe’er God gives the victor’s glory—
O yea, he shall rejoice! But he that loseth—
Ah for the grief in all the Danaans’ hearts
For him! And ours shall be the deepest grief
Of all; for that man will not in the war
Stand by us as of old. A sorrowful day
It shall be for us, whichsoe’er of these
Shall break into fierce anger, seeing they
Are of our heroes chiefest, this in war,
And that in counsel. Hearken then to me,
Seeing that I am older far than ye,
Not by a few years only: with mine age
Is prudence joined, for I have suffered and wrought
Much; and in counsel ever the old man,
Who knoweth much, excelleth younger men.
Therefore let us ordain to judge this cause
*Twixt godlike Aias and war-fain Odysseus,
Our Trojan captives. They shall say whom most
Our foes dread, and who saved Peleides’ corse
From that most deadly fight. Lo, in our midst
Be many spear-won Trojans, thralls of Fate;
And these will pass true judgment on these twain,
To neither showing favour, since they hate
Alike all authors of their misery.”
He spake: replied Agamemnon lord of spears:
“ Ancient, there is none other in our midst
Wiser than thou, of Danaans young or old,
In that thou say’st that unforgiving wrath
Will burn in him to whom the Gods herein
Deny the victory ; for these which strive
Are both our chiefest. Therefore mine heart too
Is set on this, that to the thralls of war
This judgment we commit: the loser then
221
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
\ An: / 2 / / -Ψ,]
τοὺς καὶ ἀτεμβόμενός τις ὀλέθρια μήσεται ἔργα
Τρωσὶν ἐὐπτολέμοισι, χόλον δ᾽ οὐκ ἄμμιν ὀπάσ-
Ε /
“Os φάτο' τοὶ δ᾽ ἕνα θυμὸν ἐνὶ στέρνοισιν
ἔχοντες 175
> ἊΝ > / / > ,
ἀμφαδὸν ἠνήναντο δικασπολίην ἀλεγεινήν'"
τῶν δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἀναινομένων Τρώων ἐρικυδέες υἷες
δ ,
ἕζοντ᾽ ἐν μέσσοισι δορύκτητοί περ ἐόντες,
ὄφρα θέμιν καὶ νεῖκος ἀρήιον ἰθύνωσιν.
Αἴας δ᾽ ἐν μέσσοισι μέγ᾽ ἀσχαλόων φάτο μῦθον: 180
a ϑι τῷ ,
“ὦ Οδυσεῦ φρένας αἰνέ, τί τοι νόον ἤπαφε
δαίμων
“. > \ / Ν , > /
ἶσον ἐμοὶ φρονέειν περὶ κάρτεος ἀκαμάτοιο;
> \ > τ Ψ 5) 7, 9 a
ἢ φὴς αἰνὸν ὅμιλον ἐρυκακέειν ᾿Αχιλῆος
¢ , a ,
βλημένου ἐν κονίησιν, ὅτ᾽ ἀμφί ἑ Τρῶες ἔβησαν,
e 3 Γ 3 /
ὁππότ᾽ ἐγὼ κείνοισι φόνον στονόεντ᾽ ἐφέηκα 185
-“.}. ΄ /
σεῖο καταπτώσσοντος; ἐπεί νύ σε γείνατο μήτηρ
/ Lal
δείλαιον καὶ ἄναλκιν, ἀφαυρότερόν περ ἐμεῖο,
ὅσσον τίς τε κύων μεγαλοβρύχοιο λέοντος"
οὐ γάρ τοι στέρνοισι πέλει μενεδήιον ἦτορ,
ἀλλὰ σοὶ ἀμφιμέμηλε δόλος καὶ ἀτάσθαλα ἔργα. 190
IN LIN 5 / πο δ > / e Ν »
ἠὲ τόδ᾽ ἐξελάθου, ὅτ᾽ ἐς ᾿Γλίου ἱερὸν ἄστυ
> / 2 / (Ae eee) / 3 a
ἐλθέμεναι ἀλέεινες ἅμ᾽ ἀγρομένοισιν Αχαιοῖς,
» ΄
καί σε καταπτώσσοντα καὶ οὐκ ἐθέλοντ᾽ ἐφέ-
πεσθαι
a “a ΟΝ,
ἤγαγον ᾿Ατρεῖδαι; ὡς μὴ wheres ἱκέσθαι"
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ons γὰρ ὑπ᾽ ἐννεσίῃσι κλυτὸν Ἰ]οιάντιον υἷα 19ὅ
Λήμνῳ ἐν ἠγαθέῃ λίπομεν μεγάλα στενάχοντα:
> Yj Σ an \ > / ΄
οὐκ οἴῳ δ᾽ ἄρα τῷ γε λυγρὴν ἐπεμήσαο λώβην,
ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀντιθέῳ Παλαμήδεϊ θῆκας ὄλεθρον,
aA / / yy ’ ΝΟ ΣΌΝ a
ὃς σέο φέρτερος ἔσκε Bin καὶ ἐΐφρονι βουλῇ.
a 3) ov, we val / > ΄ BY
νῦν δ᾽ ἤδη Kal ἐμεῖο καταντίον ἐλθέμεν ἔτλης, Φ00
1 Zimmermann, ex P,
222
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK V
Shall against Troy devise his deadly work
Of vengeance, and shall not be wroth with us.
He spake, and these three, being of one mind,
In hearing of all men refused to judge
Judgment so thankless: they would none of it.
Therefore they set the high-born sons of Troy
There in the midst, spear-thralls although they were,
To give just judgment in the warriors’ strife.
Then in hot anger Aias rose, and spake:
“ Odysseus, frantic soul, why hath a God
Deluded thee, to make thee hold thyself
My peer in might invincible? Dar’st thou say
That thou, when slain Achilles lay in dust,
When round him swarmed the Trojans, didst bear
back
That furious throng, when I amidst them hurled
Death, and thou coweredst away? Thy dam
Bare thee a craven and a weakling wretch
Frail in comparison of me, as is
A cur beside a lion thunder-voiced !
No battle-biding heart is in thy breast,
But wiles and treachery be all thy care.
Hast thou forgotten how thou didst shrink back
From faring with Achaea’s gathered host
To Llium’s holy burg, till Atreus’ sons
Forced thee, the cowering craven, how loth soe’er,
To follow them—would God thou hadst never come!
For by thy counsel left we in Lemnos’ isle
Groaning in agony Peeas’ son renowned.
And not for him alone was ruin devised
Of thee; for godlike Palamedes too
Didst thou contrive destruction—ha, he was
Alike in battle and council better than thou!
And now thou dar’st to rise up against me,
Neither remembering my kindness, nor
223
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
, 5 A
οὔτ᾽ εὐεργεσίης μεμνημένος, οὔτε TL θυμῷ
e “ / \ e , a ΨΙΘΓΡΑ, 4
ἀζόμενος σέο πολλὸν ὑπέρτερον, OS σ ἐνὶ χάρμῃ
ἐξεσάωσα πάροιθεν ὑποτρομέοντα κυδοιμὸν
/ e/ 35M: > \ , ’ 4
δυσμενέων, ὅτε σ᾽ ἄλλοι ἀνὰ μόθον οἰωθέντα
, c &
κάλλιπον ἐν δηίων ὁμάδῳ φεύγοντα καὶ αὐτόν: 20ῦ
9, a \ A.
ws ὄφελον καὶ ἐμεῖο θρασὺ σθένος ἐν δαὶ κείνῃ
᾽ > / 5 a
αὐτὸς Ζεὺς ἐφόβησεν ἀπ᾽ αἰθέρος, ὄφρα σε Τρῶες
ἀμφιτόμοις ξιφέεσσι διαμελεϊστὶ κέδασσαν
an \ a
δαῖτα κυσὶ σφετέροισι, καὶ οὐκ ἂν ἐμεῖο μενοίνας
4 / , ’ὔ’
ἐλθέμεναι κατέναντα δολοφροσύνησι πεποιθώς. 210
’ ’ὔ Ἅ /
σχέτλιε, τίπτε Bin πολὺ φέρτατος ἔμμεναι ἄλλων
, a
εὐχόμενος μέσσοισιν ἔχεις νέας, οὐδέ TL θυμῷ
ἔτλης ὥσπερ ἔγωγε θοὰς ἔκτοσθεν ἐρύσσαι
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νῆας; ἐπεί νύ σε τάρβος ἐπήιεν. οὐδὲ μὲν αἰνὸν
a A > / 5 \ x, ¢ ὌΠ 7. fa)
TUP VNWV ATTANANKES* EY δ᾽ ὑπ ἀταρβεέϊ θυμῷ 215
Ν V4 f ev
ἔστην καὶ πυρὸς ἄντα καὶ “Ἕκτορος, ὅς μοι ὕπεικε
,
πάντη ἐν ὑσμίνῃ: σὺ δέ μιν περιδείδιες αἰεί.
ὡς ὄφελον τόδε νῶιν ἐνὶ πτολέμῳ τις ἄεθλον
θῆκεν, ὅτ᾽ ἀμφ᾽ ᾿Αχιλῆι δεδουπότι δῆρις ὀρώρει,
v eG) / Sy. / n
ὄφρ᾽ ἐκ δυσμενέων με Kal ἀργαλέοιο κυδοιμοῦ 990
” ” \ \ / /
ἔδρακες ἔντεα καλὰ ποτὶ κλισίας φορέοντα
αὐτῷ ὁμῶς ᾿Αχιλῆι δαΐφρονι" νῦν δ᾽ ἄρα μύθων
ἰδρείῃ πίσυνος μεγάλων ἐπιμαίεαι ἔργων'
οὐ γάρ τοι σθένος ἐστὶν ἐν ἔντεσιν ἀκαμάτοισι
4 of. » ~
δύμεναι Αἰακίδαο δαΐφρονος, οὐδὲ μέγ᾽ ἔγχος 225
a 2
νωμῆσαι παλάμῃσιν: ἐμοὶ δ᾽ ἄρα πάντα τέτυκται
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ἄρμενα, Kai μοι ἔοικε φορήμεναι ayaa τεύχη
οὔτι καταισχύνοντι θεοῦ περικαλλέα δώρα.
2 \ ΠΝ ΄ 2 , an
ἀλλὰ τί ἢ μύθοισιν ἐριδμαίνοντε κακοῖσιν
224
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK V
Having respect unto the mightier man
Who rescued thee erewhile, when thou didst quail
In fight before the onset of thy foes,
When thou, forsaken of all Greeks beside,
"Midst tumult of the fray, wast fleeing too!
Oh that in that great fight Zeus’ self had stayed
My dauntless might with thunder from his heaven!
Then with their two-edged swords the Trojan men
Had hewn thee limb from limb, and to their dogs
Had cast thy carrion! ‘Then thou hadst not presumed
To meet me, trusting in thy trickeries !
Wretch, wherefore, if thou vauntest thee in might
Beyond all others, hast thou set thy ships
In the line’s centre, screened from foes, nor dared
As I, on the far wing to draw them up?
Because thou wast afraid! Not thou it was
Who savedst from devouring fire the ships ;
But I with heart unquailing there stood fast
Facing the fire and Hector—ay, even he
Gave back before me everywhere in fight.
Thou—thou didst fear him aye with deadly fear!
Oh, had this our contention been but set
Amidst that very battle, when the roar
Of conflict rose around Achilles slain!
Then had thine own eyes seen me bearing forth
Out from the battle’s heart and fury of foes
That goodly armour and its hero lord
Unto the tents. But here—thou canst but trust
In cunning speech, and covetest a place
Amongst the mighty! Thou—thou hast not strength
To wear Achilles’ arms invincible,
Nor sway his massy spear in thy weak hands!
But I—they are verily moulded to my frame :
Yea, seemly it is I wear those glorious arms,
Who shall not shame a God’s gifts passing fair.
But wherefore for Achilles’ glorious arms
225
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
ἕσταμεν ἀμφ᾽ ᾿Αχιλῆος ἀμύμονος ἀγλαὰ τεύχη; 230
[ἀλλ᾽ aye χαλκείῃς πειρήσομεν ἐγχείῃσιν)
ὅστις φέρτερός ἐστιν ἐνὶ φθισήνορι χάρμῃ.
ἀλκῆς γὰρ τόδ᾽ ἄεθλον a ἀρήιον, οὐκ ἀλεγεινῶν
θῆκεν ἐνὶ μέσσοισιν ἐπέων Θέτις ἀργυρόπεζα"
μύθων δ᾽ εἰν ἀγορῇ χρειὼ πέλει ἀνθρώποισιν"
οἶδα γὰρ ὡς σέο πολλὸν ἀγαυότερος καὶ ἀρείων 285
εἰμί: γένος δέ μοί ἐστιν, ὅθεν μεγάλῳ ᾿Αχιλῆι."
Ὡς φάτο: τὸν δ᾽ ἀλεγεινὰ παραβλήδην ἐ ἐνένιπεν
υἱὸς Λαέρταο πολύτροπα μήδεα νωμῶν’
“Αἦαν ἀμετροεπές, τί νύ μοι τόσα parp ἀγορεύεις;
οὐτιδανόν τέ μ᾽ ἔφησθα καὶ ἀργαλέον καὶ ἄναλκιν 240
ἔμμεναι, ὃς σέο πολλὸν ὑπέρτερος εὔχομαι εἶναι
μήδεσι καὶ μύθοισι, τά T ἀνδράσι κάρτος ἀέξει"
καὶ γάρ T ἠλίβατον πέτρην ἄρρηκτον ἐοῦσαν
μήτι ὑποτμήγουσιν ἐν οὔρεσι λατόμοι ἄνδρες
ῥηιδίως, μήτι δὲ “μέγαν Bapunxea πόντον 245
ναῦται ὑπεκπερόωσιν, ὅτ᾽ ἄσπετα κυμαίνηται"
τέχνῃσιν δ᾽ ἀγρόται κρατεροὺς δαμόωσι λέοντας
πορδάλιάς τε σύας τε καὶ ἄλλων ἔθνεα θηρῶν"
ταῦροι δ᾽ ὀβριμόθυμοι ὑ ὑπὸ ζεύγλαις δαμόωνται
ἀνθρώπων ἱ ἰότητι" νόῳ δέ τε πάντα τελεῖται. 250
αἰεὶ δ᾽ ἀφραδέος πέλει ἀνέρος ἀμφὶ πόνοισι
πᾶσι καὶ ἐν βουλῇσιν ἀνὴρ πολύϊδρις ἀμείνων"
τοὔνεκ᾽ ἐὐφρονέοντα θρασὺς πάϊς Οἰνείδαο
λέξατό μ᾽ ἐκ πάντων ἐπιτάρροθον, ὄφρ᾽ ἀφίκωμαι
ἐς Ὁ ΠΣ μέγα δ᾽ ἔργον ὁμῶς ἐτελέσσαμεν
ἄμφω" 255
Kal δ᾽ seers ΠΠηλῆος ἐὐσθενέος κλυτὸν υἷα
ἤγαγον ᾿Ατρείδῃσιν ἐπίρροθον" ἢν δὲ καὶ ἄλλου
ἥρωος χρειώ τίς ἐν ᾿Αργείοισι πέληται,
οὐδ᾽ ὅγε χερσὶ τεῇσιν ἐλεύσεται, οὐδὲ μὲν ἄλλων
᾿Αργείων βουλῇσιν, ἐ ἐγὼ δέ ἑ μοῦνος ᾿Αχαιῶν 260
ἄξω μειλιχίοισι παραυδήσας ἐπέεσσι
226
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK V
With words discourteous wrangling stand we here ?
Come, let us try in strife with brazen spears
Who of us twain is best in murderous fight!
For silver-footed Thetis set in the midst
This prize for prowess, not for pestilent words.
In folkmote may men have some use for words:
In pride of prowess I know me above thee far,
And great Achilles’ lineage is mine own.”
He spake: with scornful glance and bitter speech
Odysseus the resourceful chode with him :
«‘ Aias, unbiidled tongue, why these vain words
To me? Thou hast called me pestilent, niddering,
And weakling: yet I boast me better far
Than thou in wit and speech, which things increase
The strength of men. Lo, how the craggy rock,
Adamantine though it seem, the hewers of stone
Amid the hills by wisdom undermine
Full lightly, and by wisdom shipmen cross
The thunderous-plunging sea, when mountain-high
It surgeth, and by craft do hunters quell
Strong lions, panthers, boars, yea, all the brood
Of wild things. Furious-hearted bulls are tamed
To bear the yoke-bands by device of men.
Yea, all things are by wit accomplished. Still
It is the man who knoweth that excels
The witless man alike in toils and counsels.
For my keen wit did Oeneus’ valiant son
Choose me of all men with him to draw nigh
To Hector’s watchmen: yea, and mighty deeds
We twain accomplished. I it was who brought
To Atreus’ sons Peleides far-renowned,
Their battle-helper. Whensoe’er the host
Needeth some other champion, not for the sake
Of thine hands will he come, nor by the rede
Of other Argives: of Achaeans I
Alone will draw him with soft suasive words
227
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
δῆριν € és αἰζηῶν" μέγα γὰρ κράτος ἀνδράσι μῦθος
γίνετ᾽ ἐὐφροσύνῃ μεμελημένος" ἠνορέη δὲ
ἄπρηκτος τελέθει μέγεθός T εἰς οὐδὲν ἀέξει
ἀνέρος, εἰ μή οἱ πινυτὴ ἐπὶ μῆτις ἕπηται. 265
αὐτὰρ ἐμοὶ καὶ κάρτος ὁμῶς καὶ μῆτιν. ὄπασσαν
ἀθάνατοι" τεῦξαν δὲ μέγ᾽ ᾿Αργείοισιν ἐ ὄνειαρ.
οὐδὲ μὲν ὡς σύμ ᾿ ἔφησθα πάρος φεύγοντα σάωσας
δηΐου ἐξ ἐ ἐνοπτῆς" οὐ γὰρ φύγον, ἀλλ᾽ ἅμα πάντας
Τρῶας ἐπεσσυμένους μένον ἔμπεδον: οἱ δ᾽ ἐπέ-
χυντο 210
ἀλκῇ μαιμώωντες" ἐγὼ δ᾽ ὑπὸ κάρτεϊ χειρῶν
πολλῶν θυμὸν ἔλυσα: σὺ δ᾽ οὐκ ap ἐτήτυμα
Bakers:
ov yap ἔμοιγ᾽ ἐπάμυνας ἀνὰ μόθον ἀλλὰ σοὶ αὐτῷ
ἔστης ἦρα φέρων, μή τίς νύ σε δουρὶ δαμάσσῃ
φεύγοντ᾽ ἐκ πολέμοιο. νέας δ᾽ ἐς μέσσον ἔρυσσα 275
οὔτι περιτρομέων δηίων μένος, ἀλλ᾽ ἵνα μῆχος
αἰὲν ἅμ᾽ ᾿Ατρείδῃσιν ὑ ὑπὲρ πολέμοιο φέρωμαι'
καὶ σὺ μὲν ἔκτοσθε στήσας νέας" αὐτὰρ ἔγωγε
αὐτὸν ἀεικίσσας πληγῇς ὑπὸ λευγαλέησιν
ἐς Τρώων πτολίεθρον ἐσήλυθον, ὄφρα πύθωμαι, 280
ὁππόσα μητιόωνται ὑπὲρ πολέμου ἀλεγεινοῦ.
οὐδὲ μὲν “Ἕκτορος ἐ ἔγχος ἐδείδιον, ἀλλὰ καὶ αὐτὸς
ἐν πρώτοις ἀνόρουσα μαχέσσασθαι μενεαίνων
κείνῳ, ὅτ᾽ ἠνορέῃ πίσυνος προκαλέσσατο πάντας.
νῦν δέ σευ ἀμφ᾽ ᾿Αχιλῆι πολὺ πλέονας κτάνον
ἄνδρας 285
δυσμενέων, € ἐσάωσα δ᾽ ὁμῶς τεύχεσσι θανόντα.
οὐδὲ μὲν ἐγχείην τρομέω σέθεν, ἀλλά με λυγρὸν
ἕλκος ἔτ᾽ ἀμφ᾽ ὀδύνῃς περινίσσεται εἵνεκα τευχέων
τῶνδ᾽ ὑπερουτηθέντα δαϊκταμένου τ᾽ ᾿Αχιλῆος" |
He 1 vi ὡς ᾿Αχιλῆι πέλει Διὸς ἔξοχον αἷμα." 290
p ἔφη: τὸν δ᾽ αὖθις ἀμείβετο καρτερὸς
ee
228
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK V
To where strong men are warring. Mighty powei
The tongue hath over men, when courtesy
Inspires it. Valour is a deedless thing ;
And bulk and big assemblage of a man
Cometh to naught, by wisdom unattended.
But unto me the Immortals gave both strength
And wisdom, and unto the Argive host
Made me a blessing. Nor, as thou hast said,
Hast thou in time past saved me when in flight
From foes. I never fled, but steadfastly
Withstood the charge of all the Trojan host.
Furious the enemy came on like a flood
But I by might of hands cut short the thread
Of many lives. Herein thou sayest not true—
Me in the fray thou didst not shield nor save,
But for thine own life foughtest, lest a spear
Should pierce thy back if thou shouldst turn to flee
From war. My ships?—I drew them up mid-line,
Not dreading the battle-fury of any foe,
But to bring healing unto Atreus’ sons
Of war’s calamities : and thou didst set
Far from their help thy ships. Nay more, I seamed
With cruel stripes my body, and entered so
The Trojans’ burg, that I might learn of them
All their devisings for this troublous war.
Nor ever I dreaded Hector’s spear; myself
Rose mid the foremost, eager for the fight,
When, prowess-confident, he defied us all.
Yea, in the fight around Achilles, I
Slew foes far more than thou; ’twas I who saved
The dead king with this armour. Not a whit
I dread thy spear now, but my grievous hurt
With pain still vexeth me, the wound I gat
In fighting for these arms and their slain lord.
In me as in Achilles is Zeus’ blood.”
He spake ; strong Aias answered him again.
229
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
A a ,
“ᾧ Oduced δολομῆτα καὶ ἀργαλεώτατε πάντων,
» / > dine 2 PaO > EL BLA 4 > ld BA
οὔ νύ σ᾽ ἐκεῖσ᾽ ἐνόησα πονεύμενον, οὐδέ TLS ἄλλος
“ 3
᾿Αργείων, ὅτε Τρῶες ᾿Αχιλλέα δηωθέντα
e / J 3 \ νοι \ Ν \ ’ A
ἑλκέμεναι μενέαινον: ἐγὼ δ᾽ ὑπὸ δουρὶ Kal ἀλκῇ 295
A \ , > δε \ , A Pie we lA
τῶν μὲν youvaT ἔλυσα κατὰ μόθον, ods δ᾽ ἐφό-
βησα
4 \ ] /
αἰὲν ἐπεσσύμενος" τοὶ ὃ ἀργαλέως φοβέοντο
χήνεσιν ἢ γεράνοισιν ἐοικότες, οἷς ἐπορούσῃ
αἰετὸς ἠιόεν πεδίον κάτα βοσκομένοισιν"
ὡς Τρῶες πτώσσοντες ἐμὸν δόρυ καὶ θοὸν Gop 800
ἼΛιον ἐς κατέδυσαν ἀλευάώμενοι μέγα πῆμα.
/
σοὶ δὲ Kal εἰ τότε κάρτος ἐπήλυθεν, οὔτι μευ ἄγχι
\
papvao δυσμενέεσσιν, ἑκὰς δέ που ἦσθα καὶ αὐτὸς
ἀμφ᾽ ἄλλῃσι φάλαγξι πονεύμενος, οὐ περὶ νεκρῷ
ἀντιθέου ᾿Αχιλῆος, ὅ ὅπου μάλα δῆρις ὀρώρει." 305
“Os φάτο: τὸν δ᾽ ᾿ἬΠΟδυσῆος ἀμείβετο κερδαλέον
κῆρ:
“ Alay, ἐγὼν οὐ σεῖο κακώτερος ἔλπομαι εἶναι
οὐ νόον οὐδὲ βίην, εἰ καὶ μάλα φαίδιμος ἐσσί:
ἀλλὰ νόῳ μὲν ἔγωγε πολὺ προφερέστερός εἰμι
σεῖο μετ᾽ ᾿Αργείοισι, βίῃ δέ τοι ἀμφήριστος 810
ἢ καὶ ἀγαυότερος" τὸ δέ που καὶ Τρῶες ἴσασιν,
οἵ με μέγα τρομέουσι καὶ ἢν ἀπάτερθεν ἴδωνται.
καὶ δ᾽ αὐτὸς σάφα οἶδας ἐμὸν μένος ἠδὲ καὶ ἄλλοι
ἀμφὶ παλαισμοσύνῃ πολυτειρέϊ πολλὰ μογήσας,
ὁππότε δὴ περὶ σῆμα δαϊκταμένου Πατρόκλοιο 315
Πηλείδης ἐρίθυμος ἀγακλυτὰ θῆκεν ἄεθλα."
Ὡς φάτο Λαέρταο κλυτὸς πάϊς ἀντιθέοιο.
καὶ τότε Τρώιοι υἷες ἔριν δικάσαντ᾽ ἀλεγεινὴν
αἰξηῶν' νίκην δὲ καὶ ἄμβροτα τεύχεα δῶκαν
πάντες “ὁμοφρονέοντες ἐὐπτολέμῳ ᾿ὈΟὈδυσῆι: 320
τοῦ δ᾽ ἄμοτον γήθησε νόος" στονάχησε δὲ λαός.
παγχνώθη δ᾽ Αἴαντος ἐὺ σθένος: αἶψα δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ αὐτῷ
230
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK V
“ Most cunning and most pestilent of men,
Nor I, nor any other Argive, saw
Thee toiling in that fray, when Trojans strove
Fiercely to hale away Achilles slain.
My might it was that with the spear unstrung
The knees of some in fight, and others thrilled
With panic as they pressed on ceaselessly.
Then fled they in dire straits, as geese or cranes
Flee from an eagle swooping as they feed
Along a grassy meadow ; so, in dread
The Trojans shrinking backward from my spear
And lightening sword, fled into [lium
To ’scape destruction. If thy might came there
Ever at all, not anywhere nigh me
With foes thou foughtest : somewhere far aloot
Mid other ranks thou toiledst, nowhere nigh
Achilles, where the one great battle raged.”
He spake ; replied Odysseus the shrewd heart:
“ Aias, I hold myself no worse than thou
In wit or might, how goodly in outward show
Thou be soever. Nay, I am keener far
Of wit than thou in all the Argives’ eyes.
In battle-prowess do I equal thee—
Haply surpass ; and this the Trojans know,
Who tremble when they see me from afar.
Aye, thou too know’st, and others know my strength
By that hard struggle in the wrestling-match,
When Peleus’ son set glorious prizes forth
Beside the barrow of Patroclus slain.”
So spake Laertes’ son the world-renowned.
Then on that strife disastrous of the strong
The sons of Troy gave judgment. Victory
And those immortal arms awarded they
With one consent to Odysseus mighty in war.
Greatly his soul rejoiced; but one deep groan
Brake from the Greeks. Then Aias’ noble might
231
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
ἄτη ἀνιηρὴ περικάππεσε: πᾶν δέ οἱ εἴσω
ἔζξεσε φοίνιον αἷμα" χολὴ δ᾽ ὑπερέβλυσεν αἰνή"
ἥπατι δ᾽ ἔγκατ᾽ ἔμικτο' περὶ κραδίην δ᾽ ἀλεγεινὸν 325
ἷξεν ἄχος, καὶ δριμὺ δι’ ἐγκεφάλοιο θεμέθλων
ἐσσύμενον pnviyyas ἄδην ἀμφήλυθεν ἄλγος,
σὺν δ᾽ ἔχεεν νόον ἀνδρός: ἐπὶ χθονὶ δ᾽ ὄμματα
πήξας
ἔστη ἀκινήτῳ ἐναλίγκιος" ἀμφὶ δ᾽ ἑταῖροι
ἀχνύμενοί μιν ἄγεσκον ἐ ἐὐπρώρους. ἐπὶ νῆας 330
πολλὰ παρηγορέοντες" ὁ δ᾽ ὑστατίην ποσὶν οἶμον
ἤιεν οὐκ ἐθέλων" σχεδόθεν δέ οἱ ἕσπετο Μοῖρα.
᾿Αλλ᾽ ὅτε δὴ κατὰ νῆας ἔβαν καὶ ἀπείρονα
πόντον,
᾿Αργεῖοι δόρποιο μεμαότες ἠδὲ καὶ ὕπνου,
καὶ τότ᾽ ἔσω μεγάλοιο Θέτις κατεδύσατο πόντου" 335
σὺν δέ οἱ ἄλλαι ἴσαν Νηρηίδες: ἀμφὶ δ᾽ ἄρα σφι
νήχετο κήτεα πολλά, τά τε τρέφει ἁλμυρὸν οἶδμα.
Αἱ δὲ μέγα σκύξοντο Προμηθέϊ μητιόεντι
μνώμεναι, ὡς κείνοιο θεοπροπίῃσι Κρονίων
δῶκε Θέτιν Ἰ]Πηλῆι καὶ οὐκ ἐθέλουσαν ἄγεσθαι. 340
Κυμοθόη δ᾽ ἐν τῇσι μέγ᾽ ἀσχαλόωσ᾽ ἀγόρευεν"
“ὦ πόποι, ὡς ὅ γε λυγρὸς ἐπάξια πήμαθ᾽ ὑπέτλη
δεσμῷ ἐ ἐν ἀρρήκτῳ, ὅτε οἱ μέγας αἰετὸς ἧπαρ
κεῖρεν ἀεξόμενον κατὰ νηδύος ἔνδοθι δύνων.
Ὡς φάτο Κυμοθόη κυανοπλοκάμοις ἁλίῃσιν. 840
ἠέλιος δ᾽ ἀπόρουσεν, ἐπεσκιόωντο δ᾽ ἀλωαὶ
νυκτὸς ἐπεσσυμένης, ἐπεκίδνατο δ᾽ οὐρανὸν ἄστρα.
᾿Αργεῖοι δ ἐπὶ νηυσὶ τανυπρώροισιν ἴαυον
ὕπνῳ ὑπ᾽ ἀμβροσίῳ δεδμημένοι ἠδὲ καὶ οἴνῳ
ἡδέϊ, τὸν Κρήτηθε παρ᾽ ᾿Ιδομενῆος a ἀγαυοῦ 350
ναῦται ὑπὲρ πόντοιο πολυκλύστοιο φέρεσκον.
Αἴας δ᾽ ᾿Αργείοισι χολούμενος οὔτ᾽ ἄρα δόρπου
μνήσατ᾽ ἐνὶ κλισίῃ μελιηδέος, οὔτε μιν ὕπνος
232
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK V
Stood frozen stiff; and suddenly fell on him
Dark wilderment; all blood within his frame
Boiled, and his gall swelled, bursting forth in flood.
Against his liver heaved his bowels; his heart
With anguished pangs was thrilled; fierce stabbing
throes
Shot through the filmy veil ’twixt bone and brain ,
And darkness and confusion wrapped his mind.
With fixed eyes staring on the ground he stood
Still as a statue. Then his sorrowing friends
Closed round him, led him to the shapely ships,
Aye murmuring consolations. But his feet
Trod for the last time, with reluctant steps,
That path; and hard behind him followed Doom.
When to the ships beside the boundless sea
The Argives, faint for supper and for sleep,
Had passed, into the great deep Thetis plunged,
And all the Nereids with her. Round them swam
Sea-monsters many, children of the brine.
Against the wise Prometheus bitter-wroth
The Sea-maids were, remembering how that Zeus,
Moved by his prophecies, unto Peleus gave
Thetis to wife, a most unwilling bride.
Then cried in wrath to these Cymothoe:
“QO that the pestilent prophet had endured
All pangs he merited, when, deep-burrowing,
The eagle tare his liver aye renewed "ἢ
So to the dark-haired Sea-maids cried the Nymph.
Then sank the sun: the onrush of the night
Shadowed the fields, the heavens were star-bestrewn ;
And by the long-prowed ships the Argives slept
By ambrosial sleep o’ermastered, and by wine
The which from proud Idomeneus’ realm of Crete:
The shipmen bare o’er foaming leagues of sea.
But Aias, wroth against the Argive men,
Would none of meat or drink, nor clasped him round
233
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
wv 3 Sey, 2 CR im 3 Μ ’ὔ 4
ἄμφεχεν, ἀλλ᾽ ὃ γ᾽ ἑοῖσιν ἐν Evted ; δύσατο θύων'
εἵλετο δὲ ξίφος ὀξύ, καὶ ἄσπετα πορφύρεσκεν, 8858
ἢ ὅ γ᾽ ἐνιπρήση νῆας καὶ πάντας ὀλέσσῃ
’ , Ἃ a e Ν / o f
Apryetous, ἢ μοῦνον ὑπὸ ξίφεϊ στονόεντι
δῃώσῃ μελεϊστὶ θοῶς δολόεντ᾽ ᾿Οδυσῆα.
iS: \ \ ἃ oe \ \ ΄ / > Sf.
καὶ τὰ μὲν ὡς ὥρμαινε, τὰ δὴ τάχα πάντ᾽ ἐτέλεσ-
σεν,
εἰ μή οἱ Τριτωνὶς ἀάσχετον ἔμβαλε λύσσαν" 860
κήδετο γὰρ φρεσὶν Hot πολυτλήτου ᾿Οδυσῆος
ἱρῶν μνωομένη, τά οἱ ἔμπεδα κεῖνος ἔρεξε"
7 \ / / ee
τοὔνεκα δὴ μεγάλοιο μένος Τελαμωνιάδαο
/ > pte J / e CN Tie Sees? 7 =
τρέψεν ἀπ᾽ ᾿Αργείων. ὁ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἤιε λαίλαπι ἶσος
σμερδαλέῃ στυγερῇσι καταιγίσι βεβριθυίῃ, 365
ἥ Te φέρει ναύτῃσι τέρας Kpvepoto φόβοιο,
Πληιὰς εὖτ᾽ ἀκάμαντος ἐς ὠκεανοῖο ῥέεθρα
δύεθ᾽ ὑποπτώσσουσα περικλυτὸν ᾿Ὡρίωνα,
ἠέρα συγκλονέουσα, μέμηνε δὲ χείματι πόντος"
τῇ εἰκὼς οἴμησεν, ὅπη μιν γυῖα φέρεσκον. 370
/ Se) / ? J Δ» ,
πάντη δ᾽ ἀμφιθέεσκεν ἀναιδέϊ Onpi ἐοικώς,
ὅς τε βαθυσκοπέλοιο διέσσυται ἄγκεα βήσσης
ἀφριόων γενύεσσι καὶ ἄλγεα πολλὰ μενοινῶν
ἢ κυσὶν ἢ ἀγρόταις, οἵ οἱ τέκνα δῃώσωνται
ἄντρων ἐξερύσαντες, ὁ ὁ δ᾽ ἀμφὶ γένυσσι βεβρυχώς, 375
εἴ που ἔτ᾽ ἐν ξυλόχοισιν ἴδοι θυμήρεα τέκνα"
τῷ δ᾽ εἴ τις κύρσειε μεμηνότα θυμὸν ἔ ἔχοντι,
αὐτοῦ οἱ βιότοιο λυγρὸν περιτέχλεται ἦμαρ'
ὡς ὅ γ᾽ ἀμείλιχα θῦνε, μέλαν δέ οἱ ἔζξεεν ἧτορ,
εὖτε λέβης ἀλίαστον ἐπ᾽ ᾿ἐσχάρῃ ᾿“Ηφαίστοιο 380
ῥοιβδηδὸν μαίνηται ὑπαὶ i πυρὸς αἰθομένοιο,
γάστρην ἀμφὶς ἅπασαν ὅτε ξύλα πολλὰ θέρηται,
ἐννεσίης δρηστῆρος € ἐπειγομένους ἐνὶ θυμῷ,
εὐτραφέος σιάλοιο περὶ τρίχας ὥς κεν ἀμέρσῃ"
234
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK V
The arms of sleep. In fury he donned his mail,
He clutched his sword, thinking unspeakable
thoughts ;
For now he thought to set the ships aflame,
And slaughter all the Argives, now, to hew
With sudden onslaught of his terrible sword
Guileful Odysseus limb from limb. Such things
He purposed—nay, had soon accomplished all,
Had Pallas not with madness smitten him ;
For over Odysseus, strong to endure, her heart
Yearned, as she called to mind the sacrifices
Offered to her of him continually.
Therefore she turned aside from Argive men
The might of Aias. As a terrible storm,
Whose wings are laden with dread hurricane-blasts,
Cometh with portents of heart-numbing fear
To shipmen, when the Pleiads, fleeing adread
From glorious Orion, plunge beneath
The stream of tireless Ocean, when the air
Is turmoil, and the sea is mad with storm ;
So rushed he, whithersoe’er his feet might bear.
This way and that he ran, like some fierce beast
Which darteth down a rock-walled glen’s ravines
With foaming jaws, and murderous intent
Against the hounds and huntsmen, who have torn
Out of the cave her cubs, and slain: she runs
This way and that, and roars, if mid the brakes
Haply she yet may see the dear ones lost ;
Whom if a man meet in that maddened mood,
Straightway his darkest of all days hath dawned ;
So ruthless-raving rushed he; blackly boiled
His heart, as caldron on the Fire-god’s hearth
Maddens with ceaseless hissing o’er the flames
From blazing billets coiling round its sides,
At bidding of the toiler eager-souled
To singe the bristles of a huge-fed boar ;
235
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
ὡς τοῦ ὑπὸ στέρνοισι πελώριος ἔζεε θυμός. 385
‘Sins? «ἡ , 2 / 2 N ΄
μαινετο δ᾽ nite πόντος ἀπείριτος ἠὲ θύελλα
ἢ πυρὸς ἀκαμάτοιο θοὸν μένος, εὖτ᾽ ἀλίαστον
μαίνηται κατ᾽ ὄρεσφι βίη μεγάλου ἀνέμοιο,
πίπτῃ δ᾽ αἰθομένη πυρὶ πάντοθεν ἄσπετος ὕλη"
ἃ " 2 iA / v 9S
ὡς Alas ὀδύνῃσι πεπαρμένος ὄβριμον ἦτορ 390
, / v / ew 3 \
μαίνετο λευγαλέως: ἄπλετος δέ οἱ ἔρρεεν ἀφρὸς
ἐκ στόματος, βρυχὴ δὲ περὶ γναθμοῖσιν ὀρώρει"
τεύχεα δ᾽ ἀμφ᾽ ὦμοισιν ἐπέβραχε. τοὶ δ᾽ ὁρόωντες
πάντες ὁμῶς ἑνὸς ἀνδρὸς ὑποτρομέεσκον ὁμοκλήν.
Καὶ τότ᾽ ἀπ᾽ ᾿᾽Ωκεανοῖο κίε χρυσήνιος Has 896
eS > > \ > \ 2 / 7 LA
mvos δ᾽ οὐρανὸν εὐρὺν ἀνήιεν εἴκελος αὔρῃ,
“Hon δὲ ξύμβλητο νέον πρὸς "Ολυμπον ἰούσῃ
Τηθύος ἐξ ἱερῆς, ὅθι που προτέρῃ μόλεν ἠοῖ:
e δέ ¢ Δ ε ἢ Sey e / \ > ’
ἡ δέ ἑ κύσσεν ἑλοῦσ᾽ ὅτι οἱ πέλε γαμβρὸς ἀμύμων,
᾽ = e , ip >? /
ἐξ οὗ οἱ Κρονίωνα κατεύνασεν ἐν λεχέεσσιν 400
Ἴδης ἀμφὶ κάρηνα χολούμενον ᾿Αργείοισιν'
- 3) ΟΥ..9 ς \ » Ν / a ᾽ IN
aia δ᾽ ap ἡ μὲν ἔβη Ζηνὸς δόμον, ὃς δ᾽ ἐπὶ
λέκτρα
Πασιθέης οἴμησεν" ἀνέγρετο δ᾽ ἔθνεα φωτῶν.
Αἴας δ᾽ ἀκαμάτῳ ἐναλίγκιος ᾿᾽Ωρίωνι
, 5) , ” 5) ’ ΄ 2
φοίτα ἐνὶ στέρνοισιν ἔχων ὀλοόφρονα λύσσαν" 405
᾽ > + is / ἃ > ,
ἐν δ᾽ ἔθορεν μήλοισι, λέων ὡς ὀβριμόθυμος
λιμῷ ὑπ᾽ ἀργαλέῳ δεδμημένος ἄγριον TOP"
\ / LA
Kal τὰ μὲν ἐν κονίησιν ἐπασσύτερ᾽ ἄλλοθεν ἄλλα
κάββαλεν, ἠύτε φύλλα μένος κρατεροῦ Βορέαο
χεύῃ, ὅτ᾽ ἀνομένου θέρεος μετὰ χεῖμα τράπηται" 410
ὡς Αἴας μήλοισι μέγ᾽ ἀσχαλόων ἐνόρουσεν
ἐλπόμενος Δαναοῖσι κακὰς ἐπὶ κῆρας ἰάλλειν.
Καὶ τότε δὴ Μενέλαος ἀδελφεῷ ἄγχι παραστὰς
΄ J) 47 a A \ an 4
κρύβδ᾽ ἄλλων Δαναῶν τοῖον ποτὶ μῦθον ἔειπε"
236
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK V
So was his great heart boiling in his breast.
Like a wild sea he raved, like tempest-blast,
Like the winged might of tireless flame amidst
The mountains maddened by a mighty wind,
When the wide-blazing forest crumbles down
In fervent heat. So Aias, his fierce heart
With agony stabbed, in maddened misery raved.
Foam frothed about his lips; a beast-like roar
Howled from his throat. About his shoulders
clashed
His armour. They which saw him trembled, all
Cowed by the fearful shout of that one man.
From Ocean then uprose Dawn golden-reined :
Like a soft wind upfloated Sleep to heaven,
And there met Hera, even then returned
To Olympus back from Tethys, unto whom
But yester-morn she went. She clasped him round,
And kissed him, who had been her marriage-kin
Since at her prayer on Ida’s crest he had lulled
To sleep Cronion, when his anger burned
Against the Argives. Straightway Hera passed
To Zeus’s mansion, and Sleep swiftly flew
To Pasithea’s couch. From slumber woke
All nations of the earth. But Aias, like
Orion the invincible, prowled on,
Still bearing murderous madness in his heart.
He rushed upon the sheep, like lion fierce
Whose savage heart is stung with hunger-pangs.
Here, there, he smote them, laid them dead in dust
Thick as the leaves which the strong North-wind’s
might
Strews, when the waning year to winter turns ;
So on the sheep in fury Aias fell,
Deeming he dealt to Danaans evil doom.
Then to his brother Menelaus came,
And spake, but not in hearing of the rest:
237
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
, val
“σήμερον ἢ τάχα πᾶσιν ὀλέθριον ἔσσεται ἦμαρ 415
Αἴαντος μεγάλοιο περὶ φρεσὶ μαινομένοιο,
ὁ 7 a
ὃς τάχα νῆας ἐνιπρήσει, KTavée δὲ Kal ἡμέας
lA
πάντας ἐνὶ κλισίῃσι κοτεσσάμενος περὶ τευχέων.
ὡς ὄφελον μὴ τῶνδε Θέτις πέρι δῆριν ἔθηκε,
3. "25 / a lee ee) / \
μηδ᾽ ἄρα Λαέρταο πάϊς μέγ᾽ ἀμείνονι φωτὶ 420
ἔτλη δηριάασθαι ἐναντίον ἄφρονι θυμῷ
n δηριάασθα ἄφρονι θυμῷ.
a \ Pe se: Ὁ / δὰ , » ,
νῦν δὲ μέγ᾽ ἀασάμεσθα, κακὸς δέ τις ἤπαφε δαίμων'
“ \ ᾿ Ul ᾿ ͵
ἕρκος γὰρ πολέμοιο δεδουπότος Αἰακίδαο
nr ys 8 yy » Δι / = » aie “ἢ \ \
μοῦνον ἔτ᾽ ἣν Αἴαντος ἐὺ σθένος" ἀλλ᾽ ἄρα καὶ τὸν
Ca ae) > / \ \ a yy -
ἡμῖν ἐξολέσουσι θεοὶ κακὰ νῶιν ἄγοντες, 425
ef ‘Af Woe > / » ”
WS κεν πάντες ἀΐστον ἀναπλήσωμεν ὄλεθρον.
a / / 2% 4 : ΄
Ὡς φάμενον προσέειπεν evpperins ᾿Αγαμέμνων"
“c \ a ΒΕ A LOS 7 \ fa
μὴ νῦν, ὦ Μενέλαε, μέγ᾽ ἀχνύμενος περὶ θυμῷ
σκύξεο μητιόεντι Κεφαλλήνων βασιλῆι:
οὐ γὰρ ὅ γ᾽ αἴτιός ἐστιν, ἐπεὶ μάλα πολλάκις ἡμῖν 430
/ 2 \ 4 » beni h , ”
γίνεται ἐσθλὸν ὄνειαρ, ἄχος δ᾽ ἄρα δυσμενέεσσιν.
Ὡς οἱ μὲν Δαναῶν ἀκαχήμενοι ἠγορόωντο.
ῇ δ᾽ > ΄ θ X =| 4 θ ς /
μηλονόμοι δ᾽ ἀπάνευθε παρὰ Ἐάνθοιο ῥεέθροις
a / a
πτῶσσον ὑπὸ μυρίκῃσιν ἀλευάμενοι βαρὺ πῆμα"
ὡς δ᾽ ὅταν αἰετὸν ὠκὺν ὑποπτώσσωσι λαγωοὶ 435
, > , € 0 9 ΄, 5.“ ἡ
θάμνοις ἐν λασίοισιν, ὁ δ᾽ ἐγγύθεν ὀξὺ κεκληγὼς
πωτᾶτ᾽ ἔνθα καὶ ἔνθα τανυσσάμενος πτερύγεσσιν"
» 5 ,
ὡς of γ᾽ ἄλλοθεν ἄλλος ὑπέτρεσαν ὄβριμον ἄνδρα.
ὀψὲ δ᾽ ὅ γ᾽ ἀρνειοῖο κατακταμένου σχεδὸν ἔστη,
ΧΕΙ \ / a π᾿ a 4
Kal ῥ᾽ ὀλοὸν γελάσας τοῖον ποτὶ μῦθον ἔειπε' 440
a , a an
“ κεῖσό νυν ἐν κονίῃσι, κυνῶν Boots ἠδ᾽ οἰωνῶν'
> / 3 SLND a > side’ fh “ὃ 7
ov γάρ σ᾽ οὐδ᾽ ᾿Αχιλῆος ἐρύσσατο κύδιμα τεύχη,
Ὁ “ % 3 / | ia KES VA /
ὧν ἕνεκ᾽ ἀφραδέων μέγ᾽ ἀμείνονι δηριάασκες"
a \ “Ὁ
κεῖσο, κύον᾽ σὲ γὰρ οὔτι γοήσεται ἀμφιπεσοῦσα
238
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK V
“This day shall surely be a ruinous day
For all, since Aias thus is sense-distraught.
It may be he will set the ships aflame,
And slay us all amidst our tents, in wrath
For those lost arms. Would God that Thetis ne’ er
Had set them for the prize of rivalry '
Would God Laertes’ son had not presumed
In folly of soul to strive with a better man!
Fools were we all; and some malignant God
Beguiled us; for the one great war-defence
Left us, since Aeacus’ son in battle fell,
Was Aias’ mighty strength. And now the Gods
Will to our loss destroy him, bringing bane
On thee and me, that all we may fill up
The cup of doom, and pass to nothingness.”
He spake; replied Agamemnon, lord of spears :
“ Now nay, Menelaus, though thine heart he wrung,
Be thou not wroth with the resourceful king
Of Cephallenian folk, but with the Gods
Who plot our ruin. Blame not him, who oft
Hath been our blessing and our enemies’ curse.”
So heavy-hearted spake the Danaan kings.
But by the streams of Xanthus far away
"Neath tamarisks shepherds cowered to hide from
death,
As when from a swift eagle cower hares
"Neath tangled copses, when with sharp fierce scream
This way and that with wings wide-shadowing
He wheeleth very nigh; so they here, there,
Quailed from the presence of that furious man.
At last above a slaughtered ram he stood,
And with a deadly laugh he cried to it :
“‘ Lie there in dust; be meat for dogs and kites!
Achilles’ glorious arms have saved not thee,
For which thy folly strove with a better man!
Lie there, thou cur! No wife shall fall on thee,
239
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
κουριδίη μετὰ παιδὸς ἀάσχετον ἀσχαλόωσα, 445
οὐ τοκέες" τοῖς οὔτι μετέσσεαι ἐλδομένοισι
γήραος ἐσθλὸν ὁ ὄνειαρ, ἐπεί νύ σε THN ἀπὸ πάτρης
οἰωνοί τε κύνες τε δεδουπότα daps ἀψουσιν."
Ψ ὃ ᾿Οδυσῆ
ς ἄρ᾽ ἔφη δολόεντα μετὰ κταμένοις υσῆα
κεῖσθαι ὀϊόμενος μεμορυγμένον αἵματι πολλῷ. 450
καὶ τότε οἱ Τριτωνὶς ἀπὸ φρενὸς ἠδὲ καὶ ὄσσων
> / , \ / v7
ἐσκέδασεν Mavinv βλοσυρὴν πνείουσαν ὄλεθρον"
ἡ δὲ θοῶς ἵκανε ποτὶ Στυγὸς αἰπὰ ῥέεθρα,
ἧχι θοαὶ ναίουσιν ᾿Εριννύες, αἵ τε βροτοῖσιν
αἰὲν ὑπερφιάλοισι κακὰς ἐφιᾶσιν ἀνίας. 455
Alas δ᾽, ὡς ide μῆλα κατὰ χθονὸς a ἀσπαίροντα,
θάμβεεν ἐ ἐν φρεσὶ πάμπαν" ὀΐσατο γὰρ δόλον εἶναι
ἐκ μακάρων' πάντεσσι δ᾽ ὑπεκλάσθη μελέεσσι
βλήμενος ἄλγεσι θυμὸν ἀρήιον" οὐδ᾽ ἄρα πρόσσω
ἔσθενεν ἀσχαλόων ἐπιβήμεναι οὔτ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ὀπίσσω, 460
ἀλλ᾽ ἔστη σκοπιῇ ἐναλίγκιος, ἥ τ᾽ ἐν ὄρεσσι
πασάων μάλα πολλὸν ὑπερτάτη ἐρρίζωται.
> 2: ee ς 7 \ 2X / > a
ἀλλ᾽ ὅτε οἱ πάλι θυμὸς ἐνὶ στήθεσσιν ἀγέρθη,
λυγρὸν ἀνεστονάχησεν, ἔπος δ᾽ ὀλοφύρετο τοῖον"
“ὦ μοι ἐγώ, τί νυ τόσσον ἀπέχθομαι ἀθανά-
τοισιν; 465
οἵ pe φρένας βλάψαντο, κακὴν δ᾽ ἐπὶ λύσσαν
ἔθεντο,
μῆλα κατακτεῖναι, τά μοι οὐκ ἔσαν αἴτια θυμοῦ.
e ” 7 > / > / a
ὡς ὄφελον. τίσασθαι Οδυσσέος ἀργαλέον κῆρ
χερσὶν ἐμῇς, ἐπεὶ ἦ με κακῇ περικάββαλεν ἐ ἄτῃ
λυγρὸς ἐὼν μάλα πάγχυ" πάθοι γε μὲν ἄλγεα
θυμῷ, 470
e 7 / 3 td > ni
ὁππόσα μητιόωνται Ἐριννύες ἀνθρώποισιν
ἀργαλέοις" δοῖεν δὲ καὶ ἄλλοις ᾿Αργείοισιν
ὑσμίνας ὀλοὰς καὶ πένθεα δακρυόεντα,
αὐτῷ T ᾿Ατρείδῃ ᾿Αγαμέμνονι" μηδ᾽ ὅ γ᾽ ἀπήμων
ἔλθοι ἑὸν ποτὶ δῶμα λιλαιόμενός περ ἱκέσθαι. 47
240
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK V
And clasp, and wail thee and her fatherless child,
Nor shalt thou greet thy parents’ longing eyes,
The staff of their old age! Far from thy land
Thy carrion dogs and vultures shall devour!”
So cried he, thinking that amidst the slain
Odysseus lay blood-boltered at his feet.
But in that moment from his mind and eyes
Athena tore away the nightmare-fiend
Of Madness havoc-breathing, and it passed
Thence swiftly to the rock-walled river Styx
Where dwell the winged Erinnyes, they which still
Visit with torments overweening men.
Then Aias saw those sheep upon the earth
Gasping in death ; and sore amazed he stood,
For he divined that by the Blessed Ones
His senses had been cheated. ΑἹ] his limbs
Failed under him; his soul was anguished-thrilled :
He could not in his horror take one step
Forward nor backward. Like some towering rock
Fast-rooted mid the mountains, there he stood.
But when the wild rout of his thoughts had rallied,
He groaned in misery, and in anguish wailed:
“ Ah me! why do the Gods abhor me so?
They have wrecked my mind, have with fell madness
filled,
Making me slaughter all these innocent sheep !
Would God that on Odysseus’ pestilent heart
Mine hands had so avenged me! Miscreant, he
Brought on me a fell curse! O may his soul
Suffer all torments that the Avenging Fiends
Devise for villains! On all other Greeks
May they bring murderous battle, woeful griefs,
And chiefly on Agamemnon, Atreus’ son!
Not scatheless to the home may he return
So long desired! But why should I consort,
241
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
ἀλλὰ τί μοι στυγεροῖσι μετέμμεναι ἐσθλὸν ἐόντα;
ἐρρέτω ᾿Αργείων ὀλοὸς στρατός" ἐρρέτω αἰὼν
ἄσχετος" οὐ γὰρ ἔτ᾽ ἐσθλὸς ἔχει γέρας, ἀλλὰ
ερείων
τιμήεις τε πέλει καὶ φίλτερος" ἢ γὰρ ᾿Οδυσσεὺς
τίετ᾽ ἐν ᾿Αργείοισιν, ἐμεῦ δ᾽ ἐπὶ πάγχυ λάθοντο 480
ἔργων θ᾽, ὁππόσ᾽ ἔρεξα καὶ ἔτλην εἵνεκα λαῶν.
“Os εἰπὼν πάϊς ἐσθλὸς ἐὐσθενέος Τελαμῶνος
᾿Εκτόρεον ξίφος ὦσε δι᾽ _ αὐχένος" ἐκ δέ οἱ αἷμα
ἐσσύμενον κελάρυζεν. ὁ δ᾽ ἐν κονίῃσι τανύσθη
Τυφὼν ὥ ὥς, τὸν Ζηνὸς ἐ ἐνεπρήσαντο κεραυνοί" 485
ἀμφὶ δὲ γαῖα μέλαινα μέγα στονάχησε πεσόντος.
Καὶ τότε δὴ Δαναοὶ κίον ἀθρόοι, ὡς ἐσίδοντο
κείμενον ἐν κονίῃσι" “πάρος δέ οἱ οὔτις ἵκανεν
ἐγγύς, ἐπεὶ μάλα πάντας ἔχεν δέος εἰσορόωντας.
αἶψα δ᾽ ἄρα κταμένῳ περικάππεσον᾽ ἀμφὶ δὲ
κρᾶτα 490
πρηνέες ἐκχύμενοι κόνιν ἄσπετον ἀμφεχέοντο,
καί σφιν ὀδυρομένων γόος αἰθέρα δῖον ἵκανεν'
ὡς δ᾽ ὅταν εἰροπόκων ὀΐων ἄπο νήπια τέκνα
ἀνέρες ἐξελάσωσιν, ἵνα σφίσι δαῖτα κάμωνται,
αἱ δὲ μέγα σκαίρουσι διηνεκέως μεμακυῖαι 495
μητέρες ἐκ τεκέων σηκοὺς πέρι χηρωθέντας"
ὡς οἵ γ᾽ ἀμφ᾽ Αἴαντα μέγα στένον ἤματι κείνῳ
πανσυδίῃ" μέγα δέ σφιν ἐπέβραχε δάσκιος ἤ] δὴ
καὶ πεδίον καὶ νῆες ἀπειρεσίη τε θάλασσα.
Τεῦκρος δ᾽ ἀμφ᾽ αὐτῷ μάλα μήδετο κῆρας
ἐπισπεῖν 500
ἀργαλέας" τὸν δ᾽ ἄλλοι ἀπὸ ξίφεος μεγάλοιο
εἶργον. ὁ δ᾽ ἀσχαλόων περικάππεσε τεθνειῶτι
δάκρυα πολλὰ χέων ἀδινώτερα νηπιάχοιο,
ὅς τε παρ᾽ ἐσχαρεῶνι τέφρην περιειμένος ὦμοις
κὰκ κεφαλῆς μάλα πάμπαν ὀδύρεται ὀρφανὸν
ἦμαρ 505
242
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK V
I, a brave man, with the abominable?
Perish the Argive host, perish my life,
Now unendurable! The brave no more
Hath his due guerdon, but the baser sort
Are honoured most and loved, as this Odysseus
Hath worship mid the Greeks: but utterly
Have they forgotten me and all my deeds,
All that I wrought and sutfered in their cause.”
So spake the brave son of strong Telamon,
Then thrust the sword of Hector through his throat.
Forth rushed the blood in torrent: in the dust
Outstretched he lay, like Typhon, when the bolts
Of Zeus had blasted him. Around him groaned
The dark earth as he fell upon her breast.
Then thronging came the Danaans, when they saw
Low laid in dust the hero; but ere then
None dared draw nigh him, but in deadly fear
They watched him from afar. Now hasted they
And flung themselves upon the dead, outstretched
Upon their faces: on their heads they cast
Dust, and their wailing went up to the sky.
As when men drive away the tender lambs
Out of the fleecy flock, to feast thereon,
And round the desolate pens the mothers leap
Ceaselessly bleating, so o’er Aias rang
That day a very great and bitter cry.
Wild echoes pealed from Ida forest-palled,
And from the plain, the ships, the boundless sea.
Then Teucer clasping him was minded too
To rush on bitter doom: howbeit the rest
Held from the sword his hand. Anguished he fell
Upon the dead, outpouring many a tear
More comfortlessly than the orphan babe
That wails beside the hearth, with ashes strewn
On head and shoulders, wails bereavement’s day
That brings death to the mother who hath nursed
243
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
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μητρὸς ἀποφθιμένης, ἥ μιν τρέφε νήιδα πατρός"
ὡς ὅ γε κωκύεσκε κασιγνήτοιο δαμέντος
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ἑρπύζων περὶ νεκρόν, ἔπος δ᾽ ὀλοφύρετο τοῖον"
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an f n Y,
ot αὐτῷ στονόεντα φόνον καὶ πῆμα βαλέσθαι; 510
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3.05, Μ᾿ 3 \ / / / a f
οὐδ᾽ ἔτ᾽ ἐμοὶ νόστοιο τέλος σέο δεῦρο θανόντος δ1᾽ὅ
ἁνδάνει, ἀλλὰ καὶ αὐτὸς ἐέλδομαι ἐνθάδ᾽ ὀλέσθαι,
v \ \ “ / 2 ΄ A
ὄφρα με σὺν σοὶ γαῖα φερέσβιος ἀμφικαλύπτῃ
3 /
οὐ γάρ μοι τοκέων τόσσον μέλει, εἴ που ET εἰσίν,
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εἴ που ἔτ᾽ ἀμφινέμονται ἔτι Cwot Σαλαμῖνα,
a a / ? \ ΄ » a ”
ὅσσον σεῖο θανόντος, ἐπεὶ σύ μοι ἔπλεο κῦδος. 520
53 e / 4 2 ὶ 3 Oo. a ,
H pa μέγα στενάχων: ἐπὶ δ᾽ ἔστενε dia Τέκ-
μησσα
Αἴαντος παράκοιτις ἀμύμονος, ἥνπερ ἐοῦσαν
ληιδίην σφετέρην ἄλοχον θέτο, καί μιν ἄνασσαν
πάντων ἔμμεν ἔτευξεν, ὃ ὅσων ἀνὰ δῶμα γυναῖκες
ἐδνωταὶ μεδέουσι παρ᾽ ἀνδράσι κουριδίοισιν'" 525
ἡ δέ οἱ ἀκαμάτῃσιν ὑπ᾽ ἀγκοίνῃσι δωμεῖσα
ὐρυσάκην τέκεθ᾽ υἱὸν ἐοικότα πάντα τοκῆι"
ἀλλ᾽ ὁ μὲν οὖν ἔτι τυτθὸς ἐνὶ λεχέεσσι λέλειπτο"
ἡ δὲ μέγα στενάχουσα φίλῳ περικάππεσε νεκρῷ
ἐντυπὰς ἐν κονίησι καλὸν δέμας αἰσχύνουσα" 530
καί ῥ᾽ ὀχοφυδνὸν a ace μέγ᾽ ἀχνυμένη κέαρ ἔνδον"
“ὦ μοι ἐγὼ δύστηνος, ἐ ἐπεὶ θάνες, οὔτι δαϊχθεὶς
δυσμενέων παλάμῃσιν ἀνὰ μόθον, Gra σοὶ αὐτῷ"
τῷ μοι πένθος ἄλαστον ἐποίχεται: οὐ γὰρ ἐώλπειν
σεῖο καταφθιμένοιο πολύστονον ἦμαρ ἰδέσθαι ὅδϑῦ
1 Zimmermann, for ἔβλαβεν of v.
244
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK V
The fatherless child; so wailed he, ever wailed
His great death-stricken brother, creeping slow
Around the corpse, and uttering his lament:
“QO Aias, mighty-souled, why was thine heart
Distraught, that thou shouldst deal unto thyself
Murder and bale? Ah, was it that the sons
Of Troy might win a breathing-space from woes,
Might come and slay the Greeks, now thou art not?
From these shall all the olden courage fail
When fast they fall in fight. Their shield from harm
Is broken now! For me, I have no will
To see mine home again, now thou art dead.
Nay, but [ long here also now to die,
That so the earth may shroud me—me and thee
Not for my parents so much do I care,
If haply yet they live, if haply yet
Spared from the grave, in Salamis they dwell,
As for thee, O my glory and my crown!”’
So cried he groaning sore; with answering moan
Queenly Tecmessa wailed, the princess-bride
Of noble Aias, captive of his spear,
Yet ta’en by him to wife, and household-queen
O’er all his substance, even all that wives
Won with a bride-price rule for wedded lords.
Clasped in his mighty arms, she bare to him
A son Eurysaces, in all things like
Unto his father, far as babe might be
Yet cradled in his tent. With bitter moan
Fell she on that dear corpse, all her fair form
Close-shrouded in her veil, and dust-defiled,
And from her anguished heart cried piteously :
“ Alas for me, for me—now thou art dead,
Not by the hands of foes in fight struck down,
But by thine own! On me is come a grief
Ever-abiding! Never had I looked
245
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
ἐν Τροίῃ: τὰ δὲ πάντα κακαὶ διὰ Κῆρες ἐ ἔχευαν"
ὥς μ' ὄφελον τὸ πάροιθε περὶ τραφερὴ χάνε yata,
πρὶν σέο πότμον ἰδέσθαι ἀμείλι χον" οὐ yap ἔμοιγε
ἄλλο “χερειότερόν TOT ἐσήλυθεν ἐ ἐς φρένα “πῆμα,
οὐδ᾽ ὅτε vie πρώτιστον ἐμῆς ἀποτηλόθι πάτρης δ40
καὶ τοκέων εἴρυσσας ἅμ᾽ ἄλλῃς ληιάδεσσι
πόλλ᾽ ὀλοφυρομένην, ἐπεὶ ἢ νύ με τὸ πρὶν ἄνασσαν
αἰδοίην περ ἐοῦσαν ἐπήιε δούλιον ἦμαρ'
ἀλλά μοι οὔτε πάτρης θυμηδέος οὔτε τοκήων
μέμβλεται οἰχομένων, ὁπόσον σέο δηωθέντος, 545
οὕνεκά μοι δειλῇ θυμήρεα πάντα pevoivas,
Kat pa μ᾽ ἔθηκας ἄκοιτιν ὁμόφρονα, καί pa pw
ἔφησθα
τεύξειν αὐτίκ᾽ ἄνασσαν ἐὐκτιμένης Σαλαμῖνος
νοστήσας Τροίηθε: τὰ δ᾽ οὐ θεὸς ἄμμι τέλεσσεν'
ἀλλὰ σὺ μὲν μοι ἄϊστος ἀποίχεαι, οὐδέ νύ σοί
περ 550
/ 9 £9 A \ , A > \ /
μέμβλετ᾽ ἐμεῦ καὶ παιδός, ὃς ov πατρὶ Tép eras
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> nag in , ἢ , » , »
οὐ σέο κοιρανίης ἐπιβήσεται, ἀλλά μιν ἄλλοι
δμῶα λυγρὸν τεύξουσιν, ἐπεὶ πατρὸς οὐκέτ᾽ ἐόντος
νηπίαχοι KOMEOVTAL ὑπ᾽ ἄνδρεσσιν μάλα πολλὸν
χειροτέροις" ὀλοῇ γὰρ ὑπ᾽ ὀρφανίῃ βαρὺς αἰὼν 555
παισὶ πέλει, καὶ πήματ᾽ ἐπ᾽ ἄλλοθεν ἄλλα χέονται.
καὶ δέ “με δειλαίην τάχα δούλιον ἴξεται ἢ ἦμαρ
οἰχομένου σέο πρόσθεν, ὃ ὅ μοι θεὸς ὡς ἐτέτυξο."
Ὡς φαμένην προσέειπε φίλα φρονέων ᾿Αγα-
/
μέμνων"
“ὦ γύναι, οὔ νύ σέ τις δμωήν ποτε θήσεται ἄλλος 560
Τεύκρου ἔτι ζώοντος ἀμύμονος ἠδ᾽ ἐμεῦ αὐτοῦ"
ἀλλά σε τίσομεν αἰὲν ἀπειρεσίοις γεράεσσι,
τίσομεν ὥστε Genv, καὶ σὸν τέκος, ὡς ἔτ᾽ ἐόντος
ἀντιθέου Αἴαντος, ὃς ἔπλετο κάρτος ᾿Αχαιῶν.
αἰθ᾽ ὄφελον μηδ᾽ ἄλγος ᾿Αχαιίδα θήκατο πάσῃ δθῦ
246
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK V
To see thy woeful death-day here by Troy.
Ah, visions shattered by rude hands of Fate!
Oh that the earth had yawned wide for my grave
Ere I beheld thy bitter doom! On me
No sharper, more heart-piercing pang hath come—
No, not when first from fatherland afar
And parents thou didst bear me, wailing sore
Mid other captives, when the day of bondage
Had come on me, a princess theretofore.
Not for that dear lost home so much I grieve,
Nor for my parents dead, as now for thee:
For all thine heart was kindness unto me
The hapless, and thou madest me thy wife,
One soul with thee; yea, and thou promisedst
To throne me queen of fair-towered Salamis,
When home we won from Troy. The Gods denied
Accomplishment thereof. And thou hast passed
Unto the Unseen Land: thou hast forgot
Me and thy child, who never shall make glad
His father’s heart, shall never mount thy throne.
But him shall strangers make a wretched thrall :
For when the father is no more, the babe
Is ward of meaner men. A weary life
The orphan knows, and suffering cometh in
From every side upon him like a flood.
To me too thraldom’s day shall doubtless come,
Now thou hast died, who wast my god on earth.”
Then in all kindness Agamemnon spake :
** Princess, no man on earth shall make thee thrall,
While Teucer liveth yet, while yet I live.
Thou shalt have worship of us evermore
And honour as a Goddess, with thy son,
As though yet living were that godlike man,
Aias, who was the Achaeans’ chiefest strength
Ah that he had not laid this load of grief
On all, in dying by his own right hand!
247
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
& ΚΦ /
αὐτὸς ἑῇ ὑπὸ χειρὶ δαμείς" οὐ γάρ μιν ἀπείρων
΄ ΄ \ e >. ἊΨ - , ἘΣ]
δυσμενέων σθένε λαὸς ὑπ᾽ “Apei δηώσασθαι.
“Os ἔφατ᾽ ἀχνύμενος κέαρ ἔνδοθεν: ἀμφὶ δὲ λαοὶ
> Ν > / > , 7 = /
οἰκτρὸν AVETTOVAYNTAY, ETLAXE δ᾽ “Ἑλλήσποντος
/ 2 \ \ \ 7 / DS 3) ἂν
μυρομένων, ὀλοὴ δὲ περὶ σφίσι πέπτατ᾽ avin. 570
καὶ δ᾽ αὐτὸν λάβε πένθος ᾿Οδυσσέα μητιόεντα
κείνου ἀποκταμένοιο, καὶ ἀχνύμενος κατὰ θυμὸν
τοῖον ἔπος μετέειπεν ἀκηχεμένοισιν ᾿Αχαιοῖς"
΄ Μ /
“ὦ φίλοι, WS οὔπω TL KAKWTEPOV ἄλλο χόλοιο
, - a \ SCN a 27 =
γίνεται, ὅς τε βροτοῖσι κακὴν ἐπὶ δῆριν ἀέξει" 575
a \ fa AZ ΄ 2 46
ὃς καὶ νῦν Αἴαντα πελώριον ἐξορόθυνεν
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μοι
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μή ποτε Τρώιοι vies ᾿Αχιλλέος εἵνεκα τευχέων
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νίκην ἀμφεβάλοντ᾽ ἐρικυδέα, τῆς πέρι θυμὸν
“- Ἀ τ lal
ἀχνύμενος πάϊς ἐσθλὸς ἐὐσθενέος Τελαμῶνος 580
ΝΜ \ ta / / e LA 54
@AETO χερσὶν ἑῇσι' χόλου δέ οἱ οὔτι ἔγωγε
» 3 > / σ΄ Σ /
αἴτιος, ἀλλά τις Αἶσα πολύστονος, ἥ μιν ἐδάμνα"
εἰ γάρ μοι κέαρ ἔνδον ἐνὶ στέρνοισιν ἐώλπει
κ 7 /
κεῖνον ἀλαστήσειν καθ᾽ ἑὸν νόον, οὔτ᾽ ἂν ἔγωγε
ἦλθον ἐριδμαίνων νίκης ὕπερ, οὔτε τιν᾽ ἄλλον 585
cr /
ἐν Δαναοῖσιν éaca μεμαότα δηριάασθαι,
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ἀλλὰ καὶ αὐτὸς ἔγωγε θεουδέα TevyE ἀείρας
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προφρονέως ἂν ὄπασσα, καὶ εἴ TL περ ἄλλο μειοίνα.
- 5 τ. a
νῦν δέ μιν οὔτι ἔγωγε μέγ᾽ ἀχνύμενον χαλεπῆναι
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ὠισάμην μετόπισθεν, ἐπεί ῥά οἱ οὔτε yuvatKos δθὺ
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οὔτε περὶ πτόλιος μαχόμην οὔτ᾽ εὐρέος ὄλβου,
’ ΄ὔ > 3. 3 “ a } Ka / -
ἀλλά μοι ἀμφ᾽ ἀρετῆς νεῖκος πέλεν, ἧς πέρι δῆρις
τερπνὴ γίνεται αἰὲν ἐύφροσιν ἀνθρώποισι:
A Ἐν φ \ +N mn’ re ἈΝ ’ »
κεῖνος δ᾽ ἐσθλὸς ἐὼν στυγερῇ ὑπὸ δαίμονος Aion
» > \ " ἊΣ" ΄ > \ aA
ἤλιτεν' OV γὰρ ἔοικε μέγ ἀσχαλάαν ἐνὶ θυμῷ" 595
248
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK V
For all the countless armies of his foes
Never availed to slay him in fair fight.”
So spake he, grieved to the inmost heart. The folk
Woefully wailed all round. O’er Hellespont
Echoes of mourning rolled: the sighing air
Darkened around, a wide-spread sorrow-pall.
Yea, grief laid hold on wise Odysseus’ self
For the great dead, and with remorseful soul
To anguish-stricken Argives thus he spake:
“0 friends, there is no greater curse to men
Than wrath, which groweth till its bitter fruit
Is strife. Now wrath hath goaded Aias on
To this dire issue of the rage that filled
His soul against me. Would to God that ne’er
Yon Trojans in the strife for Achilles’ arms
Had crowned me with that victory, for which
Strong Telamon’s brave son, in agony
Of soul, thus perished by his own right hand!
Yet blame not me, I pray you, for his wrath:
Blame the dark dolorous Fate that struck him down.
For, had mine heart foreboded aught of this,
This desperation of a soul distraught,
Never for victory had I striven with him,
Nor had I suffered any Danaan else,
Though ne’er so eager, to contend with him.
Nay, 1 had taken up those arms divine
With mine own hands, and gladly given them
To him, ay, though himself desired it not.
But for such mighty grief and wrath in him
I had not looked, since not for a woman’s sake
Nor for a city, nor possessions wide,
I then contended, but for Honour’s meed,
Which alway is for all right-hearted men
The happy goal of all their rivalry.
But that great-hearted man was led astray
By Fate, the hateful fiend ; for surely it is
Unworthy a man to be made passion’s fool.
249
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
ἀνδρὸς γὰρ πινυτοῖο καὶ ἄλγεα, πόλλ᾽ ἐπιόντα
τλῆναι ὑπὸ κραδίῃ στερεῇ φρενί ί, μηδ᾽ ἀκάχησθαι."
Ὡς φάτο Λαέρταο κλυτὸς πάϊς ἀντιθέοιο.
ἀλλ᾽ ὅτε δὴ κορέσαντο γόου καὶ πένθεος αἰνοῦ"
o7 TOTE Νηλέος υἱὸς ἔτ᾽ ἀχνυμένοισιν ἔειπεν" 600
ὦ φίλοι, ὡς apa Kijpes ἀνηλέα θυμὸν ἔχουσαι
ἡμῖν aly ἐβάλοντο λυγρῷ ἐπὶ πένθεϊ πένθος
Αἴαντος φθιμένοιο πολυσθενέος τ ᾿Αχιλῆος
ἄλλων τ᾽ ᾿Αργείων 78 υἱέος ἡμετέροιο
᾿Αντιλόχου. ἀλλ᾽ οὔτι θέμις κταμένους ἐνὶ χάρμῃ 605
κλαίειν ἤματα πάντα καὶ ἀσχαλάαν ἐνὶ θυμῷ,
ἀλλὰ γόου λήσασθαι ἀεικέος, οὕνεκ᾽ ἄμεινον
ἕρδειν, ὅ ὅσσα βροτοῖσιν ἐπὶ φθιμένοισιν ἐ ἔοικε,
πυρκαϊὴν καὶ σῆμα, καὶ ὀστέα ταρχύσασθαι'
νεκρὸς δ᾽ οὔτι όοισιν ἀνέγρεται, οὐδέ τι οἶδε 610
φράσσασθ', εὖτέ ἑ Kijpes a pet hex oe ἀμφιχάνωσιν.᾽
Ἦ pa παρηγορέων' περὶ δ᾽ ἀντίθεοι βασιλῆες
ἀθρόοι αἶψ᾽ ἀγέροντο μέγ᾽ ἀχνύμενοι κέαρ ἔνδον,
καί é μέγαν περ᾽ ἐόντα θοῶς ποτὶ νῆας ἔνεικαν
πολλοὶ ἀείραντες" κατὰ δὲ σπείροισι κάχυψαν 615
αἷμ᾽ ἀποφαιδρύναντες, ὅ ὃ οἱ βριαροῖς μελέεσσι
τερσόμενον TEPLKELTO καὶ é ἔντεσι σὺν κονίῃσι"
καὶ τότ᾽ ἀπ᾽ ᾿Ιδαίων ὁ ὀρέων φέρον ἄσπετον ὕλην
αἰξηοί, πάντη δὲ νέκυν πέρι νη ἡσαντο"
πολλὰ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἀμφ᾽ αὐτῷ θῆκαν ξύλα, πολλὰ δὲ
μῆλα 620
paped : T “εὐποίητα βοῶν τ᾽ ἐρικυδέα φῦλα
ἠδὲ καὶ ὠκυτάτοισιν ἀγαλλομένους ποσὶν ἵππους
χρυσόν ss αἰγλήεντα καὶ ἄσπετα τεύχεα φωτῶν,
ὅσσα πάρος κταμένων ἀποαίνυτο φαίδιμος ἀνήρ,
ἤλεκτρόν τ᾽ ἐπὶ τοῖσι διειδέα, τόν ῥά τέφασιν 625
ἔμμεναι ᾿Ηελίοιο πανομφαίοιο θυγατρῶν
δάκρυ, τὸ δὴ Φαέθοντος ὑ ὑπὲρ κταμένοιο χέαντο
μυρόμεναι μεγάλοιο παρὰ ῥόον ᾿Ηριδανοῖο,
250
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK V
The wise man’s part is, steadfast-souled to endure
All ills, an not to rage against his lot.”
So spake Laertes’ son, the far-renowned.
But when they all were weary of grief and groan,
Then to those sorrowing ones spake Neleus’ son:
“0 friends, the pitiless-hearted Fates have laid
Stroke after stroke of sorrow upon us,
Sorrow for Aias dead, for mighty Achilles,
For many an Argive, and for mine own son
Antilochus. Yet all unmeet it is
Day after day with passion of grief to wail
Men slain in battle: nay, we must forget
Laments, and turn us to the better task
Of rendering dues beseeming to the dead,
The dues of pyre, of tomb, of bones inurned
No lamentations will awake the dead ;
No note thereof he taketh, when the Fates,
The ruthless ones, have swallowed him in night.”
So spake he words of cheer: the godlike kings
Gathered with heavy hearts around the dead,
And many hands upheaved the giant corpse,
And swiftly bare him to the ships, and there
Washed they away the blood that clotted lay
Dust-flecked on mighty limbs and armour: then
In linen swathed him round. From Ida’s heights
Wood without measure did the young men bring,
And piled it round the corpse. Billets and logs
Yet more in a wide circle heaped they round;
And sheep they laid thereon, fair-woven vests,
And goodly kine, and speed-triumphant steeds,
And gleaming gold, and armour without stint,
From slain foes by that glorious hero stripped.
And lucent amber-drops they laid thereon,
Tears, say they, which the Daughters of the Sun,
The Lord of Omens, shed for Phaethon slain,
When by Eridanus’ flood they mourned for him.
251
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
καὶ τὸ μὲν ᾽Ηέλιος γέρας ἄφθιτον υἱέϊ τεύχων
Μ / / / > ,
ἤλεκτρον ποίησε μέγα κτέαρ ἀνθρώποισι, 680
΄ «ς rT 9 ’ / a / /
TOV pa TOT εὐρυπέδοιο πυρῆς καθύπερθε βάλοντο
᾿Αργεῖοι κλυτὸν ἄνδρα δεδουπότα κυδαίνοντες
Αἴαντ᾽" ἀμφὶ δέ οἱ μέγαλα στενάχοντες ἔθεντο
τιμήεντ᾽ ἐλέφαντα καὶ ἄργυρον ἱμερόεντα
ἠδὲ καὶ ἀμφιφορῆας ἀλείφατος ἄλλα τε πάντα, 635
ὁππόσα κυδήεντα καὶ ἀγλαὸν ὄλβον ὀφέλλει.
ἐν δ᾽ ἔβαλον κρατεροῖο πυρὸς μένος" ἦλθε δὲ πνοιὴ
ἐξ ἁλός, ἣν προέηκε θεὰ Θέτις, ὄφρα θέρηται
Αἴαντος μεγάλοιο βίη: ὁ δὲ νύκτα καὶ ἠῶ
καίετο πὰρ νήεσσιν ἐπειγομένου ἀνέμοιο' 640
οἷός που τὸ πάροιθε Διὸς στονόεντι κεραυνῷ
᾿Εγκέλαδος δέδμητο Kat ἀκαμάτοιο θαλάσσης
Θρινακίης ὑπένερθεν, ὅλη δ᾽ ὑπετύφετο νῆσος"
ἢ οἷος ζώοντα μέλη πυρὶ δῶκε θέρεσθαι
Ἡρακλέης Νέσσοιο δολοφροσύνῃσι χαλεφθείς, 645
ε LES Sp ΕΚ» ” 3259 ΄ ”
ὁππότ᾽ ἔτλη μέγα ἔργον, ὅλη δ᾽ ἀμφέστενεν Οἴτη
Cwod καιομένοιο, μίγη δέ οἱ ἠέρι θυμὸς
ἄνδρα λιπὼν ἀρίδηλον, ἐνεκρίνθη δὲ θεοῖσιν
αὐτός, ἐπεί οἱ σῶμα πολύκμητον χάδε γαῖα"
a pS EW \ lal / > aA
TOLOS ἂρ ἐν πυρὶ κεῖτο AEAATMEVOS ἰωχμοῖο 650
Alas σὺν τεύχεσσι: πολὺς δ᾽ ἐστείνετο λαὸς
> lal a“ sa fg , > ’ > Jar
αἰγιαλοῖς" Τρῶες δ᾽ ἐγάνυντ᾽, ἀκάχοντο δ᾽ ᾿Αχαιοι.
"AAN ὅτε δὴ δέμας HU κατήνυσε πῦρ ἀΐδηλον,
δὴ τότε πυρκαϊὴν οἴνῳ σβέσαν: ὀστέα δ᾽ αὐτοῦ
χηλῷ ἐνὶ χρυσέῃ θῆκαν' περὶ δέ σφισι γαῖαν θδῦ
χεῦαν ἀπειρεσίην 'ῬΡοιτηίδος οὐχ ἑκὰς ἀκτῆς.
252
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK V
These, for undying honour to his son,
The God made amber, precious in men’s eyes.
Even this the Argives on that broad-based pyre
Cast freely, honouring the mighty dead.
And round him, groaning heavily, they laid
Silver most fair and precious ivory,
And jars of oil, and whatsoe’er beside
They have who heap up goodly and glorious wealth.
Then thrust they in the strength of ravening flame,
And from the sea there breathed a wind, sent forth
By Thetis, to consume the giant frame
Of Aias. All the night and all the morn
Burned ’neath the urgent stress of that great wind
Beside the ships that giant form, as when
Enceladus by Zeus’ levin was consumed
Beneath Thrinacia, when from all the isle
Smoke of his burning rose—or like as when
Hercules, trapped by Nessus’ deadly guile,
Gave to devouring fire his living limbs,
What time he dared that awful deed, when groaned
All Oeta as he burned alive, and passed
His soul into the air, leaving the man
Far-famous, to be numbered with the Gods,
When earth closed o’er his toil-tried mortal part.
So huge amid the flames, all-armour clad,
Lay Aias, all the joy of fight forgot,
While a great multitude watching thronged the
sands.
Glad were the Trojans, but the Achaeans grieved.
But when that goodly frame by ravening fire
Was all consumed, they quenched the pyre with
wine ;
They gathered up the bones, and reverently
Laid in a golden casket. Hard beside
Rhoeteium’s headland heaped they up a mound
Measureless-high. Then scattered they amidst
πο
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
3 7 2 9 / / > x an
αὐτίκα δ᾽ ἐσκίδναντο πολυσκάρθμους ἐπὶ νῆας
‘ 3 , Χ SS , 5 > a
θυμὸν ἀκηχέμενοι" τὸν yap τίον ἶσον ᾿Αχιλλεῖ.
oy) / I 3, 5 / «“ BY
νὺξ δ᾽ ἐπόρουσε μέλαινα μετ᾽ ἀνέρας ὕπνον ἄγουσα"
ΕΣ Ἂν Cate ee | μ᾿ AS / ”
οἱ δ᾽ ἄρα bait ἐπάσαντο καὶ ᾿Ηρυγένειαν ἔμιμνον, 660
\ > / b ° ie
βαιὸν ἀποβρίξαντες ἀραιοῖσι βλεφάροισιν'
Dies \ / \ / / NEN
αἰνῶς yap φοβέοντο κατὰ φρένα, un σφισι 'Γρῶες
/
νυκτὸς ἐπέλθωσιν Τελαμωνιάδαο θανόντος.
254
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK V
The long ships, heavy-hearted for the man
Whom they had honoured even as Achilles.
Yhen black night, bearing unto all men sleep,
Upfloated : so they brake’ bread, and lay down
Waiting the Child of the Mist. Short was their
sleep,
Broken by fitful staring through the dark,
Haunted by dread lest in the night the foe
Should fall on them, now Telamon’s son was dead.
755
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
“ 3. 33 ac / , = Ue »
εἵνεκ᾽ ἐμεῦ “Ἑλένης τε κυνώπιδος, ἧς νύ μοι οὔτι
€ ς 2)
μέμβλεται ὡς ὑμέων, ὁπότε κταμένους ἐσίδωμαι
ἐν πολέμῳ" κείνη δ᾽ ἀλαπαδνοτάτῳ σὺν ἀκοίτῃ
ἐρρέτω" ἐκ γάρ οἱ πινυτὰς φρένας εἵλετο δαίμων
? , ἘΡΓ Ib} na / / 2>O\ \ b ἐξ
ἐκ κραδίης, OT ἐμεῖο λίπεν δόμον ἠδὲ καὶ εὐνήν.
ἀλλὰ τὰ μὲν κείνης Πριώμῳ καὶ Τρωσὶ μελήσει"
ς “ >? τὴ ΄ ᾽ > \ \ ἈΝ >
ἡμεῖς δ᾽ αἶψα νεώμεθ᾽, ἐπεὶ πολὺ A@LOV ἐστιν
? / / / AE 0 / ΡΣ)
ἐκφυγέειν πολέμοιο δυσηχέος ἢ ἀπολέσθαι.
“Os ἔφατ᾽ ᾿Αργείων πειρώμενος" ἄλλα δέ οἱ κῆρ
ἐν κραδίῃ πόρφυρε περὶ ζηλήμονι θυμῷ,
Τρῶας ὃ ὅπως ὀλέσῃ καὶ τείχεα μακρὰ “πόληος
ῥήξη ἐκ θεμέθλων, μάλα δ᾽ αἵματος ἄσῃ "Apna
δίου ᾿Αλεξάνδροιο μετὰ φθιμένοισι πεσόντος"
οὐ γά τι ζήλοιο πέλει στυγερώτερον ἄλλο.
καὶ τὰ μὲν ὡς ὥρμαινεν, ἑῇ δ᾽ ἐπιίξανεν ἕδρῃ.
καὶ τότε Τυδείδης ἐγχέσπαλος ὧρτ᾽ ἐνὶ μέσσοις,
καί ῥα θοῶς νείκεσσεν ἀρηίφιλον Μενέλαον"
“ἃ dein ᾿Ατρέος, υἱέ, τί ἤ νύ σε δεῖμα κιχάνει
ἀργαλέον, καὶ τοῖα μετ᾽ ᾿Αργείοις ἀγορεύεις,
ὡς πάϊς ἠὲ γυνή, τῶνπερ σθένος ἔστ᾽ ἀλαπαδνόν;
>’ \ \ ? / 9 nr vA 2
ἀλλὰ σοὶ ov πείσονται ᾿Αχαιῶν φέρτατοι υἷες
πρὶν Τροίης κρήδεμνα ποτὶ χθόνα πάντα βα-
λέσθαι:"
θάρσος γὰρ μερόπεσσι κλέος μέγα, pila δ᾽
ὄνειδος.
ΟΣ» \ a 3.0. , €. 3 f
εἰ ὃ ἄρα τις καὶ τῶνδ ἐπυπείσεται, WS ἐπιτέλλεις,
αὐτίκα οἱ κεφαλὴν τεμέω ἐόεντι σιδήρῳ,
ῥίψω δ᾽ οἰωνοῖσιν ἀερσιπέτῃσιν ἐδωδήν.
ἀλλ᾽ aye’, οἷσι μέμηλεν ὀρινέμεναι μένε᾽ ἀνδρῶν,
λαοὺς αὐτίκα πάντας ὀτρυνάντων κατὰ νῆας
δούρατα θηγέμεναι, παρά Tt ἀσπίδας ἄλλα τε
πάντα
εὖ θέσθαι, καὶ δεῖπνον ἄφαρ πάσσασθαι!; ἅπαντας
1 Zimmermann, for ἐφοπλίσσασθαι, with lacuna, of Koechly.
258
25
30
90
40
45
δ0
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK VI
And shameless Helen’s! Think not that I care
For her: for you I care, when I behold
Good men in battle slain. Away with her—
Her and her paltry paramour! The Gods
Stole all discretion out of her false heart
When she forsook mine home and marriage-bed.
Let Priam and the Trojans cherish her !
But let us straight return: ’twere better far
To flee from dolorous war than perish all.”
So spake he but to try the Argive men.
Far other thoughts than these made his heart burn
With passionate desire to slay his foes,
To break the long walls of their city down
From their foundations, and to glut with blood
Ares, when Paris mid the slain should fall.
Fiercer is naught than passionate desire !
Thus as he pondered, sitting in his place,
Uprose Tydeides, shaker of the shield,
And chode in fiery speech with Menelaus :
“© coward Atreus’ son, what craven fear
Hath gripped thee, that thou speakest so to us
As might a weakling child or woman speak ?
Not unto thee Achaea’s noblest sons
Will hearken, ere Troy’s coronal of towers
Be wholly dashed to the dust: for unto men
Valour is high renown, and flight is shame !
If any man shall hearken to the words
Of this thy counsel, I will smite from him
His head with sharp blue steel, and hurl it down
For soaring kites to feast on. Up! all ye
Who care to enkindle men to battle: rouse
Our warriors all throughout the fleet to whet
The spear, to burnish corslet, helm and shield ;
And cause both man and horse, all which be keen
259
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
? / 39 “ bat J , ?
ἀνέρας ἠδ᾽ ἵππους, οἵ τ᾽ ἐς πόλεμον μεμάασιν"
3 ’ rae / / Μ 3)
ἐν πεδίῳ δ᾽ ὦκιστα διακρινέει μένος "Αρης. 55
“Os φάτο Τυδείδης" κατὰ δ᾽ Eero, ἧχι πάρος
περ’
A \ / eX 4 \ a ΝΜ
τοῖσι δὲ Θέστορος υἱὸς ἔπος ποτὶ τοῖον ἔειπεν
ἀνστὰς ἐν μέσσοισιν, ὅπη θέμις ἔστ᾽ ἀγορεύειν"
canes / , / / ᾽ ,
κέκλυτέ μευ, φίλα τέκνα μενεπτολέμων Αργειων"
» ,ὔ e / 3 ’ >? 7
ἴστε γάρ, ὡς σάφα οἶδα θεοπροπίας ἀγορεύειν. 60
A \ \ / De / / /
ἤδη μὲν καὶ πρόσθ᾽ ἐφάμην δεκάτῳ λυκάβαντι
7 Vv ’ / \ \ a > /
πέρσειν Γλιον αἰπύ: τὸ δὴ viv ἐκτελέουσιν
>’ 7 , \ / \ \ > an
ἀθάνατοι" νίκη δὲ πέλει Tapa ποσσὶν ᾿Αχαιῶν.
ἀλλ᾽ ἄγε, Τυδέος υἷα μενεπτόλεμόν τ᾽ ᾿Οδυσῆα
πέμψωμεν Σκῦρον δὲ θοῶς ἐν νηὶ μελαίνῃ, 65
ane , ᾽ , "
οἵ ῥα παραιπεπίθοντες ᾿Αχιλλέος ὄβριμον υἷα
» / > ΟΝ ? / / >>)
ἄξουσιν: μέγα δ᾽ ἄμμι φάος πάντεσσι πελάσσει.
“Os φάτο Θέστορος υἱὸς ἐΐῴρονος" ἀμφὶ δὲ λαοὶ
γηθόσυνοι κελάδησαν, ἐπεί σφισιν ἦτορ ἐώλπει
/
Κάλχαντος φάτιν ἔμμεν᾽ ἐτήτυμον, ὡς ἀγόρευε; 70
καὶ τότε Λαέρταο πάϊς μετέειπεν ᾿Αχαιοῖς"
5 ᾽ὔ 3 ϑορρδν, Si Cia σε / 33 ,
ὦ φίλοι, οὐκέτ᾽ ἔοικε μεθ᾽ ὑμῖν πόλλ ἀγορεύειν
σήμερον" ἐν γὰρ δὴ κάματος πέλει ἀχνυμένοισιν'
οἶδα γὰρ ὡς λαοῖσι κεκμηκόσιν οὔτ᾽ ἀγορητὴς
ἁνδάνει οὔτ᾽ ἄρ ᾿ ἀοιδός, ὃ ὃν ἀθάνατοι φιλέουσι 15
Πιερίδες" παύρων δ᾽ ἐπέων ἔρος ἔνθ᾽ ἀνθρώποις."
νῦν 8, ὅπερ εὔαδε πᾶσι κατὰ στρατὸν ᾿Αργείοισι,
Τυδείδαο μάλιστα συνεσπομένου TENET ALLL"
ἄμφω γάρ κεν ἰόντε φιλοπτολέμου ᾿Αχιλῆος
ἄξομεν ὄβριμον υἷα παρακλίναντ᾽ ἐπέεσσιν, 80
εἰ καί μεν μάλα πολλὰ κινυρομένη κατερύκει
μήτηρ ἐν μεγάροισιν, ἐπεὶ κρατεροῖο τοκῆος
ἔλπομ᾽ ἐμὸν κατὰ θυμὸν ἀρήιον ἔμμεναι υἷα.
1 Zimmermann, for ἔρος ἀνθρώποισι of MSS.
260
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK VI
In fight, to break their fast. Then in yon plain
Who is the stronger Ares shall decide.”
So speaking, in his place he sat him down ;
Then rose up Thestor’s son, and in the midst,
Where meet it is to speak, stood forth and cried :
« Hear me, ye sons of battle-biding Greeks :
Ye know I have the spirit of prophecy.
Erewhile I said that ye in the tenth year
Should lay waste towered Ilium: this the Gods
Are even now fulfilling ; victory lies
At the Argives’ very feet. Come, let us send
Tydeides and Odysseus battle-staunch
With speed to Scyros overseas, by prayers
Hither to bring Achilles’ hero son:
A light of victory shall he be to us.”
So spake wise Thestius’ son, and all the folk
Shouted for joy ; for all their hearts and hopes
Yearned to see Calchas’ prophecy fulfilled.
Then to the Argives spake Laertes’ son :
“ Friends, it befits not to say many words
This day to you, in sorrow’s weariness.
I know that wearied men can find no joy
In speech or song, though the Pierides,
The immortal Muses, love it. At such time
Few words do men desire. But now, this thing
That pleaseth all the Achaean host, will I
Accomplish, so Tydeides fare with me ;
For, if we twain go, we shall surely bring,
Won by our words, war-fain Achilles’ son,
Yea, though his mother, weeping sore, should strive
Within her halls to keep him; for mine heart
Trusts that he is a hero’s valorous son.”
261
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
> l4 2999 “ ys) / /
ἀνέρας ἠδ᾽ ἵππους, οἵ τ᾿ ἐς πόλεμον μεμάασιν"
> ’ > ΜΔ / / Μ 39
ἐν πεδίῳ δ᾽ ὠκιστα διακρινέει μένος ἤΑρης. 55
\
Ὡς φάτο Τυδείδης: κατὰ δ᾽ ἕζετο, ἧχι πάρος
περ'
Aa δὲ / ey ΝΜ Ἁ a Μ
τοῖσι δὲ Θέστορος υἱὸς ἔπος ποτὶ τοῖον ἔειπεν
ἀνστὰς ἐν μέσσοισιν, ὅπη θέμις ἔστ᾽ ἀγορεύειν"
(ς 7 / / / / 2 ,
κέκλυτε μευ, ira τέκνα μενεπτολέμων Αργείων"
ἴστε γάρ, ὡς σάφα οἶδα θεοπροπίας ἀγορεύειν. 60
» Ἁ ᾿ / 3 39 {4 / /
ἤδη μὲν καὶ πρόσθ᾽ ἐφάμην δεκάτῳ λυκάβαντι
7 Vv ’ / \ \ a ’ td
πέρσειν ἵλιον αἰπύ: τὸ δὴ νῦν ἐκτελέουσιν
2 / , \ / \ \ > A
ἀθάνατοι" νίκη δὲ πέλει παρὰ ποσσὶν ᾿Αχαιῶν.
ἀλλ᾽ ἄγε, Τυδέος υἷα μενεπτόλεμόν T ᾿δυσῆα
πέμψωμεν Σκῦρον δὲ θοῶς ἐν νηὶ μελαίνῃ, 65
ΟΞ / 2 / Vv
οἵ pa παραιπεπίθοντες ᾿Αχιλλέος ὄβριμον via
ἄξουσιν: μέγα δ᾽ ἄμμι φάος πάντεσσι πελάσσει.᾽"
ἃ , , ἘΥΥΟΣΝ > ν ΣΝ \
Ὡς φάτο Θέστορος υἱὸς eU'ppovos: ἀμφὶ δὲ λαοὶ
γηθόσυνοι κελάδησαν, ἐπεί σφισιν ἦτορ ἐώλπει
» 4
Κάλχαντος φάτιν ἔμμεν᾽ ἐτήτυμον, ὡς ayopeve’ 70
καὶ τότε Λαέρταο πάϊς μετέειπεν ᾿Αχαιοῖς"
9 ’ 3 δια Je, A / Ὧν 3 ,
ὦ φιλοι, οὐκέτ᾽ ἔοικε μεθ᾽ ὑμῖν πόλλ, ΟΠ ΤΕΣ
σήμερον" ἐν γὰρ δὴ κάματος πέλει ἀχνυμένοισιν'
οἶδα γὰρ ὡς λαοῖσι κεκμηκόσιν οὔτ᾽ ἀγορητὴς
ἁνδάνει οὔτ᾽ ἄρ ᾿ ἀοιδός, ὃ ὃν ἀθάνατοι φιλέουσι 18
Πιερίδες: παύρων δ᾽ ἐπέων ἔρος ἔνθ᾽ ἀνθρώποις."
νῦν δ᾽, ὅπερ εὔαδε πᾶσι κατὰ στρατὸν ᾿Αργείοισι,
Τυδείδαο μάλιστα συνεσπομένου τελέσαιμι:
ἄμφω γάρ κεν ἰόντε φιλοπτολέμου ᾿Αχιλῆος
ἄξομεν ὄβριμον υἷα παρακλίναντ᾽ ἐπέεσσιν, 80
εἰ καί μὲν μάλα πολλὰ κινυρομένη, κατερύκει
μήτηρ ἐν μεγάροισιν, ἐπεὶ κρατεροῖο τοκῆος
ἔλπομ᾽ ἐμὸν κατὰ θυμὸν ἀρήιον ἔμμεναι υἷα.
1 Zimmermann, for ἔρος ἀνθρώποισι οὗ MSS.
260
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK VI
In fight, to break their fast. Then in yon plain
Who is the stronger Ares shall decide.”
So speaking, in his place he sat him down ;
Then rose up Thestor’s son, and in the midst,
Where meet it is to speak, stood forth and cried :
“ Hear me, ye sons of battle-biding Greeks:
Ye know I have the spirit of prophecy.
Erewhile I said that ye in the tenth year
Should lay waste towered Ilium: this the Gods
Are even now fulfilling ; victory lies
At the Argives’ very feet. Come, let us send
Tydeides and Odysseus battle-staunch
With speed to Scyros overseas, by prayers
Hither to bring Achilles’ hero son:
A light of victory shall he be to us.”
So spake wise Thestius’ son, and all the folk
Shouted for joy ; for all their hearts and hopes
Yearned to see Calchas’ prophecy fulfilled.
Then to the Argives spake Laertes’ son:
“ Friends, it befits not to say many words
This day to you, in sorrows weariness.
I know that wearied men can find no joy
In speech or song, though the Pierides,
The immortal Muses, love it. At such time
Few words do men desire. But now, this thing
That pleaseth all the Achaean host, will I
Accomplish, so Tydeides fare with me ;
For, if we twain go, we shall surely bring,
Won by our words, war-fain Achilles’ son,
Yea, though his mother, weeping sore, should strive
Within her halls to keep him; for mine heart
Trusts that he is a hero’s valorous son.”
261
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
“Os φάμενον προσέειπε πύκα φρονέων Μενέ-
aos:
“ὦ Oduced, μέγ᾽ ὄνειαρ ἐὐσθενέων ᾿Αργείων, 85
ἤνπερ ᾿Αχιλλῆος μεγαλόφρονος ὄβριμος υἱὸς
σῆσι παραιφασίῃσι λιλαιομένοισιν ἀρωγὸς * 8θα
ἔλθοι a ἀπὸ Σκύροιο, πόροι δέ τις οὐρανιώνων
νίκην εὐχομένοισι καὶ ᾿Βλλάδα γαῖαν ἱκῶμαι,
ώσω οἱ παράκοιτιν ἐμὴν ἐρικυδέα κούρην
“Ἑρμιόνην, καὶ πολλὰ καὶ ὄλβια δῶρα σὺν αὐτῇ 90
προφρονέως" οὐ γάρ μιν ὀΐομαι οὔτε γυναῖκα
οὔτ᾽ ἄρα πενθερὸν ἐσθλὸν ὑπερφιάλως ὀνόσασθαι.᾽"
Ὡς ἄρ᾽ ἔφη" Δαναοὶ δὲ συνευφήμησαν ἐ ἔπεσσι.
καὶ τότε ove ἀγορή’ τοὶ δ᾽ ἐσκίδναντ᾽ ἐπὶ νῆας
ἱέμενοι δείπνοιο, τὸ δὴ πέλει ἀνδράσιν ἀλκή: 95
καί ῥ᾽ ὅτε δὴ παύσαντο κορεσσάμενοι μέγ᾽ ἐδωδῆς,
δὴ τόθ᾽ ὁμῶς ᾿Οδυσῆι περίφρονι Τυδέος υἱὸς
νῆα θοὴν εἴρυσσεν ἀπειρεσίης ἁλὸς εἴσω"
καρπαλίμως δ᾽ nla καὶ ἄρμενα πάντα βάλοντο"
ἐν δὲ καὶ αὐτοὶ ἔβαν’ μετὰ δέ σφισιν εἴκοσι φῶτες 100
ἴδμονες εἰρεσίης, ὁπότ᾽ ἀντίαι ὦσιν ἄελλαι,
ἠδ᾽ ὁπότ᾽ εὐρέα πόντον ὑποστορέησι γαλήνη.
καί ῥ᾽ ὅτε δὴ κληῖσιν ἐπ᾽ εὐτύκτοισι κάθισσαν,
τύπτον ἁλὸς μέγα κῦμα' πολὺς δ᾽ ἀμφέζεεν
ἀφρός:
ὑγραὶ δ᾽ ἀμφ᾽ ἐλάτῃσι διεπρήσσοντο κέλευθοι 105
νηὸς ἐπεσσυμένης" τοὶ δ᾽ ἱδρώοντες ἔ ἔρεσσον'
ὡς δ᾽ ὅθ᾽ ὑπὸ ζεύγλῃσι βόες μέγα κεκμηῶτες
δουρατέην ἐ ἐρύσωσι πρόσω μεμαῶτες ἀπήνην
ἄχθεϊ τετριγυῖαν ὑπ᾽ ἄξονι δινήεντι
τειρόμενοι, πουλὺς δὲ κατ᾽ αὐχένος ἠδὲ καὶ ὦμων 110
ἱδρὼς ἀμφοτέροισι κατέσσυται ἄχρις ἐπ᾽ οὖδας"
ὡς τῆμος μογέεσκον ὑπὸ στιβαρῇς ἐλάτῃσιν
αἰζηοί: μάλα δ᾽ ὦκα διήνυον εὐρέα πόντον.
1 Verse inserted by Zimmermann ex P.
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THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK VI
Then out spake Menelaus earnestly :
“Odysseus, the strong Argives’ help at need,
If mighty-souled Achilles’ valiant son
From Scyros by thy suasion come to aid
Us who yearn tor him, and some Heavenly One
Grant victory to our prayers, and I win home
To Hellas, I will give to him to wife
My noble child Hermione, with gifts
Many and goodly for her marriage-dower
With ἃ glad heart. I trow he shall not scorn
Either his bride or high-born sire-in-law.”
With a great shout the Danaans hailed his words.
Then was the throng dispersed, and to the ships
They scattered hungering for the morning meat
Which strengtheneth man’s heart. So when they
ceased
From eating, and desire was satisfied,
Then with the wise Odysseus Tydeus’ son
Drew down a swift ship to the boundless sea,
And victual and all tackling cast therein.
Then stepped they aboard, and with them twenty
men,
Men skilled to row when winds were contrary,
Or when the unrippled sea slept ‘neath a calm.
They smote the brine, and flashed the boiling foam :
On leapt the ship; a watery way was cleft
About the oars that sweating rowers tugged.
As when hard-toiling oxen, ’neath the yoke
Straining, drag on a massy-timbered wain,
While creaks the circling axle ’neath its load,
And from their weary necks and shoulders streams
Down to the ground the sweat abundantly ;
So at the stiff oars toiled those stalwart men,
And fast they laid behind them leagues of sea.
Gazed after them the Achaeans as they went,
263
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
τοὺς δ᾽ ἄλλοι μὲν ᾿Αχαιοὶ ἀποσκοπίαζον ἰόντας"
θῆγον δ᾽ αἰνὰ βέλεμνα καὶ ἔγχεα, τοῖσι μάχοντο. 115
Τρῶες δ᾽ ἄστεος ἐντὸς ἀταρβέες ἐντύνοντο
ἐς πόλεμον μεμαῶτες i εὐχόμενοι μακάρεσσι
λωφῆσαί τε φόνοιο καὶ ἀμπνεῦσαι καμάτοιο.
Τοῖσι δ᾽ ἐελδομένοισ, θεοὶ μέγα πήματος
ἄλκαρ
ἤγαγον Εὐρύπυλον. κρατεροῦ γένος Ἡρακλῆος" 120
Kab οἱ λαοὶ ἕποντο δαήμονες ἐ ἰωχμοῖο
πολλοί, ὅσοι δολιχοῖο παρὰ προχοῇσι Καΐκου
ναΐεσκον κρατερῇσι πεποιθότες € ἐγχείῃσιν.
ἀμφὶ δέ οἱ κεχάροντο μέγα φρεσὶ Τρώιοι υἷες"
ὡς δ᾽ ὁπόθ᾽ ἕρκεος ἐντὸς ἐεργμένοι ἀθρήσωσιν 125
nets ἀνέρα χῆνες, ὅτις σφίσιν εἴδατα Barra,
ἀμφὶ 6 έ μιν στομάτεσσι περισταδὸν ἰύξοντες * 126a
σαίνουσιν, τοῦ δ᾽ ἦτορ ἰαίνεται εἰσορόωντος"
ὡς ἄρα Τρώιοι υἷες ἐγήθεον, εὖτ᾽ ἐσίδοντο
ὄβριμον Εὐρύπυλον, τοῦ δ᾽ ἐν φρεσὶ θαρσαλέον
κῆρ,
τέρπετ᾽ ἀγειρομένοισιν" ἀπὸ προθύρων δὲ γυναῖκες 180
θάμβεον ἀνέρα δῖον: ὁ δ᾽ “ἔξοχος ἔ ἔσσυτο λαῶν
ἠῦὔτε τις θώεσσι λέων ἐν ὄρεσσι μετελθών.
τὸν δὲ Πάρις δείδεκτο, τίεν δέ μιν Ἕκτορι ἶσον"
τοῦ γὰρ ἀνεψιὸς ἔσκεν, LAS T ἐτέτυκτο γενέθλης:
τὸν γὰρ δὴ τέκε δῖα κασιγνήτη Πριάμοιο 135
᾿Αστυόχη κρατερῇσιν ὑπ᾽ ἀγκοίνῃσι μιγεῖσα
Τηλέφου, ὃ ὅν ῥα καὶ αὐτὸν ἀταρβέϊ “Hpakrje
λάθρῃ ἑ €0L0 τοκῆος ἐὐπλόκαμος τέκεν Αὔγη:
καί μιν τυτθὸν ἐόντα καὶ ἰσχανόωντα γάλακτος
θρέψε θοή ποτε κεμμάς, ἑῷ δ᾽ ἴσα φίλατο νεβρῷ 140
μαζὸν ὑ ὑποσχομένη βουλῇ Διός: οὐ γὰρ ἐῴκει
ἔκγονον Ἡρακλῆος ὀϊξυρῶς ἀπολέσθαι.
τοῦ δ᾽ ἄρα κύδιμον υἷα Πάρις μάλα πρόφρονι θυμῷ
1 Verse inserted by Zimmermann, ex Ρ.
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THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK VI
Then turned to whet their deadly darts and spears,
The weapons of their warfare. In their town
The aweless Trojans armed themselves the while
War-eager, praying to the Gods to grant
Respite from slaughter, breathing-space from toil.
To these, while sorely thus they yearned, the Gods
Brought present help in trouble, even the seed
Of mighty Hercules, Eurypylus.
A great host followed him, in battle skilled,
All that by long Caicus’ outflow dwelt,
Full of triumphant trust in their strong spears.
Round them rejoicing thronged the sons of Troy:
As when tame geese within a pen gaze up
On him who casts them corn, and round his feet
Throng hissing uncouth love, and his heart warms
As he looks down on them; so thronged the sons
Of Troy, as on fierce-heart Eurypylus
They gazed; and gladdened was his aweless soul
To see those throngs : from porchways women looked
Wide-eyed with wonder on the godlike man.
Above all men he towered as on he strode,
As looks a lion when amid the hills
He comes on jackals. Paris welcomed him,
As Hector honouring him, his cousin he,
Being of one blood with him, who was born
Of Astyoche, King Priam’s sister fair
Whom Telephus embraced in his strong arms,
Telephus, whom to aweless Hercules
Auge the bright-haired bare in secret love.
That babe, a suckling craving for the breast,
A swift hind fostered, giving him the teat
As to her own fawn in all love; for Zeus
So willed it, in whose eyes it was not meet
That Hercules’ child should perish wretchedly.
His glorious son with glad heart Paris led
265
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
ἦγεν ἑὸν ποτὶ δῶμα δι᾽ εὐρυχόροιο πόληος
σῆμα map ᾿Ασσαράκοιο καὶ “Ἕκτορος αἰπὰ
μέλαθρα 145
νηόν τε ζάθεον Τριτωνίδος, ἔνθα οἱ ἄγχι
δώματ᾽ ἔσαν καὶ βωμὸς ἀκήρατος ‘Epxetoto:
καί μιν ἀδελφειῶν πηῶν θ᾽ ὕπερ ἠδὲ τοκήων
εἴρετο προφρονέως: ὁ δέ οἱ μάλα πάντ᾽ ἀγόρευεν"
ἄμφω δ᾽ ὡς ὀάριζον ἅμ᾽ ἀλλήλοισι κιόντες. 150
ἦλθον δ᾽ ἐς μέγα δῶμα καὶ ὄλβιον: ἔνθα δ᾽ ἄρ᾽
ἧστο
ἀντιθέη “EXévn Χαρίτων ἐπιειμένη εἶδος"
καί ῥά μιν ἀμφίπολοι πίσυρες περιποιπνύεσκον,
ἄλλαι δ᾽ αὖτ᾽ ἀπάνευθεν ἔσαν κλειτοῦ θαλάμοιο
ἔργα τιτυσκόμεναι, ὁπόσα ὃμωῇσιν ἔοικεν. 155
Εὐρύπυλον δ᾽ ᾿λένη μέγ᾽ ἐθάμβεεν εἰσορόωσα,
κεῖνος δ᾽ αὖθ᾽ “EXévnv: μετὰ δ᾽ ἀλλήλους ἐπέεσσιν
ἄμφω δεικανόωντο δόμῳ ἐνὶ κηώεντι:
δμῶες δ᾽ αὖτε θρόνους δοιὼ θέσαν ἐγγὺς avacons:
aia δ᾽ ᾿Αλέξανδρος κατ᾽ ap ἕζετο, πὰρ δ᾽ apa
τῷ γε 160
Εὐρύπυλος. λαοὶ δὲ πρὸ ἄστεος αὖλιν ἔθεντο,
ἦχι φυλακτῆρες Τρώων ἐ ἔσαν ὀβριμόθυμοι"
αἶψα δὲ τεύχεα θῆκαν ἐπὶ χθόνα, πὰρ δε και
ἵππους
στῆσαν ἔτι πνείοντας ὀϊξυροῖο μόγοιο"
ἐν δὲ φάτνῃσι βάλοντο, τά τ᾽ ὠκέες ἴπτποι ἔδουσι. 165
Kai τότε νὺξ ἐπόρουσε, μελαίνετο δ᾽ aia καὶ
αἰθήρ"
οἱ δ᾽ dpa Sait’ ἐπάσαντο πρὸ τείχεος αἰπεινοῖο
Κήτειοι Τρῶές Te: πολὺς δ᾽ ἐπὶ μῦθος ὀρώρει
δαινυμένων" πάντῃ δὲ πυρὸς μένος αἰθαλόεντος
δαίετο πὰρ κλισίῃσιν" ἐπίαχε δ᾽ ἠἡπύτα σύριγξ 170
αὐλοί τε λυγυροῖσιν ἀρηράμενοι καλάμοισιν,
ἀμφὶ δὲ φορμίγγων ἰαχὴ πέλεν ἱμερόεσσα.
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THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK VI
Unto his palace through the wide-wayed burg
Beside Assaracus’ tomb and stately halls
Of Hector, and Tritonis’ holy fane.
Hard by his mansion stood, and therebeside
The stainless altar of Home-warder Zeus
Rose. As they went, he lovingly questioned him
Of brethren, parents, and of marriage-kin ;
And all he craved to know Eurypylus told.
So communed they, on-pacing side by side.
Then came they to a palace great and rich:
There goddess-like sat Helen, clothed upon
With beauty of the Graces. Maidens four
About her plied their tasks: others apart
Within that goodly bower wrought the works
Beseeming handmaids. Helen marvelling gazed
Upon Eurypylus, on Helen he.
Then these in converse each with other spake
In that all-odorous bower. The handmaids brought
And set beside their lady high-seats twain ;
And Paris sat him down, and at his side
Eurypylus. That hero’s host encamped
Without the city, where the Trojan guards
Kept watch. Their armour laid they on the earth ;
Their steeds, yet breathing battle, stood thereby,
And cribs were heaped with horses’ provender.
Upfloated night, and darkened earth and air;
Then feasted they before that cliff-like wall,
Ceteian men and Trojans: babel of tak
Rose from the feasters: all around the glow
Of blazing campfires lighted up the tents:
Pealed out the pipe’s sweet voice, and hautboys rang
With their clear-shrilling reeds; the witching strain
Of lyres was rippling round. From far away
267
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
᾿Αργεῖοι δ᾽ ἀπάνευθεν ἐθάμβεον εἰσορόωντες
[ἐν πεδίῳ πυρὰ πολλὰ καὶ ἄσπετον] εἰσαΐοντες
αὐλῶν φορμίγγων T ἰαχὴν ἀνδρῶν τε καὶ ἵππων
σύριγγός θ᾽, ἣ δαιτὶ μεταπρέπει ἠδὲ νομεῦσι" 175
τοὔνεκ᾽ ap οἷσιν ἕκαστος ἐπὶ κλισίησι κέλευσε
νῆας ἀμοιβαίῃσι φυλασσέμεν ἄχρις ἐς ἠῶ,
μή σφεας Τρῶες ἀγαυοὶ ἐνιπρήσωσι κιόντες
οἵ ῥα τότ᾽ αἰπεινοῖο πρὸ τείχεος εἰλαπίναζον.
“Os δ᾽ αὕτως κατὰ δώματ᾽ ᾿Αλεξάνδροιο δαΐῴρων 180
δαίνυτο Τηλεφίδης μετ᾽ ἀγακλειτῶν βασιλήων"
πολλὰ δ᾽ ἄρα Πρίαμός τε καὶ ἄλλοι Τρώιοι υἷες
ἑξείης ηὔχοντο “μυγήμεναι, ᾿Αργείοισιν
αἴσῃ ἐν ἀργαλέῃ: ὁ δ᾽ ὑπέσχετο πάντα τελέσσειν.
αὐτὰρ ἐπεὶ δόρπησαν, ἔβαν ποτὶ δώμαθ᾽ ἕκαστος" 185
Εὐρύπυλος δ᾽ αὐτοῦ κατελέξατο βαιὸν ἄπωθεν
ἐς τέγος εὐποίητον, ὅπῃ πάρος αὐτὸς ἴαυεν
nus ᾿Αλέξανδρος μετ᾽ ἀγακλ., ευτῆς ἀλόχοιο:
κεῖνο yap ἔκπαγλόν τε καὶ ἔξοχον ἔπλετο πάντων"
ἔνθ᾽ ὅ γε λέξατ᾽ ἰών" τοὶ δ᾽ ἄλλοσε κοῖτον ἕλοντο 190
μέχρις ἐπ᾽ ᾿Ηριγένειαν ἐὔθρονον. αὐτὰρ ἅμ᾽ ἠοῖ
Τηλεφίδης a ἀνόρουσε καὶ ἐς στρατὸν εὐρὺν ἵκανε
σύν T ἄλλοις βασιλεῦσιν, ὅσοι κατὰ Ἴλιον ἦσαν'
λαοὶ δ᾽ αὐτίκ᾽ ἔδυσαν ἐν ἔντεσι μαιμώωντες,
πάντες ἐνὶ πρώτοισι λιλαιόμενοι πονέεσθαι: 19ὅ
ὡς δὲ καὶ Εὐρύπυλος μεγάλοις περικάτθετο γυίοις
τεύχεα μαρμαρέῃσιν ἐειδόμενα στεροπῇσι"
καί οἱ δαίδαλα πολλὰ κατ᾽ ἀσπίδα δῖαν ἔκειτο,
ὁππόσα πρόσθεν ἔρεξε θρασὺ σθένος Ηρακλῆος.
Ἔν μὲν ἔσαν βλοσυρῇσι γενειάσι λιχμώωντες 200
δοιὼ κινυμένοισιν ἐοικότες οἶμα δράκοντες
σμερδαλέον μεμαῶτες" ὁ δέ σφεας ἄλλοθεν ἄλλον
νηπίαχός περ ἐὼν ὑπεδάμνατο' καί οἱ ἀταρβὴς
ἔσκε νόος καὶ θυμός, ἐ ἐπεὶ Aut κάρτος ἐῴκει
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THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK VI
The Argives gazed and marvelled, seeing the plain
Aglare with many fires, and hearing notes
Of flutes and lyres, neighing of chariot-steeds
And pipes, the shepherd’s and the banquet’s joy.
Therefore they bade their fellows each in turn
Keep watch and ward about the tents till dawn,
Lest those proud Trojans feasting by their walls
Should fall on them, and set the ships aflame.
Within the halls of Paris all this while
With kings and princes Telephus’ hero son
Feasted ; and Priam and the sons of Troy
Each after each prayed him to play the man
Against the Argives, and in bitter doom
To lay them low; and blithe he promised all.
So when they had supped, each hied him to his home ;
But there Eurypylus laid him down to rest
Full nigh the feast-hall, in the stately bower
Where Paris theretofore himself had slept
With Helen world-renowned. A bower it was
Most wondrous fair, the goodliest of them all.
There lay he down; but otherwhere their rest
Took they, till rose the bright-throned Queen of Morn.
Up sprang with dawn the son of Telephus,
And passed to the host with all those other kings
In Troy abiding. Straightway did the folk
All battle-eayer don their warrior-gear,
Burning to strike in forefront of the fight.
And now Eurypylus clad his mighty limbs
In armour that like levin-flashes gleamed ;
Upon his shield by cunning hands were wrought
All the great labours of strong Hercules.
Thereon were seen two serpents flickering
Black tongues from grimly jaws: they seemed in act
To dart ; but Hercules’ hands to right and left—
Albeit a babe’s hands—now were throttling them ;
For aweless was his spirit. As Zeus’ strength
269
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
ἐξ ἀρχῆς" ov yap τι θεῶν γένος οὐρανιώνων 205
ἄπρηκτον τελέθει καὶ ἀμήχανον, ἀλλά οἱ ἀλκὴ
ἕσπετ᾽ ἀπειρεσίη καὶ νηδύος ἔνδον ἐόντι.
Ἔν δὲ “Νεμειαίοιο βίη ἐτέτυκτο λέοντος
ὀβρίμου᾽ Η ρακλῆος ὑπὸ στιβαρῇσι χέρεσσι
τειρόμενος κρατερῶς: βλοσυρῆς δέ οἱ ἀμφὶ γένυσ-
oy 210
αἱματόεις ἀφρὸς ἐ ἔσκεν" ἀποπνείοντι δ᾽ ἐώκει.
ἼἌγχι δέ οἱ πεπόνητο μένος πολυδειράδος ὕδρης
αἰνὸν λεχμώωσα" καρήατα δ᾽ ἀλγινόεντα
ἄλλα μὲν ἂρ δέδμητο κατὰ “Χθονός, ἄλλα δ᾽ ἄεξεν
ἐξ ὀλίγων μάλα πολλά" πόνος δ᾽ ἔχεν Ἡρακλῆα 21ὅ
θαρσαλέον τ᾽ ᾿Ιόλαον, ἐπεὶ κρατερὰ φρονέοντε
ἄμφω, ὁ μὲν τέμνεσκε καρήατα μαιμώωντα
ἅρπῃ ὑπ᾽ ἀγκυλόδοντι θοῶς, ὁ ὁ δὲ καῖε σιδήρῳ
αἰθομένῳ" κρατερὴ δὲ κατήνυτο θηρὸς ὁμοκλή.
‘E€eins δ᾽ ἐτέτυκτο βίη συὸς ἀκαμάτοιο 220
ἀφριόων γενύεσσι' φέρεν δέ μιν, ὡς ἐτεόν περ,
ζωὸν ἐς Εὐρυσθῆα μέγα σθένος ᾿Αλκείδαο.
Κεμμὰς δ᾽ εὖ ἤσκητο θοὴ πόδας, ἥ τ᾽ ἀλεγεινῶν
ἀμφὶ περικτιόνων μέγ᾽ ἐσίνετο πᾶσαν ἀλωήν'
καὶ τὴν μὲν χρυσέοιο κεράατος ὄβριμος ἥρως 225
ἄμφεχεν οὐλομένοιο πυρὸς πνείουσαν ἀὐτμήν.
“Appl δ᾽ dpa στυγεραὶ Στυμφηλίδες: αἱ μὲν
ὀϊστοῖς
βλήμεναι ἐν κονίῃσιν ἀπέπνεον, αἱ δ᾽ ἔτι φύζης
μνωόμεναι πολιοῖο δι᾿ ἠέρος ἐσσεύοντο"
that δ᾽ ἔφ᾽ Ἣρακλέης κεχολωμένος ἄλλον ἐπ᾽
ἄλλῳ 230
ἰὸν ἀεὶ προΐαλλε μάλα σπεύδοντι ἐ ἐοικώς.
Ἔν δὲ καὶ Αὐγείαο μέγας σταθμὸς ἀντιθέοιο
τεχνήεις ἤσκητο KAT ἀκαμάτοιο βοείης"
τῷ δ᾽ ἄρα θεσπεσίοιο βαθὺν ἡ ῥόον ᾿Αλφειοῖο
ὄβριμος Ἡρακλέης ἐπαγίνεεν: ἀμφὶ δὲ Νύμφαι 235
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THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK VI
From the beginning was his strength. The seed
Of Heaven-abiders never deedless is
Nor helpless, but hath boundless prowess, yea,
Even when in the womb unborn it lies.
Nemea’s mighty lion there was seen
Strangled in the strong arms of Hercules,
His grim jaws dashed about with bloody foam :
He seemed in verity gasping out his life.
Thereby was wrought the Hydra many-necked
Flickering its dread tongues. Of its fearful heads
Some severed lay on earth, but many more
Were budding from its necks, while Hercules
And Iolaus, dauntless-hearted twain,
Toiled hard ; the one with lightning sickle-sweeps
Lopped the fierce heads, his fellow seared each neck
With glowing iron; the monster so was slain.
Thereby was wrought the mighty tameless Boar
With foaming jaws ; real seemed the pictured thin
As by Alcides’ giant strength the brute
Was to Eurystheus living borne on high.
There fashioned was the fleetfoot stag which laid
The vineyards waste of hapless husbandmen.
The Hero’s hands held fast its golden horns,
The while it snorted breath of ravening fire.
Thereon were seen the fierce Stymphalian Birds,
Some arrow-smitten dying in the dust,
Some through the grey air darting in swift flight.
At this, at that one—hot in haste he seemed—
Hercules sped the arrows of his wrath.
Augeias’ monstrous stable there was wrought
With cunning craft on that invincible targe ;
And Hercules was turning through the same
The deep flow of Alpheius’ stream divine,
While wondering Nymphs looked down on every
hand
8;
271
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
θάμβεον ἄσπετον ἔργον. ἀπόπροθι δ᾽ ἔπλετο
ταῦρος
πύρπνοος, ὅν ῥα καὶ αὐτὸν ἀμαιμάκετόν περ ἐόντα
γνάμπτε βίη κρατεροῖο κεράατος" οἱ δέ οἱ ἄμφω
ἀκάματοι μυῶνες ἐρειδομένοιο τέταντο'
καί ῥ᾽ ὁ μὲν ὡς μυκηθμὸν ἱεὶς πέλεν. ἄγχι δ᾽ ἄρ᾽
αὐτοῦ 240
ἀμφὶ σάκος πεπόνητο. θεῶν ἐπιειμένη εἶδος
ἹἽππολύτη: καὶ τὴν μὲν ὑπὸ κρατερῇσι Χέρεσσι
δαιδαλέου ζωστῆρος ἀμερσέμεναι μενεαίνων
εἷλκε κόμης ἵπποιο κατ᾽ ὠκέος: αἱ δ᾽ ἀπάτερθεν
ἄλλαι ὑποτρομέεσκον ᾿Αμαζόνες. ἀμφὶ δὲ λυγραὶ 245
ΠΤ τ ἀνὰ γαῖαν ἔσαν Διομήδεος ἵπποι
ἀν δροβύροι" καὶ τὰς μὲν ἐπὶ στυγερῇσι φάτνῃσιν
αὐτῷ σὺν βασιλῆι κακὰ φρονέοντι δάϊξεν.
Ἔν δὲ καὶ ἀκαμάτοιο δέμας πέλε Γηρυονῆος
τεθναότος παρὰ βουσί: καρήατα δ᾽ ἐν κονίῃησιν 250
αἱματόεντα κέχυντο βίῃ ῥοπάλοιο δαμέντα":
πρόσθε δέ οἱ δέ ὃμητο κύων ὀλοώτατος ἄλλων
Ὄρρθρος, ἀνιηρῷ ἐναλίγκιος ὄβριμον ἀλκὴν
Κερβέρῳ, ὅς ῥά οἱ ἔσκεν ἀδελφεός: ἀμφὶ δ᾽ ἔκειτο
βουκόλος Εὐρυτίων μεμορυγμένος αἵματι πολλῷ. 255
"Audi δὲ χρύσεα μῆλα τετεύχατο μαρμαίροντα
Ἑσπερίδων ἀνὰ πρέμνον ἀκήρατον: ἀμφὶ δ᾽ ap
αὐτῷ
σμερδαλέος δέδμητο δράκων: ταὶ δ᾽ ἄλλοθεν
ἄλλαι
πτώσσουσαι θρασὺν υἷα Διὸς μεγάλοιο φέβοντο.
Ἔν δ᾽ dp ἔην μέγα δεῖμα καὶ ἀθανάτοισιν
ἰδέσθαι 260
Κέρβερος, ὃ ὅν p ἀκάμαντι Τυφωέϊ γείνατ᾽ "Ἐχιδνα
ἄντρῳ ὑπ᾽ ὀκρυόεντι μελαίνης ἀγχόθι νυκτὸς
apyanréns: ὁ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἣεν ἀεικέλιόν τι πέλωρον" 262a
1 Verse inserted by Zimmermann, ex P.
272
THE FALL!) OF crROYMBOOK ‘VI
Upon that mighty work. Elsewhere portrayed
Was the Fire-breathing Bull: the Hero's grip
On his strong horns wrenched round the massive
neck :
The straining muscles on his arms stood out :
The huge beast seemed to bellow. Next thereto
Wrought on the shield was one in beauty arrayed
As of a Goddess, even Hippolyta.
The hero by the hair was dragging her
From her swift steed, with fierce resolve to wrest
With his strong hands the Girdle Marvellous
From the Amazon Queen, while quailing shrank
awa
The Maids of War There in the Thracian land
Were Diomedes’ grim man-eating steeds:
These at their gruesome mangers had he slain,
And dead they lay with their fiend-hearted lord.
There lay the bulk of giant Geryon
Dead mid his kine. His gory heads were cast
Tn dust, dashed down by that resistless club
Before him slain lay that most murderous hound
Orthros, in furious might like Cerberus
His brother-hound : a herdman lay thereby,
Eurytion, all bedabbled with his blood.
There were the Golden Apples wrought, that
gleamed
In the Hesperides’ garden undefiled :
All round the fearful Serpent’s dead coils lay,
And shrank the Maids aghast from Zeus’ bold son.
And there, a dread sight even for Gods to see,
Was Cerberus, whom the Loathly Worm had borne
To Typho in a craggy cavern’s gloom
Close on the borders of Eternal Night,
A hideous monster, warder of the Gate
Of Hades, Home of Wailing, jailer-hound
273
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
ἀμφ᾽ ὀλοῇσι πύλησι πολυκλαύτου Aidao
εἴργων νεκρὸν ὅμιλον ὑπ᾽ ἠερόεντι βερέθρῳ"
ῥεῖα δέ μιν Διὸς υἱὸς ὑπὸ πληγῇσι δαμάσσας 265
ἦγε καρηβαρέοντα παρὰ Στυγὸς alia ῥέεθρα,
ἕλκων οὐκ ἐθέλοντα βίη πρὸς ἀήθεα χῶρον
θαρσαλέως. ἐτέτυκτο δ᾽ ἀπόπροθεν ἄγκεα μακρὰ
Καυκάσου. ἀμφὶ δὲ δεσμὰ ἸἹΠρομηθέος ἄλλυδις
ἄλλα
αὑτῆς σὺν πέτρῃσιν ἀναρρήξας apapviats 270
ve μέγαν Τιτῆνα: λυγρὸς δέ οἱ ἀγχόθι κεῖτο
αἰετὸς ἀλγινόεντε δέμας βεβλημένος ἰῷ.
Κενταύρων δ᾽ ἐτέτυκτο πολυσθενέων μέγα
κάρτος
ἀμφὶ Φόλοιο μέλαθρον" ἔρις δ᾽ ὀρόθυνε καὶ οἶνος
ἀντίον Ηρακλῆι τεράατα κεῖνα μάχεσθαι: 275
καὶ ῥ᾽ οἱ μὲν πεύκῃσι περὶ δμηθέντες ἔκειντο,
τὰς ἔχον ἐν χείρεσσι μάχης ἄκος" οἱ δ᾽ ἔτε μακρῇς
δηριόωντ᾽ ἐλάτῃσι μεμαότες, οὐδ᾽ ἀπέληγον
ὑσμίνης: πάντων δὲ καρήατα δεύετο λύθρῳ
θεινομένων ἀνὰ δῆριν ἀμείλιχον, ὡς ἐτεόν περ" 280
οἴνῳ δ᾽ αἷμα μέμικτο, συνηλοίητο δὲ πάντα
εἴδατα καὶ κρητῆρες ἐΐξεστοί τε τράπεζαι.
Νέσσον δ᾽ αὖθ᾽ ἑτέρωθι παρὰ ῥόον Evnvoio
κείνης ἐκπροφυγόντα μάχης ὑπεδάμνατ᾽ ὀϊιστῷ
ἀμφ᾽ ἐρατῆς ἀλόχοιο χολούμενος. ἐν δ᾽ ἐτέτυκτο 285
ὀβρίμου ᾿Ανταίοιο μέγα σθένος, ὅν pa καὶ αὐτὸν
ἀμφὶ παλαισμοσύνης ἄμοτον περιδηριόωντα
ὑψοῦ ἀειράμενος κρατερῇς συνέαξε χέρεσσι.
Κεῖτο δ᾽ ἐπὶ προχοῆσιν éippoov ᾿λλησπόντου
ἀργαλέον μέγα κῆτος ἀμειλίκτοισιν ὀϊστοῖς 290
βλήμενον: “Harévns δὲ κακοὺς ἀπελύετο δεσμούς.
"Ἄλλα δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ᾿Αλκείδαο θρασύφρονος ἄσπετα
ἔργα
ἄμφεχεν Εὐρυπύλοιο διοτρεφέος σάκος εὐρύ.
274
THEAFALEL ΟΕ «TROY; ‘BOOK VI
Of dead folk in the shadowy Gulf of Doom.
But lightly Zeus’ son with his crashing blows
Tamed him, and haled him from the cataract flood
Of Styx, with heavy-drooping head, and dragged
The Dog sore loth to the strange upper air
All dauntlessly. And there, at the world’s end,
Were Caucasus’ long glens, where Hercules,
Rending Prometheus’ chains, and hurling them
This way and that with fragments of the rock
Whereinto they were riveted, set free
The mighty Titan. Arrow-smitten lay
The Eagle of the Torment therebeside.
There stormed the wild rout of the Centaurs
round
The hall of Pholus: goaded on by Strife
And wine, with Hercules the monsters fought.
Amidst the pine-trunks stricken to death they lay
Still grasping those strange weapons in dead hands,
While some with stems long-shafted still fought on
In fury, and refrained not from the strife ;
And all their heads, gashed in the pitiless fight,
Were drenched with gore—the whole scene seemed
to live—
With blood the wine was mingled : meats and bowls
And tables in one ruin shattered lay
There by Evenus’ torrent, in fierce wrath
For his sweet bride, he laid with the arrow low
Nessus in mid-flight. There withal was wrought
Antaeus’ brawny strength, who challenged him
To wrestling-strife ; he in those sinewy arms
Raised high above the earth, was crushed to death.
There where swift Hellespont meets the outer sea,
Lay the sea-monster slain by his ruthless shafts,
While from Hesione he rent her chains.
Of bold Alcides many a deed beside
Shone on the broad shield of Eurypylus.
275
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
,ὔ δ᾽ 4 “A 4 , a.
φαίνετο ὃ Loos pnt μετὰ στιχας αἱἴσσοντι"
a δ / , 33
Τρῶες δ᾽ ἀμφιέποντες ἐγήθεον, εὖτ᾽ ἐσίδοντο 295
΄, ΄, SP f a
τεύχεά T ἠδὲ Kai ἄνδρα θεῶν ἐπιειμένον εἶδος"
τὸν δὲ Πάρις ποτὶ δῆριν ἐποτρύνων προσέειπε"
, lad , 5 »
“χαίρω σεῖο κιόντος, ἐπεί νύ μοι ἦτορ ἔολπεν
΄ , 7, ΡΞ δ
᾿Αργείους μάλα πάντας ὀϊζυρῶς ἀπολέσθαι
nA \\ , Ἢ \ > a
αὐτῆς σὺν νήεσσιν, ἐπεὶ βροτὸν οὔποτε τοῖον 300
ἔδρακον ἐν Τρώεσσιν ἐὐπτολέμοισί τ᾽ ᾿Αχαιοῖς.
’ N ΄ \ / \ 3 ᾽ὔ € ra
ἀλλὰ σύ, πρὸς μεγάλοιο καὶ ὀβρίμου Ἡρακλῆος,
A / / , \ \ 3
τῷ μέγεθὸς τε βίην τε καὶ ἀγλαὸν εἶδος ἔοικας,
UA ΄ ᾿ ΄, ᾿
κείνου μνωόμενος φρονέων τ᾽ ἀντάξια ἔργα
VA a ΄
θαρσαλέως Tpascar δαιζομένοις ἐπάμυνον, 305
ἤν πως ἀμπνεύσωμεν: ἐπεὶ σέγε μοῦνον ὀΐω
ἄστεος ὀλλυμένοιο κακὰς ἀπὸ κῆρας ἀλέξαι.᾽
4 , ΄ « ΄ é
Η μέγ᾽ ἐποτρύνων: ὁ δέ μιν προσεφώνεε μύθῳ:
“Πριαμίδη μεγάθυμε, δέμας μακάρεσσιν ἐοικως,
ταῦτα μὲν ἀθανάτων ἐνὶ γούνασιν ἐστήρικται, 310
ὅς τε θάνῃ κατὰ δῆριν ὑπέρβιον ἠὲ cawln
ἡμεῖς δ᾽, ὥσπερ ἔοικε καὶ ὡς σθένος ἐστὶ
μάχεσθαι,
΄ AQ , Mv A ‘ .
στησόμεθα πρὸ πόληος: ἔπειτα δὲ και τόδ
ὀμοῦμαι,
\ \ ς , \ x / Aw? 4 0 .»Ὦὕ
μὴ πρὶν υποστρέψειν, πρὶν ἢ κτάμεν ἢ ἀπολέσθαι.
« ΄ , r Ce ᾽ ᾿ ‘ \
Ὡς φάτο θαρσαλέως: Τρῶες δ᾽ ἐπὶ μακρὰ
χάροντο. 318
’ f . ᾽ / ΟΝ
καὶ τότ᾽ ᾿Αλέξανδρόν τε καὶ Αἰνείαν ἐρίθυμον
ΠΠουλυδάμαντά τ᾽ ἐὐμμελίην καὶ Πάμμονα δῖον
‘ - ‘ U ἃ Ἁ
Δηίφοβόν τ᾽ ἐπὶ τοῖσι καὶ Αἴθικον, ὃς περι
πάντων
ἢ A “
Παφλαγόνων ἐκέκαστο μάχῃ ἔνι τλῆναι ὅμιλον,
τοὺς ἅμα λέξατο πάντας ἐπισταμένους πονέεσθαι, 320
ὅππως δυσμενέεσσιν ἐπὶ πρώτοισι μάχωνται
» € /
ἐν πολέμῳ: μάλα δ᾽ ὦκα κίον προπάροιθεν ομίλου"
/ δ᾽ ” ’ ἌΝ 4 2 \ δὲ δὰ \
προφρονέως δ᾽ οἴμησαν ἀπ᾽ ἄστεος" ἀμφὶ oe λαοὶ
276
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK VI
He seemed the War-god, as from rank to rank
He sped, rejoiced the Trojans following him,
Seeing his arms, and him clothed with the might
Of Gods ; and Paris hailed him to the fray:
“Glad am I for thy coming, for mine heart
Trusts that the Argives all shall wretchedly
Be with their ships destroyed; for such a man
Mid Greeks or Trojans never have I seen.
Now, by the strength and fury of Hercules—
To whom in stature, might, and goodlihead
Most like thou art—lI pray thee, have in mind
Him, and resolve to match his deeds with thine.
Be the strong shield of Trojans hard-bestead :
Win us a breathing-space. Thou only, I trow,
From perishing Troy canst thrust the dark doom
back ”
With kindling words he spake. That hero cried:
“ Great-hearted Paris, like the Blesséd Ones
In goodlihead, this lieth toreordained
On the Gods’ knees, who in the fight shall fall,
And who outlive it. 1, as honour bids,
And as my strength sufficeth, will not flinch
From Troy’s defence. I swear to turn from fight
Never, except in victory or death.”
Gallantly spake he: with exceeding joy
Rejoiced the Trojans. Champions then he chose,
Alexander and Aeneas fiery-souled,
Polydamas, Pammon, and Deiphobus,
And Aethicus, of Paphlagonian men
The staunchest man to stem the tide of war;
These chose he, cunning all in battle-toil,
To meet the foe in forefront of the fight.
Swiftly they strode before that warrior-throng.
Then from the city cheering charged. The host
277
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
πολλοὶ ἕπονθ', ὡς εἴ τε μελισσάων κλυτὰ φῦλα
ἡγεμόνεσσιν ἑοῖσι κατηρεφέος σίμβλοιο 325
ἐκχύμεναι. καναχηδόν, ὅ ὅτ᾽ εἴαρος ἦμαρ ἵκηται"
ὥς ἄρα τοῖσιν ἕποντο βροτοὶ ποτὶ δῆριν ἰοῦσι"
τῶν δ᾽ ἄρα νισσομένων πολὺς αἰθέρα δοῦπος
LK QVED
> “A γΟν» “7 \ Φ wv + if
αὐτῶν nd ἵππων" περὶ δ᾽ ἔβρεμεν ἄσπετα τεύχη
e LAI / / ΄ δ ΤῸΝ a
ὡς δ᾽ ὁπόταν μεγάλοιο Bin ἀνέμοιο θοροῦσα 330
κινήσῃ προθέλυμνον ἁλὸς βυθὸν ἀτρυγέτοιο,
κύματα δ᾽ ὦκα κελαινὰ πρὸς ἠιόνας βοόωντα
φῦκος ἀποπτύωσιν ἐρευγομένοιο κλύδωνος,
ἠχὴ δ᾽ ἀτρυγέτοισι παρ᾽ αἰγιαλοῖσιν ὄρωρεν"
ὡς τῶν ἐσσυμένων μέγ᾽ ὑπέβραχε γαῖα πελώρη. 335
᾿Αργεῖοι δ᾽ ἀπάνευθε πρὸ τείχεος ἐξεχέοντο
ἀμφ᾽ ᾿Αγαμέμνονα δῖον: avtn δ᾽ ἔπλετο λαῶν
’ / » ’ a /
ἀλλήλοις ETLKEKAOMEVWV, ONOOV πολέμοιο
ἀντιάαν καὶ μή TL KATAT TOOT OVTAS ἐνυπὴν
μίμνειν πὰρ νήεσσιν ἐπειγομένων μαχέσασθαι.. 340
Τρωσὶ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἐσσυμένοισι συνήντεον, evte βόεσσι
TOpTLES ἐκ ᾿ξυλόχοιο ποτὶ σταθμὸν ἐ ἐρχομένῃσιν
ἐκ νομοῦ εἰαρινοῖο κατ᾽ οὔρεος, ὁππότ᾽ ἄρουραι
πυκνὸν τηλεθάουσι, βρύει δ᾽ ἅλις ἄνθεσι γαῖα,
πλήθει δ᾽ αὖτε κύπελλα βοῶν γλάγος ἠδὲ καὶ
οἰῶν, 345
μυκηθμὸς δ᾽ ἄρα πουλὺς ὀρίνεται ἔνθα καὶ ἔνθα
μεσγομένων, γάνυται δὲ μετὰ σφίσι βουκόλος
ἀνήρ'
A A ’ J , 3 Ἃ
ὡς τῶν ἀλλήλοισι μετεσσυμένων ὀρυμαγδὸς
ὠρώρει" δεινὸν γὰρ ἀύτεον ἀμφοτέρωθεν.
σὺν δὲ μάχην ἐτάνυσσαν ἀπείριτον: ἐν δὲ
Κυδοιμὸς 350
an 91559 “ 3 ᾽ / ,
στρωφᾶτ᾽ ἐν μέσσοισι μετ᾽ ἀργαλέοιο Φόνοιο"
1 Zimmermann, for ἐπειγομένῳ δὲ μάχεσθαι, with lacuna, of
Koechly.
278
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK VI
Followed them in their thousands, as when bees
Follow by bands their leaders from the hives,
With loud hum on a spring day pouring forth.
So to the fight the warriors followed these ;
And, as they charged, the thunder-tramp of men
And steeds, and clang of armour, rang to heaven.
As when a rushing mighty wind stirs up
The barren sea-plain from its nethermost floor,
And darkling to the strand roll roaring waves
Belching sea-tangle from the bursting surf,
And wild sounds rise from beaches harvestless ;
So, as they charged, the wide earth rang again.
Now from their rampart forth the Argives poured
Round godlike Agamemnon. Rang their shouts
Cheering each other on to face the fight,
And not to cower beside the ships in dread
Of onset-shouts of battle eager foes.
They met those charging hosts with hearts as light
As calves bear, when they leap to meet the kine
Down faring from hill-pastures in the spring
Unto the steading, when the fields are green
With corn-blades, when the earth is glad with
flowers,
And bowls are brimmed with milk of kine and ewes,
And multitudinous lowing far and near
Uprises as the mothers meet their young,
And in their midst the herdman joys; so great
Was the uproar that rose when met the fronts
Of battle : dread it rang on either hand.
Hard-strained was then the fight: incarnate Strife
Stalked through the midst, with Slaughter ghastly-
faced.
Crashed bull-hide shields, and spears, and helmet-
crests
279
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
σὺν δ᾽ ἔπεσον pivot τε καὶ ἔγχεα καὶ τρυφάλειαι
πλησίον" ἀμφὶ δὲ χαλκὸς ἴ ίσον πυρὶ μαρμαίρεσκε'
φρίξε δ᾽ ap’ ἐγχείῃσι μάχη" περὶ δ᾽ αἵματι πάντῃ
δεύετο γαῖα μέλαινα δαϊζομένων ἡρώων 355
ἵππων τ᾽ ὠκυπόδων, οἵ θ᾽ ἅρμασιν ἀμφεκέχυντο,
οἱ μὲν ἔτ᾽ ἀσπαίροντες ὑπ᾽ ἄξοσιν, οἱ δ᾽ ἐφύπερθεν
πίπτοντες" στυγερὴ δὲ δι᾿ ἠέρος ἔσσυτ᾽ ἀὐτή:
ἐν γὰρ δὴ χάλκειος ἔρις πέσεν ἀμφοτέροισι"
καί ῥ᾽ οἱ μὲν λάεσσιν ἀταρτηροῖσι μάχοντο, 860
οἱ δ᾽ αὖτ᾽ αἰγανέησι νεήκεσιν ἠδὲ βέλεσσιν,
ἄλλοι δ᾽ ἀξίνησι καὶ ἀμφιτόμοις πελέκεσσι
καὶ κρατεροῖς ξιφέεσσι καὶ ἀγχεμάχοις δορά-
τεσσιν,
ἄλλος δ᾽ ἄλλο χέρεσσι μάχης ἀλκτήριον εἶχε.
Πρῶτοι δ᾽ ᾿Αργεῖοι Τρώων « ὥσαντο φάλαγγας 365
βαιὸν a ἀπὸ σφείων' τοὶ δ᾽ ἔμπαλιν ὁρμήσαντες
αἵματι δεῦον “Apna μετ᾽ ᾿Αργείοισι θορόντες"
Εὐρύπυλος δ᾽ ἐν τοῖσι μελαίνῃ λαίλαπι ἶσος
λαὸν ἐπῴχετο πάντα καὶ ᾿Αργείους ἐνάριζε
θαρσαλέως" μάλα γάρ οἱ ἀάσπετον wrace κάρτος 370
Ζεὺς ἐ ἐπίηρα φέρων ἐρικυδέϊ Ἡρακλῆι.
ἔνθ᾽ ὅ γε καὶ Νιρῆα θεοῖς ἐναλίγκιον ἄνδρα
μαρνάμενον Τρώεσσι βάλεν περιμήκεϊ δουρὶ
βαιὸν ὑπὲρ πρότμησιν" ὁ δ᾽ ἐς πέδον ἤριπε, γαίης"
ἐκ δέ οἱ αἷμ᾽ ἐχύθη, δεύοντο δέ οἱ κλυτὰ τεύχη, 375
δεύετο δ᾽ ἀγλαὸν εἶδος ἅ ἅμ᾽ εὐθαλέεσσι κόμῃσι"
κεῖτο δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἐν κονίησι καὶ αἵματι σὺν κταμένοισιν,
ἔρνος ὅπως ἐριθηλὲς ἐλαίης εὐκεάτοιο,
ἥν τε βίη ποταμοῖο κατὰ ῥόον ἠχήεντα
σύν τ ᾿ὄχθῃς ἐλάσῃσι βόθρον διὰ πάντα κεδάσσας 380
ῥιξόθεν, ἡ ἡ δ᾽ ἄρα κεῖται ὑπ᾽ ἄνθεσι βεβριθυϊα"
ὡς τῆμος Νιρῆος ἐπὶ χθονὸς a ἄσπετον οὖδας
ἐξεχύθη δέμας Hv καὶ ἀγλαΐη ἐρατεινή"
" 1 Zimmermann, for ἀταρτηρῶς ἐμάχοντο of ν.
280
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK VI
Meeting: the brass flashed out like leaping flames.
Bristled the battle with the lances; earth
Ran red with blood, as slaughtered heroes fell
And horses, mid a tangle of shattered cars,
Some yet with spear-wounds gasping, while on them
Others were falling. Through the air upshrieked
An awful indistinguishable roar ;
For on both hosts fell iron-hearted Strife.
Here were men hurling cruel jagged stones,
There speeding arrows and new-whetted darts,
There with the axe or twibill hewing hard,
Slashing with swords, and thrusting out with spears :
Their mad hands clutched all manner of tools of
death.
At first the Argives bore the ranks of Troy
Backward a little; but they rallied, charged,
Leapt on the foe, and drenched the field with blood.
Like a black hurricane rushed Eurypylus
Cheering his men on, hewing Argives down
Awelessly : measureless might was lent to him
By Zeus, for a grace to glorious Hercules.
Nireus, a man in beauty like the Gods,
His spear long-shafted stabbed beneath the ribs >
Down on the plain he fell, forth streamed the blood
Drenching his splendid arms, drenching the form
Glorious of mould, and his thick-clustering hair.
There mid the slain in dust and blood he lay,
Like a young lusty olive-sapling, which
A river rushing down in roaring flood,
Tearing its banks away, and cleaving wide
A chasm-channel, hath disrooted ; low
It lieth heavy-blossomed ; so lay then
The goodly form, the grace of loveliness
Of Nireus on earth’s breast. But o’er the slain
281
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
τῷ δ᾽ ap’ ἔπ᾽ Εὐρύπυλος μεγάλ᾽ εὔχετο δηωθέντι'
«Keio vuv ev κονίῃσιν, ἐπεί νύ τοι εἶδος ἀγητὸν 385
οὔτι λιλαιομένῳ περ ἐπήρκεσεν, ἀλλά σ᾽ ἔγωγε
νοσφισάμην βιότοιο λιλαιόμενόν περ ἀλύξαι:
σχέτλιος, οὐδ᾽ ἐνόησας ἀμείνονος ἀντίον ἐλθών'
οὐ γὰρ κάρτεϊ κάλλος ἀνὰ κλόνον ἰσοφαρίξει."
“Os εἰπὼν κταμένοιο περικλυτὰ τεύχε᾽ ἑλέσθαι 390
per’ ἐπεσσύμενος" τοῦ δ᾽ ἀντίος ἦλθε Μαχάων
χωόμενος Νερῆος, ὃ ὅ οἱ σχεδὸν αἶσαν ἀνέτλη"
δουρὶ δέ μιν στονόεντι κατ᾽ εὐρέος ἤλασεν ὦμου
δεξιτεροῦ, σύτο δ᾽ αἷμα πολυσθενέος περ ἐόντος"
ἀλλ᾽ οὐδ᾽ ὡς ἀπόρουσεν ἀταρτηροῖο κυδοιμοῦ, 395
ἀλλ᾽, ὥς τίς TE λέων ἢ ἄγριος οὔρεσι κάπρος
μαίνετ᾽ ἐνὶ μέσσοισιν, ὅπως ' κ᾽ ἐπιόντα δαμάσση.
ὅς ῥά μιν οὔτασε πρῶτος ὑποφθάμενος δε ὁμίλου"
τὰ φρονέων ἐπόρουσε Μαχάονι, καί pa μιν ὦκα
ovTacev ἐγχείῃ περιμήκεΐ 168 στιβαρῇ τε 400
δεξιτερὸν κατὰ γλουτὸν: ὁ δ᾽ οὐκ ἀνεχάζετ᾽
ὀπίσσω,
οὐδ᾽ ἐπιόντ᾽ ἀλέεινε, καὶ αἵματος ἐσσυμένοιο'
ἀλλ᾽ apa καρπαλίμως περιμήκεα λᾶαν ἀείρας
κάββαλε κὰκ κεφαλῆς μεγαθύμου Τηλεφίδαο:
τοῦ δὲ κόρυς στονόεντα φόνον καὶ Thy? ἀπά-
λαλκεν 405
ἐσσυμένως" ὁ δ᾽ ἔπειτα κραταιῷ χώσατο φωτὶ
Εὐρύπυλος μᾶλλον, μέγα δ᾽ ἀσχαλόων ἐνὶ θυμῷ
ὠκὺ διὰ στέρνοιο Μαχάονος ἤλασεν ἔγχος.
αἰχμὴ δ᾽ αἱματόεσσα μετάφρενον ἄχρις ἵκανεν'
ἤριπε δ᾽ ὡς ὅτε ταῦρος ὑπὸ γναθμοῖσι λέοντος" 410
ἀμφὶ δέ οἱ μελέεσσι μέγ᾽ ἔβραχεν αἰόλα τεύχη.
Εὐρύπυλος δέ οἱ αἶψα πολύστονον εἰρύσατ᾽ αἰχμὴν
ἐκ χροὸς οὐταμένοιο, καὶ εὐχόμενος μέγ᾽ aire’
1 Zimmermann, for ἕως οὗ v.
2 Zi P; for κῆρ᾽ of
immermann, ex P; for κῆρ᾽ of v.
282
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK VI
Loud rang the taunting of Eurypylus :
“116 there in dust! Thy beauty marvellous
Naught hath availed thee! I have plucked thee
awa
From life, to which thou wast so fain to cling.
Rash fool, who didst defy a mightier man
Unknowing' Beauty is no match for strength!”
He spake, and leapt upon the slain to strip
His goodly arms: but now against him came
Machaon wroth for Nireus, by his side
Doom-overtaken. With his spear he drave
At his right shoulder : strong albeit he was,
He touched him, and blood spurted from the gash.
Yet, ere he might leap back from grapple of death,
Even as a lion or fierce mountain-boar
Maddens mid thronging huntsmen, furious-fain
To rend the man whose hand first wounded him ;
So fierce Eurypylus on Machaon rushed.
The long lance shot out swiftly, and pierced him
through
On the right haunch , yet would he not give back,
Nor flinch from the onset, fast though flowed the
blood.
In haste he snatched a huge stone from the ground,
And dashed it on the head of Telephus’ son ;
But his helm warded him from death or harm
Then waxed Eurypylus more hotly wroth
With that strong warrior, and in fury of soul
Clear through Machaon’s breast he drave his spear,
And through the midriff passed the gory point.
He fell, as falls beneath a lion’s jaws
A bull, and round him clashed his glancing arms.
Swiftly Eurypylus plucked the lance of death
Out of the wound, and vaunting cried aloud :
283
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
Sei’, οὔ νύ τοι ἦτορ ἀρηράμενον φρεσὶ
πάμπαν
ἔπλετ᾽, ὃς οὐτιδανός περ ἐὼν μέγ᾽ ἀμείνονι φωτὶ 415
ἄντα Kies? τῷ καί σε κακὴ λάχε δαίμονος Αἶσα.
ἀλλὰ σοὶ ἔσσετ᾽ ὄνειαρ, ὅτ᾽ οἰωνοὶ δατέονται
σάρκα τεὴν κταμένοιο κατὰ μόθον" ἢ ἔτ᾽ ἐέλπῃ
νοστήσειν καὶ ἐμεῖο μένος καὶ χεῖρας ἀλύξειν;
ἐσσὶ μὲν ἰητήρ, μάλα δ᾽ ἤπια φάρμακα οἶδας, 420
τοῖς πίσυνος τάχ᾽ ἔολπας ὑπεκφυγέειν κακὸν ἣμαρ.
ἀλλ᾽ οὐ μὰν οὐδ᾽ αὐτὸς ἀπ᾽ ἠνεμόεντος Ὀλύμπου
σεῖο πατὴρ τεὸν ἦτορ ἔτ᾽ ἐκ θανάτοιο σαώσει,
οὐδ᾽ εἴ τοι νέκταρ τε καὶ ἀμβροσίην καταχεύῃ."
“Os φάτο' τὸν δ᾽ 6 γε βαιὸν ἀναπνείων προσέ-
εὐπτεν" 425
“ Evpumun’, οὐδ᾽ ἄρα σοί ye πολὺν χρόνον αἴσιμόν
»
ἐστι
ζώειν, ἀλλὰ σοὶ ἄγχι παρίσταται οὐλομένη Κὴρ
Τρώιον ἂμ πεδίον, τῷ καὶ νῦν αἴσυλα Babes.” -
“Ὡς φάμενον λίπε θυμός: ἔβη δ᾽ ἄφαρ"Αἴδος
εἴσω"
τὸν δὲ καὶ οὐκέτ᾽ ἐόντα προσηύδα κύδιμος ἀνήρ' 430
"νῦν μὲν δὴ σύγε κεῖσο κατὰ χθονός" αὐτὰρ ἔγωγε
ὕστερον οὐκ ἀλέγω, εἰ καὶ παρὰ ποσσὶν ὄλεθρος
σήμερον ἡμετέροισι πέλει λυγρός" οὔτι yap ἄνδρες
ζώομεν ἤματα πάντα' πότμος δ᾽ ἐπὶ πᾶσι τέ-
TUKTQL.
“Os εὐπὼν οὔταξε νέκυν: μέγα δ᾽ ἴαχε Τεῦκρος, 435
ὡς ἴδεν ἐν κονίῃσι Μαχάονα' τοῦ γὰρ ἄπωθεν
εἱστήκει μάλα πάγχυ πονεύμενος" ἐν γὰρ ἔκειτο
δῆρις ἐ ἐνὶ μέσσοισιν' ἐπ᾽ ἄλλῳ δ᾽ ἄλλος ὀρώρει.
ἀλλ᾽ οὐδ᾽ ὡς ἀμέλησε δεδουπότος ἀνδρὸς a ἀγαυοῦ
Νιρῆός θ᾽, ὃς κεῖτο παραυτόθι: τὸν δ᾽ ἐνόησεν 440
ὕστερον ἀντιθέοιο Μαχάονος ἐν κονίῃσιν"
1 Zimmerman, for ῥέζεις of v.
284
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK VI
‘ Wretch, wisdom was not bound up in thine heart,
That thou, a weakling, didst come forth to fight
A mightier. Therefore art thou in the toils
Of Doom. Much profit shall be thine, when kites
Devour the flesh of thee in battle slain!
Ha, dost thou hope still to return, to ‘scape
Mine hands? A leech art thou, and soothing salves
Thou knowest, and by these didst haply hope
To flee the evil day! Not thine own sire,
On the wind’s wings descending from Olympus,
Should save thy life, not though between thy lips
He should pour nectar and ambrosia !”’
Faint-breathing answered him the dying man:
“ Eurypylus, thine own weird is to live
Not long: Fate is at pomt to meet thee here
On Troy's plain, and to still thine impious tongue.”
So passed his spirit into Hades’ halls.
Then to the dead man spake his conqueror :
“ Now on the earth lie thou. What shall betide
Hereafter, care | not—yea, though this day
Death’s doom stand by my feet: no man may live
For ever: each man’s fate is foreordained.”’
Stabbing the corpse he spake. Then shouted loud
Teucer, at seeing Machaon in the dust.
Far thence he stood hard-toiling in the fight,
For on the centre sore the battle lay:
Foe after foe pressed on; yet not for this
Was Teucer heedless of the fallen brave,
Neither of Nireus lying hard thereby
Behind Machaon in the dust. He saw,
285
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
aia δ᾽ 6 γ᾽ Αργείοισιν ἐκέκλετο μακρὰ βοήσας"
᾿ἔσσυσθ᾽, ᾿Αργεῖοι, μηδ᾽ εἴκετε δυσμενέεσσιν
ἐσσυμένοις: νῶιν γὰρ ἀάσπετον ἔσσετ᾽ ὄνειδος,
αἴ κε Μαχάονα δῖον ἅμ᾽ ἀντιθέῳ Νιρῆι 445
Τρῶες ἐρυσσάμενοι ποτὶ Ἴλιον ἀπονέωνται.
ἀλλ᾽ aye δυσμενέεσσι μαχώμεθα πρόφρονι θυμῷ,
ὄφρα δαϊκταμένους εἰρύσσομεν ἠὲ καὶ αὐτοὶ
κείνοις ἀμφιθάνωμεν, ἐπεὶ θέμις ἀνδράσιν αὕτη
οἷσιν ἀμυνέμεναι, μηδ᾽ ἄλλοις κύρμα λιπέσθαι" 450
οὐ γὰρ ἀνιδρωτί γε μετ᾽ ἀνδράσι κῦδος ἀέξει."
“Os ap’ ἔφη: Δαναοῖσι δ᾽ ἄχος γένετ᾽" ἀμφὶ δ᾽
ἄρ᾽ αὐτοῖς
πολλοὶ γαῖαν ἔρευθον ὑπ᾽ “A pei δηωθέντες
μαρναμένων ἑκάτερθεν' ἴση δ᾽ ἐπὶ δῆρις ὁ ὀρώρει.
ὀψὲ δ᾽ ἀδελφειοῖο φόνον στονόεντα νόησε 4δῦ
βλημένου ἐν κονίῃ Ποδαλείριος, οὕνεκα νηυσὶν
ἧστο παρ᾽ ὠκυπόροισι τετυμμένα δούρασι φωτῶν
ἕλκε᾽ ἀκειόμενος. περὶ δ᾽ ἔντεα δύσατο πάντα
θυμὸν ἀδελφειοῖο χολούμενος" ἐν δέ οἱ ἀλκὴ
σμερδαλέον στέρνοισιν ἀέξετο μαιμώωντι 460
és πόλεμον στονόεντα" μέλαν δέ οἱ ἔζεεν αἷμα
λάβρον ὑπὸ κραδίῃ: τάχα δ᾽ ἔνθορε δυσμενέεσσι
χερσὶ θοῆσιν ἄκοντα τανυγλώχινα τινάσσων"
εἷλε δ᾽ ap ἐσσυμένως ᾿Αγαμήστορος υἱέα δῖον
Κλεῖτον, ὃν ἠύκομος Νύμφη τέκεν ἀμφὶ ῥεέθροις 465
Παρθενίου, ὅς T εἶσι διὰ χθονὸς nit ἔλαιον
πόντον ἐπ᾽ Εὔξεινον προχέων καλλίρροον ὕδωρ.
ἄλλον δ᾽ ἀμφὶ κασιγνήτῳ κτάνε δήιον ἄνδρα
Λᾶσσον, ὃν ἀντίθεος Ipovon τέκεν ἀμφὶ ῥεέθροις
Νυμῴφαίου ποταμοῖο μάλα σχεδὸν εὐρέος ἄντρου, 470
ἄντρου θηητοῖο, τὸ δὴ φάτις ἔμμεναι αὐτῶν
ἱρὸν Νυμφάων, ὁπόσαι περὶ μακρὰ νέμονται
1 Zimmermann, for δηίοις μὴ κύρμα γενέσθαι, with lacuna, of
Koechiy.
286
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And with a great voice raised the rescue cry
“Charge, Argives! Flinch not from the charging foe '
For shame unspeakable shall cover us
If Trojan men hale back to Ilium
Noble Machaon and Nireus godlike-fair.
Come, with a good heart let us face the foe
To rescue these slain friends, or fall ourselves
Beside them. Duty bids that men defend
Friends, and to aliens leave them not a prey
Not without sweat of toil is glory won!”
Then were the Danaans anguish-stung: the earth
All round them dyed they red with blood of slain,
As foe fought foe in even-balanced fight.
By this to Podaleirius tidings came
How that in dust his brother Jay, struck down
By woetul death. Beside the ships he sat
Ministering to the hurts of men with spears
Stricken. In wrath for his brother’s sake he rose,
He clad him in his armour; in his breast
Dread battle-prowess swelled. For conflict grim
He panted: boiled the mad blood round his heart.
He leapt amidst the foemen; his swift hands
Swung the snake-headed javelin up, and hurled,
And slew with its winged speed Agamestor’s son
Cleitus. a bright-haired Nymph had given him birth
Beside Parthenius, whose quiet stream
Fleets smooth as oil through green lands, till it pours
Its shining ripples to the Euxine sea.
Then by his warrior-brother laid he low
Lassus, whom Pronoé, fair as a goddess, bare
Beside Nymphaeus’ stream, hard by a cave,
A wide and wondrous cave: sacred it is
Men say, unto the Nymphs, even all that haunt
287
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
οὔρεα Παφλαγόνων καὶ ὅσαι περὶ βοτρυόεσσαν
ναίουσ᾽ Ἡράκλειαν' ἔοικε δὲ κεῖνο θεοῖσιν
ἄντρον, ἐπεί pa τέτυκται ἀπειρέσιον μὲν ἰδέσθαι 415
λαΐνεον, ψυχρὸν δὲ διὰ σπέος ἔρχεται ὕδωρ
κρυστάλλῳ ἀτάλαντον, ἐνὶ μυχάτοισι δὲ πάντῃ
λαΐνεοι κρητῆρες ἐπὶ στυφελῇσι πέτρησιν
αἰζηῶν ὡς “χερσὶ τετυγμένοι ἰνδάλλονται:
ἀμφ᾽ αὐτοῖσι δὲ Πᾶνες ὁ ομῶς Νύμφαι T ἐρατειναΐί, 480
ἱστοί T ἠλακάται TE, καὶ ἄλλ᾽ ὅσα τεχνήεντα
ἔργα πέλει θνητοῖσι, τὰ καὶ περὶ θαῦμα βροτοῖσιν
εἴδεται ἐ ἐρχομένοισιν ἔσω ἱεροῖο μυχοῖο:
τῷ ἔνι δοιαὶ ¢ ἔνεισι καταιβασίαι πὶ ἄνοδοί τε,
ἡ μὲν πρὸς βορέαο τετραμμένη NXNEVTOS 485
πνοιάς, ἡ δὲ νότοιο καταντίον ὑγρὸν ἀέντος,
τῇ θνητοὶ νίσσονται ὑπὸ σπέος εὐρὺ θεάων"
ἡ δ᾽ ἑτέρη μακάρων πέλεται ὁδός, οὐδέ μιν ἄνδρες
ῥηιδίως. πατέουσιν, ἐπεὶ χάος εὐρὺ τέτυκται
μέχρις ἐπ᾽ ᾿Αἴδονῆος ὑπερθύμοιο βέρεθρον' 490
ἀλλὰ τὰ μὲν μακάρεσσι πέλει θέμις Πρ
τῶνδ᾽ αὖτ᾽ ἀμφὶ Μαχάον᾽ id ᾿Αγλαΐης κλυτὸν via!
μαρναμένων ἑκάτερθεν ἀπέφθιτο πουλὺς ὅμιλος"
ὀψὲ δὲ δὴ Δαναοί σφεας εἴρυσαν ἀθλήσαντες
πολλά περ' αἶψα δὲ νῆας ἐπὶ σφετέρας ἐκόμισσαν 495
παῦροι, ἐπεὶ πλεόνεσσι κακὴ περιπέπτατ᾽ ὀϊζὺς
ἀργαλέου πολέμοιο: πόνῳ δ᾽ ἐνέμιμνον ἀνάγκῃ.
ἀλλ᾽ ὅτε δὴ μάλα πολλοὶ ἐνεπλήσαντο κελαινὰς
κῆρας ἀν᾽ αἱματόεντα καὶ ἀλγινόεντα κυδοιμόν,
δὴ TOT ἄρ᾽ ᾿Αργείων πολέες φύγον ἔνδοθι νηῶν, δ00
ὅσσους Εὐρύπυλος μέγ᾽ ἐπῴχετο πῆμα κυλίνδων.
παῦροι δ᾽ ἀμφ᾽ Αἴαντα καὶ ᾿Ατρέος υἷε κραταιὼ
μίμνον ἐν ὑσμίνῃ" καὶ δὴ τάχα πάντες ὄλοντο
δυσμενέων παλάμῃσι περιστρωφῶντες ὁμίλῳ,
1 Zimmermann, for ἀμφὶ Μαχάονα δῖον, with lacuna, of
Koechly.
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The long-ridged Paphlagonian hills, and all
That by full-clustered Heracleia dwell.
That cave is like the work of gods, of stone
In manner marvellous moulded: through it flows
Cold water crystal-clear: in niches round
Stand bowls of stone upon the rugged rock,
Seeming as they were wrought by carvers’ hands.
Statues of Wood-gods stand around, fair Nymphs,
Looms, distaffs, all such things as mortal craft
Fashioneth. Wondrous seem they unto men
Which pass into that hallowed cave. It hath,
Up-leading and down-leading, doorways twain,
Facing, the one, the wild North’s shrilling blasts,
And one the dank rain-burdened South. By this
Do mortals pass beneath the Nymphs’ wide cave ;
But that is the Immortals’ path: no man
May tread it, for a chasm deep and wide
Down-reaching unto Hades, yawns between.
This track the Blest Gods may alone behold.
So died a host on either side that warred
Over Machaon and Aglaia’s son.
But at the last through desperate wrestle of fight
The Danaans rescued them: yet few were they
Which bare them to the ships: by bitter stress
Of conflict were the more part compassed round,
And needs must still abide the battle’s brunt.
But when full many had filled the measure up
Of fate, mid tumult, blood and agony,
Then to their ships did many Argives flee
Pressed by Eurypylus hard, an avalanche
Of havoc. Yet a few abode the strife
Round Aias and the Atreidae rallying ;
And haply these had perished all, beset
By throngs on throngs of foes on every hand,
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QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
εἰ μὴ 'Oiré€os vids εὔφρονα Πουλυδάμαντα 505
ἔγχεϊ τύψε παρ᾽ ὦμον ἀριστερὸν ἀγχόθι μαζοῦ"
2 / e > 9 if ¢€ SD sd 4 \ « /
ἐκ δέ οἱ αἷμ᾽ ἐχύθη: ὁ δ᾽ ἐχάσσατο τυτθὸν ὁπίσσω.
Δηίφοβον δ᾽ οὔτησε περικλειτὸς Μενέλαος
δεξιτερὸν παρὰ μαζόν: ὁ δ᾽ ἔκφυγε ποσσὶ θοοῖσιν.
ἔνθ᾽ ᾿Αγαμέμνων δῖος ἐνήρατο πουλὺν ὅμιλον δ10
πληθύος ἐξ ὀλοῆς" μετὰ δ᾽ Αἴθικον wyeTo δῖον
θύων ἐγχείησιν" ὁ δ᾽ εἰς ἑτάρους ἀλέεινε.
Τοὺς δ᾽ ὁπότ᾽ Εὐρύπυλος λαοσσόος εἰσενόησε
χαζομένους ἅμα πάντας ἀπὸ στυγεροῖο κυδοιμοῦ,
3.4 τ ἢ ΄ , “ \ a »
αὐτίκα κάλλιίπε λαον, OTOV KATA νῆας ἔλασσε, 515
καί pa θοῶς οἴμησεν ἐπ᾽ ᾿Ατρέος υἷε κραταιὼ
a , U >? - / ἃ \ A a
παῖδά Te καρτερόθυμον ‘Oinréos, ὃς περὶ μὲν θεῖν
ἔσκε θοός, περὶ δ᾽ αὖτε μάχῃ ἔνι φέρτατος ἦεν.
τοῖς ἔπι κραιπνὸν ὄρουσεν ἔχων περιμήκετον ἔγχος"
\ / e 94 / \ > / κὐφει
σὺν δέ οἱ ἦλθε Ildapis τε καὶ Αἰνείας ἐρίθυμος, 520
“ « a ” / / - Us
ὅς pa θοῶς Αἴαντα βάλεν περιμήκεϊ πέτρῃ
κὰκ κόρυθα κρατερήν" ὁ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἐν κονίησι τανυ-
σθεὶς
ψυχὴν οὔ τι κάπυσσεν, ἐπεί νύ οἱ αἴσιμον ἦμαρ
ἐν νόστῳ ἐτέτυκτο Καφηρίσιν ἀμφὶ πέτρησι"
καί ῥά 1. ἁρπάξαντες ἀρηίφιλοι θεράποντες δ2ῦ
βαιὸν ἐ er” ἀμπνείοντα φέρον ποτὶ νῆας ᾿Αχαιῶν.
καὶ τότ᾽ ἄρ᾽ οἰώθησαν ἀγακλειτοὶ βασιλῆες
᾿Ατρεῖδαι" περὶ δέ σφιν ὀλέθριος ἵσταθ᾽ ὅμιλος
βαλλόντων ἑκάτερθεν, ὅ ὅ τι σθένε χερσὶν ἑλέσθαι"
οἱ μὲν γὰρ στονόεντα βέλη χέον, οἱ δένυ Aaas, 530
ἄλλοι δ᾽ αἰγανέας" Tol δ᾽ ἐν μέσσοισιν ἐόντες
στρωφῶντ᾽', εὖτε σύες μέσῳ ἕρκεὶῖ ἠὲ λέοντες
ἤματι TO, ὅτ᾽ ἄνακτες ἀολλίσσωσ᾽ ἀνθρώπους
ἀργαλέως T εἰλέωσι κακὸν τεύχοντες ὄλεθρον
θηρσὶν ὑπὸ κρατεροῖς, οἱ δ᾽ ἕρκεος ἐντὸς ἐόντες δ38ὅ
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Had not Ojleus’ son stabbed with his spear
’Twixt shoulder and breast war-wise Polydamas ;
Forth gushed the blood, and he recoiled a space.
Then Menelaus pierced Deiphobus
By the right breast, that with swift feet he fled.
And many of that slaughter-breathing throng
Were slain by Agamemnon: furiously
He rushed on godlike Aethicus with the spear;
But he shrank from the forefront back mid friends.
Now when Eurypylus the battle-stay
Marked how the ranks of Troy gave back from fight,
He turned him from the host that he had chased
Even to the ships, and rushed with eagle-swoop
On Atreus’ strong sons and Ojileus’ seed
Stout-hearted, who was passing fleet of foot
And in fight peerless. Swiftly he charged on these
Grasping his spear long-shafted: at his side
Charged Paris, charged Aeneas stout of heart,
Who hurled a stone exceeding huge, that crashed
On Aias’ helmet: dashed to the dust he was,
Yet gave not up the ghost, whose day of doom
Was fate-ordained amidst Caphaerus’ rocks
On the home-voyage. Now his valiant men
Out of the foes’ hands snatched him, bare him
thence,
Scarce drawing breath, to the Achaean ships.
And now the Atreid kings, the war-renowned,
Were left alone, and murder-breathing foes
Encompassed them, and hurled from every side
Whate’er their hands might find—the deadly shaft
Some showered, some the stone, the javelin some.
They in the midst aye turned this way and that,
As boars or lions compassed round with pales
On that day when kings gather to the sport
The people, and have penned the mighty beasts
Within the toils of death; but these, although
291
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
δμῶας δαρδάπτουσιν, 6 τις σφίσιν ἐγγὺς ἵκηται"
ὡς οἵ γ᾽ ἐν μέσσοισιν ἐπεσσυμένους ἐδάϊζον.
ἀλλ᾽ οὐδ᾽ ὡς μένος εἶχον ἐελδόμενοί περ ἀλύξαι,
> \ a σ“ Ν᾿.» \ Deus,
εἰ μὴ Τεῦκρος ἵκανε καὶ ᾿Ιδομενεὺς ἐρίθυμος
Μηριόνης τε Θόας τε καὶ ἰσόθεος Θρασυμήδης, 540
Πρ ς UA / \ / > /
οἵ pa πάρος φοβέοντο θρασὺ σθένος ιὐρυπύλοιο,
Kai κε φύγον κατὰ νῆας ἀλευάμενοι βαρὺ πῆμα,
? δ. ὔ / vA
εἰ μὴ ap ᾿Ατρείδησι περιδδείσαντες ἵκοντο
» 3 7 / 3. Δ} > 4
ἄντην Εὐρυπύλοιο: μάχη δ᾽ ἀΐδηλος ἐτύχθη.
Ἔνθα τότ᾽ Αἰνείαο κατ᾽ ἀσπίδος ἔγχος ἔρεισε 545
Τεῦκρος ἐὐμμελίης" τοῦ δ᾽ οὐ χρόα καλὸν ἴαψεν"
ἤρκεσε γάρ οἱ πῆμα σάκος μέγα τετραβόειον'
ἀλλὰ καὶ ὡς δείσας ἀνεχάσσατο τυτθὸν ὀπίσσω
Μηριόνης δ᾽ ἐπόρουσεν ἀμύμονι Λαοφόωντι
Παιονίδῃ, τὸν ἐγείνατ᾽ ἐὐπλόκαμος Κλεομήδη 550
᾿Αξιοῦ ἀμφὶ ῥέεθρα: κίεν δ᾽ 6 ye” [cov ἱρὴν
Τρωσὶν ἀρηξέμεναι pet ἀμύμονος Αστεροπαίου
τὸν & ἄρα Μηριόνης νύξ᾽ ἔγχεϊ ὀκριόεντι
> , > / a / ἘΠ Ἐν ? \\
αἰδοίων ἐφύπερθε: θοῶς δέ οἱ εἴρυσεν αἰχμὴ
” a 3) 5, \ / " ,
ἔγκατα" τοῦ δ᾽ ὦκιστα ποτὶ ζόφον ἔσσυτο θυμός. 655
Αἴαντος δ᾽ dp’ ἑταῖρος ᾿Οϊλιάδαο δαΐφρων
᾿Αλκιμέδης ἐς ὅμιλον ἐὐσθενέων βάλε Τρώων
e 7.» ΄ ὃ , 2 / SN
ἧκε δ᾽ ἐπευξάμενος δηίων ἐς φύλοπιν αἰνὴν
σφενδόνῃ ἀλγινόεντα λίθον" διὰ δ᾽ ἔτρεσαν ἄνδρες
C. iw e an \ nr ’; Ψ
ῥοῖζον ομῶς καὶ Aaa περιδδείσαντες ἰοντᾶ. 560
τὸν δ᾽ ὀλοὴ φέρε Μοῖρα ποτὶ θρασὺν ἡνιοχῆα
Πάμμονος ἹἽἹππασίδην: τὸν δ᾽ ἡνία χερσὶν ἔχοντα
πλῆξε κατὰ κροτάφοιο: θοῶς δέ μιν ἔκβαλε δίφρον
πρόσθεν ἑοῖο τροχοῖο" θοὸν δέ οἱ ἅρμα πεσόντος
AN 3 4 , ,ὔ ϑὲ > ,
λυγρὸν ἐπισσώτροισι δέμας διελίσσετ᾽ ὀπίσσω δθδ
292
THEAPALLIOF ΤΟΥ, ΒΟΟΚ ‘VI
With walls ringed round, yet tear with tusk and fang
What luckless thrall soever draweth near.
So these death-compassed heroes slew their foes
Ever as they pressed on. Yet had their might
Availed not for defence, for all their will,
Had Teucer and Idomeneus strong of heart
Come not to help, with Thoas, Meriones,
And godlike Thrasymedes, they which shrank
Erewhile before Eurypylus—yea, had fled
Unto the ships to scape the crushing doom,
But that, in fear for Atreus’ sons, they rallied
Against Eurypylus: deadly waxed the fight.
Then Teucer with a mighty spear-thrust smote
Aeneas’ shield, yet wounded not his flesh,
For the great fourfold buckler warded him ;
Yet feared he, and recoiled a little space.
Leapt Meriones upon Laophoén
The son of Paeon, born by Axius’ flood
Of bright-haired Cleomede. Unto Troy
With noble Asteropaeus had he come
To aid her folk: him Meriones’ keen spear
Stabbed ’neath the navel, and the lance-head tore
His bowels forth ; swift sped his soul away
Into the Shadow-land. Alcimedes,
The warrior-friend of Aias, Otleus’ son,
Shot mid the press of Trojans; for he sped
With taunting shout a sharp stone from a sling
Into their battle’s heart. They quailed in fear
Before the hum and onrush of the bolt.
Fate winged its flight to the bold charioteer
Of Pammon, Hippasus’ son: his brow it smote
While yet he grasped the reins, and flung him
stunned
Down from the chariot-seat before the wheels.
The rushing war-wain whirled his wretched form
“"Twixt tyres and heels of onward-leaping steeds,
28
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
“, e 4 / / HN 3 /
ἵππων ἱεμένων" θάνατος δέ μιν αἰνὸς ἐδάμνα
/
ἐσσυμένως μάστιγα καὶ ἡνία νόσφι λιπόντα"
Πάμμονι δ᾽ ἔμπεσε πένθος: ἄφαρ δέ ἑ θῆκεν
ἀνάγκη
” \ A \ is a \ Ὁ
ἄμφω καὶ βασιλῆα καὶ ἡνιοχεῖν θοὸν ἅρμα:
Kat νύ κεν αὐτοῦ κῆρα καὶ ὕστατον ἣμαρ ἀνέτλη, 570
/
εἰ μή οἱ Τρώων τις ἀνὰ κλόνον αἱματόεντα
ἡνία δέξατο χερσὶ καὶ ἐξεσάωσεν ἄνακτα
yA / a
ἤδη τειρόμενον δηίων ὀλοῆσι χέρεσσιν.
, of.
᾿Αντίθεον δ᾽ ᾿Ακάμαντα καταντίον ἀΐσσοντα
, , εχ , , ΄
Νέστορος ὄβριμος υἱὸς ὑπὲρ γόνυ δούρατι τύψεν' 575
ἕλκεϊ δ᾽ οὐλομένῳ στυγερὰς ὑπεδύσατ᾽ ἀνίας:
3 / Ua 2
χάσσατο δ᾽ ἐκ πολέμοιο' λίπεν δ᾽ ἑτάροισι κυ-
Ν
δοιμὸν
/ ’ > 7] Ces, / /
δακρυόεντ᾽" οὐ γάρ οἱ ἔτι πτολέμοιο μεμὴλει.
\
καὶ τότε δὴ θεράπων ἐρικυδέος Εὐρυπύλοιο
ral / oo nan
τύψε Θόαντος ἑταῖρον ᾿Ιχέμμονα δηϊοτῆτι 580
v 5) / CFS
ὥμου τυτθὸν ἔνερθε: περὶ κραδίην δέ of ἔγχος
χὰ / Us
ἷξεν avinpov: σὺν δ᾽ αἵματι κήκιεν ἱδρὼς
Ν > \ / / / /
ψυχρὸς ἀπὸ μελέων" καί μιν στρεφθέντα φέρεσθαι
εἰσοπίσω κατέμαρψε μέγα σθένος Εὐρυπύλοιο'
/ / € \ A / >) »>/ »Μ
κόψε δέ οἱ θοὰ νεῦρα: πόδες δ᾽ ἀέκοντες ἔμιμνον 585
» ἴον «“ / / 7 »Μ 3 ἡ
αὑτοῦ, ὅπῃ μιν τύψε" λίπεν δέ μιν ἄμβροτος αἰών.
’ / \ / / / 5 7.» \
ἐσσυμένως δὲ Θόας νύξεν dpi ὀξέϊ δουρὶ
, ¢ /
δεξιτερὸν κατὰ μηρόν" ὁ δ᾽ ὥχετο τυτθὸν ὀπίσσω
Ν
οἰσόμενος θοὰ τόξα, τά οἱ μετόπισθε λέλειπτο.
᾿Ιδομενεὺς δ᾽ ἄρα λᾶαν, ὅσον σθένε, χερσὶν ἀείρας 590
κάββαλεν Ὀὐρυπύλοιο βραχίονα: τοῦ δὲ χαμᾶζε
/ » 5) 9
κάππεσε λοίγιον ἔγχος" ἄφαρ δ᾽ ἀνεχάσσατ
ὀπίσσω
? / > , \ ΄, > 54 /
οἰσέμεν ἐγχείην: τὴν yap τ᾽ ἔχεν ἔκβαλε χειρός.
᾿Ατρεῖδαι δ᾽ ἄρα τυτθὸν ἀνέπνευσαν πολέμοιο.
A Ν aA ld 7 / ¢/ eC xf
τῷ δὲ θοῶς θεράποντες ἔβαν σχεδόν, οἵ οἱ ἔνεγκαν 595
294
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK VI
And awful death in that hour swallowed him
When whip and reins had flown from his nerveless
hands.
Then grief thrilled Pammon: hard necessity
Made him both chariot-lord and charioteer.
Now to his doom and death-day had he bowed,
Had not a Trojan through that gory strife
Leapt, grasped the reins, and saved the prince, when
now
His strength failed neath the murderous handsof foes.
As godlike Acamas charged, the stalwart son
Of Nestor thrust the spear above his knee,
And with that wound sore anguish came on him:
Back from the fight he drew; the deadly strife
He left unto his comrades : quenched was now
His battle-lust. Eurypylus’ henchman smote
Echemmon, Thoas’ friend, amidst the fray
Beneath the shoulder: nigh his heart the spear
Passed bitter-biting : o'er his limbs brake out
Mingled with blood cold sweat of agony.
He turned to flee; Eurypylus’ giant might
Chased, caught him, shearing his heel-tendons
through :
There, where the blow fell, his reluctant feet
Stayed, and the spirit left his mortal frame.
Thoas pricked Paris with quick-thrusting spear
On the right thigh: backward a space he ran
For his death-speeding bow, which had been left
To rearward of the fight. I[domeneus
Upheaved a stone, huge as his hands could swing,
And dashed it on Eurypylus’ arm: to earth
Fell his death-dealing spear. Backward he stepped
To grasp another, since from out his hand
The first was smitten. So had Atreus’ sons
A moment’s breathing-space from stress of war.
But swiftly drew Eurypylus’ henchmen near
295
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
ἀαγὲς δόρυ μακρόν, ὃ πολλῶν γούνατ᾽ ἔλυσε"
δεξάμενος δ᾽ ὅ γε λαὸν ἐπώχετο κάρτεϊ θύων,
κτείνων ὅν κε κίχῃσι, πολὺν δ᾽ ὑπεδάμναθ᾽ ὅμιλον.
"Ev@ οὔτ᾽ ᾿Ατρεῖδαι μένον ἔμπεδον οὔτε τις ἄλλος
ἀγχεμάχων Δαναῶν: μάλα γὰρ δέος ἔλλαβε
πάντας 600
ἀργαλέον' πᾶσιν γὰρ ἐπέσσυτο πῆμα κορύσσων
[ὐρύπυλος" μετόπισθε δ᾽ ἐπισπόμενος κεράϊξε.
κέκλετο δ᾽ ad" pwecow Ld ἱπποδάμοις ἑτάροισιν"
“@ φίλοι, εἰ δ᾽ ἄγε θυμὸν ἐνὶ στέρνοισι λα-
βόντες
τεύξωμεν Δαναοῖσι φόνον καὶ Kp ἀΐδηλον, 605
οἱ δὴ νῦν μήλοισιν ἐοικότες ATTOVEOVTAL
νῆας ἐπὶ σφετέρας" ἀλλὰ μνησώμεθα. πάντες
ὑσμίνης ὀλοῆς, ἧς παιδόθεν iSpoves elev.
“Os φάτο: τοὶ, δ᾽ ἐπόρουσαν ἀολλέες ᾿Αργείοισιν"
οἱ δὲ μέγα τρομέοντες an ἀργαλέοιο κυδοιμοῦ 610
φεῦγον" τοὶ δ᾽ ἐφέποντο κύνες ὡς ἀργιόδοντες
κεμμάσιν ἀγροτέρῃσιν ἀν᾽ ἄγκεα μακρὰ καὶ ὕλην.
πολλοὺς δ᾽ ἐν κονίησι βάλον μάλα περ μεμαῶτας
ἐκφυγέειν ὁλοοῖο φόνου στονόεσσαν ὁμοκλήν.
Εὐρύπυλος μὲν ἔπεφνεν ἀμύμονα Βουκολίωνα 615
Νῆσόν τε Χρόμιόν τε καὶ “Avtidov: οἱ δὲ Μυ-
κήνην
@KEOV εὐκτέανον, τοὶ ὁ. ἐν Λακεδαίμονι ναῖον"
τοὺς ap ὅ γ᾽ ἐξενάριξεν ἀρυγνώτους περ ἐόντας.
ἐκ δ᾽ ἄρα πληθύος εἷλεν ἀάσπετα φῦλ᾽ ἀνθρώπων
ὅσσα μοι οὐ σθένος ἐ ἐστὶ λιλαιομένῳ περ ἀεῖσαι, 620
οὐδ᾽ εἴ μοι στέρνοισι σιδήρεον 7) TOP ἐνείη.
Αἰνείας δὲ Φέρητα καὶ ᾿Αντίμαχον κατέπεφνεν
ἀμφοτέρους Κρήτηθεν ἅμ᾽ ᾿Ιδομενῆι κιόντας.
αὐτὰρ ᾿Αγήνωρ δῖος ἀμύμονα Μῶλον ἔπεφνεν,
ὅς περ ἀπ᾽ "Ἄργεος ἦλθεν ὑπὸ Σθενέλῳ βασιλῆι: 625
296
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK VI
Bearing a stubborn-shafted lance, wherewith
He brake the strength of many. In stormy might
Then charged he on the foe: whomso he met
He slew, and spread wide havoc through their ranks.
Now neither Atreus’ sons might steadfast stand,
Nor any valiant Danaan beside,
For ruinous panic suddenly gripped the hearts
Of all; for on them all Eurypylus rushed
Flashing death in their faces, chased them, slew,
Cried to the Trojans and to his chariot-lords :
“ Friends, be of good heart! To these Danaans
Let us deal slaughter and doom’s darkness now!
Lo, how like scared sheep back to the ships they
fice!
Forget not your death-dealing battle-lore,
O ye that from your youth are men of war!”
Then charged they on the Argives as one man ;
And these in utter panic turned and fled
The bitter battle, those hard after them
Followed, as white-fanged hounds hold deer in chase
Up the long forest-glens. Full many in dust
They dashed down, howsoe’er they longed to escape.
The slaughter grim and great of that wild fray.
Eurypylus hath slain Bucolion,
Nesus, and Chromion and Antiphus ;
Twain in Mycenae dwelt, a goodly land;
In Lacedaemon twain. Men of renown
Albeit they were, he slew them. Then he smote
A host unnumbered of the common throng.
My strength should not suffice to sing their fate,
How fain soever, though within my breast
Were iron lungs. Aeneas slew withal
Antimachus and Pheres, twain which left
Crete with Idomeneus. Agenor smote
Molus the princely,—with king Sthenelus
He came from Argos,—hurled from far behind
297
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
τὸν βάλεν aiyavén veoOnyéi πολλὸν ὀπίσσω
φεύγοντ᾽ ἐκ πολέμοιο τυχὼν ὑπὸ νείατα κνήμης
δεξιτερῆς" αἰχμὴ δὲ διὰ πλατὺ νεῦρον ἔκερσεν
ἄντικρυς ἱεμένη: παρὰ δ᾽ ἔθρισεν ὀστέα φωτὸς
ἀργαλέως: ὀδύνῃ δὲ μίγη μόρος, ἔφθιτο δ᾽ ἀνήρ. 680
ἔνθα ἸΠάρις Μόσυνόν τ᾽ ἔβαλεν καὶ ἀγήνορα
Φόρκυν
ἄμφω ἀδελφειούς, οἵ τ᾽ ἐκ Σαλαμῖνος ἵκοντο
Αἴαντος νήεσσι, καὶ οὐκέτι νόστον ἴδοντο.
τοῖσι δ᾽ ἔπι Κλεόλαον εὖν θεράποντα Μέγητος
εἷλε βαλὼν κατὰ μαζὸν a ἀριστερόν" ἀμφὶ δέ μιν νὺξ 635
μάρψε κακή, καὶ θυμὸς ἀ ἀπέπτατο: τοῦ δὲ δαμέντος
ἔνδον ὑπὸ στέρνοισιν ἔτι κραδίη ἀλεγεινὴ
ταρφέα παλλομένη πτερόεν πελέμιξε βέλεμνον
ἄλλον δ᾽ ἰὸν ἀφῆκεν ἐπὶ θρασὺν ᾿Ηετίωνα
ἐσσυμένως" τοῦ δ᾽ αἶψα διὰ ᾿γναθμοῖο πέρησε 640
χαλκός" ὁ δ᾽ ἐστονάχησε' μίγη δέ οἱ αἵματι δάκρυ.
ἄλλος δ᾽ ἄλλον ἔπεφνε" πολὺς δ᾽ ἐστείνετο χῶρος
᾿Αργείων ἰληδὸν ἐ ἐπ᾽ ἀλλήλοισι πεσόντων.
Καί νύ κε δὴ τότε Τρῶες ἐνέπρησαν πυρὶ νῆας,
εἰ μὴ νὺξ ἐπόρουσε βαθύσκιον ἠέρ᾽ ἄγουσα. 645
χάσσατο δ᾽ Εὐρύπυλος, σὺν δ᾽ ἄλλοι Τρώιοι υἷες
νηῶν βαιὸν ἄπωθε ποτὶ προχοὰς Σιμόεντος
ἧχί περ αὖλιν ἔθεντο γεγηθότες. οἱ δ᾽ ἐνὶ νηυσὶν
᾿Αργεῖοι γοάασκον ἐπὶ ψαμάθοισι πεσόντες
πολλὰ μάλ᾽ ἀχνύμενοι κταμένων ὕπερ, οὕνεκ᾽ ἄρ᾽ 650
sta:
αὐτῶν
πολλοὺς ἐν κονίῃσι μέλας ἐκιχήσατο πότμος.
208
THE FALL, OF TROY, BOOK VI
A dart new-whetted, as he fled from fight,
Piercing his right leg, and the eager shaft
Cut sheer through the broad sinew, shattering
The bones with anguished pain: and so his doom
Met him, to die a death of agony.
Then Paris’ arrows laid proud Phorcys low,
And Mosynus, brethren both, from Salamis
Who came in Aias’ ships, and nevermore
Saw the home-land. Cleolaus smote he next,
Meges’ stout henchman ; for the arrow struck
His left breast: deadly night enwrapped him round,
And his soul fleeted forth: his fainting heart
Still in his breast fluttering convulsively
Made the winged arrow shiver. Yet again
Did Paris shoot at bold Eétion.
Through his jaw leapt the sudden-flashing brass :
He groaned, and with his blood were mingled tears.
So ever man slew man, till all the space
Was heaped with Argives each on other cast.
Now had the Trojans burnt with fire the ships,
Had not night, trailing heavy-folded mist,
Uprisen. So Eurypylus drew back,
And Troy’s sons with him, from the ships aloof
A little space, by Simois’ outfall, there
Camped they exultant. But amidst the ships
Flung down upon the sands the Argives wailed
Heart-anguished for the slain, so many of whom
Dark fate had overtaken and laid in dust.
299
AOTOS EBAOMO®
Ἦμος δ᾽ οὐρανὸς ἄστρα κατέκρυφεν, ἔγρετο δ᾽ Has
λαμπρὸν παμφανόωσα, κνέφας δ᾽ ἀνεχάσσατο
νυκτός,
δὴ τότ᾽ ἀρήιοι υἷες ἐὐσθενέων ᾿Αργείων,
οἱ μὲν ἔβαν προπάροιθε νεῶν κρατερὴν ἐπὶ δῆριν
ἀντίον Εὐρυπύλοιο μεμαότες, οἱ δ᾽ ἀπάτερθεν δ
αὐτοῦ πὰρ νήεσσι Μαχάονα ταρχύσαντο
Nupéa θ᾽: ὃς μακάρεσσιν ἀειγενέεσσιν ἐ ἐῴκει
κάλλεϊ T. ἀγλαΐῃ te βίῃ & οὐκ ἄλκιμος ἦεν"
οὐ γὰρ ἅμ᾽ ἀνθρώποισι θεοὶ πελέουσιν ἅπαντα"
ἄλλ᾽ ἐσθλῷ κακὸν ἄγχι παρίσταται ἔκ τινος αἴσης" 10
ὡς Νιρῆι ἃ ἄνακτι παρ᾽ ἀγλαΐῃ ἐρατεινῇ
κεῖτ᾽ ἀλαπαδνοσύνη" Δαναοὶ δέ οἱ οὐκ ἀμέλησαν,
ἀλλά ἑ ταρχύσαντο καὶ ὠδύραντ᾽ ἐπὶ τύμβῳ,
ὅσσα Μαχάονα δῖον, ὃν ἀθανάτοισι θεοῖσιν
ἶσον ἀεὶ τίεσκον, ἐπεὶ πυκνὰ μήδεα ἤδη 15
αἶψα δ᾽ ap’ ἀμφοτέροις αὐτὸν περὶ σῆμα βάλοντο.
Καὶ τότ᾽ ap ἐν πεδίῳ ἔ ἔτι μαίνετο λοίγιος "Αρης"
ὦρτο δ᾽ ap ἀμφοτέρωθε μέγας κόναβος καὶ ἀὐτὴ
ῥηγνυμένων λάεσσι καὶ ἐγχείῃσι βοειῶν'
καί ῥ᾽ οἱ μὲν πονέοντο πολυκμήτῳ ὑπ᾽ “Apne 20
νωλεμέως δ᾽ ap ἄπαστος ἐδητύος ἐν κονίῃσι
κεῖτο μέγα στενάχων ΠΙοδαλείριος" οὐδ᾽ ὅ γε σῆμα
λεῖπε κασυγνήτοιο" νόος δέ οἱ ὁρμαίνεσκε
300
BOOK VII
How the Sonof Achilles was brought to the War from
the Isle of Scyros.
WueEN heaven hid his stars, and Dawn awoke
Outspraying splendour, and night’s darkness fled,
Then undismayed the Argives’ warrior-sons
Marched forth without the ships to meet in fight
Eurypylus, save those that tarried still
To render to Machaon midst the ships
Death-dues, with Nireus—Nireus, who in grace
And goodlihead was like the Deathless Ones,
Yet was not strong in bodily might: the Gods
Grant not perfection in all things to men;
But evil still is blended with the good
By some strange fate: to Nireus’ winsome grace
Was linked a weakling’s prowess. Yet the Greeks
Slighted him not, but gave him all death-dues,
And mourned above his grave with no less grief
Than for Machaon, whom they honoured aye,
For his deep wisdom, as the immortal Gods.
One mound they swiftly heaped above these twain.
Then in the plain once more did murderous war
Madden: the multitudinous clash and cry
Rose, as the shields were shattered with huge
stones,
Were pierced with lances. So they toiled in fight ;
But all this while lay Podaleirius
Fasting in dust and groaning, leaving not
301
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
A e \ ᾿ς > > /
χερσὶν ὑπὸ σφετέρῃσιν avnreyews ἀπολέσθαι.
A /
καί ῥ᾽ ὁτὲ μὲν βάλε χεῖρας ἐπὶ ξίφος, ἄλλοτε δ᾽
αὖτε
, , σεν OE 3 ς.- «κα
δίζετο φάρμακον aivov" ἑοὶ δέ μιν εἶργον ἑταῖροι
\ 7 Beek NOs Dy YG
πολλὰ παρηγορέοντες" ὁ δ᾽ οὐκ ἀπέληγεν avins.
καί νύ κε θυμὸν ἑῆσιν ὑπαὶ παλάμῃσιν ὄλεσσεν
ἐσθλοῦ ἀδελφειοῖο νεοκμήτῳ ἐπὶ τύμβῳ,
> \ Ti / [δὲ > , ἡ δ᾽ ᾽ ,
εἰ μὴ Νηλέος ULOS ἐπέκλυεν, οὐ ἀμέλησεν
αἰνῶς τειρομένοιο" κίχεν δέ μιν ἄλλοτε μέν mou
ἐκχύμενον περὶ σῆμα πολύστονον, ἄλλοτε δ᾽ αὖτε
ἀμφὶ κάρη χεύοντα κόνιν καὶ στήθεα χερσὶ
θεινόμενον κρατερῇσι καὶ οὔνομα κικλήσκοντα
οἷο κασιγνήτοιο περιστενάχοντο δ᾽ ἄνακτα
δμῶες ὁμῶς ἑτάροισι" κακὴ δ᾽ ἔχε πάντας ὀϊζύς.
καί ῥ᾽ ὅγε μειλιχίοισι, μέγ᾽ ἀχνύμενον προσέειπεν"
“ἴσχεο λευγαλέοιο γόου καὶ πένθεος αἰνοῦ,
ὦ τέκος" οὐ γὰρ ἔοικε περίφρονα φῶτα γεγῶτα
μύρεσθ' οἷα γυναῖκα παρ᾽ οὐκέτ᾽ ἐ ἐόντι πεσόντα"
οὐ γὰρ ἀναστήσεις μιν ἔτ᾽ ἐς φάος, οὕνεκ᾽ ἄϊστος
ψυχή οἱ πεπότηται ἐς ἠέρα, σῶμα δ᾽ ἄνευθεν
πῦρ ὀλοὸν κατέδαψε καὶ ὀστέα δέξατο γαῖα"
ο 2 /
αὕτως δ᾽; ὡς ἀνέθηλε, καὶ ἔφθιτο. τέτλαθι δ᾽ ἄλγος
ἄσπετον, ὥς περ ἔγωγε Μαχάονος οὔτι χερείω
παῖδ᾽ ὀλέσας δηίοισιν ὑπ᾽ ἀνδράσιν εὖ μὲν ἄκοντι
εὖ δὲ σαοφροσύνῃσι κεκασμένον. οὐδέ τις ἄλλος
αἰζηῶν φίλέεσκεν ἑὸν πατέρ᾽ ὡς ἐμὲ κεῖνος,
κάτθανε δ᾽ εἵνεκ᾽ ἐμεῖο σαωσέμεναι μενεαίνων
ἃ (pee) > / crs > / /
ὃν πατέρ᾽" ἀλλά οἱ εἶθαρ ἀποκταμένοιο πάσασθαι
a ΝΜ \ \ TS Le 2 /
σῖτον ἔτλην καὶ ζωὸς ἔτ᾽ ᾿Ηριγένειαν ἰδέσθαι,
> > , fod / e \ 3 «Λ /
εὖ εἰδώς, OTL ππάντες ony Aiéao κέλευθον
νισσόμεθ᾽ ἄνθρωποι, πᾶσίν T ἐπὶ τέρματα κεῖται
/
λυγρὰ μόρου στονόεντος. ἔοικε δὲ θνητὸν ἐόντα
πάντα φέρειν, ὁπόσ᾽ ἐσθλὰ διδοῖ θεὸς ἠδ᾽ ἀλεγεινά."
302
35
45
50
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK VII
His brother’s tomb; and oft his heart was moved
With his own hands to slay himself. And now
He clutched his sword, and now amidst his herbs
Sought for a deadly drug ; and still his friends
Essayed to stay his hand and comfort him
With many pleadings. But he would not cease
From grieving : yea, his hands had spilt his life
There on his noble brother’s new-made tomb,
But Nestor heard thereof, and sorrowed sore
[ his affliction, and he came on him
As now he flung him on that woeful grave,
And now was casting dust upon his head,
Beating his breast, and on his brother's name
Crying, while thralls and comrades round their lord
Groaned, and affliction held them one and all.
Then gently spake he to that stricken one:
« Refrain from bitter moan and deadly grief,
Myson. It is not for a wise man’s honour
To wail, as doth a woman, o’er the fallen.
Thou shalt not bring him up to light again
Whose soul hath fleeted vanishing into air,
Whose body fire hath ravined up, whose bones
Earth has received. His end was worthy his life.
Endure thy sore grief, even as I endured,
Who lost a son, slain by the hands of foes,
A son not worse than thy Machaon, good
With spears in battle, good in counsel. None
Of all the youths so loved his sire as he
Loved me. He died for me—yea, died to save
His father. Yet, when he was slain, did I
Endure to taste food, and to see the light,
Well knowing that all men must tread one path
Hades-ward, and before all lies one goal,
Death’s mournful goal. A mortal man must bear
All joys, all griefs, that God vouchsafes to send.”’
393
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
e / a
‘Os φάθ᾽: ὁ δ᾽ ἀχνύμενός μιν ἀμείβετο" τοῦ δ᾽
ἀλεγεινὸν
» > / / \ 6.9 \ a , -
ἔρρεεν εἰσέτι δάκρυ καὶ ἀγλαὰ δεῦε γένεια
“@ πάτερ, ἄσχετον ANyos ἐμὸν καταδάμναται
ἧτορ
ἀμφὶ κασιγνήτοιο περίφρονος, ὅς μ᾽ ἀτίταλλεν
οἰχομένοιο τοκῆος ἐς οὐρανὸν ὡς ἐὸν υἷα 60
σφῇσιν ἐν ἀγκοίνῃσι. καὶ ἰητήρια νούσων
ἐκ θυμοῖο δίδαξε" μιῇ ὃ; ἐνὶ δαυτὶ καὶ εὐνῇ
τερπόμεθα ξυνοῖσιν t ἰαινόμενοι κτεάτεσσι"
τῷ μοι πένθος ἄλαστον ἐποίχεται" OVS ἔτι κείνου
τεθναότος φάος ἐσθλὸν ἐέλδομαι εἰσοράασθαι." 65
Ὡς φάτο" τὸν δ᾽ ὁ ) γεραιὸς ἀ ἀκηχέμενον προσέειπε:
“πᾶσι μὲν ἀνθρώποισιν i ἴσον κακὸν ὥπασε δαίμων
setae πάντας δὲ καὶ ἡμέας aia καλύψει,
οὐ μὲν ἄρ᾽ ἐκτελέσαντας ὁμὴν βιότοιο κέλευθον,
οὐδ᾽ οἵην τις. ἕκαστος ἐέλδεται, οὕνεχ᾽ ὕπερθεν 70
ἐσθλά τε καὶ τὰ χέρεια θεῶν ἐ ἐν γούνασι κεῖται
μυρία, εἰς ἕν πάντα μεμιγμένα" καὶ τὰ μὲν οὔτις
δέρκεται ἀθανάτων, ἀλλ᾽ ἀπροτίοπτα τέτυκται
ἀχλύϊ θεσπεσίῃ κεκαλυμμένα" τοῖς δ᾽ ἐπὶ χεῖρας
οἴη Μοῖρα τίθησι καὶ οὐχ ὁρόωσ᾽ ἀπ᾿ Ολύμπου [ἴὅ
ἐς γαῖαν προΐησι" τὰ δ᾽ ἄχλυδις ἄλλα φέρονται
πνοιῆς ὡς ἀνέμοιο" καὶ ἀνέρι πολλάκις ἐσθλῷ
ἀμφεχύθη μέγα πῆμα, λυγρῷ δ᾽ ἐπικάππεσεν
ὄλβος
οὐκ εἰκώς ἀλαὸς δὲ πέλει βίος ἀνθρώποιο'
τοὔνεκ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἀσφαλέως οὐ νίσσεται, ἀλλὰ τ 80
πυκνὰ ποτιπταίει" τρέπεται δέ οἱ αἰόλος οἶμος ὃ
ἄλλοτε μὲν ποτὶ ᾿ πῆμα πολύστονον, ἄχλοτε δ᾽ αὗτε
εἰς ἀγαθόν. μερόπων δὲ πανόλβιος οὔτις ἐτύχθη
ἐς τέλος ἐξ ἀρχῆς" ἑτέρῳ δ᾽ ἕτερ᾽ ἀντιόωσι.
2
1,2 Zimmermann, for οὔτι ἑκών and ἀνθρώποισι οὗ V.
3 Zimmermann, for αἰόλον εἶδος of v.
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Made answer that heart-stricken one, while still
Wet were his cheeks with ever-flowing tears:
“ Father, mine heart is bowed ’neath crushing grief
For a brother passing wise, who fostered me
Even as ason. When to the heavens had passed
Our father, in his arms he cradled me:
Gladly he taught me all his healing lore ;
We shared one table ; in one bed we lay:
We had all things in common—these, and love.
My grief cannot forget, nor I desire,
Now he is dead, to see the light of life.”
Then spake the old man to that stricken one:
“To all men Fate assigns one same sad lot,
Bereavement: earth shall cover all alike,
Albeit we tread not the same path of life,
And none the path he chooseth; for on high
Good things and bad lie on the knees of Gods
Unnumbered, indistinguishably blent.
These no Immortal seéth; they are veiled
In mystic cloud-folds. Only Fate puts forth
Her hands thereto, nor looks at what she takes,
But casts them from Olympus down to earth.
This way and that they are wafted, as it were
By gusts of wind. The good man oft is whelmed
In suffering: wealth undeserved is heaped
On the vile person. Blind is each man’s life;
Therefore he never walketh surely ; oft
He stumbleth: ever devious is his path,
Now sloping down to sorrow, mounting now
To bliss. All-happy is no living man
From the beginning to the end, but still
The good and evil clash. Our life is short ;
3°5
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
A \ , > ΜΝ » Μ
παῦρον δὲ ζώοντας ἐν ἄλγεσιν οὔτι ἔοικε 85
7 SY >) >\ 3 / 3). 9 A
ζωέμεν. ἔλπεο δ᾽ αἰὲν apeiova, μηδ᾽ ἐπὶ λυγρῷ
θυμὸν ἔχειν" καὶ γάρ ῥα πέλει φάτις ἀνθρώποισιν
5) \ \ / 2 3 Ν »Μ ὍΝ
ἐσθλὼν μὲν νίσσεσθαι ἐς οὐρανὸν ἄφθιτον αἰεὶ
ψυχάς,; ἀργαλέων δὲ ποτὶ ζόφον: ἔπλετο δ᾽ ἄμφω
σεῖο κασιγνήτῳ" καὶ μείλιχος ἔσκε βροτοῖσι, 90
\ 7-.- 3 / “ 3.9 na 4
καὶ πάϊς ἀθανάτοιο" θεῶν δ᾽ ἐς φῦλον ὀΐω
κεῖνον ἀνελθέμεναι σφετέρου πατρὸς évvecinaw.”
ΔὋ > 4 7 > Ni \ > > ls
ς εἰπών μιν ἔγειρεν ἀπὸ χθονὸς οὐκ ἐθέλοντα
>] a
παρφάμενος μύθοισιν, ἄγεν δ᾽ ἀπὸ σήματος aivod
ἐντροπαλιζόμενον καὶ ἔτ᾽ ἀργαλέα στενάχοντα᾽ 98
ἢ > oo” - “ , >» ” ᾽ \
ἐς δ᾽ ἄρα νῆας ἵκοντο' πόνον δ᾽ ἔχον ἄλλοι ᾿Αχαιοὶ
ἀργαλέον καὶ Τρῶες ὀρινομένου πολέμοιο.
Εὐρύπυλος δ᾽ ἀτάλαντος ἀτειρέα θυμὸν Apne
χερσὶν ὑπ᾽ ἀκαμάτῃσι καὶ ἔγχεϊ μαιμώωντι
7] 7. lal lal +) > / A
δάμνατο nia φῦλα" νεκρῶν δ᾽ ἐστείνετο γαῖα 100
/ e / ς 3.2.3 ὔ \
κτεινομένων ἑκάτερθεν. ὁ δ᾽ ἐν νεκύεσσι βεβηκὼς
μάρνατο θαρσαλέως πεπαλαγμένος αἵματι χεῖρας
καὶ πόδας" οὐδ᾽ ἀπέληγεν ἀταρτηροῖο κυδοιμοῦ"
ἀλλ᾽ ὅ γε Πηνέλεων κρατερόφρονα δουρὶ δάμασσεν
ἀντιόωντ᾽ ἀνὰ δῆριν ἀμείλιχον: ἀμφὶ δὲ πολλοὺς 105
ἔκτανεν" οὐδ᾽ ὅ γε χεῖρας ἀπέτρεπε δηϊοτῆτος,
» 33 Ψ > ee / / 3 /
GAN ἕπετ᾽ ᾿Αργείοισι χολούμενος, εὖτε πάροιθεν
τῇ ς y , ON \ ,
ὄβριμος Ἡρακλέης Φολόης ava μακρὰ κάρηνα
/ ᾽ / ea J 4 - ͵7
Κενταύροις ἐπόρουσεν ἑῷ μέγα κάρτεϊ θύων,
« 4 ,
τοὺς ἅμα πάντας ἔπεφνε καὶ ὠκυτάτους περ ἐόντας 110
καὶ κρατεροὺς ὀλοοῦ τε δαήμονας ἰωχμοῖο"
ὡς ὅ γ᾽ ἐπασσύτερον Δαναῶν στρατὸν αἰχμητάων
δάμνατ᾽ ἐπεσσύμενος" τοὶ δ᾽ ἰλαδὸν ἄλλοθεν ἄλλος
,
ἀθρόοι ἐν κονίῃσι δεδουπότες ἐξεχέοντο.
1 Restored by Zimmermann from P,
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THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK VII
Beseems not then in grief to live. Hope on,
Still hope for better days: chain not to woe
Thine heart. There is asaying among men
That to the heavens unperishing mount the souls
Of good men, and to nether darkness sink
Souls of the wicked. Both to God and man
Dear was thy brother, good to brother-men,
And son of an Immortal. Sure am 1
That to the company of Gods shall he
Ascend, by intercession of thy sire.”
Then raised he that reluctant mourner up
With comfortable words. From that dark grave
He drew him, backward gazing oft with groans.
To the ships they came, where Greeks and Trojan
men
Had bitter travail of rekindled war.
Eurypylus there, in dauntless spirit like
The War-god, with mad-raging spear and hands
Resistless, smote down hosts of foes: the earth
Was clogged with dead men slain on either side.
On strode he midst the corpses, awelessly
He fought, with blood-bespattered hands and feet ;
Never a moment from grim strife he ceased.
Peneleos the mighty-hearted came
Against him in the pitiless fray: he fell
Before Eurypylus ‘spear: yea, many more
Fell round him. Ceased not those destroying hands,
But wrathful on the Argives still he pressed,
As when of old on Pholoe’s long-ridged heights
Upon the Centaurs terrible Hercules rushed
Storming in might, and slew them, passing-swift
And strong and battle-cunning though they were ;
So rushed he on, so smote he down the array,
One after other, of the Danaan spears.
Heaps upon heaps, here, there, in throngs they fell
391
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
ὡς δ᾽ ὅτ᾽ ἐπιβρίσαντος ἀπειρεσίου ποταμοῖο 115
ὄχθαι ἀποτμήγονται ἐπὶ ψαμαθώδεϊ χώρῳ
,ὔ b / ¢ 99 2 ὄπ ΡΝ 4
μυρίαι ἀμφροτέρωθεν, ὁ δ᾽ εἰς ἁλὸς ἔσσυται οἶδμα
/ 2 \ 2 Noite L, > \ \ ,
παφλάζων ἀλεγεινὸν ἀνὰ ῥόον, ἀμφὶ δὲ πάντῃ
κρημνοὶ ἐπικτυπέουσι, βρέμει δ᾽ ἄρα μακρὰ ῥέεθρα
αἰὲν ἐρευπομένων, εἴκει δέ οἱ ἕρκεα πάντα" 120
ἃ ” UZ > - / 3 /
ὡς apa κύδιμοι υἷες ἐὐπτολέμων ᾿Αργείων
ΝΟ 2 > 4 / b] ,
πολλοὶ ὑπ᾽ Εὐρυπύλοιο κατήριπον ἐν κονίῃσι,
\ / «ς / \ / « δ. A? /
τοὺς κίχεν αἱματόεντα κατὰ μόθον" οἱ δ᾽ ὑπάλυξαν,
“ 3 / A / 5 > > » ν ἃ
ὅσσους ἐξεσάωσε ποδῶν μένος" ἀλλ᾽ ἄρα καὶ ὡς
Πηνέλεων ἐρύσαντο δυσηχέος ἐξ ὁμάδοιο 125
a ’
νῆας ἐπὶ σφετέρας, καίπερ ποσὶ καρπαλίμοισι
a /
κῆρας ἀλευόμενοι στυγερὰς καὶ ἀνηλέα πότμον.
/ ee n / ΜΝ »>Q/ A
πανσυδίῃ δ᾽ ἔντοσθε νεῶν φύγον" οὐδέ τι θυμῷ
” 3 4 / ΄
ἔσθενον Εὐρυπύλοιο καταντία δηριάασθαι,
οὕνεκ᾽ ἄρα σφίσι φύζαν ὀϊζυρὴν ἐφέηκεν 180
Ἡρακλέης υἱωνὸν ἀτειρέα πάμπαν ἀέξων.
οἱ δ᾽ ἄρα τείχεος ἐντὸς ὑποπτώσσοντες ἔμιμνον,
° an /
αἶγες ὅπως ὑπὸ Tpava φοβεύμεναι αἰνὸν ἀήτην,
ὅς τε φέρει νιφετόν τε πολὺν κρυερήν τε χάλαζαν
ψυχρὸς ἐπαΐσσων, ταὶ δ᾽ ἐς νομὸν ἐσσύμεναί περ 135
ῥιπῆς οὔτι κατιθὺς ὑπερκύπτουσι κολώνης,
) >» a / ς \ / b] \ /
ἀλλ᾽ dpa χεῖμα μένουσιν ὑπὸ σκέπας ἠδὲ φάραγγας
ἀγρόμεναι, θάμνοισι δ᾽ ὑπὸ σκιεροῖσι νέμονται
ἰλαδόν, ὄφρ᾽ ἀνέμοιο κακαὶ λήξωσιν ἄελλαι:
ὡς Δαναοὶ πύργοισιν ὑπὸ σφετέροισιν ἔμιμνον 140
Τηλέφου ὄβριμον υἷα μετεσσύμενον τρομέοντες.
Αὐτὰρ ὁ νῆας ἔμελλε θοὰς καὶ λαὸν ὀλέσσειν,
bd \ / / / > ,
εἰ μὴ Τριτογένεια θράσος βάλεν ᾿Αργείοισιν
’ f / ς 3» > vie 2 A
ὀψέ περ' οἱ δ᾽ ἄλληκτον ἀφ᾽ ἕρκεος αἰπεινοῖο
308
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK VII
Strewn in the dust. As when a river in flood
Comes thundering down, banks crumble on either
side
To drifting sand: on seaward rolls the surge
Tossing wild crests, while cliffs on every hand
Ring crashing echoes, as their brows break down
Beneath long-leaping roaring waterfalls,
And dikes are swept away ; so fell in dust
The war-famed Argives by Eurypylus slain,
Such as he overtook in that red rout.
Some few escaped, whom strength of fleeing feet
Delivered. Yet in that sore strait they drew
Peneleos from the shrieking tumult forth,
And bare to the ships, though with swift feet them-
selves
Were fleeing from ghastly death, from pitiless doom.
Behind the rampart of the ships they fled
In huddled rout: they had no heart to stand
Before Eurypylus, for Hercules,
To crown with glory his son’s stalwart son,
Thrilled them with panic. There behind their wall
They cowered, as goats to leeward of a hill
Shrink from the wild cold rushing of the wind
That bringeth snow and heavy sleet and hail.
No longing for the pasture tempteth them
Over the brow to step, and face the blast,
But huddling screened by rock-wall and ravine
They abide the storm, and crop the scanty grass
Under dim copses thronging, till the gusts
Of that ill wind shall lull: so, by their towers
Screened, did the trembling Danaans abide
Telephus’ mighty son. Yea, he had burnt
The ships, and all that host had he destroyed,
Had not Athena at the last inspired
The Argive men with courage. Ceaselessly
From the high rampart hurled they at the foe
309
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
duo pevéas βάλλοντες ἀνιηροῖς βελέεσσι 145
KTELVOV ἐπασσυτέρους" δεύοντο δὲ τείχεα λύθρῳ
λευγαλέῳ: στοναχὴ δὲ δαϊκταμένων πέλε φωτῶν.
Αὕτως δ᾽ αὖ νύκτας τε καὶ ἤματα δηριόωντο
Κήτειοι Τρῶές τε καὶ ᾿Αργεῖοι «μενεχάρμαι,
ἄλλοτε μὲν προπάροιθε νεῶν, ὁτὲ δ᾽ ἀμφὶ μακεδνὸν 150
τεῖχος, ἐπεὶ πέλε μῶλος ἀάσχετος" ἀλλ᾽ ἄρα καὶ ὡς
ἤματα δοιὰ φόνοιο καὶ ἀργαλέης ὑσμίνης
παύσανθ᾽, οὕνεχ᾽ ἵκανεν ἐς Εὐρύπυλον βασιλῆα
ἀγγελίη Δαναῶν, ὥς κεν πολέμοιο μεθέντες
πυρκαϊῇ δώωσι δαϊκταμένους ἐ ἐνὶ χάρμῃ: 155
αὐτὰρ oy ai ἐπίθησε, καὶ ἀργαλέοιο κυδοιμοῦ
παυσάμενοι ἑκάτερθε νεκροὺς περιταρχύσαντο
ἐν κονίῃς ἐριπόντας" ᾿Αχαιοὶ δ᾽ ἔξοχα πάντων
Πηνέλεων μύροντο᾽ βάλον δ᾽ ἐπὶ σῆμα θανόντι
εὐρὺ μάλ᾽ ὑψηλόν τε καὶ ἐσσομένοις ἀρίδηλον" 160
πληθὺν δ᾽ αὖτ᾽ ἀπάνευθε δαϊκταμένων ἡ ἡρώων
θάψαν ἀκηχέμενοι μεγάλῳ περὶ πένθεϊ θυμὸν
πυρκαϊὴν ἅμα πᾶσι μίαν περινηήσαντες
καὶ τάφον. ὡς δὲ καὶ αὐτοὶ ἀπόπροθι Τρώιοι υἷες
τάρχυσαν κταμένους. ὀλοὴ ©” Ἔρις οὐκ ἀπέληγεν, 165
ἀλλ᾽ ἜΤ: ἐποτρύνεσκε θρασὺ σθένος Εὐρυπύλοιο
ἀντιάαν δηίοισιν" ὁ δ᾽ οὔπω χάξετο νηῶν,
ἀλλ᾽ ἔμενεν Δαναοῖσι κακὴν ἐπὶ δῆριν ἀέξων.
Τοὶ δ᾽ ἐς Σκῦρον ἵ ἵκοντο μελαίνῃ νηὶ θέοντες"
εὗρον δ᾽ vt ᾿Αχιλῆος é ἐοῦ προπάροιθε δόμοιο, 170
ἄλλοτε μὲν βελέεσσι καὶ ἐγχείῃσιν ἱέντα,
ἄλλοτε δ᾽ αὖθ᾽ ἵπποισι πονεύμενον ὠκυπόδεσσι"
γήθησαν δ᾽ ἐσιδόντες ἀταρτηροῦ πολέμοιο
ἔργα μετοιχόμενον, καίπερ μέγα τειρόμενον Knp
ἀμφὶ πατρὸς κταμένοιο' TO γὰρ TO πάροιθε
πέπυστο. 175
αἶψα δέ οἱ κίον ἄντα τεθηπότες, obey’ ὁρῶντο
θαρσαλέῳ ᾿Αχιλῆι δέμας περικαλλὲς ὁμοῖον"
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THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK VII
With bitter-biting darts, and slew them fast ;
And all the walls were splashed with reeking gore,
And aye went up a moan of smitten men.
So fought they: nightlong, daylong fought they on,
Ceteians, Trojans, battle-biding Greeks,
Fought, now before the ships, and now again
Round the steep wall, with fury unutterable.
Yet even so for two days did they cease
From murderous fight ; for to Kurypylus came
A Danaan embassage, saying, “‘ From the war
Forbear we, while we give unto the flames
The battle-slain.” So hearkened he to them:
From ruin-wreaking strife forebore the hosts ;
And so their dead they buried, who in dust
Had fallen. Chiefly the Achaeans mourned
Peneleos; o’er the mighty dead they heaped
A barrow broad and high, a sign for men
Of days to be. But in a several place
The multitude of heroes slain they laid,
Mourning with stricken hearts. On one great pyre
They burnt them all, and buried in one grave.
So likewise far ftom thence the sons of Troy
Buried their slain. Yet murderous Strife slept not,
But roused again Eurypylus’ dauntless might
To meet the foe. He turned not from the ships,
But there abode, and fanned the fury of war.
Meanwhile the black ship on to Scyros ran ;
And those twain found before his palace-gate
Achilles’ son, now hurling dart and lance,
Now in his chariot driving fleetfoot steeds.
Glad were they to behold him practising
The deeds of war, albeit his heart was sad
For his slain sire, of whom had tidings come
Ere this. With reverent eyes of awe they went
To meet him, for that goodly form and face
Seemed even as very Achilles unto them.
311
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
TOUS δ᾽ ap ὑποφθάμενος τοῖον ποτὶ μῦθον ἔειπτεν'
“ὦ ξεῖνοι, μέγα χαίρετ᾽ ἐμὸν ποτὶ δῶμα κιόντες"
εἴπατε δ᾽ ὁππόθεν ἐστὲ καὶ οἵτινες, ἠδ᾽ ὅ τι
ρειὼ 180
ἤλθετ᾽ ἔχοντες ἐμεῖο δι᾽ οἴδματος ἀ ἀτρυγέτοιο."
Ὃς: ἔφατ᾽ εἰρόμενος" ὁ δ᾽ ἀμείβετο δῖος ᾽Οδυσ-
σεύς"
ἡμεῖς τοι φίλοι εἰμὲν ἐὐπτολέμου ᾿Αχιλῆος,
τῷ νύ σέ pace τεκέσθαι εὔφρονα Δηιδάμειαν'
καὶ δ᾽ αὐτοὶ τεὸν εἶδος ἐΐσκομεν ἀνέρι κείνῳ 185
πάμπαν" ὁ δ᾽ ἀθανάτοισι πολυσθενέεσσιν ἐῴκει.
εἰμὶ δ᾽ ἐγὼν ᾿Ιθάκηθεν, ὁ δ᾽ λργεος ἱπποβότοιο,
εἴ ποτε Τυδείδαο δαΐφρονος οὔνομ᾽ ἄκουσας,
ἢ καὶ ᾿Οδυσσῆος πυκιμήδεος, ὅς νύ τοι ἄγχι
αὐτὸς ἐγὼν ἕστηκα θεοπροπίης ἕνεκ᾽ ἐλθών" 190
ἀλλ᾽ ἐλέαιρε τάχιστα καὶ ᾿Αργείοις ἐ ἐπάμυνον
ἐλθὼν ἐ ἐς Τροίην. ὡς γὰρ τέλος ἔσσετ᾽ “Apne.
καί τοι Sap’ ὀπάσουσιν ἀάσπετα δῖοι ᾿Αχαιοί-
τεύχεα ἡ δ᾽ αὐτὸς ἔχω γε τεοῦ πατρὸς ἀντιθέοιο
δώσω, ἅ ἅπερ φορέων μέγα τέρψεαι: οὐ γὰρ ἔοικε 195
θνητῶν τεύχεσι κεῖνα, θεοῦ δέ που "A peos ὅπλοις
ἶσα πέλει: πουλὺς δὲ περί σφισι πάμπαν ἄρηρε
χρυσὸς δαιδαλέοισι κεκασμένος, οἷσι καὶ αὐτὸς
“Ἥφαιστος μέγα θυμὸν ἐν ἀθανάτοισιν ἰάνθη
τεύχων ἄμβροτα κεῖνα, τά σοι μέγα θαῦμα ἰδόντι 200
ἔσσεται, οὕνεκα γαῖα καὶ οὐρανὸς ἠδὲ θάλασσα
ἀμφὶ σάκος πεπόνηται ἀπειρεσίῳ T evi! κύκλῳ
ζῷα πέριξ ἤσκηνται ἐοικότα κινυμένοισι,
θαῦμα καὶ ἀθανάτοισι: βροτῶν δ᾽ οὐπώποτε τοῖα
οὔτε τις ἔδρακε πρόσθεν ἐν ἀνδράσιν οὔτ᾽ ἐφό-
βησεν, 205
εἰ μὴ σός ye πατήρ, τὸν ἴσον Διὶ τῖον ᾿Αχαιοὶ
πάντες, ἐγὼ δὲ μάλιστα φίλα φρονέων ἀγάπαξζον"
1 Zimmermann, for περὶ κύκλῳ of v.
312
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK VII
But he, or ever they had spoken, cried :
« All hail, ye strangers, unto this mine home
Say whence ye are, and who, and what the need
That hither brings you over barren seas.”
So spake he, and Odysseus answered him:
«Friends are we of Achilles lord of war,
To whom of Deidameia thou wast born—
Yea, when we look on thee we seem to see
That Hero’s self; and like the Immorta! Ones
Was he. Of Ithaca am I: this man
Of Argos, nurse of horses—if perchance
Thou hast heard the name of Tydeus’ warrior son
Or of the wise Odysseus. Lo, I stand
Before thee, sent by voice of prophecy.
I pray thee, pity us: come thou to Troy
And help us. Only so unto the war
An end shall be. Gifts beyond words to thee
The Achaean kings shall give: yea, I myself
Will give to thee thy godlike father’s arms,
And great shall be thy joy in bearing them ;
For these be like no mortal’s battle-gear,
But splendid as the very War-god’s arms.
Over their marvellous blazonry hath gold
Been lavished ; yea, in heaven Hephaestus’ self
Rejoiced in fashioning that work divine,
The which thine eyes shall marvel to behold ;
For earth and heaven and sea upon the shield
Are wrought, and in its wondrous compass are
Creatures that seem to live and move—a wonder
Even to the Immortals. Never man
Hath seen their like, nor any man hath worn,
Save thy sire only, whom the Achaeans all
Honoured as Zeus himself. I chiefliest
From mine heart loved him, and when he was slain,
313
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
’ fd A "
καΐ οἱ ἀποκταμένοιο νέκυν ποτὶ νῆας ἔνεικα
a / > / “4 ? /
πολλοῖς δυσμενέεσσιν ἀνηλέα πότμον ὀπάσσας"
τοὔνεκά μοι κείνοιο περικλυτὰ τεύχεα δῶκε 210
an f \ 3 7
δία Θέτις: τὰ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ αὖθις ἐελδόμενός περ ἔγωγε
7 e /
δώσω προφρονέως, ὁπότ᾽ Ἴλιον εἰσαφίκηαι.
[4
kat νύ σε καὶ Μενέλαος, ἐπὴν ἸΤριάμοιο πόληα
/ va » ¢ / /
πέρσαντες νήεσσιν ἐς Ελλάδα νοστήσωμεν,
αὐτίκα γαμβρὸν ἐὸν ' ποιήσεται, ἢν ἐθέλῃσθα, 215
᾽ 7 3 7 > 7 / v ples?
ἀμφ᾽ εὐεργεσίης" δώσει δέ τοι ἄσπετ᾽ ἄγεσθαι
/ 3 oe
κτήματά TE χρυσόν τε μετ᾽ ἠὔκόμοιο θυγατρός,
cf 3,53 / “ 3 ee 4 a Σ᾽
ὅσσ᾽ ἐπέοικεν ἕπεσθαι ἐϊκτεάνῳ βασιλῆι.
¢ 4
‘Os φάμενον προσέειπεν Αχελλέος ὄβριμος υἱός"
“ εἰ μὲν δὴ καλέουσι θεοπροπίησιν ᾿Αχαιοί, 220
» 53 ΄ LS man Wp ΄ ’
αὔριον αἶψα vewpeO ἐπ᾽ εὐρέα βένθεα πόντου,
ὃ a ἣν
ἤν τι φάος Δαναοῖσι λιλαιομένοισι γένωμαι:
a > ΄ - /
νῦν © ἴομεν ποτὶ δώματ᾽ évEewov Te τράπεζαν,
6, /
οἵην περ ξείνοισι θέμις παρατεκτήνασθαι"
rn n / 39 =
ἀμφὶ δ᾽ ἐμοῖο γάμοιο θεοῖς μετόπισθε μελήσει. 225
Ὡς εἰπὼν ἡγεῖθ' οἱ δ᾽ ἑσπόμενοι μέγα χαῖρον’
an /
καί p ὅτε δὴ μέγα δῶμα κίον καὶ κάλλιμον αὐλήν,
/ \ A
εὗρον Δηιδάμειαν ἀκηχεμένην ἐνὶ θυμῷ
τηκομένην θ᾽, ὡσεί τε χιὼν κατατήκετ᾽ ὄρεσσιν
b) /
ὑὔρου ὑπὸ Auyéos Kal ἀτειρέος ἠελίοιο" 230
ἃ σ΄ ΄ / > ὃ Ν ? a
ὼς ἥ γε φθινύθεσκε δεδουπότος ἀνδρὸς ἀγαυοῦ"
\ a
καί μιν ἔτ᾽ ἀχνυμένην περ ἀγακλειτοὶ βασιλῆες
» ΄ δὴ Seri i fo δὲ ἘΠ 9 Aq) ΩΣ
ἠσπάζοντ᾽ ἐπέεσσι" πάϊς δέ οἱ ἐγγύθεν ἐλθὼν
a b ΄
μυθεῖτ᾽ ἀτρεκέως γενεὴν καὶ οὔνομ᾽ ἑκάστου"
\ 2 «“ ϑυοξ » / / 2 IA
χρειὼ δ᾽, ἥντιν᾽ ἵκανον, ἐπέκρυφε μέχρις ἐς ἡῶ, 285
᾽ cy ,
ὄφρα μὴ ἀχνυμένην μὲν ἕλῃ πολύδακρυς avin,
1 Zimmermann, ex P; for of γαμβρὸν of Koechly.
314
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK VII
To many a foe I dealt a ruthless doom,
And through them all bare back to the ships his corse.
Therefore his glorious arms did Thetis give
Tome. These, though I prize them well, to thee
Will I give gladly when thou com’st to Troy.
Yea also, when we have smitten Priam’s town,
And unto Hellas in our ships return,
Shall Menelaus give thee, an thou wilt,
His princess-child to wife, of love for thee,
And with his bright-haired daughter shall bestow
Rich dower of gold and treasure, even all
That meet is to attend a wealthy king.”’
So spake he, and replied Achilles’ son:
“ΓΕ bidden of oracles the Achaean men
Summon me, let us with to-morrow’s dawn
Fare forth upon the broad depths of the sca,
If so to longing Danaans I may prove
A light of help. Now pass we to mine halls,
And to such guest-fare as befits to set
Before the stranger. For my marriage-day—
To this the Gods in time to come shall see.”
Then hall-ward ied he them, and with glad hearts
They followed. To the forecourt when they came
Of that great mansion, found they there the Queen
Deidameia in her sorrow of soul
Grief-wasted, as when snow from mountain-sides
Before the sun and east-wind wastes away ;
So pined she for that princely hero slain.
Then came to her amidst her grief the kings,
And greeted her in courteous wise. Her son
Drew near and told their lineage and their names ;
But that for which they came he left untold
Until the morrow, lest unto her woe
There should be added grief and floods of tears,
And lest her prayers should hold him from the path
315
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
και μιν ἀπεσσύμενον μάλα λισσομένη κατερύκῃ.
αἶψα δὲ δαῖτ’ ἐπάσαντο καὶ ὕπνῳ θυμὸν ἴ ἴηναν
πάντες, ὅσοι Σκύροιο πέδον περιναιετάασκον
εἰναλίης, τὴν μακρὰ περιβρομέουσι θαλάσσης 240)
κύματα ῥηγνυμένοιο πρὸς ἡόνας Αἰγαίοιο'
ἀλλ᾽ οὐ Δηιδάμειαν ἐ ἐπήρατος ὕπνος ἔμαρπτεν
οὔνομα κερδαλέου μιμνησκομένην. ᾿Οδυσῆος
ἠδὲ καὶ ἀντιθέου Διομήδεος, οἵ ῥά μιν ἄμφω
εὖνιν ποιήσαντο φιλοπτολέμου ᾿Αχιλῆος 245
παρφάμενοι κείνοιο θρασὺν νόον, ὄφρ᾽ ἀφίκηται
δήϊον εἰς ἐνοπήν" τῷ δ᾽ ἄτροπος ἤντετο Μοῖρα,
ἣ οἱ ὑπέκλασε νόστον, ἀπειρέσιον δ᾽ ἄρα πένθος
πατρὶ πόρεν Πηλῆι καὶ αὐτῇ Δηιδαμείῃ.
τοὔνεκά μιν κατὰ θυμὸν ἀάσπετον ἄμφεχε δεῖμα 250
παιδὸς ἐπεσσυμένοιο ποτὶ πτολέμοιο κυδοιμόν,
μή οἱ λευγαλέῳ ἐπὶ πένθεϊ πένθος ἵκηται.
"Has δ᾽ εἰσανέβη μέγαν οὐρανόν: οἱ δ᾽ ἀπὸ
λέκτρων
καρπαλίμως @PVUYTO" νόησε δὲ Δηιδάμεια'
αἶψα δέ οἱ στέρνοισι περὶ πλατέεσσι χυθεῖσα 2585
ἀργαλέως γοάασκεν ἐς αἰθέρα μακρὰ βοῶσα'
Te βοῦς ἐ ἐν ὄρεσσιν ἀπειρέσιον μεμακυῖα
πόρτιν ἑὴν δί ζηται ἐν ἄγκεσιν, ἀμφὶ δὲ μακραὶ
οὔρεος αἰπεινοῖο περιβρομέουσι κολῶναι"
ὡς ἄρα μυρομένης ἀμφίαχεν αἰπὺ μέλαθρον 260
πάντοθεν € ἐκ μυχάτων, μέγα δ᾽ ἀσχαλόωσ᾽ ἀγόρευε'
“πέκνον, ποῖ δὴ νῦν σοὶ evs νόος ἐκπεπότηται
Ἴλιον ἐς πολύδακρυ μετὰ ξείνοισιν ἕπεσθαι,
ἧχι πολεῖς ὀλέκονται ὑπ᾽ ἀργαλέης ὑσμίνης,
καίπερ ἐπιστάμενοι πόλεμον καὶ ἀεικέα ,“χάρμην; 265
νῦν δὲ σὺ μὲν νέος ἐσσὶ καὶ οὔπω δήϊα ἔ ἔργα
οἶδας, ἅ τι ἀνθρώποισιν ἀλάλκουσιν κακὸν ἦμαρ’
ἀλλὰ σὺ μέν μεν ἄκουσον, ἕοῖς δ᾽ ἐνὶ μίμνε
δόμοισι,
316
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK VII
Whereon his heart was set. Straight feasted these,
And comforted their hearts with sleep, even all
Which dwelt in sea-ringed Scyros, nightlong lulled
By long low thunder of the girdling deep,
Of waves Aegean breaking on her shores.
But not on Deidameia fell the hands
Of kindly sleep. She bore in mind the names
Of crafty Odysseus and of Diomede
The godlike, how these twain had widowed her
Of battle-fain Achilles, how their words
Had won his aweless heart to fare with them
To meet the war-cry—where stern Fate met him,
Shattered his hope of home-return, and laid
Measureless grief on Peleus and on her.
Therefore an awful dread oppressed her soul
Lest her son too to tumult of the war
Should speed, and grief be added to her grief.
Dawn climbed the wide-arched heaven, and
straightway they
Rose from their beds. Then Deidameia knew ;
And on her son’s broad breast she cast herself,
And bitterly wailed: her cry thrilled through the
air,
As when a cow loud-lowing mid the hills
Seeks through the glens her calf, and all around
Echo long ridges of the mountain-steep ;
So on all sides from dim recesses rang
The hall ; and in her misery she cried :
“‘ Child, wherefore is thy soul now on the wing
To follow strangers unto Ilium
The fount of tears, where perish many in fight,
Yea, cunning men in war and battle grim?
And thou art but a youth, and hast not learnt
The ways of war, which save men in the day
Of peril. Hearken thou to me, abide
Here in thine home, lest evil tidings come
317
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
μὴ δή μοι Τροίηθε κακὴ φάτις oval? i ἵκηται
σεῖο καταφθιμένοιο κατὰ μόθον" οὐ γὰρ ὀΐω 270
ἐλθέμεναί σ᾽ ἔτι δεῦρο μετάτροπον εξ ὁμάδοιο"
οὐδὲ γὰρ οὐδὲ πατὴρ τεὸς ἔκφυγε Kip ἀΐδηλον,
ἀλλ᾽ ἐδάμη κατὰ δῆριν, ὅ περ καὶ σεῖο καὶ ἄλλων
ἡρώων προφέρεσκε, θεὰ δέ οἱ ἔπλετο μήτηρ,
τῶνδε δολοφροσύνῃ καὶ μήδεσιν, οἵ σε καὶ αὐτὸν 275
δῆριν ἐ ἐπὶ στονύεσσαν ἐ ἐποτρύνουσι νέεσθαι"
τοὔνεκ᾽ ἐγὼ δείδοικα περὶ κραδίη τρομέουσα,
μή μοι καὶ σέο, τέκνον, ἀποφθιμένοιο πέληται
εὖνιν ,“καλλειφθεῖσαν. ἀεικέα πήματα πάσχειν"
οὐ γάρ πώ τι γυναικὶ κακώτερον ἄλγος ἔπεισιν, 280
ἢ ὅτε παῖδες ὄλωνται ἀποφθιμένοιο καὶ ἀνδρός,
χηρωθῇ δὲ μέλαθρον ὑ ὑπ᾽ ἀργαλέου θανάτοιο"
αὐτίκα γὰρ περὶ φῶτες ἀποτμήγουσιν ἀρούρας,
κείρουσιν δέ τε πάντα καὶ οὐκ ἀλέγουσι θέμιστας"
τοὔνεκ᾽ ἄρ᾽ οὔ τι τέτυκται ὀϊζυρώτερον ἄλλο 285
χήρης ἐν μεγώροισιν ἀκιδνότερόν τε γυναικός."
Η μέγα κωκύουσα" πάϊς δέ μιν ἀντίον ηὔδα"
‘ θάρσει, μῆτερ ἐμεῖο, κακὴν δ᾽ ἀποπέμπεο φήμην"
οὐ γὰρ ὑπὲρ κῆράς τις ὑπ᾽ ἄρεϊ δάμναται avnp:
εἰ δέ μοι αἴσιμόν ἐστι δαμήμεναι εἵνεκ᾽ ᾿Αχαιῶν, 290
τεθναίην ῥέξας τι καὶ ἄξιον Αἰακίδῃσιν."
“Os φάτο: τῷ δ᾽ ἄγχιστα κίεν γεραρὸς Λυκο-
μήδης,
καί ῥά μιν ἰωχμοῖο λιλαιόμενον προσέειπεν"
τῷ ὦ τέκος ὀβριμόθυμον ἑ ἑῷ πατρὶ κάρτος ἐοικώς,
οἶδ᾽ ὅτι καρτερός ἐσσι καὶ ὄβριμος: ἀλλ᾽ ἄρα
καὶ ὡς 295
Kal πόλεμον δείδοικα πικρὸν Kal κῦμα θαλάσσης
λευγαλέον: ναῦται γὰρ ἀεὶ σχεδόν εἰσιν ὀλέθρου.
ἀλλὰ σὺ δείδιε, τέκνον, ἐπὴν πλόον εἰσαφίκηαι
ὕστερον ἢ Τροίηθεν ἢ ἄλλοθεν, οἷά τε πολλὰ
[πλαζόμεθ᾽ ἄνθρωποι ἐπ᾽ ἀπείριτα νῶτα θαλάσσης]
318
»
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From Troy unto my ears, that thou in fight
Hast perished ; for mine heart saith, never thou
Hitherward shalt from battle-toil return.
Not even thy sire escaped the doom of death—
He, mightier than thou, mightier than all
Heroes on earth, yea, and a Goddess’ son—
But was in battle slain, all through the wiles
And crafty counsels of these very men
Who now to woeful war be kindling thee.
Therefore mine heart is full of shuddering fear
Lest, son, my lot should be to live bereaved
Of thee, and to endure dishonour and pain,
For never heavier blow on woman falls
Than when her lord hath perished, and her sons
Die also, and her house is left to her
Desolate. Straightway evil men remove
Her landmarks, yea, and rob her of her all,
Setting the right at naught. There is no lot
More woeful and more helpless than is hers
Who is left a widow in a desolate home.”’
Loud-wailing spake she ; but her son replied :
“ Be of good cheer, my mother; put from thee
Evil foreboding. No man is in war
Beyond his destiny slain. If my weird be
To die in my country’s cause, then let me die
When I have done deeds worthy of my sire.”
Then to his side old Lycomedes came,
And to his battle-eager grandson spake :
“Ὁ valiant-hearted son, so like thy sire,
I know thee strong and valorous; yet, O yet
For thee I fear the bitter war; I fear
The terrible sea-surge. Shipmen evermore
Hang on destruction’s brink. Beware, my child,
Perils of waters when thou sailest back
From Troy or other shores, such as beset
Full oftentimes the voyagers that ride
319
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
τῆμος, OT αἰγοκερῆι συνέρχεται ἠερόεντι 800
ἠέλιος μετόπισθε βαλὼν ῥυτῆρα βελέμνων
τοξευτήν, ὅτε χεῖμα λυγρὸν κλονέουσιν ἄελλαι,
ἢ ὁπότ᾽ Ὠκεανοῖο κατὰ πλατὺ χεῦμα φέρονται
ἄστρα κατερχομένοιο ποτὶ κνέφας ᾿Ὡρίωνος"
δείδιε δ᾽ ἐν φρεσὶ σῇσιν ἰσημερίην ἀλεγεινήν, 305
ἧ ἔνι συμφορέονται av “εὐρέα βένθεα πόντου
ἔκποθεν ἀΐσσουσαι ὑπὲρ μέγα λαῖτμα θύελλαι,
ὴ ὅτε ]ληιάδων πέλεται δύσις, ἥν pa καὶ αὐτὴν
δείδιθι μαιμώωσαν ἔσω ἁλὸς ἠδὲ καὶ ἄλλα
ἄστρα, τά που μογεροῖσι πέλει δέος ἀνθρώποισι 310
δυόμεν᾽ ἢ ἀνιόντα κατὰ πλατὺ χεῦμα θαλασσης."
Ὡς εἰπὼν κύσε παῖδα καὶ οὐκ ἀνέεργε κελεύθου
ἱμείροντα μόθοιο δυσηχέος" ὃς δ᾽ ἐρατεινὸν
μειδιόων ἐπὶ νῆα θοῶς ὦ ὥρμαινε νέεσθαι.
ἀλλά μιν εἰσέτι μητρὸς ἐνὶ μεγάροισιν ἔρυκε 315
δακρυόεις ὀαρισμὸς ἐπισπεύδοντα πόδεσσιν.
ὡς δ᾽ ὅτε τις θοὸν ἵππον ἐπὶ δρόμον ἰσχανόωντα
εἴργει ἐφεζόμενος, ὁ ὃ 8 ἐρυκανόωντα χαλινὸν
δάπτει ἐπιχρεμέθων, στέρνον δέ οἱ ἀφριόωντος
δεύεται, οὐδ᾽ ἢ ἵστανται ἐελδόμενοι πόδες οἴμης,Ἠ 3820
πουλὺς δ᾽ ἀμφ᾽ ἕνα χῶρον ἐλαφροτάτοις ὑπὸ
\
ποσσὶ
ταρφέα κινυμένοιο πέλει κτύπος, ἀμφὶ δὲ χαῖται
ῥώοντ᾽ ἐσσυμένοιο, κάρη δ᾽ εἰς ὕψος ἀείρει,
φυσιόων μάλα πολλά, νόος δ᾽ ἐπιτέρπετ᾽ ἄνακτος"
ὡς ἄρα κύδιμον υἷα μενεπτολέμου ᾿Αχιλῆος 325
μήτηρ μὲν κατέρυκε, πόδες δέ οἱ ἐγκονέεσκον"
ἡ δὲ καὶ ἀχνυμένη περ ἑῷ ἐπαγάλλετο παιδί.
Ὃς δέ “μιν ἀμφικύσας μάλα μυρία κάλλιπε
,"μούνην
μυρομένην ἀλεγεινὰ φίλου κατὰ δώματα πατρός"
οἵη δ᾽ ἀμφὶ μέλαθρα μέγ᾽ ἀσχαλόωσα χελιδὼν 330
μύρεται αἰόλα τέκνα, τά που μάλα TETPLYOTA
320
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK VII
The long sea-ridges, when the sun hath left
The Archer-star, and meets the misty Goat,
When the wild blasts drive on the lowering storm,
Or when Orion to the darkling west
Slopes, into Ocean’s river sinking slow.
Beware the time of equal days and nights,
When blasts that o’er the sea’s abysses rush,—
None knoweth whence—in fury of battle clash.
Beware the Pleiads’ setting, when the sea
Maddens beneath their power—nor these alone,
But other stars, terrors of hapless men,
As o’er the wide sea-gulf they set or rise.”
Then kissed he him, nor sought to stay the feet
Of him who panted for the clamour of war,
Who smiled for pleasure and for eagerness
To haste to the ship. Yet were his hurrying feet
Stayed by his mother’s pleading and her tears
Still in those halls awhile. As some swift horse
Is reined in by his rider, when he strains
Unto the race-course, and he neighs, and champs
The curbing bit, dashing his chest with foam,
And his feet eager for the course are still
Never, his restless hooves are clattering aye;
His mane is a stormy cloud, he tosses high
His head with snortings, and his lord is glad;
So reined his mother back the glorious son
Of battle-stay Achilles, so his feet
Were restless, so the mother’s loving pride
Joyed in her son, despite her heart-sick pain.
A thousand times he kissed her, then at last
Left her alone with her own grief and moan
There in her father’s halls. As o’er her nest
A swallow in her anguish cries aloud
For her lost nestlings which, mid piteous shrieks,
121
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
αἰνὸς ὄφις κατέδαψε καὶ ἤκαχε μητέρα κεδνήν,
ἡ δ᾽ ὁτὲ μὲν χήρην περιπέπταται ἀμφὶ καλιήν,
ἄλλοτε δ᾽ εὐτύκτοισι περὶ προθύροισι ποτᾶται
αἰνὰ κινυρομένη τεκέων ὕπερ' ὡς ἄρα κείνου 335
μύρετο Δηιδάμεια, καὶ υἱέος ἄλλοτε μέν που
εὐνὴν ἀμφιχυθεῖσα μέγ᾽ ἴαχεν, ἄλλοτε δ᾽ αὖτε
κλαῖεν ἐπὶ φλιῇσι" φίλῳ ὃ ἐγκάτθετο κόλπῳ,
el τί οἱ ἐν μεγάροισι τετυγμένον 1) ἦεν ἄθυρμα,
ᾧ ἔπι τυτθὸς ἐ ἐὼν ἀταλὰς φρένας Laver Kev’ 340
ἀμφὶ δέ οἱ καὶ ἄκοντα λελειμμένον εἴ που ἴδοιτο,
ταρφέα μιν φιλέεσκε, καὶ εἴ τί περ ἄλλο γοῶσα
ἔδρακε παιδὸς ἑοῖο δαΐφρονος. οὐδ᾽ ὅ γε μητρὸς
ἄσπετ᾽ ὀδυρομένης ἔ ἔτ᾽ ἐπέκλυεν, ἀλλ᾽ | ἀπάτερθε
βαῖνε θοὴν ἐπὶ νῆα" φέρον δέ μιν ὠκέα ἤναι 345
ἀστέρι. παμφανόωντι πανείκελον. ἀμφὶ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽
αὐτῷ
ἕσπετ᾽ ὁμῶς Ὀδυσῆι δαΐφρονι Τυδέος υἱός,
ἄχλοι T εἴκοσι φῶτες ἀρηράμενοι φρεσὶ θυμόν,
τοὺς ἔχε κεδνοτάτους € ἐν δώμασι Δηιδάμεια,
καί σφας ἑ ἑῷ πόρε παιδὶ θοοὺς ἔμεναι θεράποντας. 350
οἱ τότ᾽ ᾿Αχιλλέος. υἷα θρασὺν περιποιπνύεσκον
ἐσσύμενον ποτὶ νῆα Ov ἄστεος" ὃς δ᾽ ἐνὶ μέσσοις
ἤιε καγχαλόων" κεχώροντο δὲ Νηρηῖναι
ἀμφὶ Θέτιν" καὶ δ᾽ αὐτὸς ἐγήθεε Κυανοχαίτης
εἰσορόων ᾿Αχιλῆος ἀμύμονος ὄβριμον υἷα, 355
ὡς ἤδη πολέμοιο λιλαίετο δακρυόεντος
καίπερ ἐὼν ἔτι παιδνός, ἔτ᾽ ἄχνοος" ἀλλά μιν
ἀλκὴ
καὶ μένος ὀτρύνεσκεν' ens δ᾽ ἐξέσσυτο πάτρης,
οἷος ᾿ Ἄρης, ὅτε μῶλον ἐπέρχεται. αἱματόεντα
χωόμενος δηίοισι, μέμηνε δέ οἱ μέγα θυμός, 860
καί οἱ ἐπισκύνιον βλοσυρὸν πέλει, ἀμφὶ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽
αὐτῷ
ὄμματα μαρμαίρουσιν ἴσον πυρί, ταὶ δὲ παρειαὶ
222
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK VII
A fearful serpent hath devoured, and wrung
The loving mother’s heart ; and now above
That empty cradle spreads her wings, and now
‘lies round its porchway fashioned cunningly
Lamenting piteously her little ones:
So for her child Deidameia mourned.
Now on her son’s bed did she cast hersel:
Crying aloud, against his door-post now
She leaned, and wept: now laid she in her lap
Those childhood’s toys yet treasured in her bower,
Wherein his babe-heart joyed long years agone.
She saw a dart there left behind of him,
And kissed it o'er and o’er—yea, whatso else
Her weeping eyes beheld that was her son’s.
Naught heard he of her moans unutterable,
But was afar, fast striding to the ship.
He seemed, as his feet swiftly bare him on,
Like some all-radiant star; and at his side
With Tydeus’ son war-wise Odysseus went,
And with them twenty gallant-hearted men,
Whom Deidameia chose as trustiest
Of all her household, and unto her son
Gave them for henchmen swift to do his will.
And these attended Achilles’ valiant son,
As through the city to the ship he sped.
On, with glad laughter, in their midst he strode ;
And Thetis and the Nereids joyed thereat.
Yea, glad was even the Raven-haired, the Lord
Of all the sea, beholding that brave son
Of princely Achilles, marking how he longed
For battle. Beardless boy albeit he was,
His prowess and his might were inward spurs
To him. He hasted forth his fatherland
Like to the War-god, when to gory strife
He speedeth, wroth with foes, when maddeneta
His heart, and grim his frown is, and his eyes
$23
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
, ς a ἢ , / 2 \
κάλλος ὁμοῦ κρυόεντι φόβῳ καταειμέναι αἰεὶ
φαίνοντ᾽ ἐσσυμένου, τρομέουσι δὲ καὶ θεοὶ αὐτοί:
a YA 2 οὶ IA. fw e Py AE ee 64
τοῖος ἔην ᾿Αχιλῆος ἐὺς πάϊς" οἱ δ᾽ ava ἄστυ 365
evyovT ἀθανάτοισι σαωσέμεν ἐσθλὸν ἄνακτα
’ » ΄
ἀργαλέου παλίνορσον ἀπ᾽ “Apeos: οἱ δ᾽ ἐσάκουσαν
- - / © Ὁ
εὐχομένων: ὁ δὲ πάντας ὑπείρεχεν, οἵ οἱ ἕποντο.
᾿Ελθόντες δ᾽ ἐπὶ θῖνα βαρυγδούποιο θαλάσσης
εὗρον ἔπειτ᾽ ἐλατῆρας ἐὐξόου ἔνδοθι νηὸς 370
ἱστία τ᾽ ἐντύνοντας ἐπειγομένους T ἀνὰ νῆα:
αἷψα δ᾽ ἐν αὐτοὶ ἔβαν" ' τοὶ δ᾽ ἔκτοθι πείσματ᾽
ἔλυσαν
> oe bd “ΔΜ / / / ὟΝ ω
εὐνάς θ᾽, αἱ νήεσσι μέγα σθένος αἰὲν ἕπονται.
a lites "sane > cA , ” > ,
τοῖσι ὃ ἄρ᾽ εὐπλοΐην πόσις ὥπασεν Αμφιτρίτης
/ ΄ e SN \ / ᾽
προφρονέως" μάλα γάρ οἱ ἐνὶ φρεσὶ μέμβλετ
αιῶν 375
/ \ \ > 7 12
τειρομένων ὑπὸ Τρωσὶ καὶ Εὐρυπύλῳ μεγαθύμῳ.
οἱ δ᾽ ᾿Αχιλήιον υἷα παρεζόμενοι ἑκάτερθε
τέρπεσκον μύθοισιν ἑ ἑοῦ πατρὸς ἔργ᾽ ἐνέποντες,
ὅσσα T ἀνὰ πλόον εὐρὺν ἐμήσατο καὶ ποτὶ γαίῃ
Τηλέφου ἀγχεμάχοιο, καὶ ὁππόσα Τρῶας ἔρεξεν 380
ἀμφὶ πόλιν Πριάμοιο φέρων κλέος ᾿Ατρείδησι"
τοῦ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἰαίνετο θυμὸς ἐελδομένοιο καὶ αὐτοῦ
πατρὸς ἀταρβήτοιο κλέος καὶ κῦδος ,ἀρέσθαι.
Ἣ δέ που ἐν θαλάμοισιν ἀκηχεμένη περὶ παιδὶ
ἐσθλὴ Δηιδάμεια πολύστονα δάκρυα χεῦε, 385
καί οἱ ἐνὶ φρεσὶ θυμὸς ὑπ᾽ ἀργαλέῃσιν ἀνίῃς
τήκεθ᾽, ὅπως ἀλαπαδνὸς ἐ ἐπ᾽ ἀνθρακίῃσι μόλιβδος
ἠὲ τρύφος Knpoto: γόος δέ μιν οὔποτ᾽ ἔλειπε
δερκομένην ἐπὶ πόντον ἀπείριτον" οὕνεκα μήτηρ
ἄχνυθ' ἑῷ περὶ παιδί, καὶ ἢν ἐπὶ δαῖτ᾽ ἀφίκηται 990
[τηλόθι ᾿κεκλόμενος φίλου ἀνδρὸς ἐς ἀλλότριον
ῶ.
1 Zimmermann, for ἄρ᾽ αὐτὸς ἔβη, οὗ v.
324
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK VII
Flash levin-flame around him, and his face
Is clothed with glory of beauty terror-blent,
As on he rusheth: quail the very Gods.
So seemed Achilles’ goodly son; and prayers
Went up through all the city unto Heaven
To bring their Bole prince safe back from war ;
And ἼΣΑ Gods hearkened to them. High he
towered
Above all stateliest men which followed him.
So came they to the heavy-plunging sea,
And found the rowers in the smooth-wrought ship
Handling the tackle, fixing mast and sail.
Straightway they went aboard : the shipmen cast
The hawsers loose, and heaved the anchor-stones,
The strength and stay of ships in time of need.
Then did the Sea- -queen’ s lord grant voyage fair
To these with gracious mind; for his heart yearned
O’er the Achaeans, by the Trojan men
And mighty-souled Eurypylus hard-bestead.
On either side of Neoptolemus sat
Those heroes, gladdening his soul with tales
Of his sire’s mighty deeds—of all he wrought
In sea-raids, and in valiant Telephus’ land,
And how he smote round Priam’s burg the men
Of Troy, for glory unto Atreus’ sons.
His heart glowed, fain to grasp his heritage,
His ΕΣ freer s honour and renown.
In her bower, sorrowing for her son the while,
Deidameia poured forth sighs and tears.
With agony of soul her very heart
Melted in her, as over coals doth lead
Or wax, and never did her moaning cease,
As o’er the wide sea her gaze followed him.
Ay, for her son a mother fretteth still,
Though it be to a feast that he hath gone,
By a friend bidden forth. But soon the sail
325
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
SNe) 9 ἘΠῚ , Ἁ Ἂ Ld \ ’ 7
καὶ Pa οἱ ἱστία νηὸς ἀπόπροθι πολλὸν τοὐσὴς
ἤδη ἀπεκρύπτοντο καὶ ἠέρι φαίνεθ᾽ ὁμοῖα:
ἀλλ᾽ ἡ μὲν στονάχιξε πανημερίη γοόωσα.
Νηῦς δ᾽ ἔθεεν κατὰ πόντον ἐπισπομένου ἀνέμοιο
τυτθὸν ἐπιψαύουσα πολυρροθίοιο θαλάσσης" 395
πορφύρεον δ᾽ ἑκάτερθε περὶ τρόπιν EBpaye κῦμα:
aivra δὲ νηῦς μέγα λαῖτμα διήνυσε ποντοποροῦσα.
> \ / e / Ν » fA e Pe opie walls
ἀμφὶ δέ οἱ πέσε νυκτὸς ἔπι κνέφας" ἡ δ᾽ ὑπ᾽ ἀήτῃ
πλῶε κυβερνήτῃ τε διαπρήσσουσα θαλάσσης
> ,
βένθεα: θεσπεσίη δὲ πρὸς οὐρανὸν ἤλυθεν "Hws. 400
a ere ie) ’ PW NOI A , a
τοῖσι δ᾽ ap ᾿Ιδαίων ὀρέων φαίνοντο κολῶναι
Χρῦσά τε καὶ Σμίνθειον ἕδος καὶ Σιγιὰς ἄκρη
τύμβος T Αἰακίδαο δαΐφρονος" ἀλλά μιν οὔτι
ΘᾺ , 4 ld SN 6
υἱὸς Aaéptao πύκα φρονέων ἐνὶ θυμῷ ;
a / 3
δεῖξε Νεοπτολέμῳ, ἵνα οἱ μὴ πένθος ἀέξη 405
θυμὸς ἐνὶ στήθεσσι. παρημείβοντο δὲ νήσους
ἣν ,
αἶψα Kadvévaias: Tévedos δ᾽ ἀπελείπετ᾽ ὀπίσσω"
φαίνετο δ᾽ avt ᾿Ιλεοῦντος ἕδος, τόθι Πρωτεσιλάου
σῆμα πέλει πτελέησι κατάσκιον αἰπεινῆσιν,
(Pa ἐς δ AG , > 3 / > , /
αἵ ῥ᾽ ὁπότ᾽ ἀθρήσωσιν ἀνερχόμεναι δαπέδοιο 410
Ἴλιον, αὐτίκα τῆσι θοῶς αὐαίνεται ἄκρα.
na 3ϑ». » / » / 5 , ’
νῆα δ᾽ ἐρεσσομένην ἄνεμος φέρεν ἀγχόθι Τροίης"
ἵκετο δ᾽ ἧχι καὶ ἄλλαι ἔσαν παρὰ θίνεσι νῆες
᾿Αργείων, οἱ τῆμος ὀϊζυρῶς πονέοντο
μαρνάμενοι περὶ τεῖχος, ὅπερ πάρος αὐτοὶ ἔδειμαν 415
νηῶν ἔμμεναι ἕρκος ἐϊσθενέων θ᾽ ἅμα λαῶν
> th \ 20 LS e ᾽ > / Zz
ἐν πολέμῳ: τὸ δ᾽ ap ἤδη ὑπ᾽ Ἑὐρυπύλοιο χέρεσσι
/ > s 5 / X ,
μέλλεν ἀμαλδύνεσθαι ἐρειπόμενον ποτὶ γαίῃ,
5 \ Sas 5 WO ΎΨ, lal 4 eX
εἰ μὴ ap αἶψ᾽ ἐνόησε κραταιοῦ Τυδέος υἱὸς
βαλλόμεν᾽ ἕρκεα μακρά: θοῆς δ᾽ ἄφαρ ἔκθορε νηός, 420
θαρσαλέως δ᾽ ἐβόησεν, ὅσον χάδε οἱ κέαρ ἔνδον"
226
ἘΠΕ ΕΑ OFVEROY } BOOK ‘VII
Of that good ship far- fleeting o’er the blue
Grew faint and fainter—melted in sea-haze.
But still she sighed, still daylong made her moan.
On ran the ship before a following wind,
Seeming to skim the myriad-surging sea,
And crashed the dark wave either side the prow:
Swiftly across the abyss unplumbed she sped.
Night’s darkness fell about her, but the breeze
Held, and the steersman’s hand was sure. O’er gulfs
Of brine she flew, till Dawn divine rose up
To climb the sky. Then sighted they the peaks
Of Ida, Chrysa next, and Smintheus’ fane,
Then the Sigean strand, and then the tomb
Of Aeacus’ son. Yet would Laertes’ seed,
The man discreet of soul, not point it out
To Neoptolemus, lest the tide of grief
Too high should swell within his breast. They
passed
Calydnae’s isles, left Tenedos behind ;
And now was seen the fane of Eleus,
Where stands Protesilaus’ tomb, beneath
The shade of towery elms; when, soaring high
Above the plain, their topmost boughs discern
Troy, straightway wither all their highest sprays.
Nigh Ilium now the ship by wind and oar
Was brought: they saw the long strand fringed with
keels
Of Argives, who endured sore travail of war
Even then about the wall, the which themselves
Had reared to screen the ships and men in stress
Of battle. Even now Eurypylus’ hands
To earth were like to dash it and destroy ;
But the quick eyes of Tydeus’ strong son marked
How rained the darts and stones on that long wall.
Forth of the ship he sprang, and shouted loud
With all the strength of his undaunted breast :
327
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
a /
“ὦ φίλοι, ἢ μέγα πῆμα κυλίνδεται ᾿Αργείοισι
/ ᾽ Say, na 3 7 vA /
σήμερον" ἀλλ᾽ aye θᾶσσον ἐς αἰόλα τεύχεα δύντες
ἴομεν ἐς πολέμοιο πολυκμήτοιο κυδοιμόν'"
ἤδη γὰρ πύργοισιν ἐφ᾽ ἡμετέροισι μάχονται 425
Τρῶες ἐὐπτόλεμοι, τοὶ δὴ τάχα τείχεα μακρὰ
ῥηξάμενοι πυρὶ νῆας ἐνιπρήσουσι μάλ᾽ αἰνῶς"
νῶϊν δ᾽ οὐκέτι νόστος ἐελδομένοις ἀνὰ θυμὸν
᾽ 3 ͵ 5
ἔσσεται: ἀλλὰ Kal αὐτοὶ ὑπὲρ μόρον αἶψα
δαμέντες
, Ων lal
κεισόμεθ᾽ ἐν Tpoin, τεκέων ἑκὰς ἠδὲ γυναικῶν. 430
Ὡς φάτο: τοὶ δ᾽ ὠκιστα θοῆς ἐκ νηὸς ὄρουσαν
« / τ
πανσυδίῃ: πάντας γὰρ ἕλε τρόμος εἰσαΐοντας
i of. ¢ >
νόσφι Νεοπτολέμοιο δαΐφρονος, οὕνεκ᾽ ἐῴκει
\ / / ΄ ” / εν
πατρὶ φίλῳ μέγα κάρτος" ἔρως δέ οἱ ἔμπεσε
ys Sl wt i » ὦ \ ,ὔ 3
καρπαλίμως δ᾽ ἵκοντο ποτὶ κλισίην ᾿Οδυσῆος: 435
ἡ γὰρ ἔην ἄγχιστα νεὼς κυανοπρώροιο'
\ 5 ENS ὃν \ / 7 a
πολλὰ δ᾽ ap ἐξημοιβὰ παραυτόθι τεύχεα κεῖτο,
» \ ’ a 7 7O\ NS oo.
ἡμὲν ᾿Οδυσσῆος πυκιμήδεος ἠδὲ Kal ἄλλων
ἀντιθέων ἑτάρων, ὁπόσα κταμένων ἀφέλοντο.
»Μ 3) 3 \ τὶ + \ i \ \ /
ἔνθ᾽ ἐσθλὸς μὲν ἔδυ καλὰ τεύχεα, τοὶ δὲ χέρεια 440
δῦσαν, ὅσοις ἀλαπαδνὸν ὑπὸ κραδίῃ πέλεν ἦτορ:
> Ἂ 9 \ 7 ΣΟ Core) / vg
αὐτὰρ ‘Odvacevs δύσαθ᾽ & οἱ ᾿Ιθάκηθεν ἕποντο"
δῶκε δὲ Τυδείδη Διομήδεϊ κάλλιμα τεύχη
κεῖνα, τὰ δὴ Σώκοιο βίην εἴρυσσε πάροιθεν"
εχ 2 7 99 A 107 ΄ ,
υἱὸς δ᾽ abt’ ᾿Αχιλῆος ἐδύσατο τεύχεα πατρός, 445
,ὔ e , , > / > \ 5 \
καὶ οἱ φαίνετο πάμπαν ἀλίγκιος" ἀμφὶ δ᾽ ἐλαφρὰ
᾿Ηφαίστου παλάμῃσι περὶ μελέεσσιν ἀρήρει,
καίπερ ἐόνθ᾽ ἑτέροισι πελώρια: τῷ δ᾽ ἅμα πάντα
’ A 3
φαίνετο τεύχεα κοῦφα' κάρη γε μὲν οὔτι βάρυνε
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Πηλιάς, ἀλλά ἑ χερσὶ καὶ ἠλίβατόν περ ἐοῦσαν 450
e a 4
ῥηιδίως ἀνάειρεν ἔθ᾽ αἵματος ἰσχανόωσαν.
᾽ ¢ >
Ἀργείων δέ μιν ὅσσοι ἐπέδρακον, οὔτι δύναντο
328
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK VII
“ Friends, on the Argive men is heaped this day
Sore travail! Let us don our flashing arms
With speed, and to yon battle-turmoil haste.
For now upon our towers the warrior sons
Of Troy press hard —yea, haply will they tear
The long walls down, and burn the ships with fire,
And so the souls that long for home-return
Shall win it never; nay, ourselves shall fall
Before our due time, and shall lie in graves
In Troyland, tar from children and from wives.”
All as one man down from the ship they leapt ;
For trembling seized on all for that grim sight—
On all save aweless Neoptolemus
Whose might was like his father’s: lust of war
Swept o’er him. To Odysseus’ tent in haste
They sped, for close it lay to where the ship
Touched land. About its walls was hung great
store
Of change of armour, of wise Odysseus some,
And rescued some from gallant comrades slain.
Then did the brave man put on goodly arms ;
But they in whose breasts faintlier beat their hearts
Must don the worser. Odysseus stood arrayed
In those which came with him from Ithaca:
To Diomede he gave fair battle-gear
Stripped in time past from mighty Socus slain.
But in his father’s arms Achilles’ son
Clad him—and lo, he seemed Achilles’ self!
Light on his limbs and lapping close they lay—
So cunning was Hephaestus’ workmanship—
Which for another had been a giant’s arms.
The massive helmet cumbered not his brows;
Yea, the great Pelian spear-shaft burdened not
His hand, but lightly swung he up on high
The heavy and tall lance thirsting still for blood.
Of many Argives which beheld him then
329
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
καίπερ ἐελδόμενοι σχεδὸν ἐλθέμεν, οὕνεκ᾽ ἄρ᾽
> \
αὐτοὺς
πᾶν περὶ τεῖχος ἔτειρε βαρὺς πολέμοιο κυδοιμός"
ὡς δ᾽ ὅτ᾽ av εὐρέα πόντον ἐρημαίη περὶ νήσῳ 459
ἀνθρώπων ἀπάτερθεν ἐεργμένοι ἀσχαλόωσιν
ἀνέρες, οὕς T ἀνέμοιο καταιγίδες a ἀντιόωσαι
εἴργουσιν μάλα πολλὸν ἐπὶ χρόνον, οἱ δ᾽ ἀλεγεινοὶ
νηὶ περιτρωχῶσι, καταφθινύθει δ᾽ ἄρα. πάντα
᾿ς τειρομένοισι δ᾽ ἐπιπνεύσῃ Auyus ovpos: 460
ς ἄρ᾽ ᾿Αχαιῶν ἔθνος a ἀκηχέμενον τὸ πάροιθεν
dud Νεοπτολέμοιο βίῃ κεχάροντο μολόντι
ἐλπόμενοι στονόεντος ἀναπνεύσειν καμάτοιο.
ὄσσε δέ οἱ μάρμαερεν ἀναιδέος εὖτε λέοντος,
ὅς τε κατ᾽ οὔρεα μακρὰ μέγ᾽ ἀσ αἀλόων ἐνὶ θυμῷ 465
ἔσσυται ἀγρευτῇσιν ἐναντίον, οἵ τέ οἱ ἤδη
ἄντρῳ ἐπεμβαίνωσιν ἐρύσσασθαι μεμαῶτες
σκύμνους οἰωθέντας ἑῶν ἀπὸ τῆλε τοκήων
βήσσῃ ἐνὶ σκιερῇ, ὁ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ὑψόθεν ἔκ τινος ἄκρης
ἀθρήσας ὀλοοῖσιν ἐπέσσυται ἀγρευτῇσι 470
σμερδαλέον βλοσυρῇσιν ὑπαὶ γενύεσσι βεβρυχώς"
ὡς ἄρα φαίδιμος υἱὸς ἀταρβέος Αἰακίδαο
θυμὸν ἐπὶ Τρώεσσιν ἐῦϊπτολέμοισιν ὄρινεν"
οἴμησεν δ᾽ ἄρα πρῶτον, ὅπη μάλα δῆρις ὀρώρει
ἂμ πεδίον" τῇ γάρ φρεσὶν ἔλπετο! τεῖχος ᾿Αχαιῶν 475
ῥηίτερον δηΐοισι κατὰ κλόνον ἐσσυμένοισιν,
οὕνεκ᾽ ἀκιδνοτέρῃσιν ἐπάλξεσιν ἡ ἡρήρειστο.
σὺν δέ οἱ ἄλλοι ἔβαν μέγα μαιμώωντες “Apne
εὗρον δ᾽ ; Εὐρύπυλον κρατερόφρονα, τῷ δ᾽ ἅμ᾽
ἑταίρους
πύργῳ ἐπεμβεβαῶτας, ὀϊομένους περὶ θυμῷ 480
ῥήξειν τείχεα “μακρὰ καὶ ᾿Αργείους ἀπολέσσειν
πανσυδίῃ" τοῖς δ᾽ οὔτι θεοὶ τελέεσκον ἐέλδωρ᾽
ἀλλά σφεας Ὀδυσεύς τ᾽ ἠδὲ σθεναρὸς Διομήδης
1 Zimmermann, for σφισιν ἔπλετο οἱ Koechly.
33°
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK VII
Might none draw nigh to him, how fain soe’er,
So fast were they in that grim grapple locked
Of the wild war that raged all down the wall.
But as when shipmen, under a desolate isle
Mid the wide sea by stress of weather bound,
Chafe, while afar from men the adverse blasts
Prison them many a day; they pace the deck
With sinking hearts, while scantier grows their store
Of food ; they weary till a fair wind sings ;
So joyed the Achaean host, which theretofore
Were heavy of heart, when Neoptolemus came,
Joyed in the hope of breathing-space from toil.
Then like the aweless lion’s flashed his eyes,
Which mid the mountains leaps in furious mood
To meet the hunters that draw nigh his cave,
Thinking to steal his cubs, there left alone
In a dark-shadowed glen—but from a height
The beast hath spied, and on the spoilers leaps
With grim jaws terribly roaring ; even so
That glorious child of Aeacus’ aweless son
Against the Trojan warriors burned in wrath,
Thither his eagle-swoop descended first
Where loudest from the plain uproared the fight ,
There weakest, he divined, must be the wall,
The battlements lowest, since the surge of foes
Brake heaviest there. Charged at his side the rest
Breathing the battle-spirit. There they found
Eurypylus mighty of heart and all his men
Scaling a tower, exultant in the hope
Of tearing down the walls, of slaughtering
The Argives in one holocaust. No mind
The Gods had to accomplish their desire!
But now Odysseus, Diomede the strong,
331
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
ἰσόθεὸς τε Νεοπτόλεμος δῖός τε Λεοντεὺς
ἂψ ἀπὸ τείχεος ὦσαν ἀπειρεσίοις βελέεσσιν. 488
ὡς δ᾽ ὅτ᾽ ἀπὸ σταθμοῖο κύνες μογεροί τε νομῆες
κάρτεϊ καὶ φωνῇ κρατεροὺς σεύουσι λέοντας
πάντοθεν ἐσσύμενοι, τοὶ δ᾽ ὄμμασι γλαυκιόωντες
στρωφῶντ᾽ ἔνθα καὶ ἔνθα λιλαιόμενοι μέγα θυμῷ
πόρτιας ἠδὲ βόας μετὰ γαμφηλῇσι χαφύξαι, 490
ἀλλὰ καὶ ὡς εἴκουσι κυνῶν ὑπὸ καρτεροθύμων
σευόμενοι, μάλα γάρ σφιν ἐπαΐσσουσι νομῆες"
βαιόν, ὅσον τις ἵησι χερὸς περιμήκεα λᾶαν"
* * * * * *
ov yap Τρῶας ἔα νηῶν ἀπονόσφι φέβεσθαι
Εὐρύπυλος, δηίων δὲ μάλα σχεδὸν ὀτρύνεσκε 495
μίμνειν, εἰσόκε νῆας ἕλῃ καὶ πάντας ὀλέσσῃ
᾿Αργείους: Ζεὺς γάρ οἱ ἀπειρέσιον βάλε κάρτος.
αὐτίκα δ᾽ ὀκριόεσσαν ἑλὼν καὶ ἀτειρέα πέτρην
ἧκεν ἐπεσσυμένως κατὰ τείχεος ἠλιβάτοιο'
σμερδαλέον δ᾽ ἄρα πάντα περιπλατάγησε θέμεθλα 500
ἕρκεος αἰπεινοῖο" δέος δ᾽ ἕλε πάντας ᾿Αχαιοὺς
τείχεος ὡς ἤδη συνοχωκότος ἐν κονίῃσιν.
ἀλλ᾽ οὐδ᾽ ὡς ἀπόρουσαν ἀταρτηροῖο κυδοιμοῦ,
ἀλλ᾽ ἔμενον θώεσσιν ἐοικότες me λύκοισι,
μήλων ληιστῆρσιν ἀναιδέσιν, οὕς T ἐν operat 505
ἄντρων ἐξελάσωσιν ὁμῶς κυσὶν ἀγροιῶται
ἱέμενοι σκύμνοισι φόνον στονόεντα βαλέσθαι
ἐσσυμένως, τοὶ δ᾽ οὔτι βιαζόμενοι βελέεσσι
χάζοντ᾽, ἀλλὰ μένοντες ἀμύνουσιν τεκέεσσιν"
ὡς οἱ ἀμυνόμενοι νηῶν ὕπερ ἠδὲ καὶ αὐτῶν 510
μίμνον ἐν ὑσμίνῃ" τοῖς & ὐρύπυλος θρασυ-
χάρμης
ἠπείλει μέγα πᾶσι νεῶν προπάροιθε θοάων"
“ἃ δειλοὶ καὶ ἄναλκιν ἐνὶ φρεσὶ θυμὸν ἔχοντες,
332
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK VI1l1
Leonteus, and Neoptolemus, as a God
In strength and beauty, hailed their javelins down,
And thrust them from the wall. As dogs and
shepherds
By shouting and hard fighting drive away
Strong lions from a steading, rushing forth
From all sides, and the brutes with glaring eyes
Pace to and fro; with savage lust for blood
Of calves and kine their jaws are slavering ;
Yet must their onrush give back from the hounds
And fearless onset of the shepherd folk ;
{So from these new defenders shrank the foe]
A little, far as one may hurl a stone
Exceeding great ; for still Eurypylus
Suffered them not to flee far from the ships,
But cheered them on to bide the brunt, until
The ships be won, and all the Argives slain ;
For Zeus with measureless might thrilled all his
frame.
Then seized he a rugged stone and huge, and leapt
And hurled it full against the high-built wall.
It crashed, and terribly boomed that rampart steep
To its foundations. Terror gripped the Greeks,
As though that wall had crumbled down in dust ;
Yet from the deadly conflict flinched they not,
But stood fast, like to jackals or to wolves—
Bold robbers of the sheep—when mid the hills
Hunter and hound would drive them forth their
caves,
Being grimly purposed there to slay their whelps.
Yet these, albeit tormented by the darts,
Flee not, but for their cubs’ sake bide and fight ;
So for the ships’ sake they abode and fought,
And for their own lives. But Eurypylus
Afront of all the ships stood, taunting them:
“ Coward and dastard souls! no darts of yours
333
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
οὐκ ἂν δὴ βεέλεεσσι νεῶν ἄπο ταρβήσαντα
ἠλάσατ᾽, εἰ μὴ τεῖχος ἐμὴν ἀπέρυκεν ὁμοκλήν' 515
νῦν δέ μοι εὖτε λέοντι κύνες πτώσσοντες ἐν ὕλῃ
μάρνασθ' ἔνδον ἐ ἐόντες ἀλευόμενοι φόνον αἰπύν'"
ἢν δέ ποτ᾽ ἐκ νηῶν. ἐς Τρώιον οὖδας ἵκησθε,
ὡς τὸ πάρος μεμαῶτες ἐπὶ μόθον, οὔ νύ τίς ὑμέας
ῥύσεται ἐκ θανάτοιο δυσηχέος, ἀλλ᾽ ἅμα πάντες 520
κείσεσθ᾽ ἐν κονίῃσιν ἐμεῦ ὕπο δηωθέντες.᾽"
Ὡς ἔφατ᾽ ἀκράαντον ἱεὶς ἔπος" οὐδέ τι ἤδη
ὅττι ῥά οἱ μέγα πῆμα κυλίνδετο βαιὸν ἄπωθεν
χερσὶ Νεοπτολέμοιο θρασύφρονος, ὃ ὅς μεν ἔμελλε
δάμνασθ' οὐ μετὰ δηρὸν ὑ ὑπ᾽ ἔγχεϊ μαιμώωντι. 525
οὐδὲ μὲν οὐδὲ τότ᾽ ἐ ἔσκεν ἄτερ κρατεροῖο πόνοιο,
ἀλλ᾽ ἄρα Τρῶας ἔναιρεν ἀφ᾽ ἕρκεος" οἱ δ᾽ ἐφέβοντο
βαλλόμενοι καθύπερθε: περικλονέοντο δ᾽ ἀνάγκῃ
Εὐρυπύχῳ: πάντας γὰρ ἀνιηρὸν δέος 7) ἥρει"
ὡς δ᾽ ὅτε νηπίαχοι περὶ γούνασι “πατρὸς ἑοῖο 530
πτώσσουσι βροντὴν μεγάλου Διὸς ἀμφὶ νέφεσσι
ῥηγνυμένην, ὅτε δεινὸν ἐπιστοναχίζεται αἰθήρ:
ὡς ἄρα Τρώιοι υἷες ἐν ἀνδράσι Κητείοισιν
ἀμφὶ μέγαν βασιλῆα Νεοπτόλεμον φοβέοντο
πᾶν θ᾽ 6! τι χερσὶν ἕηκεν" ἐς ἰθὺ γὰρ ἔπτατο πῆμα, 535
δυσμενέων κεφαλῇσι φέρον πολύδακρυν᾽ Apna.
οἱ δ᾽ ap ἀμηχανίῃ βεβολημένοι ἔνδοθεν ἦτορ
T poss ἔφαντ᾽ ᾿Αχιλῆα πελώριον εἰσοράασθαι
αὐτὸν ὁμῶς τεύχεσσι" καὶ ἀμφασίην ἀχεγεινὴν
κεῦθον ὑπὸ κραδίῃ, ἵ ἵνα μὴ δέος αἰνὸν ἵκηται 540
ἐς φρένα Κητείων μηδ᾽ Εὐρυπύλοιο ἄνακτος"
αὐτοῦ δ᾽ ἄλλοθεν ἄλλος ἀπειρέσιον τρομέοντες
μεσσηγὺς κακότητος ἔσαν κρυεροῦ τε φόβοιο"
αἰδὼς γὰρ κατέρυκεν ὁμῶς καὶ Seip ἀλεγεινόν.
ὡς δ᾽ ὅτε παιπαλόεσσαν ὁδὸν κάτα ποσσὶν ἰόντες 545
ἀνέρες ἀθρήσωσιν ἀπ᾽ οὔρεος ἀΐσσοντα
1 Zimmermann, for πᾶν 6 τι of Koechly.
Son
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK VII
Had given me pause, nor thrust back from your ships,
Had not your rampart stayed mine onset-rush.
Ye are like to dogs, that in a forest flinch
Before a lion! Skulking therewithin
Ye are fighting—nay, are shrinking back from death!
But if ye dare come forth on Trojan ground,
As once when ye were eager for the fray,
None shall from ghastly death deliver you:
Slain by mine hand ye all shall lie in dust!”
So did he shout a prophecy unfulfilled,
Nor heard Doom’s chariot-wheels fast rolling near
Bearing swift death at Neoptolemus’ hands,
Nor saw death gleaming from his glittering spear.
Ay, and that hero paused not now from fight,
But from the ramparts smote the Trojans aye.
From that death leaping from above they quailed
Jn tumult round Eurypylus: deadly fear
Gripped all their hearts. As little children cower
About a father’s knees when thunder of Zeus
Crashes from cloud to cloud, when all the air
Shudders and groans, so did the sons of Troy,
With those Ceteians round their great king, cower
Ever as prince Neoptolemus hurled ; for death
Rode upon all he cast, and bare his wrath
Straight rushing down upon the heads of foes.
Now in their hearts those wildered Trojans said
That once more they beheld Achilles’ self
Gigantic in his armour. Yet they hid
That horror in their breasts, lest panic fear
Should pass from them to the Ceteian host
And king Eurypylus ; so on every side
They wavered ‘twixt the stress of their hard strait
And that blood-curdling dread, ’twixt shame and fear.
As when men treading a precipitous path
Look up, and see adown the mountain-slope
335
QUINTUS SYMRNAEUS
χείμαρρον, καναχὴ δὲ περιβρομέει περὶ πέτρῃ,
οὐδ᾽ ἔτι οἱ μεμάασιν ἀνὰ ῥόον ἠχήεντα
δύμεναι ἐγκονέοντες, ἐπεὶ παρὰ ποσσὶν ὄλεθρον
δερκόμενοι τρομέουσι καὶ οὐκ ἀλέγουσι κελεύθου" 550
ὡς ἄρα Τρῶες ἔμιμνον ἐελδόμενοί περ ἀλύξαι
* * * * *
τεῖχος ὕπ᾽ ᾿Αργείων" τ τοὺς δ᾽ Εὐρύπυλος θεοειδὴς
αἰὲν ἐποτρύνεσκε ποτὶ κλόνον" ) γὰρ ἐώλπει
πολλοὺς δηϊόωντα πελώριον ἐν δαὶ φῶτα
χεῖρα καμεῖν καὶ κάρτος" ὁ δ᾽ οὐκ ἀπέληγε μόθοιο. 555
Τῶν δ᾽ ap ᾿Αθηναίη κρατερὸν πόνον εἰσορόωσα
κάλλυπεν ΠΣ θυωδέος αἰπὰ μέλαθρα"
βῆ δ᾽ ap ὑπὲρ κορυφὰς 1 ὀρέων: οὐδ᾽ l νεσι γαίης
ψαῦε μέγ᾽ ἐγκονέουσα: φέρεν δέ μιν ἱερὸς ἀὴρ
εἰδομένην νεφέεσσιν, ἐλαφροτέρην δ᾽ ἀνέμοιο. 560
Τροίην δ᾽ αἶψ' ἀφίκανε, πόδας δ᾽ ἐπέθηκε KONO
Σιγέου ἠνεμόεντος" ἐδέρκετο δ᾽ ἔνθεν at τὴν
ἀγχεμάχων ἀνδρῶν, κύδαινε δὲ πολλὸν ᾿Αχαιούς.
υἱὸς δ᾽ αὖτ᾽ ᾿Αχιλῆος ἐ ἔχεν πολὺ φέρτατον. ἄλλων
θάρσος ὁ ὁμοῦ καὶ κάρτος, ἅτ ᾿ἀνδράσιν εἰς ἕν ἰόντα 565
τεύχουσιν μέγα κῦδος" ὁ δ᾽ ἀμφοτέροισι κέκαστο,
οὕνεκ᾽ ἔην Διὸς αἷμα, φίλῳ δ᾽ ἤικτο TOKNL
τῷ καὶ ἄτρεστος ἐὼν πολέας κτάνεν ἀγχόθι πύργων
ὡς δ᾽ ἁλιεὺς κατὰ πόντον ἀνὴρ λελιημένος ἄγρης
τεύχων ἰχθύσι πῆμα φέρει μένος ᾿Ηφαίστοιο 570
νηὸς ἑῆς ἔντοσθε, διεγρομένῃ δ᾽ ὑπ᾽ ἀὐτμῇ
μαρμαίρει περὶ νῆα πυρὸς σέλας, οἱ δὲ κελαίνης
ἐξ ἁλὸς ἀΐσσουσι μεμαότες ὕστατον αἴγλην
εἰσιδέειν, τοὺς γάρ ῥα τανυγλώχινι τριαίνῃ
κτείνει ἐπεσσυμένους, γάνυται δέ οἱ ἦτορ ἐπ᾽
᾿ἄγρῃ: 575
ὡς apa κύδιμος υἱὸς ἐὐπτολέμου ᾿Αχιλῆος
λαΐνεον περὶ τεῖχος ἐδάμνατο δήϊα φῦλα
1 Zimmermann, for κεφαλῆς of v.
336
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK VII
A torrent rushing on them, thundering down
The rocks, and dare not meet its clamorous flood,
But hurry shuddering on, with death in sight
Holding as naught the perils of the path ;
So stayed the Trojans, spite of their desire
[Τὸ flee the imminent death that waited them]
Beneath the wall. Godlike Eurypylus
Aye cheered them on to fight. He trusted still
That this new mighty foe would weary at last
With toil of slaughter; but he wearied not.
That desperate battle-travail Pallas saw,
And left the halls of Heaven incense-sweet,
And flew o’er mountain-crests: her hurrying feet
Touched not the earth, borne by the air divine
In form of cloud-wreaths, swifter than the wind.
She came to Troy, she stayed her feet upon
Sigeum’s windy ness, she looked forth thence
Over the ringing battle of dauntless men,
And gave the Achaeans glory. Achilles’ son
Beyond the rest was filled with valour and strength
Which win renown for men in whom they meet.
Peerless was he in both: the blood of Zeus
Gave strength ; to his father’s valour was he heir ;
So by those towers he smote down many a foe.
And as a fisher on the darkling sea,
To lure the fish to their destruction, takes
Within his boat the strength of fire; his breath
Kindles it to a flame, till round the boat
Glareth its splendour, and from the black sea
Dart up the fish all eager to behold
The radiance—for the last time ; for the barbs
Of his three-pointed spear, as up they leap,
Slay them ; his heart rejoices o’er the prey.
So that war-king Achilles’ glorious son
Slew hosts of onward-rushing foes around
337
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
ἀντί ἐπεσσυμένων: πονέοντο δὲ πάντες ᾿Αχαιοὶ
ἄλλοι ὁμῶς ἄλλῃσιν ἐπάλξεσιν: ἔβραχε δ᾽ εὐρὺς
αἰγιαλὸς καὶ νῆες, ἐπεστενάχοντο δὲ μακρὰ 580
τείχεα βαλλομένων. κάματος δ᾽ ὑπεδάμνατο λαοὺς
ἄσπετος ἀμφοτέρωθε, λύοντο δὲ γυΐα καὶ ἀλκὴ
αἰζηῶν: ἀλλ᾽ οὔτι μενεπτολέμου ᾿Αχιλῆος
ἄμφεχεν υἱέα δῖον, ἐπεὶ δέϊ οἱ ὄβριμον ἧτορ
πάμπαν ἔην ἄτρυτον, ἀνιηρὸν δέος ἢ οὔτι 585
ἥψατο μαρναμένοιο" μένος δ᾽ ἀκάμαντι ἐῴκει
ἀενάῳ ποταμῷ, τὸν ἀπειρεσίη πυρὸς ὁρμὴ
οὔποτ᾽ ἰοῦσ᾽ ἐφόβησε, καὶ εἰ μέγα μαίνετ᾽ ἀήτης
Ἡφαίστου κλονέων ἱερὸν μένος, ἢν γὰρ ἵκηται
ἐγγὺς ἐπὶ προχοῇσι μαραίνεται, οὐδέ οἱ ἀλκὴ 590
ἅψασθ' ἀργαλέη σθένει ὕδατος ἀκαμάτοιο"
ὡς ἄρα Πηλείδαο δαΐφρονος viéos ἐσθλοῦ
οὔτε μόγος στονόεις οὔτ᾽ ἂρ δέος ἥψατο γούνων
αἰὲν ἐρειδομένοιο καὶ ὀτρύνοντος ἑταίρους.
οὐ μὴν οὐδὲ βέλος κείνου χρόα καλὸν ἵκανε 595
πολλῶν βαλλομένων" ἀλλ᾽ ὡς νιφάδες περὶ πέτρην
πολλάκις ἠίχθησαν ἐ ἐτώσια" πάντα γὰρ εὐρὺ
εἶργε σάκος βριαρή τε κόρυς, κλυτὰ δῶρα θεοῖο"
τοῖς ἐπικαγχαλόων κρατερὸς mais Αἰακίδαο
φοίτα μακρὰ βοῶν περὶ τείχεϊ πολλὰ κελεύων 600
ἐς μόθον. ᾿Αργείοισιν ἀταρβέσιν, οὕνεκα πάντων
πολλὸν ἔην ὄχ᾽ ἄριστος, ἔχεν. δ᾽ ἔτι θυμὸν ὁμοκλῆς
λευγαλέης ἀκόρητον, ἑοῦ δ᾽ ἄρα μήδετο πατρὸς
τίσεσθ᾽ ἀλγινόεντα φόνον" κεχάροντο δ᾽ ἄνακτι
Μυρμιδόνες" στυγερὴ δὲ πέλεν περὶ τεῖχος ἀὐτή. 605
Ἔνθα δύω κτάνε παῖδε “πολυχρύσοιο Μέ ἐγήτος,
ὃς γόνος ἔσκε Δύμαντος, ἔ ἔχεν δ᾽ ἐρικυδέας υἷας,
εἰδότας εὖ μὲν ἄκοντα βαλεῖν, εὖ δ᾽ ἵππον ἐλάσσαι
ἐν πολέμῳ καὶ μακρὸν ἐπισταμένως δόρυ πῆλαι,
1 Zimmermann, for fa of v. 2 Zimmermann, for δέ of of v.
338
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK VII
That wall of stone. Well fought the Achaeans all
Here, there, adown the ramparts: rang again
The wide strand and the ships: the battered walls
Groaned ever. Men with weary ache of toil
Fainted on either side ; sinews and might
Of strong men were unstrung. But o’er the son
Of battle-stay Achilles weariness
Crept not: his battle-eager spirit aye
Was tireless; never touched by palsying fear
He fought on, as with the triumphant strength
Of an ever-flowing river : though it roll
"Twixt blazing forests, though the madding blast
Roll stormy seas of flame, it feareth not,
For at its brink faint grows the fervent heat,
The strong flood turns its might to impotence;
So weariness nor fear could bow the knees
Of Hero Achilles’ gallant-hearted son,
Still as he fought, still cheered his comrades on.
Of myriad shafts sped at him none might touch
His flesh, but even as snowflakes on a rock
Fell vainly ever : wholly screened was he
By broad shield and strong helmet, gifts of a God.
In these exulting did the Aeacid’s son
Stride all along the wall, with ringing shouts
Cheering the dauntless Argives to the fray,
Being their mightiest far, bearing a soul
Insatiate of the awful onset-cry,
Burning with one strong purpose, to avenge
His father’s death : the Myrmidons in their king
Exulted. Roared the battle round the wall.
Two sons he slew of Meges rich in gold,
Scion of Dymas—sons of high renown,
Cunning to hurl the dart, to drive the steed
In war, and deftly cast the lance afar,
Born at one birth beside Sangarius’ banks
339
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
τοὺς τέκε οἱ ἸΠερίβοια μιῇ ὠδῖνι παρ᾽ ὄχθης 610
Σαγγαρίου, Κέλτον τε καὶ Ἐὔβιον" οὐδ᾽ ἀπόναντο
ὄλβου ἀπειρεσίοιο πολὺν χρόνον, οὕνεκα Μοῖραι
παῦρον ἐπὶ σφίσι πάγχυ τέλος βιότοιο βάλοντο'"
A 3 id 7 en € “Ὁ ἃ / ”
ἄμφω δ᾽ ὡς ἴδον ἦμαρ ὁμῶς, ὡς κάτθανον ἄμφω
χερσὶ Νεοπτολέμοιο θρασύφρονος, ὃ ὃς μὲν ἄκοντι 615
βλήμενος ἐ ἐς κραδίην, ὁ δὲ χερμαδίῳ ἀλεγεινῷ
κὰκ κεφαλῆς" βριαρὴ δὲ περιθραυσθεῖσα καρήνῳ,
> ΄ ΄ ΠΕΣ / ,
ἐθλάσθη τρυφάλεια καὶ ἐγκέφαλον συνέχευεν.
> \ be Z ΄ “ ’ Ἀ v
ἀμφὶ δ᾽ apa σφίσι φῦλα περικτείνοντο Kal ἄλλων
μυρία δυσμενέων: μέγα δ᾽ Ἄρεος ἔργον ὀρώρει, 620
{2 Smee, \ \ ’ / ” 3) EN
μέσφ᾽ ὅτε δὴ βουλυτὸς ἐπήλυθεν, ἤνυτο δ᾽ ἠὼς
ἀμβροσίη, καὶ λαὸς ἀταρβέος Εὐρυπύλοιο
χάσσατο: τυτθὸν ἄπωθε νεῶν" οἱ 10 ἀγχόθι πύργων
βαιὸν ἀνέπνευσαν' καὶ δ᾽ αὐτοὶ Τρώιοι υἷες
ἀμπαύοντο μόθοιο δυσηχέος, οὕνεκ᾽ ἐτύχθη 625
φύλοπις ἀργαλέη περὶ τείχεϊ. καί νύ χ᾽ ἅπαντες
᾿Αργεῖοι τότε νηυσὶν ἐπὶ σφετέρῃσιν ὄλοντο,
εἰ μὴ ᾿Αχιλλῆος κρατερὸς πάϊς ἤματι κείνῳ
δυσμενέων ἀπάλαλκε πολὺν στρατὸν ἠδὲ καὶ
αὐτὸν
Εὐρύπυλον. τῷ δ᾽ aia γέρων σχεδὸν ἤλυθε
Φοῖνιξ, 630
Kal μιν ἰδὼν θάμβησεν ἐοικότα Πηλείωνι"
ἀμφὶ δέ οἱ μέγα χάρμα καὶ ἄσπετον ἄλγος | ἵκανεν,
ἄλγος μὲν βνησθέντι ποδώκεος ἀμφ᾽ ᾿Αχιλῆος,
χάρμα δ᾽ ἄρ᾽, οὕνεκά οἱ κρατερὸν maid εἰσενόησε'
κλαῖε δ᾽ ὅ γ᾽ ἀσπασίως, ἐπεὶ οὔποτε φῦλ᾽ ἀν-
θρώπων 635
νόσφι yoou ζώουσι, καὶ εἴ ποτε χάρμα φέρονται.
ἀμφεχύθη δέ οἱ, εὖτε πατὴρ περὶ παιδὶ χυθείη,
ὅς τε θεῶν ὦ ἰότητι πολὺν χρόνον ἄλγε' ἀνατλὰς
ἔλθῃ ἑ ἑὸν ποτὶ δῶμα φίλῳ μέγα χάρμα TOKE"
ὡς ὁ Νεοπτολέμοιο κάρη καὶ στήθεα κύσσεν 640
340
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK VII
Of Periboea to him, Celtus one,
And Eubius the other. But not long
His boundless wealth enjoyed they, for the Fates
Span them a thread of life exceeding brief.
As on one day they saw the light, they died
On one day by the same hand. To the heart
Of one Neoptolemus sped a javelin ; one
He smote down with a massy stone that crashed
Through his strong helmet, shattered all its ridge,
And dashed his brains to earth. Around them fell
Foes many, a host untold. The War-god’s work
Waxed ever mightier till the eventide,
Till failed the light celestial ; then the host
Of brave Eurypylus from the ships drew back
A little: they that held those leaguered towers
Had a short breathing-space ; the sons of Troy
Had respite from the deadly-echoing strife,
From that hard rampart-battle. Verily all
The Argives had beside their ships been slain,
Had not Achilles’ strong son on that day
Withstood thé host of foes and their great chief
Eurypylus. Came to that young hero’s side
Phoenix the old, and marvelling gazed on one
The image of Peleides. Tides of joy
And grief swept o’er him—grief, for memories
Of that swift-footed father—joy, for sight
Of such ason. He for sheer gladness wept ;
For never without tears the tribes of men
Live—nay, not mid the transports of delight.
He clasped him round as father claspeth son
Whom, after long and troublous wanderings,
The Gods bring home to gladden a father’s heart.
So kissed he Neoptolemus’ head and breast,
341
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ἀμφιχυθείς, καὶ τοῖον ἀγασσάμενος φάτο μῦθον'
᾿χαῖρέ μοι, ὦ τέκος ἐσθλὸν ᾿Αχιλλέος, ὅν ποτ᾽
ἔγωγε
τυτθὸν ἐόντ᾽ ἀτίταλλον ἐν ἀγκοίνῃσιν ἐμῆσι
προφρονέως" ὁ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ὦκα θεῶν ἐρικυδέϊ βουλῇ
ἔρνος ὅπως ἐριθηλὲς ἀέξετο: καί οἱ ἔγωγε 645
γήθεον εἰσορόων ἠμὲν δέμας ἠδὲ καὶ ἀλκήν:
ἔσκε δέ μοι μέγ᾽ ὄνειαρ" ἴσον δέ é παιδὶ τίεσκον
τηλυγέτῳ' ὁ δ᾽ ap ἶσον é@ πατρὶ τῖεν ἐμὸν Kp"
κείνῳ μὲν γὰρ ἔγωγε πατήρ, ὁ δ᾽ ap υἱὸς ἔμοιγε
ἔσκε νόῳ" φαίης κεν ἰδὼν ἑνὸς “αἵματος εἶναι 650
εἵνεχ᾽ ὁμοφροσύνης: ἀρετῇ δ᾽ ὅ μὰ φέρτερος ἦ meV
πολλόν, ἐπεὶ μακάρεσσι δέμας καὶ κάρτος ἐῴκει.
τῷ σύγε πάμπαν ἔοικας" ἐγὼ δ᾽ ἄρα κεῖνον ὀΐω
ζωὸν ἔτ᾽ ᾿Αργείοισι μετέμμεναι" οὗ μ᾽ ἄχος ὀξὺ
ἀμφέχει ἤματα πάντα, λυγρῷ δ᾽ ἐπὶ γήραϊ θυμὸν 655
τείρομαι:" ὡς ὄφελόν με χυτὴ κατὰ γαῖα κεκεύθει
κείνου ἔτι ξώοντος" ὁ καὶ πέλει ἀνέρι κῦδος
κηδεμονῆος ἑ ἑοῦ ὑπὸ χείρεσι ταρχυθῆναι.
ἀλλά, τέκος, κείνου μὲν ἐγὼν οὐ λήσομαι HTOP
ἀχνύμενος" σὺ δὲ μήτι χαλέπτεο πένθεϊ θυμόν' 660
ἀλλ᾽ ἄγε Μυρμιδόνεσσι καὶ ἱπποδάμοισιν᾽ Αχαιοῖς
τειρομένοις ἐπάμυνε μέγ᾽ ἀμφ᾽ ἀγαθοῖο τοκῆος
Xoomevos δηίοισι" κλέος δέ τοι ἔσσεται ἐσθλὸν
᾿υὐρύπυλον δαμάσαντι μάχης ἀκόρητον ἐόντα"
τοῦ γὰρ ὑπέρτερός ἐσσι καὶ ἔ ἐσσεαι, ὅσσον ἀρείων 665
σεῖο πατὴρ κείνοιο πέλεν μογεροῖο τοκῆος.᾽
“Os φάμενον προσέειπε πάϊς ξανθοῦ ᾿Αχιλῆος"
“ὦ γέρον, ἡμετέρην ἀρετὴν ἀνὰ δηϊοτῆτα
Aica διακρινέει κρατερὴ καὶ ὑπέρβιος "Αρης."
aA > \ > fo) +f ‘ > \
Ὡς εἰπὼν auTy Lap ἐέλδετο τείχεος EKTOS 670
σεύεσθ᾽ ἐν τεύχεσσιν ἑοῦ πατρός: ἀλλά μιν ἔσχε
νύξ, ἥ T ἀνθρώποισι λύσιν καμάτοιο φέρουσα
ἔσσυτ᾽ ἀπ᾽ ὠκεανοῖο καλυψαμένη δέμας ὄρφνῃ.
342
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK VII
Clasping him round, and cried in rapture of joy:
“ Hail, goodly son of that Achilles whom
I nursed a little one in mine own arms
With a glad heart. By Heaven's high providence
Like a strong sapling waxed he in stature fast,
And daily I rejoiced to see his form
And prowess, my life’s blessing, honouring him
As though he were the son of inine old age ;
For like a father did he honour me.
I was indeed his father, he my son
In spirit: thou hadst deemed us of one blood
Who were in heart one: but of nobler mould
Was he by far, in form and strength a God.
Thou art wholly like him—yea, I seem to see
Alive amid the Argives him for whom
Sharp anguish shrouds me ever. I waste away
In sorrowful age—oh that the grave had closed
On me while yet he lived! How blest to be
By loving hands of kinsmen laid to rest!
Ah child, my sorrowing heart will nevermore
Forget him! Chide me not for this my grief.
But now, help thou the Myrmidons and Greeks
In their sore strait: wreak on the foe thy wrath
For thy brave sire. It shall be thy renown
To slay this war-insatiate Telephus’ son ;
For mightier art thou, and shalt prove, than he,
As was thy father than his wretched sire.”
Made answer golden-haired Achilles’ son:
“ Ancient, our battle-prowess mighty Fate
And the o’ermastering War-god shall decide.”
But, as he spake, he had fain on that same day
Forth of the gates have rushed in his sire’s arms ;
But night, which bringeth men release from toil,
Rose from the ocean veiled in sable pall.
343
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
᾿Αργείων δέ μιν υἷες i ἴσον κρατερῷ ᾿Αχιλῆι
κύδαινον παρὰ νηυσὶ γεγηθότες, οὕνεκ᾽ ἄρ᾽ αὐτοὺς 675
θαρσαλέους κατέτευξεν ἰὼν ἐπὶ δῆριν ἑτοίμως"
τοὔνεκά μιν τίεσκον ἀγακλειτοῖς γεράεσσιν
ἄσπετα δῶρα διδόντες, ἅ ἅ ἡ ἀνέρι πλοῦτον ὀφέλλει'
οἱ μὲν γὰρ χρυσόν τε καὶ ἄργυρον, οἱ δὲ γυναῖκας
duwidas, οἱ δ᾽ ἄρα χαλκὸν ἀάσπετον, οἱ δὲ
σίδηρον, 080
ἄλλοι δ᾽ οἶνον ἐρυθρὸν ἐν ἀμφιφορεῦσιν ἐ ὄπασσαν
ἵππους T ᾿ ὠκύποδας καὶ a ἀρήϊα τεύχεα φωτῶν
φάρεά τ᾿ εὐποίητα γυναικῶν κάλλιμα ἐ ἔργα"
τοῖς ἔπι θυμὸν ἴαινε Νεοπτολέμοιο φίλον κῆρ.
καί ῥ᾽ οἱ μὲν δόρποιο ποτὶ κλισίῃσι μέλοντο 685
υἱὸν ᾿Αχιλλῆος θεοειδέα κυδαίνοντες
ἶσον ἐπουρανίοισιν ἀτειρέσι" τῷ δ᾽ ᾿Αγαμέμνων
πόλλ᾽ ἐπικαγχαλόων τοῖον ποτὶ μῦθον ἔειπεν"
“ ἀτρεκέως πάϊς ἐσσὶ θρασύφρονος Αἰακίδαο,
ὦ τέκος, οὕνεκά οἱ κρατερὸν μένος ἠδὲ καὶ εἶδος 690
καὶ μέγεθος καὶ θάρσος ἰδὲ φρένας ἔνδον ἔοικας"
τῷ σοι ἐγὼ μέγα θυμὸν ἰαίνομαι: ἢ γὰρ ἔολπα
σῇσιν ὑπαὶ παλάμῃσι καὶ ἔγχεϊ δήϊα φῦλα
καὶ Πριάμοιο πόληα περικλειτὴν ἐναρίξαι,
οὕνεκα πατρὶ ἔοικας" ἐγὼ δ᾽ ἄρα κεῖνον ὀΐω 695
elo opdav Tapa νηυσίν, ὅτε Τρώεσσιν ὁμόκλα
χωόμενος Πατρόκλοιο δεδουπότος" ἀλλ᾽ ὁ μὲν ἤδη
ἐστὶ σὺν ἀθανάτοισι" σὲ δ᾽ ἐκ μακάρων προέηκε
σήμερον ᾿Αργείοισιν ἀπολλυμένοις ἐπαμῦναι.
Ὡς φάμενον προσέειπεν ᾿Αχιλλέος ὄβριμος
υἱός" 700
“ εἴθε μιν, ὦ ᾿Αγάμεμνον, ἔτι ζώοντα κίχανον,
ὄφρα καὶ αὐτὸς ἄθρησεν ἑ ἐὸν θυμήρεα παῖδα
οὔτι καταισχύνοντα βίην πατρός, ὥσπερ ὀΐω
ἔσσεσθ᾽, ἤν με σάωσιν ἀκηδέες Οὐρανίωνες.
“Os ap ἔφη πινυτῇσιν ἀρηράμενος φρεσὶ θυμόν" 705
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THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK VII
With honour as of mighty Achilles’ self
Him mid the ships the glad Greeks hailed, who
had won
Courage from that his eager rush to war.
With princely presents did they honour him,
With priceless gifts, whereby is wealth increased ;
For some gave gold and silver, handmaids some,
Brass without weight gave these, and iron those ;
Others in deep jars brought the ruddy wine:
Yea, fleetfoot steeds they gave, and battle-gear,
And raiment woven fair by women’s hands.
Glowed Neoptolemus’ heart for joy of these.
A feast they made for him amidst the tents,
And there extolled Achilles’ godlike son
With praise as of the immortal Heavenly Ones;
And joyful-voiced Agamemnon spake to him:
“Thou verily art the brave-souled Aeacid’s son,
His very image thou in stalwart might,
In beauty, stature, courage, and in soul.
Mine heart burns in me seeing thee. I trust
Thine hands and spear shall smite yon hosts of foes,
Shall smite the city of Priam world-renowned—
So like thy sire thou art! Methinks I see
Himself beside the ships, as when his shout
Of wrath for dead Patroclus shook the ranks
Of Troy. But he is with the Immortal Ones,
Yet, bending from that heaven, sends thee to-day
To save the Argives on destruction’s brink.”
Answered Achilles’ battle-eager son :
«< Would I might meet him living yet, O King,
That so himself might see the son of his love
Not shaming his great father’s name. I trust
So shall it be, if the Gods grant me life.”
So spake he in wisdom and in modesty ;
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λαοὶ δ᾽ ἀμφιέποντες ἐθάμβεον ἀνέρα δῖον.
ἀλλ᾽ ὅτε δὴ δόρποιο καὶ εἰλαπίνης κορέσαντο,
δὴ τότ᾽ ap Αἰακίδαο θρασύφρονος ὄβριμος υἱὸς
ἀνστὰς ἐκ δόρποιο ποτὶ κλισίην ἀφίκανε
πατρὸς ἑοῦ. τὰ δὲ πολλὰ δαϊκταμένων ἡρώων 710
ἔντεά οἱ παρέκεινθ᾽: αἱ δ᾽ ἀμφί μιν ἄλλοθεν ἄλλαι
χήρην ληιάδες κλισίην ἐπιπορσύνεσκον
ὡς “ξώοντος ¢ ἄνακτος" ὁ δ᾽ ὡς ἴδεν ἔντεα Τρώων
καὶ ὃμωάς, στονάχησεν" ἔρως δέ μιν εἷλε τοκῆος"
ὡς δ᾽ ὅτ᾽ ἀνὰ δρυμὰ πυκνὰ καὶ ἄγκεα ῥωπήεντα 715
σμερδαλέοιο λέοντος ὑπ᾽ ἀγρευτῇσι δαμέντος
σκύμνος ἐς ἄντρον ἵκηται ἐὔσκιον, ἀμφὶ δὲ πώντν
ταρφέα παπταίνει κενεὸν σπέος, ἀθρόα δ᾽ αὐτοῦ
ὀστέα δερκόμενος κταμένων πάρος οὐκ ὀλίγων περ
ἵππων ἠδὲ βοῶν μεγάλ᾽ ἄχνυται ἀμφὶ τοκῆος: 7Τ20
ὡς ἄρα θαρσαλέοιο πάϊς τότε ]ηλείδαο
θυμὸν ἐπαχνώθη: δμωαὶ δέ μιν ἀμφαγάσαντο'
καὶ δ᾽ αὐτὴ Βρισηΐς, ¢ ὅτ᾽ ἔδρακεν. vo ᾿Αχιλῆος,
ἄλλοτε μὲν θυμῷ μέγ᾽ ἐγήθεεν, ἄλλοτε δ αὖτε
ἄχνυτ᾽ ᾿Αχιλλῆος μεμνημένη: ἐν δέ οἱ ἦτορ 725
ἀμφασίῃ βεβόλητο κατὰ φρένας, ὡς ἐτεόν περ
αὐτοῦ ἔτι ζώοντος ἀταρβέος Αἰακίδαο.
Τρῶες δ᾽ αὖτ ᾿ ἀπάνευθε γεγηθότες ὄβριμον ἄνδρα
Εὐρύπυλον κύδαινον ἐνὶ κλισίῃσι καὶ αὐτοί,
ὁππόσον Ἕκτορα δῖον, ¢ ὅτ᾽ ᾿Αργείους ἐδάϊξε 730
puopevos πτολίεθρον € ἑὸν καὶ κτῆσιν ἅπασαν.
ἀλλ᾽ ὅτε δὴ μερόπεσσιν ἐπὶ γλυκὺς ἤλυθεν ὕ ὕπνος,
δὴ τότε Τρώιοι vies tO ᾿Αργεῖοι μενεχάρμαι
νόσφι φυλακτήρων εὗδον βεβαρηότες ὕπνῳ.
346
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK VII
And all there marvelled at the godlike man.
But when with meat and wine their hearts were filled,
Then rose Achilles’ battle-eager son,
And from the feast passed forth unto the tent
That was his sire’s. Much armour of heroes slain
Lay there; and here and there were captive maids
Arraying that tent widowed of its lord,
As though its king lived. When that son beheld
Those Trojan arms and handmaid-thralls, he groaned,
By passionate longing for his father seized.
As when through dense oak-groves and tangled glens
Comes to the shadowed cave a lion’s whelp
Whose grim sire by the hunters hath been slain,
And looketh all around that empty den,
And seeth heaps of bones of steeds and kine
Slain theretofore, and grieveth for his sire ;
Even so the heart of brave Peleides’ son
With grief was numbed. The handmaids marvelling
gazed ;
And fair Briseis’ self, when she beheld
Achilles’ son, was now right glad at heart,
And sorrowed now with memories of the dead.
Her soul was wildered all, as though indeed
There stood the aweless Aeacid living yet.
Meanwhile exultant Trojans camped aloof
Extolled Eurypylus the fierce and strong,
As erst they had praised Hector, when he smote
Their foes, defending Troy and all her wealth.
But when sweet sleep stole over mortal men,
Then sons of Troy and battle-biding Greeks
All slumber-heavy slept unsentinelled.
347
ΛΟΓῸΣ ΟΓΔΟΟΣ
Ἦμος δ᾽ ἠελίοιο φάος περικίδνατο γαῖαν
ἐκ περάτων ἀνιόντος, ὅθι σπέος ᾿Ηριγενείης,
δὴ τότε που Τρῶες καὶ ᾿Αχαιῶν ὄβριμοι υἷες
θωρήσσονθ᾽ ἑκάτερθεν ἐπειγόμενοι ποτὶ δῆριν"
\ Ni XN 7. 2 \ 2 / > /
καὶ τοὺς μὲν πάϊς ἐσθλὸς ᾿Αχιλλέος ὀτρύνεσκεν 5
avtiaav Τρώεσσιν atapBéa θυμὸν ἔχοντας,
\ ἢ / / / o \ 3. κῇ
τοὺς δ᾽ ἄρα Τηλεφίδαο μέγα σθένος" ἣ γὰρ ἐώλπει
τεῖχος μὲν χαμάδις βαλέειν νῆάς T ἀμαθῦναι
ἐν πυρὶ λευγαλέῳ, λαοὺς δ᾽ ὑπὸ χερσὶ δαΐξαι.
> ΄ δ. \ Ν 4 2) ’ A
ἀλλὰ ol ἐλπτωρὴ μὲν ENV ἐναλίγκιος αὐρῃ 10
, rn \ 7 Ν ς a
μαψιδίῃ" Kijpes δὲ μάλα σχεδὸν ἑστηυῖαι
πολλὸν καγχαλάασκον ἐτώσια μητιόωντι.
Καὶ τότε Μυρμιδόνεσσιν ᾿Αχιλλέος ἄτρομος υἱὸς
θαρσαλέον φάτο μῦθον ἐ ἐποτρύνων πονέεσθαι"
“ κέκλυτέ μευ, θεράποντες, ἀρήϊον ἐν φρεσὶ θυμὸν 15
θέντες, ἵν᾽ ᾿Αργείοισιν ἄκος πολέμου ἀλεγεινοῦ
δυσμενέεσσι δὲ πῆμα γενώμεθα" μηδέ τις ἡμέων
ταρβείτω' κρατερὴ γὰρ ἄδην ἐκ θάρσεος ἀλκὴ
γίνεται ἀνθρώποισι" δέος δὲ βίην ἀμαθύνει
καὶ νόον" ἀλλ᾽ ἄγε πάντες ἐς "A pea καρτύνασθε, 20
ὄφρα μὴ ἀμπνεύσῃ Τρώων στρατός, ἀλλ᾽ ᾿Αχιλῆα
φαίη ἔ ἔτι ζώοντα μετέμμεναι ᾿Αργείοισιν."
“Os εὐπὼν ὦμοισι πατρώια δύσατο τεύχη
πάντοθε μαρμαίροντα" Θέτις δ᾽ ἠγάλλετο θυμῷ
ἐξ ἁλὸς εἰσορόωσα μέγα σθένος υἱωνοῖο. 25
348
BOOK VIII
How Hercules’ Grandson perished in fight nith the Son
of Achilles
Wuen from the far sea-line, where is the cave
Of Dawn, rose up the sun, and scattered light
Over the earth, then did the eager sons
Of Troy and of Achaea arm themselves
Athirst for battle : these Achilles’ son
Cheered on to face the Trojans awelessly ;
And those the giant strength of Telephus’ seed
Kindled. He trusted to dash down the wall
To earth, and utterly destroy the ships
With ravening fire, and slay the Argive host.
Ah, but his hope was as the morning breeze
Delusive: hard beside him stood the Fates
Laughing to scorn his vain imaginings.
Then to the Myrmidons spake Achilles’ son,
The aweless, to the fight enkindling them:
“Hear me, mine henchmen: take ye to your hearts
The spirit of war, that we may heal the wounds
Of Argos, and be ruin to her foes.
Let no man fear, for mighty prowess is
The child of courage ; but fear slayeth strength
And spirit. Gird yourselves with strength for war ;
Give foes no breathing-space, that they may say
That mid our ranks Achilles liveth yet.”
Then clad he with his father’s flashing arms
His shoulders. Then exulted Thetis’ heart
When from the sea she saw the mighty strength
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QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
καί pa θοῶς οἴμησε πρὸ τείχεος αἰπεινοῖο
ἐμβεβαὼς ἵπποισιν ἑοῦ πατρὸς ἀθανάτοισιν"
οἷος δ᾽ ἐκ περάτων ἀναφαίνεται ὠκεανοῖο
ἠέλιος θηητὸν ἐπὶ χθόνα πῦρ ἀμαρύσσων,
πῦρ, ὅτε οἱ πώλοισι καὶ ἅρματι συμφέρετ᾽ ἀστὴρ
Σείριος, ὅ ὅς τε βροτοῖσι φέρει πολυκηδέα νοῦσον"
τοῖος ἐπὶ Τρώων στρατὸν ἤιεν ὄβριμος ἥ ἥρως
υἱὸς ᾿Αχιλλῆος" φόρεον δέ μιν ἄμβροτοι ἵ ἵπποι,
τούς οἱ ἐελδομένῳ νηῶν ἄπο λαὸν ἐλάσσαι
ὥὦπασεν Αὐτομέδων: ὃς γάρ σφεας ἡνιόχευεν᾽
ἵπποι δ᾽ αὖτ᾽ ἐχάρησαν ἑὸν φορέοντες ἄνακτα
εἴκελον Αἰακίδη" τῶν δ᾽ ἄφθιτον ἦτορ ἐώλπει
ἔμμεναι ἀνέρα κεῖνον ᾿Αχιλλέος οὔτι χερείω.
ὡς δὲ καὶ ᾿Αργεῖοι μέγα καγχαλόωντες ἄγερθεν
ἀμφὶ Νεοπτολέμοιο βίην ἄμοτον μεμαῶτες
λευγαλέοις σφήκεσσιν ἐοικότες, οὕς τε κλονήσῃ
τ * * * ΕἸ *
χηραμοῦ ἐκποτέονται, ἐελδόμενοι χρόα θεῖναι
ἀνδρόμεον, πάντες δὲ περὶ στέγος ὁρμαίνοντες
τεύχουσιν μέγα πῆμα παρεσσυμένοισι βροτοῖσιν
ὡς οἵ γι ἐκ νηῶν καὶ τείχεος ἐξεχέοντο
μαιμώωντες "Apne πολὺς δ᾽ ἐστείνετο χῶρος.
πᾶν πεδίον δ᾽ ἀπάνευθεν ἐλάμπετο τεύχεσι φωτῶν
ἠελίου καθύπερθεν ἀπείριτα μαρμαίροντος"
οἷον δὲ νέφος εἶσι δι’ ἠέρος ἀπλήτοιο
πνοιῇσιν μεγάλῃσιν ἐλαυνόμενον Βορέαο,
ἦμος δὴ νιφετός τε πέλει καὶ χείματος ὥρη
ἀργαλέη, πάντῃ δὲ περιστέφει οὐρανὸν ὄρφνη"
ὡς τῶν πλήθετο γαῖα συνερχομένων ἑκάτερθε
νηῶν βαιὸν ἄπωθε' κόνις δ᾽ εἰς οὐρανὸν εὐρὺν
πέπτατ᾽ ἀειρομένη" κανάχιξε δὲ τεύχεα φωτῶν,
σὺν δὲ καὶ ἅρματα πολλά" διεσσύμενοι δ᾽ ἐπὶ
μῶλον
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Of her son’s son. Then forth with eagle-speed
Afront of that high wall he rushed, his car
Drawn by the immortal horses of his sire.
As from the ocean-verge upsprings the sun
In glory, flashing fire far over earth—
Fire, when beside his radiant chariot-team
Races the red star Sirius, scatterer
Of woefullest diseases over men ;
So flashed upon the eyes of Ilium’s host
That battle-eager hero, Achilles’ son.
Onward they whirled him, those immortal steeds,
The which, when now he longed to chase the foe
Back from the ships, Automedon, who wont
To rein them for his father, brought to him.
With joy that pair bore battleward their lord,
So like to Aeacus’ son, their deathless hearts
Held him no worser than Achilles’ seif.
Laughing for glee the Argives gathered round
The might resistless of Neoptolemus,
Eager for fight as wasps [whose woodland bower
The axe] hath shaken, who dart swarming forth
Furious to sting the woodman: round their nest
Long eddying, they torment all passers by ;
So streamed they forth from galley and from wall
Burning for fight, and that wide space was thronged,
And all the plain far blazed with armour-sheen,
As shone from heaven's vault the sun thereon.
As flees the cloud-rack through the welkin wide
Scourged onward by the North-wind’s Titan blasts,
When winter-tide and snow are hard at hand,
And darkness overpalls the firmament ;
So with their thronging squadrons was the earth
Covered before the ships. To heaven uprolled,
Dust hung on _ hovering wings: men’s armour
clashed ;
Rattled a thousand chariots ; horses neighed
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“ 2 “ au) ΤΟΙ͂Ν 5. δ. Κ Φ
ἵπποι ἐπεχρεμέτιζον" ἑὴ δ᾽ ἐκέλευεν ἕκαστον
> \ ’ \ > s 5 4
ἀλκὴ avinpny ἐς φύλοπιν ὀτρύνουσα.
S > ἘΛ / \ tA if IA
Ὡς δ᾽ ὅτε κύματα μακρὰ δύο κλονέουσιν ἀῆται
4 f ΟΝ \ a
σμερδαλέον βρομέοντες ava πλατὺ χεῦμα θα-
λάσσης 60
ἔκποθεν ἀλλήλοισι περιρρηγνύντες ἀέλλας,
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οὔρεσιν ἠλιβάτοισιν ἐοικότα, τῶν δ᾽ ἀλεγεινὴ θῦ
ὀρνυμένων ἑκάτερθε πέλει κατὰ πόντον Lown)"
ἃ “ ΞΡ / SLI /
ὡς of γ᾽ ἀμφοτέρωθεν ἐπ᾽ “Apea συμφορέοντο
ἢ an τὴ ν᾽ Di βύκοῦη Δ.» ,
σμερδαλέον μεμαῶτες" "Epis δ᾽ ὀρόθυνε καὶ ἀλκή.
σὺν δ᾽ ἔβαλον βροντῇσιν ἐοικότες ἢ στεροπῆσιν,
αἵ τε μέγα κτυπέουσι bv ἠέρος, ὁππότ᾽ ἀῆται 70
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λάβροι ἐριδμαίνωσι, καὶ ὁππότε λάβρον ἀέντες
σὺν νέφεα ῥήξωσι Διὸς μέγα χωομένοιο
ἀνδράσιν, οἵ T ἐρίτιμον ὑπὲρ Θέμιν ἔργα κάμωνται"
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ὡς οἵ γ᾽ ἀλλήλοισιν ἐπέχραον' ἔγχεϊ δ᾽ ἔγχος
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συμφέρετ᾽, ἀσπίδι δ᾽ ἀσπίς, ἐπ᾽ ἀνέρα δ᾽ ἤιεν ἀνήρ. 15
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/ δ᾽ EJAY a Mo aed \ 3 ΄
δάμνατ᾽ ἐὺν Μελανῆα καὶ ἀγλαὸν ᾿Αλκιδάμαντα
υἷας ᾿Αλεξινόμοιο δαΐφρονος, ὅς τ᾽ ἐνὶ κοίλῃ
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Καύνῳ ναιετάασκε διειδέος ἀγχόθι λίμνης
wv ς \ / \ \ 7); /
Ιμβρῳ ὑπὸ νιφόεντι παραὶ ποσὶ Ταρβήλοιο. 80
a \ a
κτεῖνε δὲ Κασσάνδροιο θοὸν ποσὶ παῖδα Μένητα
ὃν τέκε δῖα Κρέουσα παρὰ προχοῇς ποταμοῖο
Λίνδου ἐὐρρείταο, μενεπτολέμων ὅθι Καρῶν
πείρατα καὶ Λυκίης ἐρικύδεος ἄκρα πέλονται.
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εἷλε δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ αἰχμητῆρα Μόρυν Φρυγίηθε μολόντα' 85
τῷ δ᾽ dp ὁμῶς Πόλυβόν τε καὶ ἹἹππομέδοντα
κατέκτα,
352
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK VIII
On-rushing to the fray. Each warrior’s prowess
Kindled him with its trumpet-call to war.
As leap the long sea-rollers, onward hurled
By two winds terribly o’er th’ broad sea-flood
Roaring from viewless bournes, with whirlwind
blasts
Crashing together, when a ruining storm
Maddens along tlie wide gulfs of the deep,
And moans the Sea-queen with her anguished waves
Which sweep from every hand, uptowering
Like precipiced mountains, while the bitter squall,
Ceaselessly veering, shrieks across the sea ;
So clashed in strife those hosts from either hand
With mad rage. Strife incarnate spurred them on,
And their own prowess. Crashed together these
Like thunderclouds outlightening, thrilling the air:
With shattering trumpet-challenge, when the blasts
Are locked in frenzied wrestle, with mad breath
Rending the clouds, when Zeus is wroth with men
Who travail with iniquity, and flout
His law. So grappled they, as spear with spear
Clashed, shield with shield, and man on man was
hurled.
And first Achilles’ war-impetuous son
Struck down stout Melaneus and Alcidamas,
Sons of the war-lord Alexinomus,
Who dwelt in Caunus mountain-cradled, nigh
The clear lake shining at Tarbelus’ feet
"Neath snow-capt Imbrus. Menes, fleetfoot son
Of King Cassandrus, slew he, born to him
By fair Creusa, where the lovely streams
Of Lindus meet the sea, beside the marches
Of battle-biding Carians, and the heights
Of Lycia the renowned. He slew withal
Morys the spearman, who from Phrygia came 3;
Polybus and Hippomedon by his side
353
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
TOV μὲν ὑπὸ κραδίην, τὸν δ᾽ ἐς κληῖδα τυχήσας"
δάμνατο δ᾽ ἄχλοθεν ἄλλον" ἐπέστενε δ᾽ αἷα νέκυσσι
Τρώων᾽ οἱ δ᾽ ὑπόεικον ἐοικότες αὐαλέοισι
θάμνοις, ods ὀλοοῖο πυρὸς κατεδάμνατ᾽ ἀϊὐτμὴ 90
ῥηιδίως ἐπιόντος ὀπωρινοῦ Βορέαο"
ὡς τοῦ ἐπεσσυμένοιο κατηρείποντο φάλαγγες.
Αἰνείας δ᾽ ἐδάμασσεν ᾿Αριστόλοχον μενεχάρμην
πλήξας χερμαδίῳ κατὰ κράατος" ἐν δ᾽ ἄρ ᾿ἔθλασσεν
ὀστέα σὺν πήληκι" λίπεν δ᾽ ἄφαρ ὁ ὀστέα θυμός. θῦ
Τυδείδης δ᾽ Εὔμαιον ἕλεν θοόν, ὅς ῥά τ᾽ ἔναιε
Δάρδανον αἰπήεσσαν, ἵν᾽ ᾿Αγχίσαο πέλονται
εὐναί, ὅπου Κυθέρειαν ἐ ἐν ἀγκοίνῃσι δάμασσεν.
ἔνθ᾽ ᾿Αγαμέμνων κτεῖνεν ἐὺν Στράτον: οὐδ᾽ ὅ γε
᾿Θρήκην
(KET ἀπὸ πτολέμοιο, φίλης δ᾽ ἑκὰς ἔφθιτο πάτρης. 100
Μηριόνης δ᾽ ἐδάμασσε Χλέμον Πεισήνορος υἷα
ἀντιθέου Γλαύκοιο φίλον. καὶ πιστὸν ἑταῖρον,
ὅς ῥά τε ναιετάασκε παρὰ προχοῇς Λιμυροῖο,
καί ῥά μιν ὡς βασιλῆα περικτίονες τίον ἄνδρες
Γλαύκου ἀποκταμένοιο καὶ οὐκέτι “κοιρανέοντος, 105
πάντες, ὅσοι Φοίνικος ἕδος περὶ πάγχυ νέμοντο
αἰπύ τε Μασσικύτοιο ῥίον ῥωχμόν τε Χιμαίρης.
ἼΛλλος δ᾽ ἄλλον ἔπεφνε κατὰ μόθον" ἐν δ᾽ ἄρα
τοῖσιν
Εὐρύπυλος πολέεσσι κακὰς ἐπὶ κῆρας ἴαλλε
δυσμενέσιν᾽ πρῶτον δὲ μενεπτόλεμον κατέπεφνεν 110
Εὔρυτον, αὐτὰρ ἔπειτα Μενοίτιον αἰολομίτρην,
ἀντιθέους ἑ ἑτάρους ᾿Ελεφήνορος" ἀμφὶ δ᾽ ἄρα σφὶν
“Λρπαλον, ὅ ὃς ῥ᾽ ᾿Οδυσῆος ἐύΐφρονος ἐ ἔσκεν ἑταῖρος"
ἀλλ᾽ ὁ μὲν οὖν ἀπάτερθεν ἔχεν πόνον, οὐδ᾽ ἐπαμύνειν
ἔσθενεν ᾧ θεράποντι δεδουπότι" τοῦ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἑταῖρος 115
"Αντιφος ὀβριμόθυμος a ἀποκταμένοιο χολώθη,
καὶ βάλεν Ἐὐρυπύλοιο καταντίον" ἀλλά μιν οὔτι
οὔτασεν, οὕνεκά οἱ κρατερὸν δόρυ τυτθὸν ἄπωθεν
354
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK VIII
He laid, this stabbed to the heart, that pierced
between
Shoulder and neck : man after man he slew.
Earth groaned ‘neath Trojan corpses; rank on rank
Crumbled before him, even as parchéd brakes
Sink down before the blast of ravening fire
When the north wind of latter summer blows ;
So ruining squadrons fell before his charge.
Meanwhile Aeneas slew Aristolochus,
Crashing a great stone down on his head: it brake
Helmet and skull together, and fled his life.
Fleetfoot Eumaeus Diomede slew ; he dwelt
In craggy Dardanus, where the bride-bed is
Whereon Anchises clasped the Queen of Love.
Agamemnon smote down Stratus: unto Thrace
Returned he not from war, but died far off
From his dear fatherland. And Meriones
Struck Chlemus down, Peisenor’s son, the friend
Of god-like Glaucus, and his comrade leal,
Who by Limurus’ outfall dwelt: the folk
Honoured him as their king, when reigned no more
Glaucus, in battle slain,—all who abode
Aroand Phoenice’s towers, and by the crest
Of Massicytus, and Chimaera’s glen.
So man slew man in fight; but more than all
Eurypylus hurled doom on many a foe.
First slew he battle-bider Eurytus,
Menoetius of the glancing taslet next,
Elephenor’s godlike comrades. Fell with these
Harpalus, wise Odysseus’ warrior-friend ;
But in the fight afar that hero toiled,
And might not aid his fallen henchman: yet
Fierce Antiphus for that slain man was wroth,
And hurled his spear against Eurypylus,
Yet touched him not; the strong shaft glanced
aside,
355
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
ἔμπεσε Μειλανιωνι “δαΐφρονι, τόν ποτε μήτηρ
γείνατο πὰρ προχοῇσιν ἐὐρρείταο Καΐκου 120
Κλείτη καλλιπάρῃος ὑποδμηθεῖσ᾽ ᾿Ερυλάφ.
Εὐρύπυλος δ᾽ ἑτάροιο χολωσάμενος κταμένοιο
᾿Αντίφῳ ainy’ ἐπόρουσεν" 0 δ᾽ ἔκφυγε ποσσὶ θοοῖσιν
ἐς πληθὺν ἑτάρων κρατερὸν δέ μιν οὔτι δάμασσεν
ἔγχος Τηλεφίδαο δαΐφρονος, οὕνεκ᾽ ἔμελλεν 125
ἀργαλέως ὀλέεσθαι ὑπ᾽ ἀνδροφόνοιο Κύκλωπος
ὕστερον᾽ ὡς γάρ που στυγερῇ ἐπιήνδανε Μοίρῃ.
Εὐρύπυλος δ᾽ ἑτέρωθεν "ἐπῴχετο" τοῦ δ᾽ ὑπὸ δουρὶ
αἰὲν ἐπεσσυμένοιο κατήριπε πουλὺς ὅμιλος"
ἠὔτε δένδρεα μακρὰ Bin δμηθέντα σιδήρου 130
οὔρεσιν ἐν λασίοισιν ἀναπλήσωσι φάραγγας
κεκλιμέν' ἄλλοθεν ἄλλα κατὰ χθονός: ὡς ἄρ᾽
᾿Αχαιοὶ
δάμναντ Εὐρυπύλοιο δαίφρονος ἐ ἐγχείῃσι,
μέσφ᾽ ὅτε οἱ κίεν ἄντα μέγα φρονέων ἐνὶ θυμῷ
υἱὸς ᾿Αχιλλῆος. τὼ δ᾽ ἄμφω δούρατα μακρὰ 135
ἐν παλάμῃσι τίνασσον ἐπί σφισι μαιμώωντες"
Εὐρύπυλος δέ ἑ πρῶτος ἀνειρόμενος προσέειπε"
“τίς πόθεν εἰλήλουθας ἐναντίον ἄμμι μάχεσθαι;
ἢ σε πρὸς "Αἴδα Κῆρες ἀμείλικτοι φορέουσιν'
οὐ γάρ τίς μ ὑπάλυξεν ἐν ἀργαλέῃ ὑσμίνῃ" 140
ἀλλά μοι ὅσσοι ἔναντα λιλαιόμενοι μαχέσασθαι
δεῦρο κίον, πάντεσσι φόνον OTOVOEVT ἐφέηκα
ἀργαλέως, πάντων δὲ παρὰ Ἐάνθοιο ῥέεθρα
ὀστέα τε σάρκας τε κύνες διὰ πάντ᾽ ἐδάσαντο.
ἀλλά μοι εἰπέ, τίς ἐσσι, τίνος δ᾽ ἐπαγάλλεαι
ἵπποις; 145
Ὡς φάμενον προσέειπεν ᾿Αχιλλέος ὄβριμος υἱός"
“τίπτε μ ἐπισπεύδοντα ποτὶ κλόνον αἱματόεντα
xbpos Ὁ ἐὼν ὡς εἴ τε φίλα φρονέων ἐρεείνεις
εἰπέμεναι γενεήν, ἥνπερ μάλα πολλοὶ ἴσασιν;
υἱὸς ᾿Αχιλλῆος κρατερόφρονος, ὅς τε τοκῆα 150
356
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK VIII
And pierced Meilanion battle-staunch, the son
Of Cleite lovely-faced, Erylaus’ bride,
Who bare him where Caicus meets the sea.
Wroth for his comrade slain, Eurypylus
Rushed upon Antiphus, but terror-winged
He plunged amid his comrades ; so the spear
Of the avenger slew him not, whose doom
Was one day wretchedly to be devoured
By the manslaying Cyclops: so it pleased
Stern Fate, I know not why. Elsewhither sped
Eurypylus ; and aye as he rushed on
Fell ’neath his spear a multitude untold.
As tall trees, smitten by the strength of steel
In mountain-forest, fill the dark ravines,
Heaped on the earth confusedly, so fell
The Achaeans ’neath Eurypylus’ flying spears—
Till heart-uplifted met him face to face
Achilles’ son. The long spears in their hands
They twain swung up, each hot to smite his foe.
But first Eurypylus cried the challenge-cry ;
“Who art thou? Whence hast come to brave me
here?
To Hades merciless Fate is bearing thee ;
For in grim fight hath none escaped mine hands;
But whoso, eager for the fray, have come
Hither, on all have I hurled anguished death.
By Xanthus’ streams have dogs devoured their flesh
And gnawed their bones. Answer me, who art
thou?
Whose be the steeds that bear thee exultant on?”
Answered Achilles’ battle-eager son:
“ Wherefore, when I am hurrying to the fray,
Dost thou, a foe, put question thus to me,
As might a friend, touching my lineage,
Which many know? Achilles’ son am I,
Son of the man whose long spear smote thy sire,
357
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
σεῖο πάροιθ' ἐφόβησε βαλὼν περιμήκεϊ δουρί:
καί νύ κέ μιν θανάτοιο κακαὶ περὶ Κῆρες ἔμαρψαν,
εἰ μή οἱ στονόεντα θοῶς t ἰήσατ᾽ ὄλεθρον.
ἵπποι δ᾽, οἱ φορέουσιν, ἐμοῦ πατρὸς ἀντιθέοιο,
ods τέκεθ᾽ “Αρπυια Ζεφύρῳ πάρος εὐνηθεῖσα, 155
οἵ τε καὶ ἀτρύγετον πέλαγος διὰ ποσσὶ θέουσιν
ἀκρονυχὶ ψαύοντες, ἴσον δ᾽ ἀνέμοισι φέρονται.
νῦν δ᾽ ἐπεὶ οὖν γενεὴν ἐδάης ἵππων τε καὶ αὐτοῦ,
καὶ δόρατος πείρησαι ἀτειρέος ἡμετέροιο
γνώμεναι ἄντα βίην" γενεὴ δέ οἱ ἐν κορυφῇσι 160
Πηλίου αἰπεινοῖο, τομὴν ὅθι λεῖπε καὶ ὕλην."
Ἦ:ῥαᾷ καὶ ἐξ ἵ ἵππων χαμάδις θόρε κύδιμος ἀνὴρ
πάλλων ἐγχείην περιμήκετον" ὃς δ᾽ ἑτέρωθεν
χερσὶν ὑπὸ κρατερῇσιν ἀπειρεσίην λάβε πέτρην,
καί ῥα Νεοπτολέμοιο κατ᾽ ἀσπίδος ἧ KE φέρεσθαι 165
χρυσείης. τὸν δ᾽ οὔτι προσεσσυμένη στυφέλιξεν,
ἀλλ᾽ ἅτε πρὼν εἱστήκει ἀπείριτος οὔρεϊ μακρῷ,
τόν ῥα διυπετέων ποταμῶν μένος οὐδ᾽ ἅμα πάντων
ἂψ ὦσαι δύναται, ὁ ὁ γὰρ ἔμπεδον ἐρρίξωται"
ὡς μένεν ἄτρομος αἰὲν ᾿Αχιλλέος ὄβριμος υἱός. 1ἠὧῸ
ἀλλ᾽ οὐδ᾽ ὡς τάρβησε θρασὺ σθένος ᾿υὐρυπύλοιο
ἄσχετον vi’ “AX AMOS, ἐπεί ῥά μιν ὀτρύνεσκε
θάρσος ἑ ἑὸν καὶ Kijpes: ὑπὸ κραδίῃσι δὲ θυμὸς
ἔζεεν ἀμφοτέροισι" περὶ σφίσι δ᾽ αἰόλα τεύχη
ἔβραχεν" οἱ δ᾽ ἅτε θῆρες ἐπήεσαν ἀλλήλοισι 175
σμερδαλέοι, τοῖσίν τε κατ᾽ οὔρεα δῆρις ἀέξει,
ὁππότε λευγαλέῳ λιμῷ βεβολημένοι ἢ ἦτορ
ἢ βοὸς ἢ ἐλάφοιο περὶ κταμένου πονέωνται
ἄμφω παιφάσσοντες, ἐπικτυπέουσι δὲ βῆσσαι
μαρναμένων" ὡς οἵ γε συνήεσαν ἀλλήλοισι 180
δῆριν συμφορέοντες ἀμείλιχον. ἀμφὶ δὲ μακραὶ
λαῶν ἀμφοτέρωθεν ἄδην πονέοντο φάλαγγες
ἐς μόθον' ἀργαλέη δὲ περὶ σφίσι δῆρις ὀρώρει.
οἱ δ᾽ ἀνέμων ῥιπῇσιν ἐοικότες αἰψηρῆσι
358
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK VIII
And made him flee—yea, and the ruthless fates
Of death had seized him, but my father’s self
Healed him upon the brink of woeful death.
The steeds which bear me were my godlike sire’s ;
These the West-wind begat, the Harpy bare :
Over the barren sea their feet can race
Skimming its crests: in speed they match the
winds.
Since then thou know’st the lineage of my steeds
And mine, now put thou to the test the might
Of my strong spear, born on steep Pelion’s crest,
Who hath left his father-stock and forest there.”’
He spake; and from the chariot sprang to earth
That glorious man: he swung the long spear up.
But in his brawny hand his foe hath seized
A monstrous stone: full at the golden shield
Of Neoptolemus he sped its flight ;
But, no whit staggered by its whirlwind rush,
He like a giant mountain-foreland stood
Which all the banded fury of river-floods
Can stir not, rooted in the eternal hills ;
So stood unshaken still Achilles’ son.
Yet not for this Eurypylus’ dauntless might
Shrank from Achilles’ son invincible,
On-spurred by his own hardihood and by Fate.
Their hearts like caldrons seethed o’er fires of wrath,
Their glancing armour flashed about their limbs.
Like terrible lions each on other rushed,
Which fight amid the mountains famine-stung,
Writhing and leaping in the strain of strife
For a slain ox or stag, while all the glens
Ring with their conflict ; so they grappled, so
Clashed they in pitiless strife. On either hand
Long lines of warriors Greek and Trojan toiled
In combat: round them roared up flames of war.
Like mighty rushing winds they hurled together
359
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
σύν ῥ᾽ ἔβαλον μελίῃσι μεμαότες αἷμα κεδάσσαι 185
᾽ I A 9 \ 9 ΄ 3 Ἢ
ἀλλήλων: τοὺς δ᾽ αἰὲν ἐποτρύνεσκεν ᾿Ενυὼ
’ 4 e / Ν » 3 > ᾽ὔ {τ aA
ἐγγύθεν ἱσταμένη" τοὶ δ᾽ οὐκ ἀπέληγον ὁμοκλῆς,
2 LA ’ 7. » 5 Le » 3 ον
ἀλλά σφεας ἐδάϊζον ἐς ἀσπίδας, ἄλλοτε δ᾽ αὖτε
οὔταζον κνημῖδας tS ὑψιλόφους τρυφαλείας:
καί τις καὶ χροὸς ἥψατ᾽, ἐπεὶ πόνος αἰνὸς ἔπευιγε 190
/ “ v 33 / A
θαρσαλέους ἥρωας Epis ὃ “ἐπετέρπετο θυμῷ
κείνους εἰσορόωσα" πολὺς δ᾽ ἐξέρρεεν ἱδρὼς
ἀμφοτέρων" οἱ δ᾽ αἰὲν ἐκαρτύνοντο μένοντες"
ἄμφω γὰρ μακάρων ἔσαν αἵματος: οἱ δ᾽ ἀπ᾽
Ὀλύμπου---
* * * * * *
οἱ μὲν yap κύδαινον ᾿Αχιλλέος ὄβριμον via, 195
οἱ δ᾽ avr’ Εὐρύπυλον θεοειδέα: τοὶ δ᾽ ἑκάτερθεν
μάρναντ᾽ ἀκμήτοισιν ἐειδόμενοι σκοπέλοισιν
ἠλιβάτων ὀρέων" μέγα δ᾽ ἔβραχον ἀμφοτέρωθεν
θεινόμεναι μελίῃσι θάμ᾽ ἀσπίδες: ὀψὲ δὲ μακρὴ
Incas Εὐρυπύλοιο διήλυθεν ἀνθερεῶνος 200
πολλὰ ͵᾿πονησαμένη" τοῦ δ᾽ ἔκχυτο φοίνιον αἷμα
ἐσσυμένως" ψυχὴ δὲ δι᾽ ἕλκεος ἐξεποτήθ n
ἐκ μελέων, ὀλοὴ δὲ κατ᾽ ὀφθαλμῶν πέσεν ὄρφνη.
ἤριπε δ᾽ ἐν τεύχεσσι κατὰ χθονός, nite βλωθρὴ
ἢ πίτυς ἢ ἐλάτη κρυεροῦ Βορέαο βίηφιν 205
ἐκ ῥιξζέων ἐ ἐριποῦσα" τόσην ἐπικάππεσε γαῖαν
Εὐρυπύλοιο δέμας: μέγα δ᾽ ἔβραχε Τρώιον οὗδας
καὶ πεδίον. χλοερὴ δὲ θοῶς κατεχεύατο νεκρῷ
ἀχροίη καὶ καλὸν ἀπημάλδυνεν ἔρευθος.
τῷ δ᾽ ἐπικαγχαλόων μεγάλ᾽ εὔχετο καρτερὸς ἥρως: 210
Ἵ Εὐρύπυλ᾽, ἦ που ἔφης Δαναῶν νέας ἠδὲ καὶ αὐτοὺς
δῃώσειν καὶ πάντας ὀϊζυρῶς ἀπολέσσειν
ἡμέας" ἀλλὰ σοὶ οὔτι θεοὶ τέλέεσκον ἐέχδωρ,
ἀλλ᾽ ὑπ᾽ ἐμοί σ᾽ ἐδάμασσε καὶ ἀκάματον περ
ἐόντα
360
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK VIII
With eager spears for blood of life athirst.
Hard by them stood Enyo, spurred them on
Ceaselessly : never paused they from the strife.
Now hewed they each the other’s shield, and now
Thrust at the greaves, now at the crested helms,
Reckless of wounds, in that grim toil pressed on
Those aweless heroes: Strife incarnate watched
And gloated o’er them. Ran the sweat in streams
From either : straining hard they stood their ground,
For both were of the seed of Blesséd Ones.
From Heaven, with hearts at variance, Gods looked
down ;
For some gave glory to Achilles’ son,
Some to Eurypylus the godlike. Still
They fought on, giving ground no more than rock,
Of granite mountains. Rang from side to side
Spear-smitten shields. At last the Pelian lance,
Sped onward by a mighty thrust, hath passed
Clear through Eurypylus’ throat. Forth poured the
blood
Torrent-like ; through the portal of the wound
The soul from the body flew: darkness of death
Dropped o’er his eyes. To earth in clanging arms
He fell, like stately pine or silver fir
Uprooted by the fury of Boreas ;
Such space of earth Eurypylus’ giant frame
Covered in falling : rang again the floor
And plain of Troyland. Grey death-pallor swept
Over the corpse, and all the flush of life
Faded away. With a triumphant laugh
Shouted the mighty hero over him:
“ Kurypylus, thou saidst thou wouldst destroy
The Danaan ships and men, wouldst slay us all
Wretchedly—but the Gods would not fulfil
Thy wish. For all thy might invincibic,
My father’s massy spear hath now subduea
361
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
Ν > A Wiel, 8. δ A \ Μ » 4
πατρὸς ἐμοῖο μέγ᾽ ἔγχος, ὅπερ βροτὸς οὔτις ἀλύξει 216
ἡμῖν ἄντα μολὼν οὐδ᾽ εἰ παγχάλκεος ἣεν."
Ἦ pa καὶ ἐκ νέκυος περιμήκετον εἴρυσεν αἰχμὴν
ἐσσυμένως: Τρῶες δὲ μέγ᾽ ἔτρεσαν εἰσορόωντες
ἀνέρα καρτερόθυμον: ὁ δ᾽ αὐτίκα Tevye ἀπούρας
la a e 7 7 \ a 3 La)
δῶκε Boots ἑτάροισι φέρειν ποτὶ νῆας ᾿Αχαιῶν: 220
> \ pd ate | Ἂν “ \ \ > / “
αὐτὸς δ᾽ ἐς θοὸν ἅρμα θορὼν καὶ ἀτειρέας ἵππους
»“ / 3 Ss ? 2 ἢ > /
nev, οἷός T εἶσι δι’ αἰθέρος ἀπλήτοιο
Ν rn ,
ἐκ Διὸς ἀκαμάτοιο σὺν ἀστεροπῇσι κεραυνὸς,
ὅν τε περιτρομέουσι καὶ ἀθάνατοι κατιόντα
νόσφι Διὸς μεγάλοιο, ὁ δ᾽ ἐσσύμενος ποτὶ γαῖαν 225
δένδρεά τε ῥήγνυσι καὶ οὔρεα παιπαλόεντα:
ὡς ὁ θοῶς Τρώεσσιν ἐπέσσυτο πῆμα κορύσσων'
δάμνατο δ᾽ ἄλλοθεν ἄλλος, ὅσους κίχον ἄμβροτοι
7
ἵπποι"
Le /
πλήθετο δὲ χθονὸς οὗδας, ἄδην δ᾽ ἐρυθαίνετο λύθρῳ.
ὡς δ᾽ ὅτε μυρία φύλλα κατ᾽ οὔρεος ἐν βήσσησ, 230
“ “ /
ταρφέα πεπτηῶτα χυτὴν κατὰ γαῖαν ἐρέψη:"
ὡς Τρώων τότε λαὸς ἀάσπετος ἐν χθονὶ κεῖτο
\ / νυ ’ ’ θ “A
χερσὶ Νεοπτολέμοιο καὶ ᾿Αργείων ἐριθύμων,
ὧν ἄπλετον μετὰ χερσὶν ὑπέρρεεν αἷμα κελαινὸν
? A Ὁ.) ὦ , > »» > ὙΘΎΣ 5
ἀνδρῶν ἠδ᾽ ἵππων: μάλα δ᾽ avtuyes aud ὀχέεσσι 235
κινύμεναι δεύοντο περὶ στροφάλιγξιν ἑῇσι.
7 1 4 - ” / 9 ΞΖ
Καί νύ κε Τρώιοι υἷες ἔσω πυλέων ἀφίκοντο,
πόρτιες εὖτε λέοντα φοβεύμεναι ἢ ἢ σύες ὄμβρον,
εἰ μὴ ΓΑρης ἀχεγεινὸς ἀρηγέμεναι μενεαίνων
Τρωσὶ φιλοπτολέμοισι κατήλυθεν Οὐλύμποιο 240
κρύβδ᾽ ἄλλων μακάρων" φόρεον δέ μιν ἐς μόθον
ἵπποι
, a /
Αἴθων καὶ Φλόγιος, KovaBos δ᾽ ἐπὶ τοῖσι Φόβος τε,
\ ny \
τοὺς Bopén κελάδοντι τέκε βλοσυρῶπις ᾿Εριννὺς
262
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK VIII
Thee under me, that spear no man shall ‘scape,
Though he be brass all through, who faceth me.”
He spake, and tore the long lance from the corse,
While shrank the Trojans back in dread, at sight
Of that strong-hearted man. Straightway he stripped
The armour from the dead, for friends to bear
Fast to the ships Achaean. But himself
To the swift chariot and the tireless steeds
Sprang, and sped onward like a thunderbolt
That lightning-girdled leaps through the wide air
From Zeus’s hands unconquerable—the bolt
Before whose downrush all the Immortals quail
Save only Zeus. It rusheth down to earth,
It rendeth trees and rugged mountain-crags ;
So rushed he on the Trojans, flashing doom
Before their eyes; dashed to the earth they fell
Before the charge of those immortal steeds :
The earth was heaped with slain, was dyed with
gore.
As when in mountain-glens the unnumbered leaves
Down-streaming thick and fast hide all the ground,
So hosts of Troy untold on earth were strewn
By Neoptolemus and fierce-hearted Greeks,
Shed by whose hands the blood in torrents ran
"Neath feet of men and horses. Chariot-rails
Were dashed with blood-spray whirled up from the
tyres.
Now had the Trojans fled within their gates
As calves that flee a lion, or as swine
Flee from a storm—but murderous Ares came,
Unmarked of other Gods, down from the heavens,
Eager to help the warrior sons of Troy.
Red-fire and Flame, Tumult and Panic-fear,
His car-steeds, bare him down into the fight,
The coursers which to roaring Boreas
Grim-eyed Erinnys bare, coursers that breathed
363
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
πῦρ ὀλοὸν πνείοντας" ὑπέστενε δ᾽ αἰόλος αἰθὴρ
ἐσσυμένων ποτὶ δῆριν. ὁ δ᾽ ὀτραλέως ἀφίκανεν 245
ἐς Τροίην: ὑπὸ δ᾽ ala μέγ᾽ ἔκτυπε θεσπεσίοισιν
ἵππων ἀμφὶ πόδεσσι: μολὼν δ᾽ ἄγχιστα κυδοιμοῦ
πῆλε δόρυ βριαρόν' μέγα δ᾽ ἴαχε Τρωσὶ κελεύων
ἀντιάαν δηίοισι κατὰ κλόνον" οἱ δ᾽ ἀΐοντες
θεσπεσίην ὄπα πάντες ἐθώμβεον: οὐ γὰρ ἴδοντο 250
ἄμβροτον ἀθανάτοιο θεοῦ δέμας οὐδὲ μὲν ἵππους"
ἠέρι γὰρ κεκάλυπτο. νόησε δὲ θέσκελον αὐδὴν
ἔκποθεν ἀΐσσουσαν ἄδην εἰς οὔατα Τρώων
ἀντιθέου ᾿Εἰλένοιο κλυτὸς νόος" ἐν δ᾽ ἄρα θυμῷ
γήθησεν καὶ λαὸν ἀπεσσύμενον μέγ᾽ aver: 255
εἰ a δειλοί, τί φέβεσθε φΦφιλοπτολέμου ᾿Αχιλῆος
υἱέα θαρσαλέον; θνητός νύ τίς ἐστι καὶ αὐτός,
οὐδέ οἱ ἶσον Apne πέλει σθένος, ὃ ὃς μέγ᾽ ἀρήγει
Fev ἐελδομένοισι" βοᾷ δ᾽ ὅ γε μακρὰ κελεύων
μάρνασθ' ᾿Αργείοισι κατὰ κλόνον' ἀλλ᾽ ἄγε θυμῷ 260
τλῆτε φίλοι καὶ θάρσος ἐνὶ στήθεσσι βάλεσθε:
οὐ γὰρ ἀμείνονα Τρωσὶν ὀΐομαι ἄλλον ἱκέσθαι
ἀλκτῆρα πτολέμοιο" τί γὰρ ποτὶ δῆριν "Ἄρηος
λώμον, εὖτε βροτοῖσι κορυσσομένοις ἐπαμύνει;
ὃς νῦν ἧμιν ἵκανεν ἐπίρροθος: ἀλλὰ καὶ αὐτοὶ 265
μνήσασθε πτολέμοιο, δέος δ᾽ ἀπὸ νόσφι Bareabe.”
“Os dato: τοὶ δ᾽ ἵσταντο καταντίον ᾿Αργείοισιν'
nur’ ἐνὶ ξυλόχοισι κύνες κατέναντα λύκοιο
φεύγοντες τὸ πάροιθε βίην τρέψωσι μάχεσθαι
ταρφέα μηλονόμοιο παροτρύνοντος ἔπεσσιν" 210
ὡς ἄρα Τρώιοι υἷες ἀνὰ μόθον αἰνὸν "Apnos
δείματος ἐκτὸς ἔσαν' κατὰ δ᾽ ἀντίον ἀνέρος ἀνὴρ
μάρνατο θαρσαλέως: περὶ δ᾽ ἔκτυπεν ἔντεα φωτῶν
θεινόμενα ξιφέεσσι καὶ ἔγχεσι καὶ βελέεσσιν"
αἰχμαὶ δ᾽ ἐς χρόα δῦνον" Severo δ᾽ αἵματι πολλῷ 275
δεινὸς ‘Apns: ὀλέκοντο δ᾽ ἀνὰ μόθον ἄλλος ἐ ἐπ᾽ ἄλλῳ
μαρναμένων ἑκάτερθε: μάχη δ᾽ ἔχεν ἶσα τάλαντα.
364
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK VIII
Life-blasting flame: groaned all the shivering air,
As battleward they sped. Swiftly he came
To Troy: loud rang the earth beneath the feet
Of that wild team. Into the battle’s heart
Tossing his massy spear, he came; with a shout
He cheered the Trojans on to face the foe.
They heard, and marvelled at that wondrous cry,
Not seeing the God’s immortal form, nor steeds,
Veiled in dense mist. But the wise prophet-soul
Of Helenus knew the voice divine that leapt
Unto the Trojans’ ears, they knew not whence,
And with glad heart to the fleeing host he cried :
“O cravens, wherefore fear Achilles’ son,
Though ne’er so brave? He is mortal even as we;
His strength is not as Ares’ strength, who is come
A very present help in our sore need.
That was his shout far-pealing, bidding us
Fight on against the Argives. Let your hearts
Be strong, O friends: let courage fill your breasts.
No mightier battle-helper can draw nigh
To Troy than he. Who is of more avail
For war than Ares, when he aideth men
Hard-fighting ? Lo, to our help he cometh now!
On to the fight! Cast to the winds your fears!”
They fled no more, they faced the Argive men,
As hounds, that mid the copses fled at first,
Turn them about to face and fight the wolf,
Spurred by the chiding of their shepherd-lord ;
So turned the sons of Troy again to war,
Casting away their fear. Man leapt on man
Valiantly fighting ; loud their armour clashed
Smitten with swords, with lances, and with darts.
Spears plunged into men’s flesh: dread Ares drank
His fill of blood : struck down fell man on man,
As Greek and Trojan fought. In level poise
365
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
ὡς δ᾽ ὁπότ᾽ αἰζηοὶ μεγάλης ava youvoy ἀλωῆς
ὄρχατον ἀμπελόεντα. διατμήξωσι σιδήρῳ
σπερχόμενοι, τῶν δ᾽ ἶσον ἀέξεται εἰς ἔριν ἔργον, 280
οὕνεκ᾽ ἴσοι τελέθουσιν ὁμηλικίῃ TE Bin TE
ὡς τῶν ἀμφοτέρωθε μάχης ἀλεγεινὰ τάλαντα
ἶσα πέλεν: Τρῶες γὰρ ὑπέρβιον ἐνθέμενοι Kp
μίμνον ἀταρβήτοιο πεποιθότες "A peos ἀλκῇ,
᾿Αργεῖοι ὃ) ἄρα παιδὶ μενεπτολέμου ᾿Αχιλῆος. 285
κτεῖνον δ᾽ ἀλλήλους" ὀλοὴ δ᾽ ἀνὰ μέσσον ᾿Ενυὼ
στρωφᾶτ' ἀλγινόεντι λύθρῳ πεπαλαγμένη ὦμους
καὶ χέρας" ἐκ δέ οἱ αἰνὸς ἀπὸ “μέλεων ῥέεν ἱδρώς"
οὐδ᾽ ἑτέροισιν ἄμυνεν, ἴσῃ δ᾽ ἐπετέρπετο χάρμῃ
ἁζομένη φρεσὶν ἧσι Θέτιν καὶ δῖον "Αρηα. 290
Ἔνθα Νεοπτόλεμος τηλέκλειτον Hepiundea
δάμναθ'᾽, ὃς οἰκί ἔναιε παρὰ Σμινθήιον ἄλσος"
τῷ δ᾽ ἔπι Κέστρον ἔπεφνε μενεπτόλεμόν τε
Φάληρον
καὶ κρατερὸν Περίλαον ἐὐμμελίην τε Μενάλκην,
ὃν τέκετ᾽ ᾿Ιφιάνασσα παρὰ ζάθεον πόδα Κίλλης 295
τεχνήεντι Μέδοντι δαήμονι τεκτοσυνάων'
ἀλλ᾽ ὁ μὲν οἴκοι ἔμιμνε φίλῃ ἐνὶ πατρίδι γαίῃ:
παιδὸς δ᾽ οὐκ ἀπόνητο: δόμον δέ οἱ ἔργα τε πάντα
χηρωσταὶ μετόπισθεν ἀποφθιμενοιο δώσαντο.
Δηίφοβος δὲ Δυκῶνα μενεπτόλεμον κατέπεφνε 800
τυτθὸν ὑ ὑπὲρ βουβῶνα τυχών" περὶ δ᾽ ἔγχεϊ μακρῷ
ἔγκατα πάντ᾽ ἐχύθησαν: ὅλη δ᾽ ἐξέσσυτο νηδύς.
Αἰνείας δὲ Δύμαντα κατέκτανεν, ὃς τὸ πάροιθεν
Αὐλίδα ναιετάασκε, συνέσπετο δ᾽ ᾿Αρκεσιλάῳ
ἐς Τροίην: ἀλλ᾽ οὔτι φίλην πάλιν ἔδρακε, γαῖαν. 305
Εὐρύαλος δ᾽ ἐδάμασσε βαλὼν ἀλεγεινὸν ἄκοντα
᾿Αστραῖον' τοῦ δ᾽ αἶψα διὰ στέρνοιο ποτήθη
αἰχμὴ ἀνιηρή, στομάχου δ᾽ ἀπέκερσε κελεύθους
ἀνέρι κῆρα φέρουσα" μίγη δέ οἱ εἴδατα λύθρῳ.
τοῦ δ᾽ ἄρα βαιὸν ἄπωθεν ἕλεν μεγάθυμος ᾿Αγήνωρ 310
366
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK VIII
The battle-balance hung. As when young men
In hot haste prune a vineyard with the steel,
And each keeps pace with each in rivalry,
Since all in strength and age be equal-matched ;
So did the awful scales of battle hang
Level: all Trojan hearts beat high, and firm
Stood they in trust on aweless Ares’ might,
While the Greeks trusted in Achilles’ son.
Ever they slew and slew: stalked through the
midst
Deadly Enyo, her shoulders and her hands
Blood-splashed, while fearful sweat streamed from
her limbs.
Revelling in equal fight, she aided none,
Lest Thetis’ or the War-god’s wrath be stirred.
Then Neoptolemus slew one far-renowned,
Perimedes, who had dwelt by Smintheus’ grove ;
Next Cestrus died, Phalerus battle-staunch,
Perilaus the strong, Menalcas lord of spears,
Whom Iphianassa bare by the haunted foot
Of Cilla to the cunning craftsman Medon.
In the home-land afar the sire abode,
And never kissed his son’s returning head :
For that fair home and all his cunning works
Did far-off kinsmen wrangle o'er his grave.
Deiphobus slew Lycon battle-staunch :
The lance-head pierced him close above the groin,
And round the long spear all his bowels gushed out.
Aeneas smote down Dymas, who erewhile
In Aulis dwelt, and followed unto Troy
Arcesilaus, and saw never more
The dear home-land. Euryalus hurled a dart,
And through Astraeus’ breast the death-winged point
Flew, shearing through the breathways of man’s life;
And all that lay within was drenched with blood.
And hard thereby great-souled Agenor slew
367
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
Ἱππομένην, Τεύκροιο δαΐφρονος. ἐσθλὸν ἑταῖρον,
τύψας ἐς κληῖδα θοῶς- σὺν δ᾽ αἵματι θυμὸς
ἔκθορεν ἐ ἐκ μελέων' ὀλοὴ δέ μιν ἀμφεχύθη νύξ.
Τεύκρῳ δ᾽ ἔμπεσε πένθος ἀποκταμένου ἑτάροιο,
καὶ βάλεν. ὠκὺν ὀϊστὸν ᾿Αγήνορος ἄ ἄντα τανύσσας" 315
ἀλλά οἱ οὔτι τύχησεν ἀλευαμένου μάλα τυτθόν'"
ἔμπεσε δ᾽ ἐγγὺς ἐόντι δαΐφρονι Δηιοφόντῃ
λαιὸν ἐς ὀφθαλμόν, διὰ δ᾽ οὔατος ἐξεπέρησε
δεξιτεροῦ, γλήνην δὲ διέτμαγεν, οὕνεκα Μοῖραι
ἀργαλέον βέλος ὦ ὦσαν ὅπη φίλον" ὃς δ᾽ ἔτι ποσσὶν 320
ὀρθὸς ἀνασκαίρεσκε: βαλὼν δ᾽ ὅ γε δεύτερον ἰὸν
* * * * * *
λαιμῷ ἐπερροίξησε' διέθρισε δ᾽ αὐχένος ivas
ἄντικρυς ἀΐξας" τὸν δ᾽ ἀργαλέη κίχε Μοίρα.
“AXXos δ᾽ ἄλλῳ τεῦχε φόνον: κεχάροντο δὲ
Κῆρες
καὶ Μόρος, ἀλγινόεσσα δ᾽ Ἔρις μέγα μαιμώωσα 325
nuoev μάλα μακρόν, "Ἄρης δέ οἱ ἀντεβόησε
σμερδαλέον, Τρώεσσι δ᾽ ἐνέπνευσεν μέγα θάρσος,
᾿Αργείοισι δὲ φύζαν, ἄφαρ δ᾽ ἐλέλιξε φάλαγγας.
ἀλλ᾽ οὐχ υἷα φόβησεν ᾿Αχιλλέος" ἀλλ᾽ ὅ γε μίμνων
μάρνατο θαρσαλέως, ἐπὶ δ᾽ ἔκτανεν ἄλλον ἐπ᾽
ἄλλῳ. 330
ὡς δ᾽ ὅτε τις μυίῃσι περὶ γλάγος ἐρχομένῃσι
χεῖρα περιρρίψῃ κοῦρος νέος, αἱ Ἢ ὑπὸ πληγῇ
τυτθῇ δαμνάμεναι σχεδὸν ἄ ἄγγεος * ἄλλοθεν ἄλλαι
θυμὸν ἀποπνείουσι, πάϊς δ᾽ ἐπιτέρπεται ἔργῳ"
ὡς ἄρα φαίδιμος υἱὸς ἀμειλίκτου ᾿Αχιλῆος 335
γήθεεν ἀμφὶ νέκυσσι καὶ οὐκ ἀλέγιζεν “Apnos
Τρωσὶν ἐποτρύνοντος" ἐτίνυτο δ᾽ ἄλλοθεν ἄλλον
λαοῦ ἐπαΐσσοντος" ὅπως δ᾽ ἀνέμοιο θυέλλας
μίμνῃ ἐπεσσυμένας ὄρεος μεγάλοιο κολώνη,
ὡς ἄρα μίμνεν ἄτρεστος. “Apns δέ οἱ ἐμμεμαῶτι 840
1 Zimmermann, ex P.
368
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK VIII
Hippomenes, hero Teucer’s comrade staunch,
With one swift thrust ’twixt shoulder and neck: his
soul
Rushed forth in blood; death’s night swept over
him.
Grief for his comrade slain on Teucer fell ;
He strained his bow, a swift-winged shaft he sped,
But smote him not, for slightly Agenor swerved.
Yet nigh him Deiophontes stood ; the shaft
Into his left eye plunged, passed through the ball,
And out through his right ear, because the Fates
Whither they willed thrust on the bitter barbs.
Even as in agony he leapt full height,
Yet once again the archer’s arrow hissed :
It pierced his throat, through the neck-sinews cleft
Unswerving, and his hard doom came on him.
So man to man dealt death ; and joyed the Fates
And Doom, and fell Strife in her maddened glee
Shouted aloud, and Ares terribly
Shouted in answer, and with courage thrilled
The Trojans, and with panic fear the Greeks,
And shook their reeling squadrons. But one man
He scared not, even Achilles’ son; he abode,
And fought undaunted, slaying foes on foes.
As when a young lad sweeps his hand around
Flies swarming over milk, and nigh the bowl
Here, there they lie, struck dead by that light touch,
And gleefully the child still plies the work ;
So stern Achilles’ glorious scion joyed
Over the slain, and recked not of the God
Who spurred the Trojans on: man after man
Tasted his vengeance of their charging host.
Even as a giant mountain-peak withstands
On-rushing hurricane-blasts, so he abode
Unquailing. Ares at his eager mood
369
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
4 , coy, ) / /
χώετο, καί οἱ ἔμελλεν ἐναντία δηριάασθαι
3 EN > / e Ν / 2 Wet! /
αὐτὸς ἀπορρίψας ἱερὸν νέφος, εἰ μὴ ᾿Αθήνη
» 3 4 / \ / wv
ἔκποθεν Οὐλύμποιο Oopev ποτὶ δάσκιον "] δην'
yy Ν \ A ὙΠ / ΟὟ
ἔτρεμε δὲ χθὼν δῖα καὶ ἠχήεντα ῥέεθρα
Ξάνθου: τόσσον ἔσεισε: δέος δ᾽ ἀμφέκλασε θυμὸν 345
Νυμφάων, φοβέοντο δ᾽ ὑπὲρ ἸΤριάμοιο πόληος"
τεύχεσι δ᾽ ἀμβροσίοισι περὶ στεροπαὶ ποτέοντο"
/ \ ΄ > a3: / > ,
σμερδαλέοι δὲ δράκοντες ἀπ᾿ ἀσπίδος ἀκαμάτοιο
πῦρ ἄμοτον πνείεσκον' ἄνω δ᾽ ἔψαυε νέφεσσι
θεσπεσίη τρυφάλεια. θοῷ δ᾽ ἤμελλεν “Apne 350
μάρνασθ᾽ ἐσσυμένως, εἰ μὴ Διὸς nv νόημα
» / 3 / > ᾽ ’ / ’ an
ἀμφοτέρους ἐφόβησεν ἀπ᾽ αἰθέρος αἰπεινεῖο
βροντήσας ἀλεγεινόν. “Apns δ᾽ ἀπεχάζετο χάρμης"
\ ΄ id / XN / ’
δὴ γάρ οἱ μεγάλοιο Διὸς διεφαίνετο θυμὸς"
2
ἵκετο δ᾽ ἐς Θρήκην δυσχείμερον, οὐδ᾽ ἔτι Τρώων 355
/ f Gy SS ἊΝ ς / 3 \ \ > \
μέμβλετό οἱ κατὰ θυμὸν ὑπέρβιον" οὐδὲ μὲν Eo OAH
? ΄
Παλλὰς ἔτ᾽ ἐν πεδίῳ Τρώων μένεν, ἀλλὰ καὶ αὐτὴ
a > “ e \ / e > + Vd
ἵξεν ᾿Αθηναίων ἱερὸν πέδον. οἱ δ᾽ ἔτι χάρμης
μνώοντ᾽ οὐλομένης" δεύοντο δὲ Τρώιοι vies
> an > a \ LES ΟὟ /
ἀλκῆς" ᾿Αργεῖοι δὲ μέγ᾽ ἱέμενοι πολέμοιο 860
χαζομένοισιν ἕποντο κατ᾽ ἴχνιον, ἠὔτ᾽ ἀῆται
νήεσιν ἐσσυμένῃς ὑπὸ λαίφεσιν εἰς ἁλὸς οἶδμα
ὄβριμον, ἢ θάμνοισι πυρὸς μένος, ἢ κεμάδεσσιν
ὀτρηροὶ κατ᾽ ὄρεσφι κύνες λελιημένοι ἄγρης"
ἃ \ ig 2 / ef oP Abed Ὁ ae
ὼς Δαναοὶ δηίοισιν ἐπήιον, οὕνεκ ap αὐτοὺς 365
eN ’ n / \ /
υἱὸς ᾿Αχιλλῆος μεγάλῳ δορὶ θαρσύνεσκε
κτείνων ὅν κε κίχησι κατὰ κλόνον" οἱ δ᾽ ἐπὶ φύξαν
χασσάμενοι κατέδυσαν ἐς ὑψίπυλον πτολίεθρον.
᾿Αργεῖοι δ᾽ ἄρα τυτθὸν ἀνέπνευσαν πολέμοιο
ἔλσαντες Πριάμοιο κατὰ πτόλιν ἔθνεα Γρώων, 8170
ἄρνας ὅπως σταθμοῖσιν ἐπ᾽ οἰοπόλοισι νομῆες"
ς Ψ UY a)
ὡς δ᾽ ὁπότ᾽ ἀμπνείωσι βόες μέγα κεκμηῶτες
370
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK VIII
Grew wroth, and would have cast his veil of cloud
Away, and met him face to face in fight,
But now Athena from Olympus swooped
To forest-mantled Ida. Quaked the earth
And Xanthus’ murmuring streams ; so mightily
She shook them : terror-stricken were the souls
Of all the Nymphs, adread for Priam’s town.
From her immortal armour flashed around
The hovering lightnings ; fearful serpents breathed
Fire from her shield invincible ; the crest
Of her great helmet swept the clouds. And now
She was at point to close in sudden fight
With Ares; but the mighty will of Zeus
Daunted them both, from high heaven thundering
His terrors. Ares drew back from the war,
For manifest to him was Zeus’s wrath.
To wintry Thrace he passed ; his haughty heart
Recked no more of the Trojans. In the plain
Of Troy no more stayed Pallas; she was gone
To hallowed Athens. But the armies still
Strove in the deadly fray ; and fainted now
The Trojans” prowess ; but all battle-fain
The Argives pressed on these as they gave ground.
As winds chase ships that fly with straining sails
On to the outsea—as on forest-brakes
Leapeth the fury of flame—as swift hounds drive
Deer through the mountains, eager for the prey,
So did the Argives chase them: Achilles’ son
Still cheered them on, still slew with that great
spear
Whomso he overtook. On, on they fled
Till into stately-gated Troy they poured.
Then had the Argives a short breathing-space
From war, when they had penned the hosts of Troy
In Priam’s burg, as shepherds pen up lambs
Upon a lonely steading. And, as when
971
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
Μ ᾽ ΄ὔ A \ ’ὔ ”
ἄχθος ἀνειρύσσαντες ἄνω ποτὶ δύσβατον ἄκρην
\ ᾽ , Lan ’ a w+) \
πυκνὸν ἀνασθμαίνοντες ὑπὸ ξυγόν: ὦ ὡς ap Ἀχαιοὶ
ἄμπνεον ἐν τεύχεσσι κεκμηκότες. ἀμφὶ δὲ πύργους 375
μάρνασθαι μεμαῶτες ἐκυκλώσαντο πόληα:
οἱ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἑῇῆσι πύλῃσιν ἐπειρύσσαντες ὀχῆας
ἐν τείχεσσιν ἔμιμνον ἐπεσσυμένων μένος ἀνδρῶν.
ὡς δ᾽ ὅτε μηλοβοτῆρες ἐνὶ σταθμοῖσι μένωσι
/ / ef / 3 vA
AALAATA KUAVENY, OTE χείματος ἤμωρ lKNTAL 380
λάβρον ὁμοῦ στεροπῇσι καὶ ὕδατι καὶ νιφάδεσσι
/ ς \ 43 » / / e /
ταρφέσιν, οἱ δὲ μάλ᾽ οὔτι λιλαιόμενοί περ ἱκέσθαι
ἐς νομὸν ἀΐσσουσιν, ἄχρις μέγα λωφήσειε
χεῖμα καὶ εὐρύποροι ποταμοὶ μεγάλα βρομέοντες"
ὡς οἵ γ᾽ ἐν τείχεσσι μένον τρομέοντες ὁμοκλὴν 385
δυσμενέων" λαοὶ δὲ θοῶς ἐπέχυντο πόληι.
ὡς δ᾽ ὁπότε ψῆρες τανυσίπτεροι ἠὲ κολοιοὶ
καρπῷ ἐλαϊνέῳ θαμέες περὶ πάγχυ πέσωσι
[4 δ >] Μ /
βρώμης ἱέμενοι θυμηδέος, οὐδ᾽ ἄρα τούς γε
αἰξηοὶ βοόώντες ἀποτρωπῶσι φέβεσθαι, 390
\ / Ν Ν ’ ΄ \ Dd
πιρὶν φαγέειν, λιμὸς yap ἀναιδέα θυμὸν ἀέξει"
a \ / ΩΝ / /
ws Δαναοὶ IIptauoto tor ἀμφεχέοντο πόληϊι
ὄβριμοι: ἐν δὲ πύλῃσι πέσον μεμαῶτες ἐρύσσαι
ἔργον ἀπειρέσιον κρατερόφρονος ᾿Εννοσιγαίου.
Τρῶες δ᾽ οὐ λήθοντο μάχης μάλα περ δεδιῶτες, 395
ἀλλὰ καὶ ὡς πύργοισιν ἐφεσταύτες πονέοντο
νωλεμές" ἰοὶ δ᾽ αἰὲν evduntwv amo τειχέων
θρῶσκον ὁμῶς λάεσσι καὶ αἰγανέησι θοῇσι
δυσμενέων ἐς ὅμιλον, ἐπεί σφισι τλήμονα Φοῖβος
- ’ ΜΨΜ / oP. / »Μ \
ἧκε βίην: ἔτι γάρ οἱ ἀμύνειν ἤθελε θυμὸς 400
Τρωσὶν ἐὐπτολέμοισι kat” Extopos οἰχομένοιο.
Ἔνθ᾽ ἄρα Μηριόνης στυγερὸν προέηκε βέλεμνον
καὶ βάλε Φυλοδάμαντα φίλον κρατεροῖο Ἰ]ολίτεω
1 Zimmermann, for θεοδμήτων.
372
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK VIII
After hard strain, a breathing-space is given
To oxen that, quick-panting ‘neath the yoke,
Up a steep hill have dragged a load, so breathed
Awhile the Achaeans after toil in arms.
Then once more hot for the fray did they beset
The city-towers. But now with gates fast barred
The Trojans from the walls withstood the assault.
As when within their steading shepherd-folk
Abide the lowering tempest, when a day
Of storm hath dawned, with fury of lightnings, rain
And heavy-drifting snow, and dare not haste
Forth to the pasture, howsoever fain,
Till the great storm abate, and rivers, wide
With rushing floods, again be passable ;
So trembling on their walls they abode the rage
Of foes against their ramparts surging fast.
And as when daws or starlings drop in clouds
Down on an orchard-close, full fain to feast
Upon its pleasant fruits, and take no heed
Of men that shout to scare them thence away,
Until the reckless hunger be appeased
That makes them bold ; so poured round Priam’s burg
The furious Danaans. Against the gates
They hurled themselves, they strove to batter down
The mighty-souled Earth-shaker’s work divine.
Yet did the Troyfolk not, despite their fear,
Flinch from the fight: they manned their towers,
they toiled
Unresting: ever from the fair-built walls
Leapt arrows, stones, and fleet-winged javelins down
Amidst the thronging foes; for Phoebus thrilled
Their souls with steadfast hardihood. Fain was he
To save them still, though Hector was no more.
Then Meriones shot forth a deadly shaft,
And smote Phylodamas, Polites’ friend,
373
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
τυτθὸν ὑπὸ γναθμοῖο: πάγη δ᾽ ὑπὸ λαιμὸν ὀϊστός.
κάππεσε δ᾽ αἰγυπιῷ ἐναλίγκιος, ὅν T ἀπὸ πέτρης 405
ἰῷ ἐσγλώχινι βαλὼν αἰξηὸς ὀλέσσῃ"
ὡς ὁ θοῶς πύργοιο κατήριπεν αἰπεινοῖο"
γυΐα δέ οἱ λίπε θυμός: “ἐπέβραχε δ᾽ ἔντεα νεκρῷ.
τῷ δ᾽ ἐπικαγχαλόων υἱὸς κρατεροῖο Μόλοιο
ἄχλον ἀφῆκεν ὀϊστὸν ἐελδόμενος μέγα θυμῷ 410
υἷα βαλεῖν Πριάμοιο πολυτλήτοιο Πολίτην'
ἀλλ᾽ ὁ μὲν αἶψ᾽ ἀλέεινε ᾿παρακλίνας ἑτέρωσε
ὃν δέμας, οὐδέ οἱ ἰὸς ἐπὶ χρόα καλὸν ἴαψεν"
ὡς δ ὅθ᾽ ἁλὸς κατὰ βένθος ἐ ἐπειγομένης νεὸς οὔρῳ
ναύτης παιπαλόεσσαν ἰδὼν ἐν χεύματι πέτρην 415
νῆα παρατρέψῃ λελιημένος ἐξυπαλύξαι
χειρὶ παρακλίνας οἰήιον, 1 ἧχί ἑ θυμὸς
ὀτρύνει, τυτθὴ δὲ βίη μέγα πῆμ᾽ ἀπερύκει"
ὡς ἄρ᾽ ὅ Ye προϊδὼν ὀλοὸν βέλος ἔκφυγε πότμον.
Ou δ᾽ αἰεὶ μάρναντο" λύθρῳ δ᾽ ἐρυθαίνετο τείχη 420
πύργοι θ᾽ ὑψηλοὶ καὶ ἐπάλξιες, ἡ ἧχί τε Τρῶες
ἰοῖσι κτείνοντο πολυσθενέων ὑ ὑπ᾽ ᾿Αχαιῶν"
οὐδὲ μὲν οἵ γ᾽ ἀπάνευθε πόνων ἔσαν, ἀλλ᾽ ἄρα καὶ
τῶν
πολλοὶ γαῖαν ἔρευθον'" ὀρώρει δ᾽ αἰπὺς ὄλεθρος
βαλλομένων ἑκάτερθε" λυγρὴ δ᾽ ἐπετέρπετ᾽ ᾿Ενυὼ 425
δῆριν ἐπικλονέουσα κασιγνήτη Πολέμοιο.
Καί νύ κε δὴ ῥήξαντο πύλας καὶ τείχεα Τροίης
᾿Αργεῖοι, μάλα γάρ σφιν ἀάσπετον ἔπλετο κάρτος,
εἰ μὴ ἄρ᾽ αἶψ᾽ ἐβόησεν ἀγακλειτὸς Γ ανυμήδης
οὐρανοῦ ἐκκατιδών" μάλα γὰρ περιδείδιε πάτρης" 480
“Ζεῦ πάτερ, εἰ ἐτεόν γε τεῆς ἔξ εἰμι γενέθλης,
σῇσι δ᾽ ὑπ᾽ ἐννεσίῃσι λιπὼν ἐρικυδέα Τροίην"
εἰμὶ μετ᾽ ἀθανάτοισι, πέλει δέ μοι ἄμβροτος αἰών,
τῷ μευ νῦν ἐσάκουσον ἀκηχεμένου μέγα θυμῷ’
οὐ γὰρ τλήσομαι ἄστυ καταιθόμενον προσιδέσθαι 435
1 Zimmermann, ex V. P.
374
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK VIII
Beneath the jaw; the arrow pierced his throat.
Down fell he like a vulture, from a rock
By fowler’s barbed arrow shot and slain ;
So from the high tower swiftly down he fell:
His life fled ; clanged his armour o’er the corpse.
With laughter of triumph stalwart Molus’ son
A second arrow sped, with strong desire
To smite Polites, ill-starred Priam’s son:
But with a swift side-swerve did he escape
The death, nor did the arrow touch his flesh.
As when a shipman, as his bark flies on
O’er sea-gulfs, spies amid the rushing tide
A rock, and to escape it swiftly puts
The helm about, and turns aside the ship
Even as he listeth, that a little strength
Averts a great disaster; so did he
Foresee and shun the deadly shaft of doom.
Ever they fought on; walls, towers, battlements
Were blood-besprent, wherever Trojans fell
Slain by the arrows of the stalwart Greeks.
Yet these escaped not scatheless ; many of them
Dyed the earth red: aye waxed the havoc of death
As friends and foes were stricken. O’er the strife
Shouted for glee Enyo, sister of War.
Now had the Argives burst the gates, had breached
The walls of Troy, for boundless was their might ;
But Ganymedes saw from heaven, and cried,
Anguished with fear for his own fatherland :
“Ὁ Father Zeus, if of thy seed I am,
If at thine hest I left far-famous Troy
For immortality with deathless Gods,
O hear me now, whose soul is anguish-thrilled !
I cannot bear to see my fathers’ town
375
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
οὐδ᾽ ap ἀπολλυμένην γενεὴν ἐν δηιοτῆτι
λευγαλέῃ, τῆς οὔ τι χερειότερον πέλει ἄλγος"
σοὶ δὲ καὶ εἰ μέμονε κραδίη τάδε μηχανάασθαι,
ἔρξον ἐ ἐμεῦ ἄπο νόσφιν" ἐλαφρότερον δέ μοι ἄλγος
ἔσσεται, ἢν μὴ ἐ Εγωγε μετ᾽ ὄμμασιν οἷσιν ἴδωμαι: 440
κεῖνο γὰρ οἴκτιστον καὶ κύντατον, ὁππότε πάτρην
δυσμενέων παλάμῃσιν ἐρειπομένην τις ἴδηται." ᾿
Ἢ ἡ ῥα μέγα στενάχων Γανυμήδεος ἀγλαὸν ἧτορ.
καὶ τότ᾽ ἄρα Ζεὺς αὐτὸς ἀπειρεσίοις νεφέεσσι
νωλεμέως ἐκάλυψε κλυτὴν Πριάμοιο πόληα" 445
ἠχλύνθη δὲ μάχη φθισίμβροτος: οὐδέ τίς ἀνδρῶν
ἐξιδέειν € ἐπὶ τεῖχος ἔτ᾽ ἔσθενεν, ἧχι τέτυκτο"
ταρφέσι γὰρ νεφέεσσι διηνεκέως KEKGNUT TO"
ἀμφὶ δ᾽ apa βρονταί τε καὶ ἀστεροπαὶ κτυπέοντο
οὐρανόθεν. Δαναοὶ δὲ Διὸς κτύπον εἰσαΐοντες 450
θάμβεον' ἐν δ᾽ ἄρα τοῖσι μέγ᾽ ἴαχε Νηλέος υἱός"
“ @ κλυτοὶ ᾿Αργείων σημάντορες, οὐκέτι νῶιν
ἔσσεται ἔμπεδα γυῖα Διὸς μέγα θαρσαλέοισι
Τρωσὶν ἀμύνοντος' μάλα γὰρ μέγα πῆμα κυλίνδει
ἡμῖν: ἀλλ᾽ ἄγε θᾶσσον ἑ ἑὰς ἐπὶ νῆας ἰόντες 4δῦ
παυσώμεσθα πόνοιο καὶ ἀργαλέοιο κυδοιμοῦ,
μὴ. δὴ πάντας ἐνιπρήσῃ μάλα περ μενεαίνων.
τοῦ νῦν μὲν τεράεσσι πιθώμεθα" τῷ γὰρ ἔοικε
πάντας ἀεὶ πεπιθέσθαι, ἐπεὶ μάλα 'φέρτατός ἐστιν
ἰφθίμων τε θεῶν ὀλιγοσθενέων T ἀνθρώπων" 400
καὶ γὰρ Τιτήνεσσιν ὑπερφιάλοισι χολωθεὶς
οὐρανόθεν κατέχευε πυρὸς μένος" 4 δ᾽ ὑπένερθε
καίετο πάντοθε γαῖα, καὶ ὠκεανοῦ πλατὺ χεῦμα
ἔζεεν ἐκ βυσσοῖο καὶ ἐς πέρατ᾽ ἄχρις ἱκέσθαι"
καὶ ποταμῶν τέρσοντο ῥοαὶ μάλα μακρὰ ῥεόντων" 465
δάμνατο δ᾽ ὁππόσα φῦλα φερέσβιος ἔτρεφε γαῖα
ἠδ᾽ ὅσα πόντος ἔφερβεν ἀπείριτος ἠδ᾽ ὁπόσ᾽ ὕδωρ
ἀενάων ποταμῶν: ἐπὶ δέ σφισιν ἄσπετος αἰθὴρ
τέφρῃ ὑπεκρύφθη καὶ λιγνύϊ: τείρετο δὲ χθών'
376
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK VIII
In flames, my kindred in disastrous strife
Perishing : bitterer sorrow is there none!
Oh, if thine heart is fixed to do this thing,
Let me be far hence! Less shall be my grief
If I behold it not with these mine eyes.
That is the depth of horror and of shame
To see one’s country wrecked by hands of foes.”
With groans and tears so pleaded Ganymede.
Then Zeus himself with one vast pall of cloud
Veiled all the city of Priam world-renowned ;
And all the murderous fight was drowned in mist,
And like a vanished phantom was the wall
In vapours heavy-hung no eye could pierce ;
And all around crashed thunders, lightnings flamed
From heaven. The Danaans heard Zeus’ clarion peal
Awe-struck ; and Neleus’ son cried unto them:
“ Far-famous lords of Argives, all our strength
Palsied shall be, while Zeus protecteth thus
Our foes. A great tide of calamity
On us is rolling; haste we then to the ships ;
Cease we awhile from bitter toil of strife,
Lest the fire of his wrath consume us all.
Submit we to his purtents; needs must all
Obey him ever, who is mightier far
Than all strong Gods, all weakling sons of men.
On the presumptuous Titans once in wrath
He poured down fire from heaven: then burned all
earth
Beneath, and Ocean’s world-engirdling flood
Boiled from its depths, yea, to its utmost bounds:
Far-flowing mighty rivers were dried up:
Perished all broods of life-sustaining earth,
All fosterlings of the boundless sea, and all
Dwellers in rivers: smoke and ashes veiled
The air: earth fainted in the fervent heat.
317
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
τοὔνεκ᾽ ἐγὼ δείδοικα Διὸς μένος ἤματι τῷδε. 470)
> pee) \ a b] \ a , b) ΄
ἀλλ᾽ ἴομεν ποτὶ νῆας, ἐπεὶ Tpwecou ἀρὴήγει
σήμερον: αὐτὰρ ἔπειτα καὶ ἡμῖν κῦδος ὀρέξει"
ἄλλοτε γάρ τε φίλη πέλει ἠώς, ἄλλοτε δ᾽ EXON:
Ν >] » \ Lal / \ 7
καὶ δ᾽ οὔπω δὴ μοῖρα διαπραθέειν κλυτὸν ἄστυ,
δ) ὩΣ \ / sy Κ y an eS
εἰ ἐτεὸν Κάλχαντος ἐτήτυμος ἔπλετο μῦθος 475
€ a“
τόν pa πάρος κατέλεξεν ὁμηγερέεσσιν ᾿Αχαιοῖς
δῃῶσαι ἹΠριάμοιο πόλιν δεκάτῳ ἐνιαυτῷ."
Ὡς φάτο: τοὶ δ᾽ ἀπάνευθε περικλυτὸν ἄστυ
λιπόντες '
> , \ / € ΄
χασσαντ᾽ ἐκ πολέμοιο Διὸς τρομέοντες ὁμοκλήν'
» / \ / a ” /
avepl yap πεπίθοντο παλαιῶν ἴστορι μύθων. 480
᾽ » 20) A 3 / > / reer A
ἀλλ᾽ οὐδ᾽ ὃς ἀμέλησαν ἀποκταμένων ἐνὶ χάρμῃ"
ἀλλά σφεας τάρχυσαν ἀπὸ πτολέμου ἐρύσαντες"
᾽ \ \ / / ” > \ /
ov yap δὴ κείνους νέφος ἄμφεχεν, ἀλλὰ πόληα
ig \ \ a » / ? / \
ὑψηλὴν καὶ τεῖχος ἀνέμβατον, ᾧ πέρι πολλοὶ
r , va » Δ᾽ 59 / > / ὩΣ
Γρώων υἷες "Apne καὶ ᾿Αργείων ἐδάμησαν. 485
> , Ἀν ame,’ a > / / /
ἐλθόντες δ᾽ ἐπὶ νῆας ἀρήια τεύχεα θέντο,
’ € , \ e lal ᾿ς ᾽ >
καί pa κόνιν καὶ ἱδρῶτα AVOpov τ᾿ ἀποφαι-
δρύναντο
an “ , e
κύμασιν ἐμβεβαῶτες éUppoov ᾿Ἰὰλλησπόντου.
Ν 7
Ἠέλιος δ᾽ ἀκάμαντας ὑπὸ ζόφον ἤλασεν ἵππους"
\ >] > / \ lal > / 2 J mi
νὺξ δ᾽ ἐχύθη περὶ γαῖαν, ἀπέτραπε δ᾽ ἀνέρας
ἔργων" 490
᾿Αργεῖοι δ᾽ ᾿Αχιλῆος ἐὐπτολέμου θρασὺν via
ἶσα τοκῆι τίεσκον" ὁ δ᾽ ἐν κλισίησιν ἀνάκτων
/ »
δαίνυτο καγχαλόων: κάματος δέ μιν οὔτι βάρυνεν,
οὕνεκά οἱ στονόεντα Θέτις μελεδήματα γυίων
ἐξέλετ᾽, ἀκμήτῳ δ᾽ ἐναλίγκιον εἰσοράασθαι 495
“-“ Ν “
τεῦξεν" ὁ δ᾽ ἐκ δόρποιο κορεσσάμενος κρατερὸν κἢρ
/ a
és κλισίην ἀφίκανεν ἑοῦ πατρός, ἔνθα ot ὕπνος
378
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK VIII
Therefore this day I dread the might of Zeus.
Now, pass we to the ships, since for to-day
He helpeth Troy. To us too shall he grant
Glory hereafter ; for the dawn on men,
Though whiles it frown, anon shall smile. Not yet,
But soon, shall Fate lead us to smite yon town,
If true indeed was Calchas’ prophecy
Spoken aforetime to the assembled Greeks,
That in the tenth year Priam’s burg should fall.”
Then left they that far-famous town, and turned
From war, in awe of Zeus’s threatenings,
Hearkening to one with ancient wisdom wise.
Yet they forgat not friends in battle slain,
But bare them from the field and buried them.
These the mist hid not, but the town alone
And its unscaleable wall, around which fell
Trojans and Argives many in battle slain.
So came they to the ships, and put from them
Their battle-gear, and strode into the waves
Of Hellespont fair-flowing, and washed away
All stain of dust and sweat and clotted gore.
The sun drave down his never-wearying steeds
Into the dark west: night streamed o’er the earth,
Bidding men cease from toil. ‘The Argives then
Acclaimed Achilles’ valiant son with praise
High as his father’s. Mid triumphant mirth
He feasted in kings’ tents: no battle-toil
Had wearied him; for Thetis from his limbs
Had charmed all ache of travail, making him
As one whom labour had no power to tire.
When his strong heart was satisfied with meat,
He passed to his father’s tent, and over him
Sleep’s dews were poured. The Greeks slept in the
plain
379
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
ἀμφεχύθη: Δαναοὶ δὲ νεῶν προπάροιθεν ἴαυον
αἰὲν ἀμειβόμενοι φυλακάς" φοβέοντο γὰρ αἰνῶς,
Τρώων μή ποτε λαὸς ἢ ἀγχεμάχων ἐπικούρων δ00
νῆας ἐνιπρήσῃ, νόστου δ᾽ ἀπὸ πάντας ἀμέρσῃ.
ὡς δ᾽ αὕτως Πριάμοιο κατὰ πτόλιν ἔθνεα Τρώων
ἀμφὶ πύλας καὶ τεῖχος ἀμοιβαδὸν ὑ ὑπνώεσκον
᾿Αργείων στονύεσσαν ὑποτρομέοντες ὁμοκλήν.
380
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK VIII
Before the ships, by ever-changing guards
Watched ; for they dreaded lest the host of Troy,
Or of her staunch allies, should kindle flame
Upon the ships, and from them all cut off
Their home-return. In Priam’s burg the while
By gate and wall men watched and slept in turn,
Adread to hear the Argives’ onset-shout.
381
AOTOS ENNATOS.
Ἦμος δ᾽ ἤνυτο νυκτὸς ἄπο κνέφας, ἔγρετο δ᾽ Has
ἐκ περάτων, μάρμαιρε δ᾽ ἀπείριτον ἄσπετος αἰθήρ,
δὴ τότ᾽ ἀρήιοι υἷες ἐὐσθενέων ᾿Αργείων
ἂμ πεδίον πάπταινον, ἴδοντο δὲ ᾿Γλίου ἄκρην
ἀννέφελον, χθιζὸν δὲ τέρας μέγα θαυμάζεσκον. δ
Τρῶες δ᾽ οὐκέτ᾽ ἔφαντο πρὸ τείχεος αἰπεινοῖο
στήμεναι ἐν πολέμῳ μάλα γὰρ δέος ἔλλαβε
πάντας
ζώειν ἐλπομένους ἐρικυδέα ἸΤηλείωνα 1 Ta
᾿Αντήνωρ δ᾽ ἐν τοῖσι θεῶν ἠρήσατ᾽ ἄνακτι"
“Ζεῦ, Ἴδης μεδέων ἠδ᾽ οὐρανοῦ αἰγλήεντος,
κλῦθί μευ εὐχομένοιο, καὶ ὄβριμον ἄνδρα πόληος 10
τρέψον ἀφ᾽ ἡμετέρης ὀλοὰ peat panTiowVTa,
εἴγ᾽ 6 ὅ γ᾽ ᾿Αχιλλεύς ἐστι καὶ οὐ κίε δῶμ᾽ ᾿Αἴδαο,
εἴτε τις ἄλλος ᾿Αχαιὸς ἀλίγκιος ἀνέρι κείνῳ"
λαοὶ γὰρ κατὰ ἄστυ θεηγενέος Πριάμοιο
πολλοὶ ἀποφθινύθουσι, κακοῦ δ᾽ οὐ γίνετ᾽ ἐρωή, 15
ἀλλὰ φόνος τε καὶ οἶτος ἐπὶ πλέον αἰὲν ἀέξει"
Ζεῦ πάτερ, οὐδέ νυ σοί τι δαϊξομένων ὑ ὑπ᾽ ᾿Αχαιοῖς
μέμβλεται, ἀλλ᾽ ἄρα καὶ σὺ λελασμένος υἷος ἑοῖο
Δαρδάνου ἀντιθέοιο μέγ᾽ ᾿Αργείοισιν ἀρήγεις.
ἀλλὰ σοὶ εἰ τόδε θυμὸς ἐνὶ κραδίῃ μενεαίνει,
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£9
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How from his long lone exile returned to the war
Philoctetes
WueEN ended was night’s darkness, and the Dawn
Rose from the world’s verge, and the wide air
glowed
With splendour, then did Argos’ warrior-sons
Gaze o’er the plain; and lo, all cloudless-clear
Stood Ilium’s towers. The marvel of yesterday
Seemed a strange dream. No thought the Trojans
had
Of standing forth to fight without the wall.
A great fear held them thralls, the awful thought
That yet alive was Peleus’ glorious son.
But to the King of Heaven Antenor cried :
“ Zeus, Lord of Ida and the starry sky,
Hearken my prayer! Oh turn back from our town
That battle-eager murderous-hearted man,
Be he Achilles who hath not passed down
To Hades, or some other like to him.
For now in heaven-descended Priam’s burg
By thousands are her people perishing :
No respite cometh from calamity :
Murder and havoc evermore increase.
O Father Zeus, thou carest not though we
Be slaughtered of our foes: thou helpest them,
Forgetting thy son, godlike Dardanus!
But, if this be the purpose of thine heart
383
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
ray nA id Lf) ’, ».. a Σ ,
Τρῶας ὑπ Ἀργείοισιν οἰζυρῶς ἀπόλεσσαι,
ἔρξον ἄφαρ, μηδ᾽ ἄμμι πολὺν χρόνον ἄλγεα τεῦχε."
Ἦ pa μέγ᾽ εὐχόμενος" τοῦ δ᾽ ἔκλυεν οὐρανόθι
Ζεύς-
καὶ τὸ μὲν αἷψ᾽ ἐτέλεσσε, τὸ δ᾽ οὐκ ἤμελλε
τελέσσειν'"
δὴ γάρ οἱ κατένευσεν, ὅπως ἀπὸ πολλοὶ ὄλωνται
Τρῶες ὁμῶς τεκέεσσι, δαΐφρονα δ᾽ ub ᾿Αχιλῆος
τρεψέμεν οὐ κατένευσεν ἀπ᾽ ᾿εὐρυχόροιο πόληος,
ἀλλά ἑ μᾶλλον ἔγειρεν, ἐπεί νύ ἑ θυμὸς ἀνώγει
ἦρα φέρειν καὶ κῦδος ; ἐύφρονι Νηρηίνῃ.
al τὰ μὲν ὃς ὥρμαινε θεῶν μέγα φέρτατος
ἄλλων.
μεσσηγὺς δὲ πόληος io” εὐρέος Ἑλλησπόντου
᾿Αργεῖοι καὶ “Ῥρῶες a ἀποκταμένους ἐνὶ χάρμῃ
καῖον ὁμῶς ἵπποισι" μάχη. δ᾽ ἐπέπαυτο φόνοιο,
οὕνεκα δὴ Πριάμοιο βίη κήρυκα Μενοίτην
εἰς ᾿Αγαμέμνονα πέμψε καὶ ἄλλους πάντας
᾿Αχαιοὺς
λισσόμενος νέκυας πυρὶ καίεμεν'" οἱ δ᾽ ἐπίθοντο
αἰδόμενοι κταμένους" οὐ γάρ σφισι μῆνις ὀπηδεῖ.
ἣμος δὲ φθιμένοισι πυρὰς ἐκάμοντο θαμειάς,
δὴ τότ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ᾿Αργεῖοι μὲν ἐπὶ κλισίας ἀφίκοντο,
Τρῶες δ᾽ ἐς Πριάμοιο πολυχρύσοιο μέλαθρα,
ἀχνύμενοι μάλα πολλὰ δεδουπότος Εὐρυπύλοιο"
τὸν γὰρ δὴ τίεσκον ἴσον Πριάμοιο TEKET OL"
τοὔνεκά μιν τάρχυσαν ἀποκταμένων ἑκὰς ἄλλων
Δαρδανίης προπάροιθε, πύλης, ὅθι μακρὰ ῥέεθρα
δινήεις προΐησιν ἀεξόμενος Διὸς ὄμβρῳ.
Tids δ᾽ αὖτ᾽ ᾿Αχιλῆος ἀταρβέος ἵκετο πατρὸς
τύμβον ἐ ἐς εὐρώεντα" κύσεν δ᾽ ὅ γε δάκρυα χεύων
στήλην εὐποίητον ἀποφθιμένοιο τοκῆος"
καί ῥα περιστενάχων τοῖον ποτὶ μῦθον ἔειπε"
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That Argives shall destroy us wretchedly,
Now do it: draw not out our agony !”’
In passionate prayer he cried; and Zeus from
heaven
Hearkened, and hasted on the end of all,
Which else he had delayed. He granted him
This awful boon, that myriads of Troy’s sons
Should with their children perish: but that prayer
He granted not, to turn Achilles’ son
Back from the wide-wayed town ; nay, all the more
He enkindled him to war, for he would now
Give grace and glory to the Nereid Queen.
So purposed he, of all Gods mightiest.
But now between the city and Hellespont
Were Greeks and Trojans burning men and steeds
In battle slain, while paused the murderous strife.
For Priam sent his herald Menoetes forth
To Agamemnon and the Achaean chiefs,
Asking a truce wherein to burn the dead ;
And they, of reverence for the slain, gave ear ;
For wrath pursueth not the dead. And when
They had lain their slain on those close-thronging
res,
Then did the Argives to their tents return,
And unto Priam’s gold-abounding halls
The Trojans, for Eurypylus sorrowing sore:
For even as Priam’s sons they honoured him.
Therefore apart from all the other slain,
Before the Gate Dardanian—where the streams
Of eddying Xanthus down from Ida flow
Fed by the rains of heaven—they buried him.
Aweless Achilles’ son the while went forth
To his sire’s huge tomb. Outpouring tears, he
kissed
The tall memorial pillar of the dead,
And groaning clasped it round, and thus he cried :
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QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
“χαῖρε πάτερ καὶ ἔνερθε κατὰ χθονός. ov yap
ἔγωγε
λήσομαι οἰχομένοιο σέθεν ποτὶ δῶμ᾽ Aldau:
ὡς εἴθε ζωόν σε pet ᾿Αργείοισι κίχανον'
τῷ κε τάχ᾽ ἀλλήλοισι φρένας τερφθέντ᾽ ἐνὶ θυμῷ
Ἰλίου ἐξ ἱερῆς ληισσάμεθ᾽ ἄσπετον ὄλβον:
νῦν δ᾽ οὔτ᾽ ἂρ σύ γ᾽ ἐσεῖδες ἑὸν τέκος οὔτε σ᾽ ἔγωγε 55
εἶδον ζωὸν ἐόντα λιλαιόμενός περ ἰδέσθαι.
ἀλλὰ καὶ ὡς σέο νόσφι καὶ ἐν φθιμένοισιν ἐόντος
σὸν δόρυ καὶ τεὸν υἷα μέγ᾽ ἐν δαὶ πεφρίκασι
δυσμενέες, Δαναοὶ δὲ γεγηθότες εἰσορόωσ,
σοὶ δέμας ἠδὲ φνὴν ἐναλίγκιον ἠδὲ καὶ ἔργα." 60
“Os εἰπὼν ἀπὸ θερμὸν ὀμόρξατο δάκρυ παρειῶν.
βῆ δὲ θοῶς ἐπὶ νῆας ὑπερθύμοιο τοκῆος
οὐκ οἷος" ἅμα γάρ οἱ ἴσαν δυοκαίδεκα φῶτες
Μυρμιδόνων, Φοῖνιξ δ᾽ ὁ γέρων μετὰ τοῖσιν
OT NOEL
λυγρὸν ἀναστενάχων περικυδέος ἀμφ᾽ ᾿Αχιλῆος. θῦ
Νὺξ δ᾽ ἐπὶ γαῖαν ἵκανεν, ἐπέσσυτο δ᾽ οὐρανὸν
ἄστρα"
οἱ & ἄρα δορπήσαντες ἕλονθ᾽ ὕπνον" ἔγρετο δ᾽
"Has.
᾿Αργεῖοι δ᾽ ap ἔδυσαν ἐν ἔντεσι: τῆλε δ᾽ aT’ αὐτῶν
αἴγλη μαρμαίρεσκεν ἐς αἰθέρα μέχρις ἰοῦσα:
καί ῥα θοῶς ἔκτοσθε πυλάων ἐσσεύοντο 70
πανσυδίῃ νιφάδεσσιν ἐοικότες, αἵ τε φέρονται
ταρφέες ἐκ νεφέων κρυερῇ ὑπὸ χείματος ὥρῃ:
ὼς οἵ γ᾽ ἐξεχέοντο πρὸ τείχεος, ὦρτο δ᾽ ἀὐτὴ
σμερδαλέη: μέγα δ᾽ αἷα περιστεναχίζετ᾽ ἰόντων.
Τρῶες δ᾽ εὖτ᾽ ἐπύθοντο βοὴν καὶ λαὸν ἴδοντο, 7ῦ
θάμβησαν: πᾶσιν δὲ κατεκλάσθη κέαρ ἔνδον
πότμον ὀϊομένων: περὶ γὰρ νέφος ὡς ἐφαάνθη
λαὸς δυσμενέων: κανάχιζε δὲ τεύχεα φωτῶν
κινυμένων: ἄμοτον δὲ κονίσαλος ὦρτο ποδοῖιν.
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THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK Ix
« Hail, father! Though beneath the earth thou lie
In Hades’ halls, I shall forget thee not.
Oh to have met thee living mid the host!
Then of each other had our souls had joy,
Then of her wealth had we spoiled Ilium.
But now, thou hast not seen thy child, nor I
Seen thee, who yearned to Jook on thee in life '
Yet, though thou be afar amidst the dead,
Thy spear, thy son, have made thy foes to quail ;
And Danaans with exceeding joy behold
One like to thee in stature, fame and deeds.”’
He spake, and wiped the hot tears from his face ;
And to his father’s ships passed swiftly thence :
With him went Myrmidon warriors two and ten,
And white-haired Phoenix followed on with these
Woefully sighing for the glorious dead.
Night rose o’er earth, the stars flashed out in
heaven;
So these brake bread, and slept till woke the Dawn.
Then the Greeks donned their armour: flashed afar
Its splendour up to the very firmament.
Forth of their gates in one great throng they
poured,
Like snowflakes thick and fast, which drift adown
Heavily from the clouds in winter's cold ;
So streamed they forth before the wall, and rose
Their dread shout: groaned the deep earth ‘neath
their tramp.
The Trojans heard that shout, and saw that host,
And marvelled. Crushed with fear were all their
hearts
Foreboding doom; for like a huge cloud seemed
That throng of foes: with clashing arms they came:
Volumed and vast the dust rose ‘neath their feet.
387
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
καὶ τότ᾽ ap ἠὲ θεῶν tis ὑπὸ φρένας ἔμβαλε
θάρσος 80
Δηιφόβῳ καὶ θῆκε μάλ᾽ ἄτρομον, ἠὲ καὶ αὐτοῦ
θυμὸς ἐποτρύνεσκε ποτὶ κλόνον, ὄφρ᾽ ἀπὸ πάτρης
δυσμενέων ἀλεγεινὸν ὑπ᾽ ἔγχεϊ λαὸν ἐλάσσῃ;
apa tt δ᾽ ἄρα μῦθον ἐνὶ Τρώεσσιν ἔειπεν"
ὦ φίλοι, εἰ δ᾽ ἄγε θυμὸν a ἀρήιον ἐν φρεσὶ θέσθε 88
μνησάμενοι, στονόεντος ὅσα πτολέμοιο τελευτὴ
ἄλγε᾽ ἐπ᾽ ἀνθρώποισι δορυκτήτοισι τίθησιν"
οὐ γὰρ ᾿Αλεξάνδροιο πέλει πέρι μοῦνον ἄεθλος
οὐδ᾽ “Ἑλένης, ἀλλ᾽ ἔστι περὶ πτόλιός τε καὶ αὐτῶν
ἡ δ᾽ ἀλόχων τεκέων τε φίλων γεραρῶν τε τοκήων 0
πάσης τ ἀγλαΐης καὶ κτήσιος ἠδ᾽ ἐρατεινῆς
γαίης, ἥ με δαμέντα κατὰ κλόνον ἀμφικαλύψοι
μᾶλλον, ἢ ἀθρή ἡσαιμι φίλην ὑπὸ δούρασι πάτρην
δυσμενέων' οὐ γάρ τι κακώτερον ἔλπομαι ἄλλο
πῆμα μετ᾽ ἀνθρώποισιν ὀϊζυροῖσι τετύχθαι. 95
TOUVEK ἀπωσάμενοι στυγερὸν δέος ἀμφ᾽ ἐμὲ πάντες
καρτύνασθ' ἐπὶ δῆριν ἀμείλιχον' οὐ γὰρ ᾿Αχιλλεὺς
ζωὸς ἔθ᾽ ἡμῖν ἄντα μαχήσεται, οὕνεκ᾽ ἄρ᾽ αὐτὸν
πῦρ ὀλοὸν κατέδαψε" πέλει δέ τις ἄλλος ᾿Αχαιῶν,
ὃς νῦν λαὸν ἐ ἔγειρεν, ἔοικε δὲ μῆτ᾽ ᾿Αχιλῆα 100
μήτε τιν᾽ ἄλλον ᾿Αχαιὸν ὑποτρομέειν περὶ πάτρης
μαρναμένους" τῷ μή τι φεβώμεθα μῶλον᾽ Ἄρηος,
εἰ καὶ πολλὰ πάροιθεν ἀνέτλημεν μογέοντες"
ἢ οὔπω τόδε οἴδατ᾽ ἀνὰ φρένας, ὡς ἀλεγεινοῖς
ἀνδράσιν ἐκ καμάτοιο πέλει θαλίη τε καὶ ὄλβος, 105
ἐκ δ᾽ ἄρα λευγαλέων ἀνέμων καὶ χείματος αἰνοῦ
Ζεὺς ἐπάγει μερόπεσσι δι᾿ ἠέρος εὔδιον ἦμαρ,
ἔκ T ὀλοῆς νούσοιο πέλει σθένος, ἔκ τε μόθοιο
εἰρήνη; τὰ δὲ πάντα χρόνῳ μεταμείβεται ἔργα.
Ὡς φάτο" τοὶ δ᾽ ἐς “Apna μεμαότες ἐντύναντο 110
ἐσσυμένως: καναχὴ δὲ κατὰ πτόλιν ἔπλετο πάντῃ
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THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK IX
Then—either did some God with bardihood thrill
Deiphobus’ heart, and made it void of fear,
Or his own spirit spurred him on to fight,
To drive by thrust of spear that terrible host
Of foemen from the city of his birth.
So there in Troy he cried with heartening speech:
“QO friends, be stout of heart to play the men!
Remember all the agonies that war
Brings in the end to them that yield to foes.
Ye wrestle not for Alexander alone,
Nor Helen, but for home, for your own lives,
For wives, for little ones, for parents grey,
For all the grace of life, for all ye have,
For this dear Jand—oh may she shroud me o’er
Slain in the battle, ere I see her lie
’Neath foemen’s spears—my country! I know not
A bitterer pang than this for hapless men!
O be ye strong for battle! Forth to the fight
With me, and thrust this horror far away!
Think not Achilles liveth still to war
Against us: him the ravening fire consumed.
Some other Achaean was it who so late
Enkindled them to war. Oh, shame it were
If men who fight for fatherland should fear
Achilles’ self, or any Greek beside !
Let us not flinch from war-toil! have we not
Endured much battle-travail heretofore ?
What, know ye not that to men sorely tried
Prosperity and joyance follow toil ?
So after scourging winds and ruining storms
Zeus brings to men a morn of balmy air;
After disease new strength comes, after war
Peace: all things know Time’s changeless law of
change.”’
Then eager all for war they armed themselves
In haste. All through the town rang clangour of arms
389
‘QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
A 3 » / / ᾽ [οἱ
μῶλον ἐς ἀλγινοεντα κορυσσομένων αἰζηῶν.
ἔνθ᾽ ἄρα τῷ μὲν ἄκοιτις ὑποτρομέουσα κυδοιμὸν
» >
EVTE ἀποιχομένῳ παρενήνεε δακρυχεούτα"
an 2 , ΄,
τῷ δ᾽ ἄρα νήπιοι υἷες ἐπειγόμενοι περὶ πατρὶ 115
, ΄ , ἘΠ πο 7 » ΄
τεύχεα πάντα φέρεσκον᾽ ὁ δέ σφισιν ἄλλοτε μέν
που
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ἄχνυτ᾽ ὀδυρομένοις, ὁτὲ δ᾽ ἔμπαλι μειδιάασκε
παισὶν ἀγαλλόμενος" κραδίη δέ οἱ ἐν δαὶ μᾶλλον
ὥρμαινεν πονέεσθαι ὑπὲρ τεκέων τε καὶ αὐτοῦ"
” aA 5) 5 \ ’ , ΄,
ἄλλῷ δ᾽ αὖτε γεραιὸς ἐπισταμένης παλάμῃσιν 120
ἀμφετίθει μελέεσσι κακῆς ἀλκτήρια χάρμης
\ / / es \ ”
πολλὰ παρηγορέων φίλον viéa, μηδενὶ εἴκειν
ἐν πολέμῳ, καὶ στέρνα τετυμμένα δείκνυε TraLdE
ταρφέα σήματ᾽ ἔχοντα παλαιῆς δηιοτῆτος.
» Ie \ / 4 > aa d ΄
Αλλ᾽ ὅτε δὴ μάλα πάντες ἐν ἔντεσι θωρήχθησαν, 125
ἢ
ἄστεος ἐξεχέοντο μέγ᾽ ἱέμενοι πολέμοιο
/ ri / δ Ma dee de AA ΄ v
λευγαλέου: ταχέεσσι δ᾽ ἐφ᾽ ἱππήεσσιν ὄρουσαν
ἱππῆες" πεζοῖσι δ᾽ ἐπέχραον ἔθνεα πεζῶν'
«“ > τῷ 2 / ἴς - »Μ Ν \
ἅρμασι δ᾽ appa’ ἵκοντο καταντίον" ἔβραχε δὲ χθὼν
ἐς μόθον ἐσσυμένων" ἐπαῦὔτεε δ᾽ οἷσιν ἕκαστος 180
ς δ νοῦ, Ἐπ / sao Ns)
κεκλόμενος" Tol δ᾽ αἶψα cuvytov’ audi δ᾽ apa σφι
Tevye ἐπεσμαράγησε᾽ μίγη δ᾽ ἑκάτερθεν ἀὐτὴ
λευγαλέη" τὰ δὲ πολλὰ θοῶς ποτέοντο βέλεμνα
Υ͂ ᾽ ᾽ / 5 id 3 » > b] ,
βαλλόμεν᾽ ἀμφοτέρωθεν: ὑπ᾽ ἔγχεσι δ᾽ ἀσπίδες
ἀνδρῶν
4 , Pl Εἰ OP Ler) I ws Ud n
θεινόμεναι κτυπέεσκον ἀάσχετον αἱ δ᾽ UT ἀκόντων 135
\ Le 2 / N \ > , A
καὶ ξιφέων᾽ πολέες δὲ καὶ ἀξίνησι θοῆσιν
ἀνέρες οὐτάξοντο᾽ φορύνετο δ᾽ ἔντεα φωτῶν
? ,
αἵματι. Τρωιάδες δ᾽ ἀπὸ τείχεος ἐσκοπίαξον
an 4 a
αἰζηῶν στονόεντα μόθον πάσῃσι δὲ γυῖα
ἔτρεμεν εὐχομένησιν ὑπὲρ τεκέων τε καὶ ἀνδρῶν 140
ἠδὲ κασυγνήτων" πολιοὶ δ᾽ ἅμα τῇσι γέροντες
39°
THE WALL OF TROY )/iBOOK ἘΧ
As for grim fight strong men arrayed their limbs.
Here stood a wife, shuddering with dread of war,
Yet piling, as she wept, her husband’s arms
Before his feet There little children brought
‘To a father his war-gear with eager haste ;
And now his heart was wrung to hear their sobs,
And now he smiled on those small ministers,
And stronger waxed his heart’s resolve to fight
To the last gasp for these, the near and dear.
Yonder again, with hands that had not lost
Old cunning, a grey father for the fray
Girded a son, and murmured once and again:
“Dear boy, yield thou to no man in the war!”
And showed his son the old scars on his breast,
Proud memories of fights fought long ago.
So when they all stood mailed in’ battle-gear,
Forth of the gates they poured all eager-souled
For war Against the chariots of the Greeks
Their chariots charged; their ranks of footmen
pressed
To meet the footmen of the foe The earth
Rang to the tramp of onset; pealed the cheer
From man to man; swift closed the fronts of war.
Loud clashed their arms all round ; from either side
War-cries were mingled in one awful roar.
Swift-winged full many a dart and arrow flew
From host to host; loud clanged the smitten shields
"Neath thrusting spears, neath javelin-point and
sword :
Men hewed with battle-axes lightening down ;
Crimson the armour ran with blood of men.
And all this while Troy’s wives and daughters
watched
From high walls that grim battle of the strong.
All trembled as they prayed for husbands, sons,
And brothers : white-haired sires amidst them sat,
39!
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
Ὁ“ ᾽ ᾽ / Ξ ES 8 e \ "ὃ θ Ν
ἕζοντ᾽ εἰσορόωντες" ἔδον δ᾽ ὑπὸ κήδεσι θυμὸν
¢ / ee /
παίδων ἀμφὶ φίλων" “EXévn δ᾽ ἐν δώμασι μίμνεν
ὌΠ 5.5 Γ a ov, NG ey IO 7
οἴη ἅμ᾽ ἀμφιπόλοισιν' ἔρυκε yap ἄσπετος αἰδώς.
Οἱ δ᾽ ἄμοτονπονέοντο πρὸ τείχεος" ἀμφὶ δὲ ΚΚῆρες 145
> Α /
γήθεον" οὐλομένη δ᾽ ἐπαὕτεεν ἀμφοτέροισι
“ » δ; ὔ; ΄
μακρὸν" Epis βοόωσα᾽ κόνις δ᾽ ἐρυθαίνετο λύθρῳ
ἢ 5 > ΧΕ , Ν
κτεινομένων: ὀλέκοντο δ᾽ ἀνὰ κλόνον ἄλλοθεν
”
ἄλλος.
vw » / \ 7 ς a
Ev@ ἄρα Δηίφοβος κρατερὸν κτάνεν ἡνιοχῆα
«ς 7 ἐς ΤΥ oe > a
[Νέστορος,] ἹἹππασίδην, ὁ δ᾽ ἀφ᾽ ἅρματος αἰψηροῖο 150
» , 7 δ » .
ἤριπεν ἀμφὶ véexvacw: ἄχος δέ οἱ ἔσχεν ἄνακτα
\ / Fee xe a“ »
δείδιε γάρ, μὴ δή μιν ἐφ ἡνία χεῖρας ἔχοντα
εν ἃ, ᾿
υἱὸς ἐὺς Πριάμοιο κατακτείνησι καὶ αὐτόν
/ > 33 Td
ἀλλά οἱ οὐκ ἀμέλησε Μελάνθιος: ἀλλ᾽ ἐπὶ δίφρον
5 A , \ Ul
ἄλτο θοῶς, ἵπποισι δ᾽ ἐκέκλετο μακρὰ τινάσσων 155
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εὔχηρ᾽, οὐδ᾽ ἔχε μάστιν, ἔλαυνε δὲ δούρατι θείνων.
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θαρσαλέως δηίοισιν ἐπῴχετο τοῦ δ᾽ ὑπὸ χερσὶ 160
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ἄνθρακας ὄφρα κάμῃσι κατακρύψας ὑπὸ γαῖαν
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πρῶνας ὕπερθε κάλυψαν, ἀνὴρ δ᾽ ἐπιτέρπεται ἔργῳ
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ὡς dpa Δηιφόβοιο θοῇς ὑπὸ χερσὶν ᾿Αχαιοὶ
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ἰλαδὸν ὀλλύμενοι περικάππεσον ἀλλήλοισι.
wes ς \ T , Ὁ IX e δ 2 EB
καί ῥ᾽ ot μὲν Τρώεσσιν ὁμίλεον, οἱ δ᾽ ἐφέβοντο
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εὐρὺν ἐπὶ Ἐάνθοιο ῥόον᾽ τοὺς δ᾽ ὕδατος εἴσω
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Δηίφοβος συνέλασσε καὶ οὐκ ἀπέληγε φόνοιο
3 , «ς
ὡς δ᾽ ὁπότ᾽ ἰχθυόεντος ἐπ᾽ ἠόσιν ᾿Ελλησπόντου
392
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK IX
And gazed, while anguished fear for sons devoured
Their hearts. But Helen in her bower abode
Amidst her maids, there held by utter shame.
So without pause before the wall they fought,
While Death exulted o’er them; deadly Strife
Shrieked out a long wild cry from host to host.
With blood of slain men dust became red mire:
Here, there, fast fell the warriors mid the fray.
Then slew Deiphobus the charioteer
Of Nestor, Hippasus’ son: from that high car
Down fell he ’midst the dead ; fear seized his lord
Lest, while his hands were cumbered with the reins,
He too by Priam’s strong son might be slain.
Melanthius marked his plight: swiftly he sprang
Upon the car; he urged the horses on,
Shaking the reins, goading them with his spear,
Seeing the scourge was lost. But Priam’s son
Left these, and plunged amid a throng of foes.
There upon many he brought the day of doom ;
For like a ruining tempest on he stormed
Through reeling ranks. His mighty hand struck
down
Foes numberless : the plain was heaped with dead.
As when a woodman on the long-ridged hills
Plunges amid the forest-depths, and hews
With might and main, and fells sap-laden trees
To make him store of charcoal from the heaps
Of billets overturfed and set afire :
The trunks on all sides fallen strew the slopes,
While o’er his work the man exulteth; so
Before Deiphobus’ swift death-dealing hands
In heaps the Achaeans each on other fell.
The charging lines of Troy swept over some;
Some fled to Xanthus’ stream: Deiphobus chased
Into the flood yet more, and slew and slew.
As when on fish-abounding Hellespont’s strand
393
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
δίκτυον ἐξερύωσι πολύκμητοι ἁλιῆες
κολπωθὲν ποτὶ γαῖαν, ἔσω δ᾽ ἁλὸς εἰσέτ᾽ ἐόντος
ἐνθόρῃ αἰζηὸς γναμπτὸν δόρυ χερσὶ μεμαρπὼς 1785
αἰνὸν ἐπὶ ξιφίησι φέρειν φόνον, ἄλλοθε δ᾽ ἄλλον
δάμναται, ὅν κε κίχησι, φόνῳ δ᾽ ἐρυθαίνεται ὕδωρ
ὡς τοῦ ὑπαὶ παλάμησι περὶ Ἐάνθοιο ῥέεθρα
αἵματι φοινίχθησαν, ἐνεστείνοντο δὲ νεκροί.
Οὐδὲ μὲν οὐδ᾽ ἄρα Τρῶες ἀναιμωτὶ πονέοντο, 180
ἀλλά σφεας ἐδάϊζεν ᾿Αχιλλέος ὄβριμος υἱὸς
ἀμφ᾽ ἄλλῃσι φάλαγξι: Θέτις δέ που εἰσορόωσα
τέρπετ᾽ ἐφ᾽ υἱωνῷ. ὅσον ἄχνυτο []ηλείωνε"
τοῦ γὰρ ὑπὸ μελίῃ πουλὺς στρατὸς ἐν κονίησι
πίπτεν ὁμῶς ἵπποισιν" ὁ δ᾽ ἑσπόμενος κεράιζεν. 185
ἐνθ᾽ ᾿Αμίδην ἐδάϊξε περικλυτὸν, ὅς ῥά οἱ ἵππῳ
ἑζόμενος συνέκυρσε καὶ οὐκ ἀπόνητ᾽ ἐρατεινῆς
ἱππασίης" δὴ γάρ μιν ὑπ᾽ ἔγχει τύψε φαεινῷ
és νηδύν' αἰχμὴ δὲ ποτὶ ῥάχιν ἐξεπέρησεν.
ἔγκατα δ᾽ ἐξεχύθησαν" ἕλεν δέ μιν οὐλομένη Knp 190
ἐσσυμένως ἵπποιο θοοῦ παρὰ ποσσὶ πεσόντα.
εἷλε δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ᾿Ασκάνιόν te και Οίνοπα. τὸν μὲν
ἐλάσσας
δουρὶ μέγα στομάχοιο ποτὶ στόμα, τὸν δ᾽ ὑπο
λαιμόν,
καίριος ἔνθα μάλιστα πέλει μόρος ἀνθρώποισιν.
ἄλλους δ᾽ ἔκτανεν αἰέν, ὅσους κίχε᾽ τίς κεν ἐκείνους 195
ἀνδρῶν μυθήσαιτο, κατὰ κλόνον ὅσσοι ὄλοντο
χερσὶ Νεοπτολέμοιο; κάμεν δέ οἱ οὔποτε yuta’
ὡς δ᾽ ὁπότ᾽ αἰζηῶν τις ἀγρῷ ἐνὶ τηλεθάοντι
πᾶν ἦμαρ κρατερῇσι πονησάμενος παλάμῃσιν
ἐς γαῖαν κατέχευεν ἀπείρονα καρπὸν ἐλαίης 200
ῥάβδῳ ἐπισπέρχων, ἐκάλυψε δὲ χῶρον ὕπερθεν"
ὡς τοῦ ὑπαὶ παλάμῃσε κατήριπε πουλὺς ὅμιλος.
394
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK IX
The fishermen hard-straining drag a net
Forth of the depths to land ; but, while it trails
Yet through the sea, one leaps amid the waves
Grasping in hand a sinuous-headed spear
To deal the sword-fish death, and here and there,
Fast as he meets them, slays them, and with blood
The waves are reddened ; so were Xanthus’ streams
Impurpled by his hands, and choked with dead.
Yet not without sore loss the Trojans fought ;
For all this while Peleides’ fierce-heart son
Of other ranks made havoc. Thetis gazed
Rejoicing in her son’s son, with a joy
As great as was her grief for Achilles slain.
For a great host beneath his spear were hurled
Down to the dust, steeds, warriors slaughter-blent.
And still he chased, and still he slew: he smote
Amides war-renowned, who on his steed
Bore down on him, but of his horsemanship
Small profit won. The bright spear pierced him
through
From navel unto spine, and all his bowels
Gushed out, and deadly Doom laid hold on him
Even as he fell beside his horse’s feet.
Ascanius and Oenops next he slew ;
Under the fifth rib of the one he drave
His spear, the other stabbed he ‘neath the throat
Where a wound bringeth surest doom to man,
Whomso he met besides he slew—the names
What man could tell of all that by the hands
Of Neoptolemus died? Never his limbs
Waxed weary. As some brawny labourer,
With strong hands toiling in a fruitful field
The livelong day, rains down to earth the fruit
Of olives, swiftly beating with his pole,
And with the downfall covers all the ground,
So fast fell ‘neath his hands the thronging foe.
395
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
Τυδείδης δ᾽ ἑτέρωθεν. ἐὐμμελίης τ᾽ ᾿Αγαμέμνων
ἄλλοι T ἐν Δαναοῖσιν ἀριστῆες πονέοντο
προφρονέως ἀνὰ δῆριν ἀμείλυχον" οὐδὲ μὲν ἐσθλοῖς 205
Τρώων ἡγεμόνεσσι δέος πέλεν, ἀλλὰ καὶ αὐτοὶ
ἐκ θυμοῖο μάχοντο καὶ ἀνέρας αἰὲν ἔρυκον.
χαζομένους" πολέες γε μὲν οὐκ ἀλέγοντες ἄνακτων
ἐκ πολέμοιο φέβοντο μένος τρομέοντες ᾿Αχαιῶν.
"Owe δ᾽ ap’ εἰσενόησε περὶ προχοῇσι Σκαμάν-
dpov 210
ὀχλυμένους Δαναοὺς κρατερὸς πάϊς Αἰακίδαο
αἰὲν ἐπασσυτέρους" λίπε δ᾽ ods πάρος αὐτόθ᾽
ἔναιρε,
φεύγοντας ποτὶ ἄστυ, καὶ Αὐτομέδοντι κέλευε
Keio ἐλάαν, ὅθι πουλὺς. ἐδάμνατο λαὸς ᾿Αχαιῶν.
αὐτὰρ ὅ Y ai’ ἐπίθησε καὶ ἀθανάτων μένος ἵππων 215
σεύεσκεν μάστιγι ποτὶ κλόνον" οἱ δ᾽ ἐπέτοντο
ῥίμφα διὰ κταμένων κρατερὸν φορέοντες ἄνακτα.
οἷος δ᾽ ἐς πόλεμον φθισίμβροτον ἐ ἔρχεται "Άρης
ἐμβεβαὼς ἵ ἵπποισι, περιτρομέει δ᾽ ἄρα γαῖα
ἐσσυμένου, καὶ θεῖα περὶ στέρνοισι θεοῖο 220
τεύχε᾽ ἐπιβρομέουσιν ἴσον πυρὶ μαρμαίροντα"
τοῖος ᾿Αχιλλῆος κρατεροῦ πάϊς ἤιεν ἄντην
ἐσθλοῦ Δηιφόβοιο" κόνις δ᾽ ἐπαείρετο πολλὴ
ἵππων ἀμφὶ πόδεσσιν" ἰδὼν δέ μιν ἄλκιμος ἀνὴρ
Αὐτομέδων ἐνόησεν, ὅτις πέλεν᾽ αἶψα δ᾽ ἄνακτι 225
τοῖον ἔπος κατέλεξε περικλυτὸν ἄνδρα πιφαύσκων"
coe » , ΄ ee 1 \
ὦ ava, Δηιφόβοιο πέλει στρατός, Os TE! καὶ
αὐτὸς
nr ΄ a ς / τ aA / 6.» \
σεῖο πάροιθε τοκῆος ὑπέτρεμε" νῦν δέ οἱ ἐσθλὸν
ΓᾺ \ x / Ὁ Χ 7 ΄ ΄ ᾽᾽
ἢ θεὸς ἢ δαίμων τις ὑπὸ κραδίην βάλε θάρσος.
ἃ My Ψ., 3 ς IS ay Digs v / 2 3 oF
Ὡς ap ἔφη" ὁ δ᾽ ap οὔτι προσέννεπεν, ἀλλ᾽ ETL
μᾶλλον 280
Cs 5 Vf / ” ,
ἵππους ὀτρύνεσκεν ἐλαυνέμεν, ὄφρα τάχιστα
1 Zimmermann, for ἠδὲ of MS.
396
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK IX
Elsewhere did Agamemnon, Tydeus’ son,
And other chieftains of the Danaans toil
With fury in the fight. Yet never quailed
The mighty men of Troy: with heart and soul
They also fought, and ever stayed from flight
Such as gave back. Yet many heeded not
Their chiefs, but fled, cowed by the Achaeans’
might.
Now at the last Achilles’ strong son marked
How fast beside Scamander’s outfall Greeks
Were perishing. ‘Those Troyward-fleeing foes
Whom he had followed slaying, left he now,
And bade Automedon thither drive, where hosts
Were falling of the Achaeans. Straightway he
Hearkened, and scourged the steeds immortal on
To that wild fray : bearing their lord they flew
Swiftly o’er battle-highways paved with death.
As Ares chariot-borne to murderous war
Fares forth, and round his onrush quakes the
ground,
While on the God’s breast clash celestial arms
Outflashing fire, so charged Achilles’ son
Against Deiphobus. Clouds of dust upsoared
About his horses’ feet. Automedon marked
The Trojan chief, and knew him. To his lord
Straightway he named that hero war-renowned :
“My king, this is Deiphobus’ array—
The man who from thy father fled in fear.
Some God or fiend with courage fills him now.”
Naught answered Neoptolemus, save to bid
Drive on the steeds yet faster, that with speed
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
ὀλλυμένοις Δαναοῖσιν ἀεικέα πότμον ἀλάλκοι.
ἀλλ᾽ ὅτε δή ῥ᾽ ἀφίκοντο μάλα σχεδὸν ἀλλήλοισι,
δὴ τότε Δηίφοβος μάλα περ χατέων “πτολέμοιο
ἔστη, ὅπως πῦρ αἰνόν, ὅθ᾽ ὕδατος ἐγγὺς ἵκηται 230
θάμβεε δ᾽ εἰσορόων κρατερόφρονος Αἰακίδαο
ἵππους ἠδὲ καὶ υἷα πελώριον, οὔτι τοκῆος
μείονα. τοῦ δ᾽ ἄρα θυμὸς ὑπὸ φρεσὶν ὁρμαίνεσκεν
ἄλλοτε μὲν φεύγειν, ὁτὲ δ᾽ ἀνέρος ἄντα μάχεσθαι"
ὡς δ᾽ ὅτε σῦς ἐν ὄρεσσι νεηγενέων ἀπὸ τέκνων 240
θῶας ἀποσσεύῃσι, λέων δ᾽ ἑτέρωθι φανείη
ἔκποθεν ἐσσύμενος, τοῦ δ᾽ (oTATAL ἄσπετος ὁρμὴ
οὔτε πρόσω μεμαῶτος ἔτ ᾿ ἐλθέμεν οὔτ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ὀπίσσω,
θήγει, δ᾽ ἀφριόωντας ὑπὸ γναθμοῖσιν ὀδόντας"
ὡς υἱὸς Πριάμοιο σὺν ἅρμασι μίμνε καὶ ἵπποις 246
πορφύρων φρεσὶ πολλὰ καὶ ἀμφαφόων δόρυ χερσί.
τὸν δ᾽ υἱὸς προσέειπεν ἀμειλίκτου ᾿Αχιλῆος"
ik Πριαμίδη, τί νυ τόσσον ἐπ᾽ ᾿Αργείοισι μέμηνας
χειροτέροις, οἵ σεῖο περιτρομέοντες ὁμοκλὴν
φεῦγον ἐπεσσυμένοιο, σὺ δ᾽ ἔλπεο πολλὸν ἄριστος 250
ἔμμεναι; ἀλλὰ σοὶ εἴπερ ὑπὸ κραδίῃ μένος ἐστίν,
ἡμετέρης πείρησαι ἀνὰ κλόνον ἀσχέτου αἰχμῆς."
Ὡς εἰπὼν οἴμησε λέων ὡς ἄντ᾽ ἐλάφοιο
ἐμβεβαὼς ἵ ἵπποισι καὶ ἅρμασι πατρὸς ἑοῖο"
καί νύ κέ pw τάχα δουρὶ σὺν ἡνιόχῳ κατέπεφνεν, 255
εἰ μή οἱ μέλαν αἶψα μέφος κατέχευεν ᾿Απόλλων
ἔκποθεν Οὐλύμποιο καὶ εξ ὀλοοῖο μόθοιο
ἥρπασε, καί μιν ἔθηκε ποτὶ πτόλιν, ἧχι καὶ ἄλλοι
Τρῶες! ἴσαν φεύγοντες" ὁ δ᾽ ἐς κενεὴν δόρυ τύψας
ἠέρα Πηλείδαο πάϊς ποτὶ μῦθον ἐ ἔειπεν" 260
“ὦ ,κύον, ἐξήλυξας ἐμὸν μένος: οὐδὲ σοὶ ἀλκὴ
ἱεμένῳ περ ἄλαλκε, θεῶν δέ τις, ὅς σ᾽ ἐκάλυψε
νύκτα βαλὼν καθύπερθε, καὶ ἐκ κακότητος
ἔρυσσεν."
398
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK IX
He might avert grim death from perishing friends.
But when to each other now full nigh they drew,
Deiphobus, despite his battle-lust,
Stayed, as a ravening fire stays when it meets
Water. He marvelled, seeing Achilles’ steeds
And that gigantic son, huge as his sire ;
And his heart wavered, choosing now to flee,
And now to face that hero, man to man
As when a mountain boar from his young brood
Chases the jackals—then a hon leaps
From hidden ambush into view : the boar
Halts in his furious onset, loth to advance,
Loth to retreat, while foam his jaws about
His whetted tusks; so halted Priam’s son
Car-steeds and car, perplexed, while quivered his
hands
About the lance. Shouted Achilles’ son :
«Ho, Priam’s son, why thus so mad to smite
Those weaker Argives, who have feared thy wrath
And fled thine onset? So thou deem’st thyself
Far mightiest! 1 thine heart be brave indeed,
Of my spear now make trial in the strife.”
On rushed he, as a lion against a stag,
Borne by the steeds and chariot of his sire.
And now full soon his lance had slain his foe,
Him and his charioteer—but Phoebus poured
A dense cloud round him from the viewless heights
Of heaven, and snatched him from the deadly fray,
And set him down in Troy, amid the rout
Of fleeing Trojans: so did Peleus’ son
Stab but the empty air; and loud he cried :
‘“‘ Dog, thou hast ‘scaped my wrath! No might of thine
Saved thee, though ne’er so fain! Some God hath
cast
Night’s veil o’er thee, and snatched thee from thy
death.”
399
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
Ἂ yw?
“Os ap ἔφη: δνοφερὸν δὲ νέφος καθύπερθε
Κρονίων
εὖτ᾽ ὀμίχλην διέχευνε: λύθη δ᾽ εἰς ἠέρα μακρήν;: 26
, a
αὐτίκα δ᾽ ἐξεφάνη πεδίον καὶ πᾶσα περὶ χθών.
a J ,
Τρῶας δ᾽ εἰσενόησεν ἀπόπροθι πολλὸν ἐόντας
A b] \ YA 4 > ae 4 ΝΣ \
Σκαιῇς ἀμφὶ πύλῃσιν: ἔβη δ᾽ apa πατρὶ ἐοικὼς
ἀντία δυσμενέων, οἵ μιν φοβέοντο κιόντα"
ἠύτε κῦμ᾽ ἀλεγεινὸν ἐπεσσύμενον τρομέουσι 270
ναῦται, 6 τ᾽ ἐξ ἀνέμοιο διεγρόμενον φορέηται
> \ dn FF Xe: / / \ , /
εὐρὺ μάλ᾽ ὑψηλόν τε, μέμηνε δὲ λαίλαπι πόντος"
ὡς τοῦ ἐπερχομένοιο κακὸν δέος ἄμφεχε Τρῶας.
τοῖον δ᾽ ἔκφατο μῦθον ἐποτρύνων ἑτάροισι:
“κλῦτε φίλοι καὶ θάρσος ἐνὶ στήθεσσι βάλεσθε 275
ἄτρομον, οἷον ἔοικε φορήμεναι ἀνέρας ἐσθλοὺς
νίκην ἱεμένους ἐρικυδέα χερσὶν ἀρέσθαι
\ / 2 / ὔ ») Sif) 90, \
καὶ κλέος ἐκ πολέμοιο δυσηχέος" ἀλλ᾽ ἄγε θυμὸν
>
παρθέμενοι πονεώμεθ᾽ ὑπὲρ μένος, εἰσόκε Τροίης
͵ x ” ἵν 2."
πέρσωμεν κλυτὸν ἄστυ καὶ ἐκτελέσωμεν ἐέλδωρ' 280
NON , 4 \ bee / » /
αἰδὼς yap, μάλα πολλὸν ἐπὶ χρόνον ἔνθα μέ-
νοντας
»᾿, > / \ » / ὃ ? a
ἔμμεναι ἀπρήκτους καὶ ἀνάλκιδας, ola yuvatKas:
ἢ)» \ aA x > LA ’ 39
τεθναίην γὰρ μᾶλλον ἢ ἀἁπτόλεμος καλεοιμην.
“Os φάτο: τοὶ δ᾽ ἔτι μᾶλλον ἐς ἤΑρεος ἔργον
ὄρουσαν
θαρσαλέως, Τρώεσσι δ᾽ ἐπέδραμον' οἱ δὲ καὶ αὐτοὶ 285
προφρονέως μάρναντο περὶ πτόλιν, ἄλλοτε δ᾽ αὖτε
ἔντοσθεν πυλέων ἀπὸ τείχεος" οὐδ᾽ ἀπέληνγε
δεινὸς Ἄρης, Τρώων μὲν ἐελδομένων ἀπερύξαι
δυσμενέων στρατὸν αἰνόν, ἐὐσθενέων δ᾽ ᾿Αργείων
BA / 3 \ νι} / 3... ΄
ἄστυ διαπραθέειν: ὀλοὴ δ᾽ ἔχε πάντας ὀϊξύς. 290
Καὶ τότε δὴ Τρώεσσιν ἀρηγέμεναι μενεαίνων
3 4 / /
ἔκθορεν Οὐλύμποιο καλυψάμενος νεφέεσσι
of Ν 3 5 \ / 5"
Λητοΐδης: τὸν δ᾽ αἶψα θοαὶ φορέεσκον ἄελλαι
τεύχεσι χρυσείοισι κεκασμένον" ἀμφὶ δὲ μακραὶ
400
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK IX
Then Cronos’ Son dispersed that dense dark
cloud :
Mist-like it thinned and vanished into air:
Straightway the plain and all the land were seen.
Then far away about the Scaean Gate
He saw the Trojans: seeming like his sire,
He sped against them; they at his coming quailed.
As shipmen tremble when a wild wave bears
Down on their bark, wind-heaved until it swings
Broad, mountain-high above them, when the sea
Is mad with tempest; so, as on he came,
Terror clad all those Trojans as a cloak,
The while he shouted, cheering on his men:
‘Hear, friends !—fill full your hearts with dauntless
strength,
The strength that well beseemeth mighty men
Who thirst to win them glorious victory,
To win renown from battle’s tumult ! Come,
Brave hearts, now strive we even beyond our
strength
Till we smite Troy’s proud city, till we win
Our hearts’ desire! Foul shame it were to abide
Long deedless here and strengthless, womanlike!
Ere I be called war-blencher, let me die!”’
Then unto Ares’ work their spirits flamed.
Down on the Trojans charged they: yea, and these
Fought with high courage, round their city now,
And now from wall and gate-towers. Never lulled
The rage of war, while Trojan hearts were hot
To hurl the foemen back, and the strong Greeks
To smite the town: grim havoc compassed all.
Then, eager for the Trojans’ help, swooped down
Out of Olympus, cloaked about with clouds,
The son of Leto. Mighty rushing winds
Bare him in golden armour clad; and gleamed
401
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
μάρμαιρον κατιόντος ἴσον στεροπῆσι κέλευθοι: 298
ἀμφὶ δέ οἱ γωρυτὸς ἐπέκτυπεν' ἔβραχε δ᾽ αἰθὴρ
θεσπέσιον καὶ γαῖα μέγ᾽ ἴαχεν, εὖτ᾽ ἀκάμαντας
θῆκε παρὰ Ἐάνθοιο ῥόον πόδας" ἐκ δ᾽ ἐβόησε
σμερδαλέον, Τρωσὶν δὲ θράσος βάλε, δεῖμα δ᾽
᾿Αχαιοῖς
μίμνειν αἱ ματόεντα κατὰ κλόνον. οὐδ᾽ es 300
ὄβριμος ἠγνοίησε: μένος δ᾽ ἐνέπνευσεν ᾿Αχαιοῖς
ἤδη τειρομένοισι" μάχη δ᾽ ἀΐδηλος ἐτύχθη
ἀθανάτων βουλῇσιν: ὄλοντο δὲ μυρία φῦλα
αἰζηῶν ἑκάτερθε. κοτεσσάμενος δ᾽ ἄρ' ᾿Απόλλων
᾿Αργείοις ὥρμαινε βαλεῖν θρασὺν vi ᾿᾿Αχιλῆος 305
αὐτοῦ, ὅπου καὶ πρόσθεν ᾿Αχιλλέα: τοῦ δ᾽ apa
θυμὸν
οἰωνοὶ κατέρυκον ἀριστερὰ κεκ λήγοντες,
ἄλλα τε σήματα πολλά" χόλος δέ οἱ οὐκέτ᾽ ἔμελλε
πείθεσθαι τεράεσσι" τὸ δ᾽ οὐ λάθε Κυανοχαίτην'"
* * * * * *
ἠέρι θεσπεσίῃ κεκαλυμμένος" ἀμφὶ δὲ ποσσὶ 310
νισσομένοιο ἄνακτος ἐρεμνὴ κίνυτο γαῖα"
τοῖον δ᾽ ἔκφατο μῦθον ἐελδόμενός μιν ἐρύξαι:"
"4 ἴσχε κότον,; Kal μήτι πελώριον ve ᾿Αχιλῆος
κτείνῃς" τ γὰρ αὐτὸς ᾿λύμπιος ὀλλυμένοιο
γηθήσει: μέγα δ᾽ ἄλγος ἐμοὶ καὶ πᾶσι θεοῖσιν 315
ἔσσεται εἰναλίοισιν, ὅπως πάρος ἀμφ᾽ ᾿Αχιλῆα"
ἀλλ᾽ ἀναχάζεο δῖον ἐς αἰθέρα, μή με χολώσῃς,
αἷψα δ᾽ ἀναρρήξας μεγάλης χθονὸς αἰπὺ βέρεθρον
αὐτὴν Ἴλιον εἶθαρ ἑ ἑοῖς ἅμα τείχεσι πᾶσαν
θήσω ὑπὸ ζόφον εὐρύν: ἄχος δέ τοι ἔσσεται
αὐτῷ." 320
“Os φάθ᾽- ὁ δ᾽ alopevos μέγ᾽ ἀδελφεὸν οἷο
τοκῆος
δείσας T ἀμφὶ πόληος ἐὐσθενέων θ᾽ ἅμα λαῶν
1 Zimmermann, for τέκος, of MSS.
Ψ
402
THE ΕΑΠῚ, ΟΕ ΤΒΟΥ, BOOK IX
With lightning-splendour of his descent the long
Highways of air. His quiver clashed ; loud rang
The welkin ; earth re-echoed, as he set
His tireless feet by Xanthus. Pealed his shout
Dreadly, with courage filling them of Troy,
Scaring their foes from biding the red fray.
But of all this the mighty Shaker of Earth
Was ware: he breathed into the fainting Greeks
Fierce valour, and the fight waxed murderous
Through those Immortals’ clashing wills. Then died
Hosts numberless on either side. In wrath
Apollo thought to smite Achilles’ son
In the same place where erst he smote his sire ;
But birds of boding screamed to left, to stay
His mood, and other signs from heaven were sent ;
Yet was his wrath not minded to obey
Those portents. Swiftly drew Earth-shaker nigh
In mist celestial cloaked : about his feet
Quaked the dark earth as came the Sea-king on.
Then, to stay Phoebus’ hand, he cried to him:
‘Refrain thy wrath: Achilles’ giant son
Slay not! Olympus’ Lord himself shall be
Wroth for his death, and bitter grief shall light
On me and all the Sea-gods, as erstwhile
For Achilles’ sake. Nay, get thee back to heights
Celestial, lest thou kindle me to wrath,
And so I cleave a sudden chasm in earth,
And Ilium and all her walls go down
To darkness. Thine own soul were vexed thereat.”
Then, overawed by the brother of his sire,
And fearing for Troy’s fate and for her folk,
To heaven went back Apollo, to the sea
403
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
χάσσατ᾽ ἐς οὐρανὸν εὐρύν, ὁ δ᾽ εἰς ἅλα. τοὶ δ᾽
ἐμάχοντο
ἀλλήλους ὀλέκοντες, "Epis δ᾽ ἐπετέρπετο χάρμῃ,
μέσφ᾽ ὅτε δὴ Κάλχαντος ὑπ᾽ ἐννεσίησιν ᾿Αχαιοὶ 325
ἐς νῆας χάσσαντο καὶ ἐξελάθοντο μόθοιο'
οὐ γὰρ δὴ πέπρωτο δαμήμεναι ᾿ Γ[λίου ἄστυ,
πρίν γε Φιλοκτήταο βίην ἐς ὅμιλον ᾿Αχαιῶν
ἐλθέμεναι πολέμοιο δαήμονα δακρυόεντος.
καὶ τὸ μὲν ἢ ἀγαθοῖσιν ἐπεφράσατ᾽ οἰωνοῖσιν, 330
ἠὲ καὶ ἐν σπλάγχνοισιν ἐπέδρακεν" οὐ γὰρ ἄϊδρις
μαντοσύνης ἐ ἐτέτυκτο" θεὸς δ᾽ ὡς ἤδεε πάντα.
Τῷ πίσυνοι στονόεντος ἀποιχόμενοι πολέμοιο
᾿Ατρεῖδαι προέηκαν ἐὐκτιμένην ποτὶ Λῆμνον
Τυδέος ὄβριμον υἷα μενεπτόλεμόν τ Οδυσῆα 335
νηὶ θοῇ. τοὶ δ᾽ aia ποτὶ πτόλιν Ηφαίστοιο
ἤλυθον Αὐγαίοιο διὰ πλατὺ χεῦμα θαλάσσης,
Λῆμνον ἐς ἀμπελόεσσαν, ὅπῃ πάρος αἰνὸν ὄλεθρον
ἀνδράσι κουριδίοισιν ἐ ἐμητίσαντο γυναῖκες
ἔκπαγλον κοτέουσαι, ἐπεί σφεας οὔτι τίεσκον, 3540
ἀλλ᾽ ἄρα δμωιάδεσσι παρευνάξοντο γυναιξὶ
Θρηικίῃς, τὰς δουρὶ καὶ ἠνορέῃ κτεάτισσαν
πέρθοντές ποτε γαῖαν ἀρηιφίλων Θρηΐκων'
αἱ δὲ μέγα ζήλοιο περὶ κραδίῃσι πεσόντος
θυμὸν ἀνοιδήσαντο, φίλους δ᾽ ἀνὰ δώματ᾽ ἀκοίτας 345
κτεῖνον ἀνηλεγέως ὑπὸ χείρεσιν, οὐδ᾽ ,ἐλέησαν
κουριδίους περ ἐόντας: ἐπεὶ μέγα μαίνεται ἦτορ
ἀνέρος ἠδὲ γυναικός, ὅτε ζηλήμονι νούσῳ
ἀμφιπέσῃ" κρατεραὶ γὰρ ἐποτρύνουσιν ἀνῖαι"
ἀλλ᾽ αἵ γε σφετέροισιν ἐπ ᾿ ἀνδράσι πῆμ ᾿ ἐβάλοντο 350
νυκτὶ μιῇ, καὶ πᾶσαν ἐχηρώσαντο πόληα
παρθέμεναι φρεσὶ θυμὸν ἀταρβέα καὶ μέγα κάρτος.
Οἱ δ᾽ ὅτε δὴ Λῆμνον ζαθέην κίον ἠδὲ καὶ ἄντρον
λαΐνεον, τόθι κεῖτο πάϊς Llotavtos ἀγανοῦ,
494
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK IX
Poseidon. But the sons of men fought on,
And slew ; and Strife incarnate gloating watched.
At last by Calchas’ counsel Achaea’s sons
Drew back to the ships, and put from them the
thought
Of battle, seeing it was not foreordained
That Ilium should fall until the might
Of war-wise Philoctetes came to aid
The Achaean host. This had the prophet learnt
From birds of prosperous omen, or had read
In hearts of victims. Wise in prophecy-lore
Was he, and like a God knew things to be.
Trusting in him, the sons of Atreus stayed
Awhile the war, and unto Lemnos, land
Of stately mansions, sent they Tydeus’ son
And battle-staunch Odysseus oversea.
Fast by the Fire-god’s city sped they on
Over the broad flood of the Aegean Sea
To vine-clad Lemnos, where in far-off days
The wives wreaked murderous vengeance on their
lords,
In fierce wrath that they gave them not their due,
But couched beside the handmaid-thralls of Thrace,
The captives of their spears when they laid waste
The land of warrior Thracians. Then these wives,
Their hearts with fiery jealousy’s fever filled,
Murdered in every home with merciless hands
Their husbands: no compassion would they show
To their own wedded lords—such madness shakes
The heart of man or woman, when it burns
With jealousy’s fever, stung by torturing pangs.
So with souls filled with desperate hardihood
In one night did they slaughter all their lords;
And on a widowed nation rose the sun.
To hallowed Lemnos came those heroes twain ;
They marked the rocky cave where lay the son
405
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
A { ee eA /
δὴ τότ᾽ ἄρα σφίσι θάμβος ἐπήλυθεν, εὖτ᾽ ἐσίδοντο 355
ἀνέρα λευγαλέησιν ἐπιστενάχοντ᾽ ὀδύνῃσι
/ a ’ ΕΣ > \ ’ οι ν
κεκλιμένον στυφελοῖο κατ᾽ οὔδεος: ἀμφὶ δ᾽ ἀρ
αὐτῷ
᾽ lal \ δ \ / /
οἰωνῶν πτερὰ πολλὰ περὶ λεχέεσσι KEXUVTO®
/ e of. /
ἄλλα δέ of συνέραπτο περὶ χροΐ, χείματος ἄλκαρ
/ \ / b] \ ry \ > 7
λευγαλέου: δὴ γάρ μιν ἐπὴν ἕλε λιμὸς ἀτερπής, 360
, ¢ /
βάλλεν ἀάσχετον ἰόν, ὅπῃ νόος LOvvETKE
\ Ἂ
καὶ τὰ μὲν ἂρ κατέδαπτε, [τὰ δὲ πτερά οἱ περί-
βαλλε.
/ ς
φύλλα δέ οἱ παρέκειτο, τά |! ἕλκεος οὐλομένοιο
» , ΄ / bY Sia
ἀμφετίθει καθύπερθε μελαίνης ἄλκαρ avins.
/ /
αὐαλέαι δέ οἱ ἀμφὶ κόμαι περὶ κρατὶ κέχυντο
Ν ¢ a \
θηρὸς ὅπως ὀλοοῖο, τὸν apyadéns δόλος aypns 365
’ὔ \ DA fal if A © ΣΝ 4
pap wn νυκτὸς ἰόντα θοοῦ ποδός, ὃς δ᾽ ὑπ᾽ ἀνάγκης
ῸΝ A A
TELPOMEVOS ποδὸς ἄκρον ἀταρτηροῖσιν ὀδοῦσι
/ 9 ἘΝ yy » / > 4 Wwe ς A
κόψας εἰς ἑὸν avTpOV ἀφίκεται, ἀμφὶ e ob Κῆρ
ς a , a
TELPEL ὁμοῦ λιμός TE καὶ ἀργαλέαι μελεδῶναι:
ἃ \
ὡς τὸν ὑπὸ σπέος εὐρὺ κακὴ περιδάμνατ᾽ avin? 5870
, ΄ rn ῇ ᾽ r
καί ol πᾶν μεμάραντο δέμας, περὶ δ᾽ ὀστέα μοῦνον
t ” > Χ \ / > / 3 > A
ῥινος ἔην, ὀλοὴ δὲ Trapyidas ἀμφέχυτ᾽ αὐχμὴ
λευναλέον ῥυπόωντος" ἀνιηρὸν δέ μιν ἄλγος
δάμνατο: κοῖλαι δ᾽ ἔσκον ὑπ᾽ ὀφρύσιν ἀνδρὸς
ὀπωπαὶ
aA , / » > ν΄ s
ALYWS TELPOMEVOLO* YOOS δέ μιν οὔποτ ἐλείπεν, 375
Ὁ >’
οὕνεκά οἱ μέλαν ἕλκος, ἐς ὀστέον ἄχρις ἱκέσθαι,
/ / -“
πυθόμενον καθύπερθε " χυγραὶ ὑπέρεπτον ἀνῖαι.
id τὰ NS J \ lal / 4
ὡς δ᾽ ὅτ᾽ ἐπὶ προβολῇσι πολυκλύστοιο θαλάσσης
πέτρην παιπαλόεσσαν ἀπειρεσίης ἁλὸς ἅλμη
δάμναθ᾽ ὑποτμήγουσα μάλα στερεήν περ ἐοῦσαν, 380
θεινομένης δ᾽ ἄρα τῆς ἀνέμῳ καὶ χείματι λάβρῳ
αμὰ κοιλαίνονται ὑποβρωθέντα θαλάσσῃ;
x7 Hy]
1 Zimmermann’s suggested supplementum of lacuna.
2 Zimmermann’s punctuation and om. of δ᾽ after Avypaf.
406
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK [X
Of princely Poeas. Horror came on them
When they beheld the hero of their quest
Groaning with bitter pangs, on the hard earth
Lying, with many feathers round him strewn,
And others round his body, rudely sewn
Into a cloak, a screen from winter's cold.
For, oft as famine stung him, would he shoot
The shaft that missed no fowl! his aim had doomed .
Their flesh he ate, their feathers vestured him.
And there lay herbs and healing leaves, the which,
Spread on his deadly wound, assuaged its pangs.
Wild tangled elf-locks hung about his head.
He seemed a wild beast, that hath set its foot,
Prowling by night, upon a hidden trap,
And so hath been constrained in agony
To bite with fierce teeth through the prisoned limb
Ere it could win back to its cave, and there
in hunger and torturing pains it languisheth.
So in that wide cave suffering crushed the man ;
And all his frame was wasted: naught but skin
Covered his bones. Unwashen there he crouched
With famine-haggard cheeks, with sunken eyes
Glaring his misery ‘neath cavernous brows.
Never his groaning ceased, for evermore
The ulcerous black wound, eating to the bone,
Festered with thrills of agonizing pain.
As when a beetling cliff, by seething seas
Aye buffeted, is carved and underscooped,
For all its stubborn strength, by tireless waves,
Till, seourged by winds and lashed by tempest-fiails,
The sea into deep caves hath gnawed its base ;
407
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
ἃ A Ὁ , »>/ /
ὡς τοῦ ὑπίχνιον ἕλκος ἀέξετο πυθομένοιο
δον ΟΝ a / cc 3 / 3) 9) A
ἰοῦ ἄπο, στυφελοῖς Tov οἱ ἐνομόρξατ᾽ ὀδοῦσι
Ly J ~
λυγρὸς ὕδρος, τόν φασιν ἀναλθέα τε στυγερόν TE 385
wd « (2 / ,
ἔμμεναι, ὁππότε μιν τέρσῃ περὶ χέρσον ἰόντα
ἠελίοιο μένος: τῷ καὶ μέγα φέρτατον ἄνδρα
a ff ς / es) J
τεῖρε δυσαλθήτοισιν ὑποδμηθέντ᾽ ὀδύνησιν'
» ΄ Ame RN ’ \ / /
ἐκ δέ οἱ ἕλκεος αἰὲν ἐπὶ χθόνα λειβομένοιο
5 A / / Md y
ἰχῶρος πεπάλακτο πέδον πολυχανδέος ἄντρου 390
fal ¢ ,
θαῦμα μέγ᾽ ἀνθρώποισι καὶ ὕστερον ἐσσομένοισι.
,
Kat ol πὰρ κλισίην φαρέτρη παρεκέκλιτο μακρὴ
IA A / 3. 9 c \ ee ΜΉ ΠΡ
ἰῶν πεπληθυῖα: πέλοντο δ᾽ ap οἱ μὲν ἐπ᾽ ἄγρην,
€ ’ ») / \ vy ’ e/
οἱ δ᾽ és δυσμενέας, τοὺς ἄμφεχε λοίγιον ὕδρου
/ / /
φάρμακον αἰνομόροιο" πάροιθε δέ οἱ μέγα τόξον 395
κεῖτο πέλας, γναμπτοῖσιν ἀρηράμενον κεράεσσι
χερσὶν ὑπ᾽ ἀκαμάτῃσι τετυγμένον Ἡρακλῆος.
€ , A
Τοὺς δ᾽ ὁπότ᾽ εἰσενόησε ποτὶ σπέος εὐρὺ κιόντας,
’ / 7
ἐσσυμένως οἴμησεν ET ἀμφοτέροισι τανύσσαι
iF 7 lol
ἀλγινόεντα βέλεμνα χόλου μεμνημένος αἰνοῦ, 400
οὕνεκά μιν τὸ πάροιθε μέγα στενάχοντα λίποντο
A 4 2 a
μοῦνον ἐρημαίοισιν ἐπ᾽ αὐἰγιαλοῖσι θαλάσσης.
’ ’ 3 > S45 Sf “ « \ ”
Kat νύ κεν airy ἐτέλεσσεν, ἅ οἱ θρασὺς ἤθελε
θυμός,
εἰ μή οἱ στονόεντα χόλον διέχευεν ᾿Αθήνη
ἀνέρας εἰσορόωντος ὁμήθεας" οἱ δέ οἱ ἄγχι 405
», » / > f By iat. »
ἤλυθον ἀχνυμένοισιν ἐοικότε" καί ῥά μιν ἄμφω
/ / Υ
ἄντρου ἔσω κοίλοιο παρεζόμενοι ἑκάτερθεν
᾽ > ee A \ > 4 ? YA
ἕλκεος ἀμφ᾽ ὁλοοῖο καὶ ἀργαλέων ὀδυνάων
" ? SF LON ς a Εἰ “ bal Nees
εἴροντ᾽- αὐτὰρ ὁ τοῖσιν ἑὰς διεπέφραδ᾽ ἀνίας.
« Lae UA » / ς \ “
οἱ δέ ἑ θαρσύνεσκον" εφαντο δέ οἱ λυγρὸν ἕλκος 410
a ΜΠ 13. /
ἐξ ὀλοοῖο μόγοιο καὶ ἄλγεος ἰἥσασθαι,
Ν 3 , 3 / {τ
ἢν στρατὸν εἰσαφίκηται ᾿Αχαιικόν, ὅν pa καὶ αὐτὸν
408
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK IX
So greater ‘neath his foot grew evermore
The festering wound, dealt when the envenomed
fangs
Tare him of that fell water-snake, which men
Say dealeth ghastly wounds incurable,
When the hot sun hath parched it as it crawls
Over the sands ; and so that mightiest man
Lay faint and wasted with his cureless pain ;
And from the ulcerous wound aye streamed to earth
Fetid corruption fouling all the floor
Of that wide cave, a marvel to be heard
Of men unborn. Beside his stony bed
Lay a long quiver full of arrows, some
For hunting, some to smite his foes withal ;
With deadly venom of that fell water-snake
Were these besmeared. Before it, nigh to his hand,
Lay the great bow, with curving tips of horn,
Wrought by the mighty hands of Hercules.
Now when that solitary spied these twain
Draw nigh his cave, he sprang to his bow, he laid
The deadly arrow on the string; for now
Fierce memory of his wrongs awoke against
These, who had left him years agone, in pain
Groaning upon the desolate sea-shore.
Yea, and his heart’s stern will he had swiftly
wrought,
But, even as upon that godlike twain
He gazed, Athena caused his bitter wrath
To melt away. Then drew they nigh to him
With looks of sad compassion, and sat down
On either hand beside him in the cave,
And of his deadly wound and grievous pangs
Asked ; and he told them all his sufferings.
And they spake hope and comfort; and they said:
‘Thy woeful wound, thine anguish, shall be healed,
If thou but come with us to Achaea’s host—
409
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
4 tee) ’ A x a . a
φάντο μέγ᾽ ἀσχαλάαν παρὰ νήεσιν ἠδὲ καὶ αὐτοὺς
> ‘ ae cr a a
Ατρείδας ἅμα τοῖσι" κακῶν δέ οἱ οὔτιν' ᾿Αχαιῶν
, 7 ,
αἴτιον ἔμμεν᾽ ἔφαντο κατὰ στρατόν, ἀλλ᾽ ἀλεγεινὰς 415
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Μοίρας, ὧν ἑκὰς οὔτις ἀνὴρ ἐπινίσσεται αἷαν,
᾽ 9 SUN a ?
ἀλλ᾽ αἰεὶ μογεροῖσιν ἐπ᾽ ἀνδράσιν ἀπροτίοπτοι
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στρωφῶντ᾽ ἤματα πάντα, βροτῶν γένος ἄλλοτε
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ἔκποθι κυδαίνουσαι" ἐπεὶ μάλα πάντα βροτοῖσι 420
κεῖναι καὶ στονόεντα καὶ ἤπια μηχανόωνται
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αὐταὶ ὅπως ἐθέλουσιν. ὁ δ᾽ εἰσαΐων ᾿Οδυσῆος
» \ \ ’ / 7 ᾽ ’ .
ἠδὲ καὶ ἀντιθέου Διομήδεος αὐτίκα θυμὸν
/ nr
ῥηιδίως κατέπαυσεν avinpoto χόλοιο,
ἔκπαγλον τὸ πάροιθε χολούμενος, ὅσσ᾽ ἐπεπόνθει. 425
/ a , ὃ
Οἱ δέ μιν αἶψ᾽ ἐπὶ νῆα καὶ ἠιόνας βαρυδούπους
ς lal ’
καγχαλόωντες ἔνεικαν ὁμῶς σφετέροισι βελέμνοις"
καί ῥά οἱ ἀμφεμάσαντο δέμας καὶ ἀμείλιχον ἕλκος
σπόγγῳ ἐὐτρήτῳ, κατὰ δ᾽ ἔκλυσαν ὕδατι πολλῷ.
> / Rg , ΝΜ , (dae on) ΄
ἀμπνύνθη δ᾽ ἄρα τυτθόν: ἄφαρ δέ οἱ ἐγκονέοντες 430
aA. ΄ ’ \ ‘ 2 ᾿
δόρπον ἐὺν τεύξαντο μεμαότι: σὺν δὲ καὶ αὐτοὶ
, 9 Ὁ ΄ ᾽ ΄ “ιν ΄
δαίνυντ᾽ ἔνδοθι νηός. ἐπήλυθε δ᾽ ἀμβροσίη νυξ,
a ᾽ τ wv ΄ . a
τοῖσι δ᾽ ἐφ᾽ ὕπνος ὄρουσε: μένον δ᾽ axpes
Ἠριγενείης
> ΄ / Φ Sy 5. ΕΝ ΜΡ ἘΝ ὃν
ἀμφιάλου Λήμνοιο Tap noow* αὑτὰρ ἂμ nob
ΕΝ τὰ A : ΄ Ἂν
πείσμαθ᾽ ὁμῶς εὐνῇσιν ἐυγνάμπτοισιν ἀειραν 435
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ἔκτοθεν ἐγκονέοντες" ἐπιπροέηκε δ᾽ ᾿Αθήνη
’ , x
ἐξόπιθεν πνείοντα τανυπρώρου νεὸς οὗρον.
ς ’ > “4 2) 49. / € 3059 ΄ ᾿
ἱστία δ᾽ aly ἐτάνυσσαν ὑπ᾽ ἀμφοτέροισι πόδεσσι,
νῆα κατιθύνοντες ἐὔζυγον" ἡ δ᾽ ὑπ᾽ ἰωῇ
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ἔσσυτ᾽ ἐπὶ πλατὺ χεῦμα: μέλαν δ᾽ ἀμφέστενε κῦμα 440
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ῥηγνύμενον: πολιὸς δὲ περίζεε πάντοθεν ἀφρός"
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ἀμφὶ δέ οἱ δελφῖνες ἀολλέες ἐσσεύοντο
ῥίμφα διαπρήσσοντες ἁλὸς πολιοῖο κέλευθα.
1 Zimmermann, for μένος of v.
410
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK IX
The host that now is sorrowing after thee
With all its kings. And no man of them all
Was cause of thine affliction, but the Fates,
The cruel ones, whom none that walk the earth
Escape, but aye they visit hapless men
Unseen ; and day by day with pitiless hearts
Now they afflict men, now again exalt
To honour—none knows why ; for all the woes
And all the joys of men do these devise
After their pleasure.”” Hearkening he sat
To Odysseus and to godlike Diomede ;
And all the hoarded wrath for olden wrongs
And all the torturing rage, melted away.
Straight to the strand dull-thundering and the
ship,
Caughts for joy, they bare him with his bow.
There washed they all his body and that foul wound
With sponges, and with plenteous water bathed :
So was his soul refreshed. ‘Then hasted they
And made meat ready for the famished man,
And in the galley supped with him. Then came
The balmy night, and sleep slid down on them.
Till rose the dawn they tarried by the strand
Of sea-girt Lemnos, but with dayspring cast
The hawsers loose, and heaved the anclhior-stones
Out of the deep. Athena sent a breeze
Blowing behind the galley taper-prowed.
They strained the sail with either stern-sheet taut ;
Seaward they pointed the stout-girdered ship ;
O’er the broad flood she leapt before the wind ;
Broken to right and left the dark wave sighed,
And seething all around was hoary foam,
While thronging dolphins raced on either hand
Flashing along the paths of silver sea.
411
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
2 > /
Oi δ᾽ adap Ἑλλήσποντον ἐπ᾽ ἰχθυόεντ᾽ ἀφί-
KOVTO,
A 3 9
ἧχι καὶ ἄλλαι νῆες ἔσαν: κεχάροντο δ᾽ ᾿Αχαιοί, 445
ὡς ἴδον οὺς ποθέεσκον ἀνὰ στρατόν. οἱ δ᾽ ἄρα νηὸς
ἀσπασίως ἀπέβησαν" ἔχεν δ᾽ ἄρα χεῖρας ἀραιὰς
Ποίαντος θρασὺς υἱὸς ἐπ᾽ ἀνέρας, οἵ ῥά μιν ἄμφω
λυγρὸν ἐπισκάζοντα ποτὶ χθόνα δῖαν ἄγεσκον
ἀμφοτέρων κρατερῇσιν ἐπικλινθέντα χέρεσσιν': 450
τὰ, a
nur ἐνὶ ξυλόχοισιν ἐς ἥμισυ μέχρι κοπεῖσαν
/
φηγὸν ὑφ᾽ ὑλοτόμοιο Bins ἢ πίονα πεύκην
\ ws? ©& a “ Uy / pie Ν
τυτθὸν ἔθ᾽ ἑστηυῖαν, ὅσον λίπε δρυτόμος ἀνὴρ
πρέμνον ὑποτμήγων λυπαρόν, δάος ὄφρα πέληται
πίσσα πυρὶ δμηθεῖσα κατ᾽ οὔρεα, τὴν δ᾽ ἀλεγεινῶς 455
5 fe
ἀχθομένην ἄνεμός τε Kal adpavin ποτικλίνῃ
” 0 ἢ ΄ δ ΄ , ἢ i
ἔρνεσιν εὐθαλέεσσι, φέρουσι δέ μιν βαρέουσαν" 4δθα
ἃ VAS 2 O53 DS / Ψ » “- a
ὡς ap ὑπ᾽ ἀτλήτῳ βεβαρημένον ἀλγεῖ φῶτα
θαρσαλέοι ἥρωες ἐπικλινθέντα φέρεσκον
᾽ / > ef > ΄ ἐφ rt 5 ,
Αργείων ἐς ὅμιλον ἀρήιον" οἱ δ᾽ ἐσιδόντες
» id / ες / 3. a
ὥκτειραν μάλα πάντες ἑκηβόλον ἀνέρα λυγρῷ 460
ἕλκεϊ τειρόμενον' τὸν δὲ στερεὸν Kal ἄνουσον
ὠκύτερον ποίησε νοήματος αἰψηροῖο
3 2 ie id 3 \ Ὁ
ἶσος ἐπουρανίοις ἸΠοδαλείριος, εὖ μὲν ὕπερθε
iA te \ 3. ολ S \
πάσσων φάρμακα πολλὰ Kal” ἕλκεος, εὖ δὲ κικ-
λήσκων
οὔνομα πατρὸς ἑοῖο: θοῶς δ᾽ ἰάχησαν ᾿Αχαιοὺ — 465
e a > la)
πάντες κυδαίνοντες ὁμῶς ᾿Ασκληπιοῦ υἷα.
es ΄, NES se a Σ 7
καί μιν φαιδρύναντο καὶ ἀμφί ἑ χρῖσαν ἐλαίῳ
προφρονέως: ὀλοὴ δὲ κατηφείη καὶ ὀϊξὺς
ἀθανάτων ἰότητι κατέφθιτο: τοὶ δ᾽ ἀνὰ θυμὸν
«
τέρποντ᾽ εἰσορόωντες" ὁ δ᾽ ἄμπνυεν ἐκ κακότητος" 470
> If Sy ΠΡ Ἄς 3 , 3 ΓΑ X
axpoin δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἔρευθος ἐπήλυθεν, apyarén δὲ
3
adpavin μέγα κάρτος" ἀέξετο δ᾽ ἅψεα πάντα.
ὡς δ᾽ ὁπότ᾽ ἀλδαίνηται ἐπὶ σταχύεσσιν ἄρουρα,
1 Verse inserted by Zimmermann, ex P.
412
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK IX
Full soon to fish-fraught Hellespont they came
And the far-stretching ships. Glad were the Greeks
To see the longed-for faces. Forth the ship
With joy they stepped ; and Poeas’ valiant son
On those two heroes leaned thin wasted hands,
Who bare him painfully halting to the shore
Staying his weight upon their brawny arms.
As seems mid mountain-brakes an oak or pine
By strength of the woodcutter half hewn through,
Which for a little stands on what was left
Of the smooth trunk by him who hewed thereat
Hard by the roots, that its slow-smouldering wood
Might yield him pitch—now like to one in pain
It groans, in weakness borne down by the wind,
Yet is upstayed upon its leafy boughs
Which from the earth bear up its helpless weight ;
So by pain unendurable bowed down
Leaned he on those brave heroes, and was borne
Unto the war-host. Men beheld, and all
Compassionated that great archer, crushed
By anguish of his hurt. But one drew near,
Podaleirius, godlike in his power to heal.
Swifter than thought he made him whole and sound ;
For deftly on the wound he spread his salves,
Calling on his physician-father’s name ;
And soon the Achaeans shouted all for joy,
All praising with one voice Asclepius’ son.
Lovingly then they bathed him, and with oil
Anointed. All his heaviness of cheer
And misery vanished by the Immortals’ will ;
And glad at heart were all that looked on him;
And from affliction he awoke to joy.
Over the bloodless face the flush of health
Glowed, and for wretched weakness mighty strength
Thrilled through him: goodly and great waxed all
his limbs.
413
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
aA \ / 4 > / / ’ ἴω
ἣν τὸ πάρος φθινύθουσαν ἐπέκλυσε χείματος αἰνοῦ
/ ,
ὄμβρος ἐπιβρίσας, ἡ δ᾽ ἀλδομένη ἀνέμοισι 475
/ a / 2 > a
μειδιάᾳ τεθαλυῖα πολυκμήτῳ ἐν ἀλωῇ:
ὡς ἄρα τειρομένοιο Φιλοκτήταο πάροιθε
πᾶν δέμας aly ἀνέθηλεν: ἐὐτροχάλῳ δ᾽ ἐνὶ κοίλῃ
7, / / «ς 4 /
κάλλιπε. κήδεα πάντα, τά οἱ περιδάμνατο θυμόν.
3 lal 3 .¢ / ΟΥΤ σὺ ES / > /
Ατρεῖδαι δ᾽ ὁρόωντες ἅτ᾽ ἐκ θανάτου ἀνιόντα 480
ἀνέρα θαυμάξεσκον: ἔφαντο γὰρ ἔμμεναι ἔργον
ἀθανάτων" τὸ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ hev ἐτήτυμον, ὡς ἐνόησαν'
καὶ γάρ οἱ μέγεθός τε καὶ ἀγλαΐην κατέχευεν
ἐσθλὴ Τριτογένεια" φάνη δ᾽ ἄφαρ, οἷος ἔην περ
τὸ πρὶν ἐν ᾿Αργείοισι πάρος κακότητι δαμῆναι. 48
\ οι Ss 3053 / ᾽ / > a
καὶ TOT ap ἐς κλισίην ᾿Αγαμέμνονος ἀφνειοῖο
e a » Uj
πάντες ὁμῶς οἱ ἄριστοι ἄγον ἸΠοιάντιον via:
/
καί μιν κυδαίνοντες ἐπ᾽ εἰλαπίνῃσι γέραιρον.
> “ \ f a Ai ,ὔ ’ a
ἀλλ᾽ ὅτε δὴ κορέσαντο ποτοῦ καὶ ἐδητύος ἐσθλῆς,
\ 4 / 0. 4 > /
δὴ τότε μιν προσέείπεν εὐμμελίης Αγαμέμνων" 490
κε Ὁ γα | > ὃ / \ θ a ἌΝ / θ
ὦ φίλ᾽, ἐπειδή περ σὲ θεῶν ἰότητι πάροιθε
Λήμνῳ ἐν ἀμφιάλῳ λίπομεν, βλαφθέντε νόημα,
\ Ὅν; ona | / > ὸ ϑιῸῊΝ \ a / θ 2
μὴ δὴ νῦν! χόλον αἰνὸν ἐνὶ φρεσὶ σῇσι βαλέσθαι
οὐ γάρ ἄνευ μακάρων τάδ᾽ ἐρέξαμεν, ἀλλά που
αὐτοὶ
ἤθελον ἀθάνατοι νῶιν κακὰ πολλὰ βαλέσθαι 495
σεῦ ἀπὸ νόσφιν ἐόντος, ἐπεὶ περίοιδας ὀϊστοῖς
δυσμενέας δάμνασθαι, ὅτ᾽ ἀντία σεῖο μάχονται.
[ἀνδράσι γὰρ βιότοιο πολυπλάγκτοιο κέλευθοι]
a ᾽ “
πᾶσαν av ἤπειρον πέλαγός T ἀνὰ μακρὸν ἄϊστοι
Μοιράων ἰότητι πολυσχιδέες τε πέλονται, 500
πυκναί TE TKOALAL τε, τετραμμέναι ἄλλυδις ἄλλη:
rf \ ἣν > \ / a & \ Sf. »Μ
τῶν δὲ dv αἰζηοὶ φορέονθ᾽ ὑπὸ δαίμονος Aton
εἰδόμενοι φύλλοισιν ὑπὸ πνοιῇς ἀνέμοιο
1 Zimmermann, for μηδ᾽ ἡμῖν of v.
414
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK IX
As when a field of corn revives again
Which erst had drooped, by rains of ruining storm
Down beaten flat, but by warm summer winds
Requickened, o’er the laboured land it smiles ,
So Philoctetes’ erstwhile wasted frame
Was all requickened :—in the galley’s hold
He seemed to have left all cares that crushed his
soul.
And Atreus’ sons beheld him marvelling
As one re-risen from the dead . it seemed
The work of hands immortal. And indeed
So was it verily, as their hearts divined ;
For ‘twas the glorious Trito-born that shed
Stature and grace upon him. Suddenly
He seemed as when of old mid Argive men
He stood, before calamity struck him down
Then unto wealthy Agamemnon’s tent
Did all their mightiest men bring Poeas’ son,
And set him chief in honour at the feast,
Extolling him. When all with meat and drink
Were filled, spake Agamemnon lord of spears :
« Dear friend, since by the will of Heaven our souls
Were once perverted, that in sea-girt Lemnos
We left thee, harbour not thine heart within
Fierce wrath for this: by the blest Gods constrained
We did it; and, 1 trow, the Immortals willed
To bring much evil on us, bereft of thee,
Who art of all men skilfullest to quell
With shafts of death all foes that face thee in fight.
For all the tangled paths of human life,
By land and sea, are by the will of Fate
Hid from our eyes, in many and devious tracks
Are cleft apart, in wandering mazes lost.
Along them men by Fortune’s dooming drift
Like unto leaves that drive before the wind.
415
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
σευομένοις: ἀγαθὸς δὲ κακῇ ἐνέκυρσε κελεύθῳ
πολλάκις, οὐκ ἐσθλὸς 8 ἀγαθῇ: τὰς δ᾽ οὔτ᾽
ἀλέασθαι 505
οὔτ᾽ ἂρ ἑκών τις ἑλέσθαι ἐπιχθόνιος δύνατ᾽ ἀνήρ'
χρὴ δὲ cao pova para, καὶ ἢν φορέηθ᾽ ὑπ᾽ ἀέλλαις
οἴμην ἀργαλέην, στερεῇ φρενὶ τλῆναι ὀϊζύν.
GAN ἐπεὶ ἀασάμεσθα καὶ ἠλίτομεν τόδε ἔργον,
ἐξαῦτις δώροισιν ἀρεσσόμεθ᾽ ἀπλήτοισι; 510
Τρώων ἢ ἤν ποθ᾽ ἕλωμεν ἐὐκτίμενον πτολίεθρον'
νῦν δὲ AaB ἑπτὰ γυναῖκας ἐείκοσί T ὠκέας ἵππους
ἀθχοφόρους τρίποδάς τε δυώδεκα, τοῖς ἐπὶ θυμὸν
τέρψεις ἤματα πάντα: καὶ ἐν κλισίῃσιν ἐμῇσιν
αἰεί τοι παρὰ δαιτὶ γέρας βασιλήιον ἐ ἔσται. 515
Ὡς εἰπὼν ἥρωι πόρεν περικαλλέα δῶρα.
τὸν δ᾽ ἄρα Ποίαντος προσέφη κρατερόφρονος υἱός"
“ὦ φίλος, οὔ τοι ἐγὼν ἔτι χώομαι, οὐδὲ μὲν
ἄλλῳ
᾿Αργείων, τῶν εἴ τις ἔτ᾽ ἤλιτεν εἵνεκ᾽ ἐμεῖο"
οἶδα γάρ, ὡς στρεπτὸς νόος ἀνδράσι γίνεται
ἐσθλοῖς, 520
οὐδ᾽ αἰεὶ χαλεπὸν θέμις ἔμμεναι οὐδ᾽ ἀσύφηλον,
ἀλλ᾽ ὁτὲ μὲν σμερδνὸν τέλέθειν, ὁτὲ δ᾽ ἥπιον εἶναι.
νῦν δ᾽ ἴομεν ποτὶ κοῖτον, ἐπεὶ χατέοντι μάχεσθαι
βέλτερον ὑπνώειν ἢ ἐπὶ πλέον εἰλαπινάξειν."
τως εἰπὼν ἀπόρουσε καὶ ἐς κλισίην ἀφίκανε 525
σφῶν ἑτάρων" οἱ δ᾽ αἷψα φιλοπτολέμῳ βασιλῆι
εὐνὴν ἐντύνοντο μέγα φρεσὶ καγχαλόωντες"
αὐτὰρ ὅ γ᾽ ἀσπασίως κατελέξατο μέχρις ἐπ᾽ HO.
Νὺξ δ᾽ ἀνεχάσσατο δῖα: φάος δ᾽ ἐρύθηνε
κολώνας
ἠελίου, καὶ πάντα βροτοὶ περιποίπνυον ἔργα. 530
"A λργεῖοι δ᾽ ὀλοοῖο μέγ᾽ ἱέμενοι πολέμοιο
οἱ μὲν Sovpara θῆγον évEoa, Tol δὲ βέλεμνα,
ἄλλοι δ᾽ αἰγανέας" ἅμα δ᾽ ἠοῖ δαῖτα πένοντο
416
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK IX
Oft on an evil path the good man’s feet
Stumble, the brave finds not a prosperous path ;
And none of earth-born men can shun the Fates,
And of his own will none can choose his way.
So then doth it behove the wise of heart—
Though on a troublous track the winds of fate
Sweep him away—to suffer and be strong.
Since we were blinded then, and erred herein,
With rich gifts will we make amends to thee
Hereafter, when we take the stately towers
Of Troy: but now receive thou handmaids seven,
Fleet steeds two-score, victors in chariot-race,
And tripods twelve, wherein thine heart may joy
Through all thy days ; and always in my tent
Shall royal honour at the feast be thine.”
He spake, and gave the hero those fair gifts.
Then answered Poeas’ mighty-hearted son ;
“ Friend, I forgive thee freely, and all beside
Whoso against me haply hath trangressed.
I know how good men’s minds sometimes be warped :
Nor meet it is that one be obdurate
Ever, and nurse mean rancours: sternest wrath
Must yield anon unto the melting mood.
Now pass we to our rest ; for better is sleep
Than feasting late, for him who longs to fight.”
He spake, and rose, and came to his comrades’ tent;
Then swiftly for their war-fain king they dight
The couch, while laughed their hearts for very joy.
Gladly he laid him down to sleep till dawn.
So passed the night divine, till flushed the hills
In the sun’s light, and men awoke to toil.
Then all athirst for war the Argive men
"Gan whet the spear smooth-shafted, or the dart,
Or javelin, and they brake the bread of dawn,
And foddered all their horses. Then to these
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
᾽ a ΤΟΥ δ΄ ΄ \ 4 2 ,
αὐτοῖς ἠδ᾽ imtoo’ πάσαντο δὲ πάντες ἐδωδήν.
~ A ,ὔ > 4, ν en -
τοῖσιν δὴ Ποίαντος ἀμύμονος ὄβριμος υἱὸς 535
τοῖον ἔπος μετέειπεν ἐποτρύνων πονέεσθαι"
cone? δ᾽ ” - Sed ὃ , θ 5 δέ e 4
εἰ ὁ AYE νυν πολέμοιο μεδωμεθα" LNOCE TLS NMEWY
μιμνέτω ἐν νήεσσι, πάρος κλυτὰ τείχεα λῦσαι
, ΄ τα , >
Τροίης εὐπύργοιο, καταπρῆσαί τε πόληα.
. “ ’
Ὡς φάτο: τοῖσι δὲ θυμὸς ὑπὸ κραδίῃ μέγ᾽ ἰάνθη" 540
δῦσαν δ᾽ ἐν τεύχεσσι καὶ ἀσπίσιν" ἐκ δ᾽ ἄρα νηῶν
πανσυδίη μελίησι κεκασμένοι ἐσσεύοντο
ἃ / J, \ > / A
καὶ βοέοις σακέεσσι καὶ ἀμφιφάλοις κορύθεσσιν'
ἄλλος δ᾽ ἄλλον ἔρειδε κατὰ στίχας" οὐδέ κε φαίης
΄ » , e \ » ΝΜ > ’ »
κείνων ἐσσυμένων εκᾶς ἔμμεναι ἄλλον aTT ἄλλου" 545
Δ wy > » \ \ ᾽ , ’ /
ὡς ap ἴσαν θαμινοὶ καὶ ἀρηρότες ἀλλήλοισι.
41τ8
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK IX
Spake Poeas’ son with battle-kindling speech :
“Up! let us make us ready for the war!
Let no man linger mid the galleys, ere
The glorious walls of Ilium stately-towered
Be shattered, and her palaces be burned !”
Then at his words each heart and spirit glowed :
They donned their armour, and they grasped their
shields.
Forth of the ships in one huge mass they poured
Arrayed with bull-hide bucklers, ashen spears,
And gallant-crested helms. Through all their ranks
Shoulder to shoulder marched they: thou hadst
seen
No gap ’twixt man and man as on they charged ;
So close they thronged, so dense was their array.
419
AOTOS AEKATOS.
Τρῶες δ᾽ ar’ ἔκτοσθεν ἔσαν Πριάμοιο πόληος
πάντες σὺν τεύχεσσι καὶ ἅρμασιν ἠδὲ καὶ ἵπποις
ὠκυτάτοις" καῖον γὰρ ἀποκταμένους € ἐνὶ χάρμῃ
δειδιότες, μὴ λαὸς ἐπιβρίσειεν ᾿Αχαιῶν.
τοὺς δ᾽ ὡς οὗν ἐσίδοντο ποτὶ πτόλιν ἀΐσσοντας, 5
ἐσσυμένως κταμένοισι χυτὸν περὶ σῆμα βάλοντο
σπερχόμενοι: δεινὸν yap ὑ ὑποτρομέεσκον ἰδόντες.
τοῖσι δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἀχνυμένοισιν ὑπὸ φρεσὶ μῦθον ἔ ἔειπε
Πουλυδάμας, ὁ γὰρ ἔσκε λίην πινυτὸς καὶ ἐχέ-
pan:
“ὦ φίλοι, οὐκέτ᾽ ἀνεκτὸς ἐφ᾽ ἡμῖν μαίνεται "Αρης: 10
ἀλλ᾽ ἄγε δὴ φραζώμεθ', ὅπως πολέμοιό TL μῆχος
εὕρωμεν" Δαναοὶ γὰρ ἐπικρατέουσι μένοντες.
νῦν δ᾽ ἄγε δὴ πύργοισιν ἐὐδμήτοις ἐπιβάντες
μίμνωμεν νύκτας τε καὶ ἤματα δηριόωντες,
εἰσόκε δὴ Δαναοὶ Σπάρτην ἐρίβωλον ἵκωνται, 15
) αὐτοῦ παρὰ τεῖχος ἀκηδήσωσι μένοντες
ἀκλεὲς ἑξόμενοι" ἐπεὶ οὐ σθένος ἔ ἔσσεται αὐτοῖς
ῥῆξαι τείχεα μακρά, καὶ εἰ μάλα πολλὰ κάμωσιν'"
οὐ γὰρ ἀβληχρὰ θεοῖσι τετεύχαται ἄφθιτα ἐ ἔργα.
οὐδέ τί που βρώμης ἐπιδευόμεθ᾽ οὐδὲ ποτῆτος" 20
πολλὰ γὰρ ἐν Πριάμοιο “πολυχρύσοιο μελάθροις
ἔμπεδον εἴδατα κεῖται, ἅπερ πολέεσσι καὶ ἄλλοις
420
BOOK X
How Paris was stricken to death, and in vain sought
help of Oenone.
Now were the Trojans all without the town
Of Priam, armour-clad, with battle-cars
And chariot-steeds ; for still they burnt their dead,
And still they feared lest the Achaean men
Should fall on them. They looked, and saw them
come
With furious speed against the walls. In haste
They cast a hurried earth-mound o’er the slain,
For greatly trembled they to see their foes.
Then in their sore disquiet spake to them
Polydamas, a wise and prudent chief:
“Friends, unendurably against us now
Maddens the war. Go to, let us devise
How we may find deliverance from our strait.
Still bide the Danaans here, still gather strength :
Now therefore let us man our stately towers,
And thence withstand them, fighting night and day,
Until yon Danaans weary, and return
To Sparta, or, renownless lingering here
Beside the wall, lose heart. No strength of theirs
Shall breach the long walls, howsoe’er they strive,
For in the imperishable work of Gods
Weakness is none. Food, drink, we shall not lack,
For in King Priam’s gold-abounding halls
Is stored abundant food, that shall suffice
421
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
πολλὸν ἐπὶ χρόνον ἔσσετ᾽ ἀγειρομένοισιν ἐδωδὴ
ἐς κόρον, εἰ καὶ ἔτ᾽ ἄλλος ἐελδομένοισιν ἵ ἵκηται
τρὶς τόσος ἐνθάδε λαὸς ἀρηγέμεναι μενεαίνων. rn Wain
Ὡς φάτο" τὸν δ᾽ ἐνένιπε θρασὺς πάϊς ᾿Αγ-
ίσαο"
““Πουλυδάμα, πῶς γάρ σε σαὐῤφρονά φασι τε-
τύχθαι,
ὃς, κέλεαι ποτὶ δηρὸν ἀνὰ πτόλιν ἄλγεα πάσχειν;
οὐ γὰρ ἀκηδήσουσι πολὺν χρόνον ἐνθάδ᾽ ᾿Αχαιοί,
ἀλλ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἐπιβρίσουσιν ἀλευομένους ἐσιδόντες" 80
νῶιν δ᾽ ἔσσεται ἄλγος ἀποφθιμένων ἐ ἐνὶ πάτρῃ,
ἤν πως ἐνθάδε πουλὺν ἐπὶ χρόνον ἀμφιμάχωνται'
οὐ γάρ τις Θήβηθε μελίφρονα σῖτον ὀπάσσει
ἧμιν, ἐπὴν εἰρχθῶμεν a ἀνὰ πτόλιν, οὐδέ τις οἴσει
οἶνον Μαιονίηθεν. ἀνιηρῷ δ᾽ ὑπὸ λιμῷ 35
φθισόμεθ' ἀργαλέως, εἰ καὶ “μάλα τεῖχος ἀμύνει.
ἀλλ᾽ εἰ μὲν θάνατόν τε κακὸν καὶ ρας ἀλύξαι,
μηδ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ὀϊξυρῶς θανέειν πολυαχθέι λιμῷ
μέλλομεν, εἰν ἔντεσσι σὺν ἡμετέροις τεκέεσσι
καὶ γεραροῖς πατέρεσσι μαχώμεθα: καί ῥά ποθι
Ζεὺς 40
χραισμήσει" κείνου γὰρ ἀφ᾽ αἵματός εἶμεν ἀγαυοῦ"
εἰ δέ κεν ἂρ καὶ κείνῳ ἀπεχθόμενοι τελέθωμεν,
εὐκλειῶς τάχ᾽ ὀλέσθαι a ἀμυνομένους περὶ πάτρης
βέλτερον, ἠὲ μένοντας ὀϊξυρῶς ἀπολέσθαι."
Ὃς φάτο' τῷ δ᾽ ἄρα πάντες ἐπίαχον εἰσαΐοντες. 45
αἷψα δὲ δὴ κορύθεσσι καὶ ἀσπίσι καὶ δοράτεσσι
φράχθεν ἐπ᾿ ἀλλήλους: ἐπὶ δ᾽ ἀκαμάτου Διὸς
ὄσσε
δέρκετ᾽ ἀπ᾽ Οὐλύμποιο κορυσσομένους ἐς “Apna.
Τρῶας ἐπ᾽ ᾿Αργείοισιν' ἔγειρε δὲ θυμὸν € ἑκάστου,
ὄφρα μάχην ἀλίαστον ἐπ᾽ ἀμφοτέροισι τανύσσῃ δ0
λαοῖς" ἢ γὰρ ἔμελλεν ᾿Αλέξανδρος θανέεσθαι
χερσὶ rive πονεύμενος ἀμφ᾽ ἀλόχοιο.
422
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK X
For many more than we, through many years,
Though thrice so great a host at our desire
Should gather, eager to maintain our cause.”
Then chode with him Anchises’ valiant son:
“ Polydamas, wherefore do they call thee wise,
Who biddest suffer endless tribulations
Cooped within walls? Never, how long soe’er
The Achaeans tarry here, will they lose heart ;
But when they see us skulking from the field,
More fiercely will press on. So ours shall be
The sufferance, perishing in our native home,
If for long season they beleaguer us.
No food, if we be pent within our walls,
Shall Thebe send us, nor Maeonia wine,
But wretchedly by famine shall we die,
Though the great wall stand firm. Nay, though our
lot
Should be to escape that evil death and doom,
And not by famine miserably to die ;
Yet rather let us fight in armour clad
For children and grey fathers! Haply Zeus
Will help us yet; of his high blood are we.
Nay, even though we be abhorred of him,
Better straightway to perish gloriously
Fighting unto the last for fatherland,
Than die a death of lingering agony!”’
Shouted they all who heard that gallant rede.
Swiftly with helms and shields and spears they stood
In close array. The eyes of mighty Zeus
From heaven beheld the Trojans armed for fight
Against the Danaans: then did he awake
Courage in these and those, that there might be
Strain of unflinching fight *twixt host and host.
That day was Paris doomed, for Helen’s sake
Fighting, by Philoctetes’ hands to die.
423
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
Τοὺς δ᾽ ἄγεν eis ἕνα χῶρον “Epis μεδέουσα
κυδοιμὸν
7 , \ \ id ΝΜ 5»
οὔτινι φαινομένη" περὶ γὰρ νέφος ἄμφεχεν μους
€ / / \ m 7 Ν
aipatoev' φοίτα δὲ μέγαν κλονέουσα κυδοιμὸν 55
ἄλλοτε μὲν Τρώων és ὁμήγυριν, ἄλλοτ᾽ ᾿Αχαιῶν'
τὴν δὲ Φόβος καὶ Δεῖμος ἀταρβέες ἀμφεπένοντο
πατροκασιγνήτην κρατερόφρονα κυδαίνοντες"
ἡ δὲ μέγ᾽ ἐξ ὀλίγοιο κορύσσετο μαιμώωσα"
τεύχεα δ᾽ ἐξ ἀδάμαντος ἔχεν πεπαλαγμένα λύθρῳ" 60
4 \ 4 », 2 δ» fol ϑωὼς \ \
πάλλε δὲ λοίγιον ἔγχος ἐς ἠέρα" τῆς δ᾽ ὑπὸ ποσσὶ
κίνυτο γαῖα μέλαινα: πυρὸς δ᾽ ἄμπνειεν ἀὐτμὴν
σμερδαλέον" μέγα δ᾽ αἰὲν ἀὕτεεν ὀτρύνουσα
> 4 € ’ os / ’ ,
αἰζηούς" οἱ δ᾽ αἶψα συνήιον ἀρτύνοντες
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ὑσμίνην' δεινὴ yap ἄγεν θεὸς ἐς μέγα ἔργον. 65
a 3” pe Ἃ » / > \ , / SF
τῶν δ᾽ ὡς ἢ ἀνέμων ἰαχὴ πέλε λάβρον ἀέντων
εἴαρος ἀρχομένου, ὅτε δένδρεα μακρὰ καὶ ὕλη
φύλλα φύει, ἡ ὡς ὅτ᾽ av alarénv ξύλοχον πῦρ
αἰθόμενον βρομέει, ἢ ὡς μέγα πόντος ἀπείρων
, 2 > js ὃ , > ἊΝ Ne ees
μαίνεται ἐξ ἀνέμοιο δυσηχέος, ἀμφὶ δὲ potBdos 70
γίνετ᾽ ἀπειρέσιος, τρόμεει δ᾽ ὕπο γούνατα ναυτέων"
ὡς τῶν ἐσσυμένων μέγ᾽ ὑπέβραχε γαῖα πελώρη"
ἐν δέ σφιν πέσε δῆρις: ἐπ᾽ ἄλλῳ δ᾽ ἄλλος ὄρουσε.
a ᾽ “ «ς
Πρῶτος δ᾽ Αἰνείας Δαναῶν ἕλεν ᾿Αρπαλίωνα
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υἱὸν ᾿Αριζήλοιο, τὸν ᾿Αμφινόμη τέκε μήτηρ 15
aM B la e ὁ; e θ / δί
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τόν ῥα τότ᾽ Αἰνείας ἁπαλὴν ὑπὸ νηδύα τύψας
/ 2) 93 a“ κι / > /
νοσφίσατ᾽ ἐκ θυμοῖο καὶ ἡδέος ἐκ βιότοιο.
τῷ δ᾽ ἔπι Θερσάνδροιο δαΐφρονος υἷα δάμασσεν 80
"ὔλλον ἐὐγχλώχινι βαλὼν κατὰ λαιμὸν ἄκοντι,
424
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK X
To one place Strife incarnate drew them all,
The fearful Battle-queen, beheld of none,
But cloaked in clouds blood-raining : on she stalked
Swelling the mighty roar of battle, now
Rushed through Troy’s squadrons, through Achaea’s
now :
Panic and Fear still waited on her steps
To make their father’s sister glorious.
Irom small to huge that Fury’s stature grew;
Her arms of adamant were blood-besprent ;
The deadly lance she brandished reached the sky.
Earth quaked beneath her feet: dread blasts of fire
Flamed from her mouth: her voice pealed thunder-
like
Kindling strong men. Swift closed the fronts of
fight
Drawn by a dread Power to the mighty work.
Loud as the shriek of winds that madly blow
In early spring, when the tall woodland trees
Put forth their leaves—loud as the roar of fire
Blazing through sun-scorched brakes—loud as the
voice
Of many waters, when the wide sea raves
Beneath the howling blast, with thunderous crash
Of waves, when shake the fearful shipman’s knees ;
So thundered earth beneath their charging feet.
Strife swooped on them: foe hurled himself on foe.
First did Aeneas of the Danaans slay
Harpalion, Arizelus’ scion, born
In far Boeotia of Amphinome,
Who came to Troy to help the Argive men
With godlike Prothoénor. ’Neath his waist
Aeneas stabbed, and reft sweet life from him.
Dead upon him he cast Thersander’s son,
For the barbed javelin pierced through Hyllus’
throat
425
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
ov τέκε 82 ᾿Αρέθουσα παρ᾽ ὕδασι Ληθαίοιο
Κρήτῃ ἐν ἀμφιάλῳ: μέγα δ᾽ ἤκαχεν ᾿Ιδομενῆα.
Αὐτὰρ ΠΠηλείδαο πάϊς δυοκαίδεκα φῶτας
Τρώων αὐτίκ᾽ ὄλεσσεν ὑπ᾽ ἔγχεϊ πατρὸς ἑοῖο" 85
Κέβρον μὲν πρώτιστα καὶ Αρμονα [Πασίθεόν τε
Ὑσμινόν τε καὶ ᾿μβράσιον Σχέδιόν τε Φλέγην τε
Μνήσαιόν T ἐπὶ τοῖσι καὶ "ἔννομον ᾿Αμφίνοόν τε
καὶ Φάσιν ἠδὲ Γαληνόν, ὃς οἰκία ναιετάασκε
Γαργάρῳ αἰπεινῇ, μετὰ δ᾽ ἔπρεπε μαρναμένοισι 90
Τρωσὶν ἐὐσθενέεσσι, κίεν δ apy ἀπείρονι λαῷ
ἐς Τροίην" μάλα γάρ οἱ ὑπέσχετο πολλὰ καὶ ἐσθλὰ
Δαρδανίδης Πρίαμος δώσειν περικαλλέα δῶρα,
νήπιος" οὐδ᾽ ap ἐφράσσαθ᾽ ἑὸν μόρον: ἢ yap
ἔμελλεν
ἐσσυμένως ὀλέεσθαι ὑπ᾽ ἀργαλέου πολέμοιο, 95
πρὶν δόμον ἐκ Πριάμοιο περικλυτὰ δῶρα φέρε-
σθαι.
Καὶ τότε Μοῖρ' ἀΐδηλος ἐπέτραπεν ᾿Αργείοισιν
lu ὑὐρυμένην, ἕταρον κρατερόφρονος Αἰνείαο.
ὧρσε δέ οἱ μέγα θάρσος ὑπὸ φρένας, ὄφρα
αμάσσας
πολλοὺς αἴσιμον ἦμαρ ἀναπλήσῃ ὑπ᾽ ὀλέθρῳ. 100
δάμνατο δ᾽ ἄλλοθεν ἄλλον ἀνηλέϊ θηρὶ ἐ ἐοικώς"
οἱ δέ μιν οὐχ ὑπέμειναν ἐφ᾽ ὑστατίῃ βιότοιο
αἰνὸν μαιμώωντι καὶ οὐκ ἀλέγοντι “μόροιο"
καί νύ κεν ἔργον ἔρεξεν ἀπείριτον ἐν δαὶ κείνῃ,
εἰ μή οἱ χεῖρές τε κάμον καὶ δούρατος αἰχμὴ 105
πάμπαν ἀνεγνάμφθη: ξίφεος δέ οἱ οὐκέτι κώπη
ἔσθενεν" ἀλλά μιν Αἶσα διέκλασε' τὸν δ᾽ ὑπ᾽
ἄκοντι
τύψε κατὰ στομάχοιο Μέγης: ἀνὰ δ᾽ ἔβλυσεν
αἷμα
ἐκ στόματος" τῷ δ᾽ αἶψα σὺν aryet Μοῖρα
παρέστη.
426
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK X
Whom Arethusa by Lethaeus bare
In Crete: sore grieved Idomeneus for his fall.
By this Peleides’ son had swiftly slain
Twelve Trojan warriors with his father’s spear.
First Cebrus fell, Harmon, Pasitheus then,
Hysminus, Schedius, and Imbrasius,
Phleges, Mnesaeus, Ennomus, Amphinous,
Phasis, Galenus last, who had his home
By Gargarus’ steep—a mighty warrior he
Among Troy’s mighties: with a countless host
To Troy he came: for Priam Dardanus’ son
Promised him many gifts and passing fair.
Ah fool! his own doom never he foresaw,
Whose weird was suddenly to fall in fight
Ere he bore home King Priam’s glorious gifts.
Doom the Destroyer against the Argives sped
Valiant Aeneas’ friend, Eurymenes.
Wild courage spurred him on, that he might slay
Many—and then fill death’s cup for himself.
Man after man he slew like some fierce beast,
And foes shrank from the terrible rage that burned
On his life’s verge, nor recked of imminent doom.
Yea, peerless deeds in that fight had he done,
Had not his hands grown weary, his spear-head
Bent utterly: his sword availed him not,
Snapped at the hilt by Fate. Then Meges’ dart
Smote ‘neath his ribs; blood spurted from his
mouth,
And in death’s agony Doom stood at his side.
427
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
Τοῦ δ᾽ dp ἀποκταμένοιο δύω θεράποντες
᾿Επειοῦ 110
Δηιλέων τε καὶ ᾿Αμφίων ἀπὸ τεύχε᾽ ἑλέσθαι
ὥρμαινον" τοὺς δ᾽ αὗτε θρασὺ σθένος Αἰνείαο
δάμνατο μαιμώωντας ὀϊζυρῶς περὶ νεκρῷ.
ὡς δ᾽ ὅτ᾽ ἐν οἰνοπέδω τις ἐπαΐσσοντας ὀπώρῃ
σφῆκας τερσομένῃσι περὶ σταφυλῇσι δαμάσσῃ, 115
οἱ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἀποπνείουσι πάρος γεύσασθαι ὁ ὀπώρης"
ὡς τοὺς aly ἐδάμασσε πρὶν ἔντεα ληίσσασθαι.
Τυδείδης δὲ Μένοντα καὶ ᾿Αμφίνοον κατέπεφνεν
ἄμφω ἀμύμονε parte Πάρις δ᾽ ἕλε Δημολέοντα
Ἱππασίδην, ὃ ὃς πρόσθε Λακωνίδα γαῖαν ἔναιε 120
πὰρ προχοῇς ποταμοῖο βαθυρρόου Εὐρώταο,
ἤλυθε δ᾽ ἐς Τροίην ὑ ὑπ᾽ ἀρηιθόῳ Μενελάφ'
καί ἑ Πάρις κατέπεφνε τυχὼν ὑπὸ μαζὸν ὁ ὀϊστῷ
δεξιόν, ἐκ δέ οἱ ἧτορ ἀπὸ μελέων ἐκέδασσε.
Τεῦκρος δὲ Ζέχιν εἷλε περικλυτὸν via Μέδοντος, 125
ὅς pa τε ναιετάασκεν ἐνὶ Φρυγίῃ πολυμήλῳ
ἄντρον ὑπὸ ζάθεον καλλιπλοκάμων Νυμφάων,
ἡ χί ποτ᾽ ᾿Ενδυμίωνα παρυπνώοντα βόεσσιν
ὑψόθεν ἀθρήσασα κατήλυθε δῖα Σελήνη
οὐρανόθεν" δριμὺς γὰρ ἄγεν πόθος ἡιθέοιο 130
ἀθανάτην περ ἐοῦσαν ἀκήρατον, ' ἧς ἔτι νῦν περ
εὐνῆς σῆμα τέτυκται ὑπὸ δρυσίν' ἀμφὶ γὰρ αὐτῇ
ἐκκέχυτ᾽ ἐν "ξυλόχοισι βοῶν γλάγος" οἱ δέ νυ φῶτες
θηεῦντ᾽ εἰσέτι κεῖνο" τὸ γὰρ μάλα τηλόθι φαίης
ἔμμεναι εἰσορόων πολιὸν γάλα, κεῖνο δ᾽ ἢ ἵησι 180
λευκὸν ὕδωρ, καὶ βαιὸν ἀπόπροθεν ὁππόθ᾽ ἵκηται,
πήγνυται ἀμφὶ ῥέεθρα, πέλει δ᾽ ἄρα λάϊνον οὗδας.
᾿Αλκαΐῳ δ᾽ ἐπόρουσε Μέγης Φυλήιος υἱός"
καί ῥά μιν ἀσπαίρουσαν ὑπὸ κραδίην ἐπέρησεν
ἐγχείῃ" τοῦ δ᾽ ὦκα λύθη πολυήρατος αἰών" 140
οὐδέ μιν ἐκ πολέμοιο πολυκλαύτοιο μολόντα
1 Zimmerman, ex P, for πυνέουσαν with lacuna.
428
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK X
Even as he fell, Epeius’ henchmen twain,
Deileon and Amphion, rushed to strip
His armour ; but Aeneas brave and strong
Chilled their hot hearts in death beside the dead.
As one in latter summer ’mid his vines
Kills wasps that dart about his ripening grapes,
And so, ere they may taste the fruit, they die ;
So smote he them, ere they could seize the arms.
Menon and Amphinous Tydeides slew,
Both goodly men. Paris slew Hippasus’ son
Demoleon, who in Laconia’s land
Beside the outfall of Eurotas dwelt,
The stream deep-flowing, and to Troy he came
With Menelaus. Under his right breast
The shaft of Paris smote him unto death,
Driving his soul forth like a scattering breath.
Teucer slew Zechis, Medon’s war-famed son,
Who dwelt in Phrygia, land of myriad flocks,
Below that haunted cave of fair-haired Nymphs
Where, as Endymion slept beside his kine,
Divine Selene watched him from on high,
And slid from heaven to earth ; for passionate love
Drew down the immortal stainless Queen of Night.
And a memorial of her couch abides
Still ’neath the oaks; for mid the copses round
Was poured out milk of kine; and still do men
Marvelling behold its whiteness. Thou wouldst say
Far off that this was milk indeed, which is
A well-spring of white water: if thou draw
A little nigher, lo, the stream is fringed
As though with ice, for white stone rims it round.
Rushed on Alcaeus Meges, Phyleus’ son,
And drave his spear beneath his fluttering heart.
Loosed were the cords of sweet life suddenly,
And his sad parents longed in vain to greet
429
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
Lf » s \ , a
καίπερ ἐελδόμενοι μογεροὶ δέξαντο τοκῆες,
Φύλλις ἐὔξωνος καὶ Μάργασος, οἵ ῥ᾽ ἐνέμοντο
Αρπάσου ἀμφὶ ῥέεθρα διειδέος, ὅς τ᾽ ἀλεγεινῶς ?
,
Μαιάνδρῳ κελάδοντα ῥόον καὶ ἀπείριτον οἶδμα 146
συμφέρετ᾽ ἤματα πάντα λάβρῳ περὶ χεύματι
θύων.
Γλαύκου δ᾽ ἐσθλὸν ἑταῖρον ἐῦμμελίην Σκυλακῆα
υἱὸς ᾿Οϊλῆος σχεδὸν οὔτασεν ἀντιόωντα
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βαιὸν ὑπὲρ σάκεος" διὰ δὲ πλατὺν ἤλασεν ὦμον
>]
αἰχμὴ avinpy περὶ δ᾽ ἔβλυσεν αἷμα βοείῃ. 150
b 4 bd / ? (ἔς ky amma ν , ᾿ ΓῚ
ἀλλά μιν οὔτι δάμασσεν: ἐπεί ῥά ἑ μόρσιμον ἦμαρ
δέχνυτο νοστήσαντα φίλης παρὰ τείχεσι πάτρης"
εὖτε γὰρ Ἴλιον αἰπὺ Bool διέπερσαν ᾿Αχαιοί,
\ [a ) Pe eee he , \ / ΟῚ ,
δὴ τότ᾽ ap ἐκ πολέμοιο φυγὼν Λυκίην ἀφίκανεν
οἷος ἄνευθ᾽ ἑτάρων: τὸν δ᾽ ἄστεος ἄγχι γυναῖκες 155
ἀγρόμεναι τεκέων σφετέρων ὕπερ ἠδὲ καὶ ἀνδρῶν
εἴρονθ᾽- ὃς δ᾽ ἄρα τῇσι μόρον κατέλεξεν ἁπάντων'
αἱ δ᾽ ἄρα χερμαδίοισι περισταδὸν ἀνέρα κεῖνον
δάμναντ᾽, οὐδ᾽ ἀπόνητο μολὼν ἐς πατρίδα νόστου,
) “ε a [τὰ ΄ 4 /
ἀλλά ἡ Ades ὕπερθε μέγα στενάχοντα κάλυψαν" 160
[got Meal 4 crys / 2 Ν \ / ᾽ 0,
καί pa οἱ ἐκ βελέων ὀλοὸς περὶ τύμβος ἐτύχθη
πὰρ τέμενος καὶ σῆμα κραταιοῦ Βελλεροφόντου,
τς ,
TAS ἔνι κυδαλίμης Τιτηνίδος ἀγχόθι πέτρης"
> as « Ν » 9 > / ς ΜΕΥ 7
ἀλλ᾽ ὁ μὲν αἴσιμον ἦμαρ ἀναπλήσας ὑπ᾽ ὀλέθρῳ
ὕστερον ἐννεσίησιν ἀγαυοῦ Λητοΐδαο 165
/ “ y ΄ ’ e LA ,
τίεται ws τε θεός, φθινύθει δέ οἱ οὔποτε τιμή.
Ποίαντος δ᾽ ἐπὶ τοῖσι πάϊς κτάνε Δηιονῆα
’ 9.» ns en Dd / 5 γ
ἠδ᾽ ᾿Αντήνορος υἱὸν ἐῦὐμμελίην ᾿Ακάμαντα:
"» ᾽ > lal Ὁ 4 \ Ὁ“
ἄλλων δ᾽ αἰζηῶν ὑπεδάμνατο πουλὺν ὅμιλον"
θῦνε γὰρ ἐν δηίοισιν ἀτειρέϊ ἶσος "Apne 170
ἢ ποταμῷ κελάδοντι, ὃς ἕρκεα μακρὰ δαΐζει
¢ ,
πλημμύρων, ὅτε λάβρον ὀρινόμενος περὶ πέτραις
1 Zimmermann, for οὗ ἀλεγεινῷ of Koechly.
430
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK X
That son returning from the woeful war
To Margasus and Phyllis lovely-girt,
Dwellers by lucent streams of Harpasus,
Who pours the full blood of his clamorous flow
Into Maeander madly rushing aye.
With Glaucus’ warrior-comrade Scylaceus
Oileus’ son closed in the fight, and stabbed
Over the shield-rim, and the cruel spear
Passed through his shoulder, and drenched his shield
with blood.
Howbeit he slew him not, whose day of doom
Awaited him afar beside the wall
Of his own city; tor when I[lum’s towers
Were brought low by that swift avenging host
Fleeing the war to Lycia then he came
Alone ; and when he drew nigh to the town,
The thronging women met and questioned him
Touching their sons and husbands; and he told
How all were dead. ‘They compassed him about,
And stoned the man with great stones, that he died.
So had he no joy of his winning home,
But the stones muffled up his dying groans,
And of the same his ghastly tomb was reared
Beside Bellerophon’s grave and holy place
In Tlos, nigh that far-famed Chimaera’s Crag.
Yet, though he thus fulfilled his day of doom,
As a God afterward men worshipped him
By Phoebus’ hest, and never his honour fades.
Now Poeas’ son the while slew Deioneus
And Acamas, Antenor’s warrior son:
Yea, a great host of strong men laid he low.
On, like the War-god, through his foes he rushed,
Or as a river roaring in full flood
Breaks down long dykes, when, maddening round its
rocks,
431
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
2 δι 4 > \ le 7 »
ἐξ ὀρέων ἀλεγεινὰ μεμιγμένος ἔρχεται ὄμβρῳ,
ἀέναός περ ἐὼν καὶ ἀγάρροος, οὐδέ νυ τόν γε
εἴργουσιν προβλῆτες ἀάσπετα παφλάζοντα: 175
ὡς οὔτις Ποίαντος ἀγακλειτοῦ θρασὺν via
” 3 a ) ἣν Ni /
ἔσθενεν ὀφθαλμοῖσιν ἰδὼν καὶ ἄπωθε πελάσ σαι"
ἐν γάρ οἱ στέρνοισι μένος περιώσιον ev.
΄, 3),.13 f .«Λ « -
τεύχεσι δ᾽ ἀμφεκέκαστο δαΐφρονος Ἡρακλῆος
δαιδαλέοις: περὶ γάρ οἱ ἐνὶ ζωστῆρι φαεινῷ 180
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ἄρκτοι ἔσαν βλοσυραὶ καὶ ἀναιδέες: ἀμφὶ δὲ θῶες
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σμερδαλέοι, Kal λυγρὸν ὑπ᾽ ὀφρύσι μειδιόωσαι
/ la iw , yA 2 /
πορδάλιες: τῶν δ᾽ ἄγχι λύκοι ἔσαν ὀβριμόθυμοι
καὶ σύες ἀργιόδοντες ἐὐσθενέες τε λέοντες
> /, a > / 2 \ \ /
ἐκπάγλως ζωοῖσιν ἐοικότες" ἀμφὶ δὲ πάντῃ 18ὅ
ὑσμῖναι ἐνέκειντο μετ᾽ ἀργαλέοιο Povoto:
δαίδαλα μέν οἱ τόσσα περὶ ζωστῆρα τέτυκτο.
ἄλλα δέ οἱ γωρυτὸς ἀπείριτος ἀμφεκέκαστο:
» \ » \ e\ > ἢ € ,
ἐν μὲν ἔην Διὸς vids ἀελλοπόδης Eppetns
» / > \ Cf , / Vv
Ἰνάχου ἀμφὶ ῥέεθρα κατακτείνων μέγαν Apyov, 190
wv ἃ 3 lal > \ ς ,
Apyov, ὃς ὀφθαλμοῖσιν ἀμοιβαδὸν ὑπνώεσκεν'
2 \ / } SEAN cay 5) a
ἐν δὲ Bin Φαέθοντος ava ῥόον ᾿Ηριδανοῖο
βλήμενος ἐκ δίφροιο: καταιθομένης δ᾽ ἄρα γαίης
ὡς ἐτεόν περ ἄητο μέλας ἐνὶ ἠέρι καπνός"
Περσεὺς δ᾽ ἀντίθεος βχλοσυρὴν ἐδάϊζε Μέδουσαν, 195
ἄστρων ἧχι λοετρὰ πέλει καὶ τέρματα γαίης
πηγαί T ὠκεανοῖο βαθυρρόου, ἔνθ᾽ ἀκάμαντι
ἠελίῳ δύνοντι συνέρχεται ἑσπερίη νύξ:
ἐν δὲ καὶ ἀκαμάτοιο μέγας πάϊς ᾿Ιαπετοῖο
Καυκάσου ἠλιβάτοιο παρηώρητο κολώνῃ 200
δεσμῷ ἐν ἀρρήκτῳ" κεῖρεν δέ οἱ αἰετὸς ἧπαρ
αἰὲν ἀεξόμειον" ὁ δ᾽ ἄρα στενάχοντι ἐῴκει.
καὶ τὰ μὲν ἂρ τεύξαντο κλυταὶ χέρες Ηφαίστοιο
¢ n a
ὀβρίμῳ ἫἩρακλῆι: ὁ δ᾽ ὥπασε παιδὶ φορῆναι
e ~
Ilotavros, μάλα yap οἱ ὁμωρόφιος φίλος ἦεν. 205
/
Αὐτὰρ ὁ κυδιόων ἐν τεύχεσι δάμνατο λαοῦς.
432
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK X
Down trom the mountains swelled by rain it pours
An ever-flowing mightily-rushing stream
Whose foaming crests over its forelands sweep;
So none who saw him even from afar
Dared meet renownéd Poeas’ valiant son,
Whose breast with battle-fury was fulfilled,
Whose limbs were clad in mighty Hercules’ arms
Of cunning workmanship; for on the belt
Gleamed bears most grim and savage, jackals fell,
And panthers, in whose eyes there seems to lurk
A deadly smile. There were fierce-hearted wolves,
And boars with flashing tusks, and mighty lions
All seeming strangely ate ; and, there portrayed
Through all its breadth, were battles murder-rife.
With all these marvels covered was the belt ;
And with yet more the quiver was adorned.
There Hermes was, storm-footed Son of Zeus,
Slaying huge Argus nigh to Inachus’ streams,
Argus, whose sentinel eyes in turn took sleep.
And there was Phaethon from the Sun-car hurled
Into Eridanus. Earth verily seemed
Ablaze, and black smoke hovered on the air
There Perseus slew Medusa gorgon-eyed
By the stars’ baths and utmost bounds of earth
And fountains of deep-flowing Ocean, where
Night in the far west meets the setting sun.
There was the Titan Japetus’ great son
Hung from the beetling crag of Caucasus
In bonds of adamant, and the eagle tare
His liver unconsumed—he seemed to groan !
All these Hephaestus’ cunning hands had wrought
For Hercules; and these to Poeas’ son,
Most near of friends and dear, he gave to bear.
So glorying in those arms he smote the foe.
433
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
ὀψὲ δέ οἱ ἐπόρουσε Idpis, στονόεντας ὀϊστοὺς
νωμῶν ἐν χείρεσσι μετὰ γναμπτοῖο βιοῖο
θαρσαλέως" τῷ γάρ ῥα συνήιεν ὕστατον ἦμαρ.
ἧκε δ᾽ ἀπὸ νευρῆφι θοὸν βέλος: ἡ δ᾽ ἰάχησεν 210
ἰοῦ ἀπεσσυμένοιο" τὸ δ᾽ οὐχ ἅλιον φύγε χειρῶν"
καί ῥ᾽ αὐτοῦ μὲν ἅμαρτεν ἀλευαμένου μάλα τυτθόν,
ἀλλ᾽ ἔβαλεν Κλεόδωρον ἀγακλειτόν περ ἐόντα
βαιὸν ὑ ὑπὲρ μαζοῖο, διήλασε δ᾽ “ἄχρις ἐς ὦμον’
οὐ γὰρ ἔχεν σάκος εὐρύ, τό οἱ λυγρὸν ἔσχεν
ὄλεθρον" 215
ἀλλ᾽ ὅ γε γυμνὸς ἐὼν ἀνεχάξετο' τοῦ yap ἀπ᾽ ὦμων
Πουλυδάμας ἀπάραξε σάκος τελαμῶνα δαΐξας
βουπλῆγι στιβαρῷ': ὁ ) δ᾽ ἐχάσσατο μαρνάμενός περ
αἰχμῇ ἀνιηρῇ: στονόεις δέ οἱ ἔμπεσεν ἰὸς
ἄλλοθεν ἀΐξας: ὡς γάρ νύ που ἤθελε δαίμων 220
θήσειν αἰνὸν ὄλεθρον ἐΐφρονος υἱέϊ Λέρνου,
ὃν τέκετ᾽ ᾿Αμφιάλη “Ῥοδίων ἐν πίονι γαίῃ.
Tov δ᾽ ὡς οὖν ἐδάμασσε lapis στονόεντι
βελέμνῳ,
δὴ τότε που Ilotavtos ἀμύμονος ὄβριμος υἱὸς
ἐμμεμαὼς θοὰ τόξα τιταίνων οἱ μέγ᾽ ἀὕὔτει" 225
“ὦ κύον, ὡς σοὶ ἔγωγε φόνον Kal Kp ἀΐδηλον
δώσω, ἐπεί νύ μοι ἄντα λιλαίεαι ἰσοφαρίζειν"
καί κεν ἀναπνεύσουσιν, ὅσοι σέθεν εἵνεκα λυγροῦ
τείροντ᾽ ἐν πολέμῳ: τάχα γὰρ λύσις ἔσσετ᾽
ὀλέθρου
ἐνθάδε σεῖο θανόντος, ἐπεί σφισι πῆμα τέτυξαι." 230
“Os εἰπὼν νευρὴν μὲν evo Tpopov ἀγχόθι μαζοῦ
εἴρυσε, κυκλώθη δὲ κέρας, καὶ ἀμείλιχος ἐ ἰὸς
ἰθύνθη, τόξον δ᾽ αἰνὴ ὑπερέσχεν ἀκωκὴ
τυτθὸν ὑ ὑπ᾽ αἰζηοῖο βίῃ: μέγα & ἔβραχε νευρὴ
ἰοῦ ἀπεσσυμένοιο δυσηχέος: οὐδ᾽ ἀφάμαρτε 235
δῖος ἀνήρ' τοῦ δ᾽ οὔτι λύθη κέαρ, ἀλλ᾽ ἔτι θυμῷ
434
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK X
But Paris at the last to meet him sprang
Fearlessly, bearing in his hands his bow
And deadly arrows—but his latest day
Now met himself. A flying shaft he sped
Forth from the string, which sang as leapt the dart,
Which flew not vainly : yet the very mark
It missed, for Philoctetes swerved aside
A hair-breadth, and it smote above the breast
Cleodorus war-renowned, and cleft a path
Clear through his shoulder; for he had not now
The buckler broad which wont to fence from death
Its bearer, but was falling back from fight,
Being shieldless ; for Polydamas’ massy lance
Had cleft the shoulder-belt whereby his targe
Hung, and he gave back therefore, fighting still
With stubborn spear. But now the arrow of death
Fell on him, as from ambush leaping forth.
For so Fate willed, I trow, to bring dread doom
On noble-hearted Lernus’ scion, born
Of Amphiale, in Rhodes the fertile land.
But soon as Poeas’ battle-eager son
Marked him by Paris’ deadly arrow slain,
Swiftly he strained his bow, shouting aloud :
“ Dog! I will give thee death, will speed thee down
To the Unseen Land, who darest to brave me!
And so shall they have rest, who travail now
For thy vile sake. Destruction shall have end
When thou art dead, the author of our bane.”
Then to his breast he drew the plaited cord.
The great bow arched, the merciless shaft was
aimed
Straight, and the terrible point a little peered
Above the bow, in that constraining grip.
Loud sang the string, as the death-hissing shaft
Leapt, and missed not: yet was not Paris’ heart
Stilled, but his spirit yet was strong in him;
435
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
ἔσθενεν" ov yap οἱ τότε καίριος ἔμπεσεν ἰός,
’ a ie A > ih , /
ἀλλὰ παρέθρισε χειρὸς ἐπιγράβδην χρόα καλὸν.
5 a Dey, 2 / \ \ \
ἐξαῦτις δ᾽ ὅ ye τόξα τιτύσκετο' τὸν δὲ παραφθὰς
ἰῷ ἐὐγλώχινι βάλεν βουβῶνος ὕπερθε 240
«
Ποίαντος φίλος vids: ὁ δ᾽ οὐκέτι μίμνε μάχεσθαι,
’ Ν A > U 4 ef “ J
ἀλλὰ θοῶς ἀπόρουσε, κύων WS, ὃς TE λέοντα
ταρβήσας χάσσηται ἐπεσσύμενος τὸ πάροιθεν"
ὡς ὅ γε λευγαλέῃσι πεπαρμένος ἦτορ ἀνίης
χάζετ᾽ ἀπὸ πτολέμοιο. συνεκλονέοντο δὲλαο 24ὅ
ἀλλήλους ὀλέκοντες" ἐν αἵματι δ᾽ ἔπλετο δῆρις
κτεινομένων ἑκάτερθε" νεκροὶ δ᾽ ἐπέκειντο νέκυσσι
Vy "ἢ 3 if aN ’
πανσυδίῃ ψεκάδεσσιν ἐοικότες ἠὲ χαλάζῃ
ae) » ¢
ἢ χιόνος νιφάδεσσιν, ὅτ᾽ οὔρεα μακρὰ καὶ ὕλην
Ν ᾽ iA / a z
Ζηνὸς ὑπ᾽ ἐννεσίης ζέφυρος καὶ χεῖμα παλύνει' 250
ὰ 7 99 , ᾽ γ \ ,
ὡς of γ᾽ ἀμφοτέρωθεν ἀνηλέϊ Knpi δαμέντες
ἀθρόοι ἀλλήλοισι δεδουπότες ἀμφεχέοντο.
Αἰνὰ δ᾽ ἀνεστενάχιζε Ι]άρις: περὶ δ᾽ ἕλκεϊ
θυμὸν
’ Ν > ae) / (ponte ἌΝ 3 A
τείρετο' τὸν δ᾽ ἀλύοντα τάχ᾽ ἄμφεπον ἰητῆρες.
Τρῶες δ᾽ εἰς ἑὸν ἄστυ κίον: Δαναοὶ δ᾽ ἐπὶ vijas 258
κυανέας ἀφίκοντο θοῶς: τοὺς yap ῥα κυδοιμοῦ
\ ’ , / / 3} 9 / /
νὺξ ἀπέπαυσε μέλαινα, μόγον δ᾽ ἐξείλετο γυίων
ef 2 \ 4 , ᾽ n ,
ὕπνον ἐπὶ βλεφάροισι πόνου ἀλκτῆρα χέασα.
» ᾽ > ee ” \ ΄ »Μ 3 aa
ἀλλ᾽ οὐχ ὕπνος ἔμαρπτε θοὸν Ilapw ἄχρις ἐς nw
> 2 Ὁ " , 3
οὐ γὰρ οἱ τις ἄλαλκε λιλαιομένων περ ἀμύνειν 200
παντοίοις ἀκέεσσιν, ἐπεί ῥά οἱ αἴσιμον HEV
Οἰνώνης t ὑπὸ χερσὶ μόρον καὶ κῆρας ἀλύξαι,
ἢν ἐθέλῃ: ὁ δ᾽ ap αἶψα θεοπροπίῃσι πιθήσας
ἤιεν οὐκ ἐθέλων. ὀλοὴ δέ μιν ἦγεν ἀνάγκη
κουριδίης εἰς ὦπα: λυγροί γε μὲν ἀντιόωντες 265
κὰκ κορυφῆς ὄρνιθες ἀὕὔτεον, οἱ δ᾽ ava χεῖρα
436
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK X
For that first arrow was not winged with death:
It did but graze the fair flesh by his wrist.
Then once again the avenger drew the bow,
And the barbed shaft of Poeas’ son had plunged,
Ere he could swerve, ’twixt flank and groin. No
more
He abode the fight, but swiftly hasted back
As hastes a dog which on a lion rushed
At first, then fleeth terror-stricken back.
So he, his very heart with agony thrilled,
Fled from thé war. Still clashed the grappling
hosts,
Man slaying man: aye bloodier waxed the fray
As rained the blows: corpse upon corpse was flung
Confusedly, like thunder-drops, or flakes
Of snow, or hailstones, by the wintry blast
At Zeus’ behest strewn over the long hills
And forest-boughs ; so by a pitiless doom
Slain, friends with foes in heaps on heaps were
strown.
Sorely groaned Paris; with the torturing wound
Fainted his spirit. Leeches sought to allay
His frenzy of pain. But now drew back to Troy
The Trojans, and the Danaans to their ships
Swiftly returned, for dark night put an end
To strife, and stole from men’s limbs weariness,
Pouring upon their eyes pain-healing sleep.
But through the livelong night no sleep laid hold
On Paris: for his help no leech availed,
Though ne’er so willing, with his salves. His weird
Was only by Oenone’s hands to escape
Death’s doom, if so she willed. Now he obeyed
The prophecy, and he went—exceeding loth,
But grim necessity forced him thence, to face
The wife forsaken. Evil-boding fowl
Shrieked o’er his head, or darted past to left,
437
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
\ > Sf ς , Μ /
σκαιὴν ἀΐσσοντες" ὁ δέ σφεας ἄλλοτε μέν που
δείδιεν εἰσορόων, ὁτὲ δ᾽ ἀκράαντα πέτεσθαι
ἔλπετο" τοὶ δέ οἱ αἰνὸν ὑπ᾽ ἄλγεσι φαῖνον ὄλεθρον.
ἷξε δ᾽ ἐς Οἰνώνην ἐρικυδέα: τὸν δ᾽ ἐσιδοῦσαι 270
ἀμφίπολοι θάμβησαν ἀολλέες ἠδὲ καὶ αὐτὴ
Οἰνώνη" ὁ δ᾽ ap αἶψα πέσεν παρὰ ποσσὶ γυναικὸς,
[λυγρῇ ὑ ὑπ᾽ Acie δεδμημένος, ἥ ἥ οἱ ἄεξεν]
ἀμφὶ μέχαιν᾽ ἐφύπερθε καὶ ἔνδοθι μέχρις ἱκέσθαι
μυελὸν ἐς λιπόωντα δι ὀστέου, οὕνεκα νηδὺν
φάρμακον αἰνὸν ἔπυθε Kat οὐτάμενον χρόα
φωτός. 275
τείρετο δὲ στυγερῇ βεβολημένος ἦτορ avin:
ὡς δ᾽ ὅτε TLS νούσῳ τε Kal ἀργαλέῃ μέγα δίψη
αἰθόμενος κραδίην ᾿ἀδινὸν κέαρ αὐαίνηται,
ὅν τε περιξείουσα, χολὴ φλέγει, ἀμφὶ δὲ νωθὴς
ψυχή οἱ πεπότητ᾽ ἐπὶ χείλεσιν αὐαλέοισιν 280
ἀμφότερον βιότου τε καὶ ὕδατος ἱ μείρουσα'
ὡς τοῦ ὑπὸ στέρνοισι καταίθετο θυμὸς ἀ avin:
καί ῥ᾽ ὀλιγοδρανέων τοῖον ποτὶ μῦθον ἔ ἔειπεν"
“ὦ γύναι αἰδοίη, μὴ δή νύ με τειρόμενόν περ
ἐχθήρῃς, ἐ ἐπεὶ ἄρ σε πάρος λίπον ἐν μεγάροισι 285
χήρην, οὐκ ἐθέλων περ' ἄγον δέ με Κῆρες ἄφυκτοι
εἰς Ἑλένην, ἣ 7S εἴθε πάρος λεχέεσσι μιγῆναι
σῇσιν ἐν ἀγκοίνῃσι θανὼν ἀ ἀπὸ θυμὸν ὄλεσσα.
ἀλλ᾽ ἄγε, πρός τε θεῶν, οἵ T οὐρανὸν ἀμφινέ-
μονται,
πρός τε τεῶν λεχέων καὶ κουριδίης φιλότητος,{ 290
ἤπιον ἔνθεο θυμόν, ἄχος δ᾽ ἀλεγεινὸν ἄλαλκε
φάρμακ᾽ ἀλεξήσοντα καθ᾽ ἕλκεος οὐλομένοιο
θεῖσα, τά μοι μεμόρηται ἀπωσέμεν ἄλγεα. θυμοῦ,
ἢν ἐθέλῃς" σῇσιν γὰρ ἐπὶ φρεσίν, εἴτε σαῶσαι
μήδεαι ἐ ἐκ θανάτοιο δυσηχέος, εἴτε καὶ οὐκί: 295
ἀλλ᾽ ἐλέαιρε τάχιστα καὶ ὠκυμόρων σθένος ἰῶν
ἐξάκεσ᾽, ἕως μοι ἔτ᾽ ἀμφὶ μένος καὶ yuia τέθηλε:"
438
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK X
Still as he went. Now, as he looked at them,
His heart sank ; now hope whispered, “ Haply vain
Their bodings are!’’—but on their wings were
borne
Visions of doom that blended with his pain.
Into Oenone’s presence thus he came.
Amazed her thronging handmaids looked on him
As at the Nymph’s feet that pale suppliant fell
Faint with the anguish of his wound, whose pangs
Stabbed him through brain and heart, yea, quivered
through
His very bones, for that fierce venom crawled
Through all his inwards with corrupting fangs ;
And his life fainted in him agony-thrilled.
As one with sickness and tormenting thirst
Consumed, lies parched, with heart quick-shud-
dering,
With liver seething as in flame, the soul,
Scarce conscious, fluttering at his burning lips,
Longing for life, for water longing sore ;
So was his breast one fire of torturing pain.
Then in exceeding feebleness he spake :
“Ὁ reverenced wife, turn not from me in hate
For that 1 left thee widowed long ago!
Not of my will I did it: the strong Fates
Dragged me to Helen—oh that I had died
Ere I embraced her—in thine arms had died!
Ah, by the Gods | pray, the Lords of Heaven,
By all the memories of our wedded love,
Be merciful! Banish my bitter pain:
Lay on my deadly wound those healing salves
Which only can, by Fate’s decree, remove
This torment, if thou wilt. Thine heart must speak
My sentence, to be saved from death or no.
Pity me—oh, make haste to pity me!
This venom’s might is swiftly bringing death !
439
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
μηδέ τί με ζήλοιο λυγροῦ μεμνημένη. ἔμπης
καλλείψῃς θανέεσθαι ἀμειλίκτῳ ὑπὸ πότμῳ
πὰρ ποσὶ σοῖσι πεσόντα' Λιταῖς δ᾽ ἀποθύμια
ῥέξεις, 800
αἵ ῥα καὶ αὐταὶ Ζηνὸς ἐριγδούποιο θύγατρες
εἰσί, καὶ ἀνθρώποισιν ὑπερφιάλοις κοτέουσαι
ἐξόπιθε στονόεσσαν ἐπιθύνουσιν ᾿Εριννὺν
καὶ χόλον, ἀλλὰ σύ, πότνα, κακὰς ἀπὸ Κῆρας
ἔρυκε
ἐσσυμένως, εἰ καΐ τι παρήλιτον ἀφραδίῃσιν." 305
Ἃς ἄρ᾽ ἔφη: τῆς δ᾽ οὔτι φρένας παρέπεισε
κελαινάς,
ἀχλά ἑ κερτομέουσα μέγ᾽ ἀχνύμενον προσέειπε:
“τίπτε μοι εἰλήλουθας ἐ ἐναντίον, ἣν pa πάροιθεν
κάλλιπες ἐν μεγάροισιν ἀάσπετα κωκύουσαν
εἵνεκα Τυνδαρίδος πολυκηδέος, ἡ παριαύων 810
τέρπεο καγχαλόων, ἐπεὶ Yi πολὺ φερτέρη ἐστὶν
τῆς σέο κουριδίης: τὴν γὰρ φάτις ἐ ἔμμεν ἀγήρω:
κείνην ἐσσυμένως γουνάξεο, μηδέ νύ μοί περ
δακρυόεις ἐλεεινὰ καὶ ἀλγινόεντα πα αὔδα'
al γάρ μοι μέγα θηρὸς ὑ ὑπὸ κραδίῃ μένος εἴη 315
δαρδάψαι σέο σάρκας, ἔπειτα δέ θ᾽ αἷμα λαφύξαι,
οἷά με πήματ᾽ ἔοργας ἀτασθαλίῃσι πιθήσας.
σχέτλιε, ποῦ νύ τοί ἐστιν ἐὐστέφανος Κυθέρεια;
πῇ δὲ πέλει γαμβροῖο λελασμένος ἀκάματος Ζεύς;
τοὺς ἔχ᾽ ἀοσσητῆρας" ἐμῶν δ᾽ ἀπὸ τῆλε μελά-
θρων 320
χάξεο, καὶ μακάρεσσι καὶ ἀνδράσι πῆμ᾽ ἀλεγεινόν'
σεῖο γὰρ εἵνεκ᾽, ἀλιτρέ, καὶ ἀθανάτους ἕλε πένθος,
τοὺς μὲν ἐφ᾽ υἱωνοῖς, τοὺς δ᾽ υἱάσιν ὀχλυμένοισιν.
ἀλλά μοι ἔρρε δόμοιο καὶ εἰς “Ἑλένην. 'ἀφίκανε,
ἧς σε χρεὼν νυκτός τε καὶ ἤματος ἀσχαλόωντα 325
τρύξειν πὰρ λεχέεσσι πεπαρμένον ἄλγεϊ λυγρῷ,
εἰσόκε σ᾽ ἰήνειεν ἀνιηρῶν ὀδυνάων."
440
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK X
Heal me, while life yet lingers in my limbs!
Remember not those pangs of jealousy,
Nor leave me by a cruel doom to die
Low fallen at thy feet! This should offend
The Prayers, the Daughters of the Thunderer Zeus,
Whose anger followeth unrelenting pride
With vengeance, and the Erinnys executes
Their wrath. My queen, I sinned, in folly sinned ;
Yet from death save me—oh, make haste to save!”
So prayed he; but her darkly-brooding heart
Was steeled, and her words mocked his agony:
“Thou comest unto me !—thou, who Cidst leave
Erewhile a wailing wife in a desolate home '—
Didst leave her for thy Tyndarid darling! Go,
Lie laughing in her arms for bliss! She is better
Than thy true wife—is, rumour saith, immortal !
Make haste to kneel to her—but not to me!
Weep not to me, nor whimper pitiful prayers !
Oh that mine heart beat with a tigress’ strength,
That I might tear thy flesh and lap thy blood
For all the pain thy folly brought on me !
Vile wretch! where now is Love's Queen glory-
crowned?
Hath Zeus forgotten his daughter's paramour ?
Have them for thy deliverers! Get thee hence
Far from my dwelling, curse of Gods and men!
Yea, for through thee, thou miscreant, sorrow came
On deathless Gods, for sons and sons’ sons slain.
Hence from my threshold !—to thine Helen go!
Agonize day and night beside her bed:
There whimper, pierced to the heart with cruel
pangs,
Until she heal thee of thy grievous pain.”
44:
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
“Os φαμένη γοόωντα φίλων ἀπέπεμπε peda-:
ρων,
νηπίη: οὐδ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἐφράσσαθ᾽ ἑὸν μόρον: ἢ γὰρ
ἔμελλον
κείνου ἀποφθιμένοιο καὶ αὐτῇ Κῆρες ἕπεσθαι 390
ἐσσυμένως" ὡς γάρ οἱ ἐπέκλωσεν Διὸς Αἶσα.
τὸν δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἀπεσσύμενον λασίης ὑπὲρ “ἄκριας Ἴδης
οἶμον ἐς ἐσχατιήν, ὄθι μιν μόρος αἰνὸς ayeoxe! 389α
λυγρὸν ἐπισκάξζοντα. καὶ ἀχνύμενον μέγα θυμῷ
Ἥρη 7 εἰσενόησε καὶ ἄμβροτον ἦτορ ἰάνθη,
ἑξομένη κατ᾽ Ὄλυμπον, ὅ ὅπῃ Διὸς ἔπλετ᾽ ἀλωή. 335
καί ῥά οἱ ἀμφίπολοι πίσυρες σχεδὸν ἑδριόωντο,
τάς ποτ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ᾿Ηελίῳ χαροπὴ δμηθεῖσα Σελήνη
γείνατ᾽ av’ οὐρανὸν εὐρὺν ἀτειρέας, οὐδὲν ὁ ὁμοίας
ἀλλήλαις: μορφῇ δὲ διέκριθεν ἄλλη ἀπ᾽ ἄλλης:
ἀν μὲν θέρεος καματώδεος ἔχλαχε μοῖραν,
ΕΤΕρΉ χειμῶνι καὶ αἰγοκερῆι μέμηλε' 840
[εἴαρι δ᾽ αὖ τριτάτη, τετράτη δ᾽ ἐπιτέρπετ᾽ ὁ ὀπώρῃ: ]
τέτρασι γὰρ μοίρησι βροτῶν διαμείβεται αἰών,
ἃς κεῖναι ἐφέπουσιν ἀμοιβαδόν' ahha τὰ μέν που
αὐτῷ Ζηνὶ μέλοιτο κατ᾽ οὐρανόν' αἱ δ᾽ ὀώριξον
ὁππόσα λοίγιος Alaa περὶ φρεσὶν οὐλομένῃσι
μήδετο, Τυνδαρίδος στυγερὸν γώμον ἐντύνουσα 84
mee gen καὶ μῆνιν ἀνιηρὴν Ἑλένοιο
ἡ χόλον ἀμφὶ γυναικός, ὅπως τέ μιν υἷες
᾿Αχαιῶν
ἤμελλον μάρψαντες ἐν ὑψηλοῖσιν ὄρεσσι
χωόμενον Τρώεσσι θοὰς ἐπὶ νῆας ἄγεσθαι,
ὡς τέ οἱ ἐννεσίησι κραταιοῦ Τυδέος υἱὸς 350
ἑσπομένου Ὀδυσῆος ὑ ὑπὲρ μέγα τεῖχος ὀρούσας
᾿Αλκαθόῳ στονόεντα φέρειν ἤμελλεν ὄλεθρον
ἁρπάξας ἐθέλουσαν evppova Τριτογένειαν,
ἥ τ᾽ ἔρυμα πτόλιός τε καὶ αὐτῶν ἔπλετο Τρώων"
1 Verse supplied by Zimmermann, ex P.
442
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK X
So from her doors she drave that groaning man—
Ah fool! not knowing hér own doom, whose weird
Was straightway after him to tread the path
Of death! So Fate had spun her destiny-thread.
Then, as he stumbled down through Ida’s brakes,
Where Doom on his death-path was leading him
Painfully halting, racked with heart-sick pain,
Hera beheld him, with rejoicing soul
Throned in the Olympian palace-court of Zeus.
And seated at her side were handmaids four
Whom radiant-faced Selene bare to the Sun
To be unwearying ministers in heaven,
In form and office diverse each from each ;
For of these Seasons one was summer's queen,
And one of winter and his stormy star,
Of spring the third, of autumn-tide the fourth.
So in four portions parted is man’s year
Ruled by these Queens in turn—but of all this
Be Zeus himself the Overseer in heaven.
And of those issues now these spake with her
Which baleful Fate in her all-ruining heart
Was shaping to the birth—the new espousals
Of Helen, fatal to Deiphobus —
The wrath of Helenus, who hoped in vain
For that fair bride, and how, when he had fled,
Wroth with the Trojans, to the mountain-height,
Achaea’s sons would seize him and would hale
Unto their ships—how, by his counselling
Strong Tydeus’ son should with Odysseus scale
The great wall, and should slay Alcathous
The temple-warder, and should bear away
Pallas the Gracious, with her free consent,
Whose image was the sure defence of Troy ;—
443
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
οὐδὲ yap οὐδὲ θεῶν τις ἀπειρέσιον χαλεπήνας 355
ἔσθενεν ὄλβιον ἄστυ διαπραθέειν Upraporo
ἀθανάτης ἔμπροσθεν ἀκηδέος ἐμβεβαυίης"
οὐδέ οἱ ἄμβροτον εἶδος ἐ ἐτεκτήναντο σιδήρῳ
ἀνέρες, ἀλλά μιν αὐτὸς ἀπ᾽ Οὐλύμποιο “Κρονίων
κάββαλεν ἐ ἐς Πριάμοιο πολυχρύσοιο πόληα. 360
Καὶ τὰ μὲν ὡς ὀάριξζε Διὸς δάμαρ ἀμφιπόλοισιν,
ἄλλα τε πόλλ᾽ ἐπὶ τοῖσι. ἸΠάριν δ᾽ ἄρα θυμὸς
ἐν Ἴδῃ
κάλλιπεν, οὐδ᾽ “Ἑλένη μιν ἐσέδρακε νοστήσαντα"
ἀμφὶ δέ μιν Νύμφαι μέγ᾽ ἐκώκυον, οὕνεκ᾽ ἄρ᾽
αὐτοῦ
εἰσέτι που μέμνηντο κατὰ φρένας, ὅσσα πάροιθεν 365
ἐξέτι νηπιάχοιο συναγρομένῃς ὀάριξε'
σὺν δέ σφιν μύροντο βοῶν θοοὶ ἀγροιῶται
ἀχνύμενοι κατὰ θυμόν. ἐπεστενάχοντο δὲ βῆσσαι.
Καὶ τότε δὴ Πριάμοιο πολυτλήτοιο γυναικὶ
δεινὸν ᾿Αλεξάνδροιο μόρον φάτο βουκόλος ἀνήρ' 870
τῆς δ᾽ ἄφαρ, ὡς ἐσάκουσε, τρόμῳ περιπάλλετο
θυμός,
γυῖα δ᾽ ὑπεκλάσθησαν' ἔπος δ᾽ ὀλοφύρατο τοῖον'
“ὥλεό μοι, φίλε τέκνον, ἐμοὶ δ᾽ ἐπὶ πένθεϊ
πένθος
κάλλιπες αἰὲν ἄφυκτον, ἐπεὶ πολὺ φέρτατος
ἄλλων
παίδων ἔσκες ἐμεῖο μεθ᾽ Ἕκτορα" τῷ νύ σε λυγρὴ 375
κλαύσομαι, εἰσόκε μοι κραδίῃ ἔ ἔνε πάλλεται ἧτορ'
οὐ γὰρ ἄνευ μακάρων τάδε πάσχομεν, ἀλλά τις
Αἶσα
μήδετο λοίγια, ἔργα, τὰ μὴ ὥφειλον ὀτλῆσαι,
ἀλλ᾽ ἔθανον τὸ πάροιθεν ἐ ἐν εἰρήνῃ τε καὶ ὄλβῳ"
[νῦν δ᾽ ἐπὶ πήματι πῆμα μετ᾽ ὄμμασι δέρκομαι
αἰεὶ]
ἐλπομένη καὶ ἔτ᾽ ἄλλα κακώτερα θηήσασθαι, 380
444
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK X
Yea, for not even a God, how wroth soe’er,
Had power to lay the City of Priam waste
While that immortal shape stood warder there.
No man had carven that celestial form,
But Cronos’ Son himself had cast it down
From heaven to Priam’s gold-abounding burg.
Of these things with her handmaids did the
Queen
Of Heaven hold converse, and of many such,
But Paris, while they talked, gave up the ghost
On Ida: never Helen saw him more.
Loud wailed the Nymphs around him; for they still
Remembered how their nursling wont to lisp
His childish prattle, compassed with their smiles.
And with them mourned the neatherds light of foot,
Sorrowful-hearted ; moaned the mountain-glens.
Then unto travail-burdened Priam’s queen
A herdman told the dread doom of her son.
Wildly her trembling heart leapt when she heard ;
With failing limbs she sank to earth and wailed :
“ Dead !—thou dead, O dear child! Grief heaped on
grief
Hast thou bequeathed me, grief eternal! Best
Of all my sons, save Hector alone, wast thou !
While beats my heart, my grief shall weep for thee,
The hand of Heaven is in our sufferings:
Some Fate devised our ruin—oh that I
Had lived not to endure it, but had died
In days of wealthy peace! But now I see
Woes upon woes, and ever look to see
445
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
a \ VA - / \ ,
παῖδας μὲν κταμένους, κεραϊζομένην δὲ πόληα
καὶ πυρὶ δαιομένην Δαναῶν ὑπὸ καρτεροθύμων,
4 / a \
σύν τε vuovs θύγατράς τε μετὰ Τρωῇσι καὶ
γ. -
ἄλλαις
e 4 “ \ J e Ἄν / 3»
ἑλκομένας ἅμα παισὶ δορυκτήτῳ ὑπ᾽ ἀνάγκῃ.
A ΄ , , Ὁ Bioline y* ᾿
Ὡς φάτο κωκύουσα" πόσις δέ οἱ οὔ τι πέπυστο" 385
’ b ς 31S ®& 4 pluie, ,
arr ὁ tap “Extopos ἧστο τάφῳ ἐπὶ δάκρυα
EVO”,
e oH ἂν BA Ἀν 7 / /
οὕνεκ᾽ ἄριστος ἔην Kal épveTo δούρατι πάτρην"
a 7 /
τοῦ πέρι πευκαλίμας ἀχέων φρένας οὔ TL πέπυστο.
ἀλλ᾽ “Ἑλένη μάλα πολλὰ διηνεκέως γοόωσα
ἄλλα μὲν ἐν Τρώεσσιν ἀὕτεεν, ἄλλα δέ οἱ κῆρ 890
> , J } 37) 15 \ NX 4
ἐν κραδίῃ μενέαινε: φίλον δ᾽ ava θυμὸν ἔειπεν"
“ ἄνερ, ἐμοὶ καὶ Τρωσὶ καὶ αὐτῷ σοὶ μέγα πῆμα,
» / a /
W@AEO λευγαλέως" ἐμὲ δ᾽ ἐν στυγερῇ κακότητι
s 3 / 2 / J ele?) /
κάλλιπες ἐλπομένην ὁλοώτερα πήματ ἰδέσθαι.
ὡς ὄφελόν μ᾽ “Δρπυιαι ἀνηρείψαντο πάροιθεν, 395
ὁππότε oly ἑπόμην. ὀλοῇ ὑπὸ δαίμονος Aion
νῦν δ᾽ ἄρα καὶ σοὶ πῆμα θεοὶ δόσαν ἠδ᾽ ἐμοὶ αὐτῇ
αἰνομόρῳ": πάντες δέ μ᾽ ἀάσπετον ἐρρίγασι,
᾿ \
πάντες δ᾽ ἐχθαίρουσιν ἐμὸν κέαρ' οὐδέ πη οἶδα
’ / » vA / lal > ef
ἐκφυγέειν" εἰ yap κε φύγω Δαναῶν ἐς ὄμιλον, 400
/ /
αὐτίκ᾽ ἀεικίσσουσιν ἐμὸν δέμας: εἰ δέ κε μίμνω,
Τρῶες καὶ Τρωαί με περισταδὸν ἄλλοθεν ἄλλοι
αἶψα διαρραίσουσι'" νέκυν δ᾽ οὐ γαῖα καλύψει,
ἀλλὰ κύνες δάψουσι καὶ οἰωνῶν θοὰ φῦλα:
ὡς ὄφελόν μ᾽ ἕλεν Αἶσα, πάρος τάδε πήματ᾽
ἰδέσθαι.᾽ 405
ἃ yA a , ’ ς r
Ὡς ἔφατ᾽, οὔτι γοῶσα πόσιν τόσον, ὁππόσον
αὐτῆς
μύρετ᾽ ἀλιτροσύνης μεμνημένη" ἀμφὶ δὲ Τρωαὶ
ὡς κεῖνον στενάχοντο, μετὰ φρεσὶ δ᾽ ἄλλα με-
νοίνων,
τ Zimmermann, for μ᾽ ἐδάμασσε of Koechly.
446
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK X
Worse things—my children slain, my city sacked
And burned with fire by stony-hearted foes,
Daughters, sons’ wives, all Trojan women, haled
Into captivity with our little ones!”
So wailed she; but the King heard naught
thereof,
But weeping ever sat by Hector’s grave,
For most of all his sons he honoured him,
His mightiest, the defender of his land.
Nothing of Paris knew that piercéd heart ;
But long and loud lamented Helen; yet
Those wails were but for Trojan ears ; her soul
With other thoughts was busy, as she cried :
« Husband, to me, to Troy, and to thyself
A bitter blow is this thy woeful death !
In misery hast thou left me, and I look
To see calamities more deadly yet.
Oh that the Spirits of the Storm had snatched
Me from the earth when first I fared with thee
Drawn by a baleful Fate! It might not be ;
The Gods have meted ruin to thee and me.
With shuddering horror all men look on me,
All hate me! Place of refuge is there none
For me; for if to the Danaan host I fly,
With torments will they greet me. If I stay,
Troy’s sons and daughters here will compass me
And rend me. Earth shall cover not my corpse,
But dogs and fowl of ravin shall devour.
Oh had Fate slain me ere I saw these woes
So cried she: but for him far less she mourned
Than for herself, remembering her own sin.
Yea, and Troy’s daughters but in semblance wailed
For him: of other woes their hearts were full.
1??
447
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
αἱ μὲν ὑπὲρ τοκέων μεμνημέναι, αἱ δὲ καὶ ἀνδρῶν,
αἱ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ὑπὲρ παίδων, αἱ δὲ γνωτῶν ἐριτίμων. 410
Οἴη δ᾽ ἐκ θυμοῖο δαΐζετο κυδαλίμοιο
Οἰνώνη: ἀλλ᾽ οὔτι μετὰ Τρωῆσιν ἐοῦσα
κώκυεν, ἀλλ᾽ ἀπάνευθεν ἐνὶ σφετέροισι μελάθροις
κεῖτο βαρυστενάχουσα παλαιοῦ λέκτρῳ᾽ ἀκοίτεω.
οἵη δ᾽ ἐν ξυλόχοισι. περιτρέφεται κρύσταλλος 415
αἰπυτάτων ὀρέων, ἥ τ᾽ ἄγκεα πολλὰ παλύνει
χευαμένη ζεφύροιο καταιγίσιν" [ἡ δ᾽ ap’ ὑπ᾽ Εὔρῳ
᾿Ηελίῳ τε χιὼν κατατήκεται) ἀμφὶ δὲ μακραὶ
ἄκριες ὑδρηλῇσι κατειβόμεναι λιβάδεσσι
δεύονθ᾽, ἡ δὲ νάπῃσιν ἀπειρεσίη περ ἐοῦσα
πίδακος é ἐσσυμένης κρυερὸν περιτήκεται ὕδωρ' 420
ὡς ἥ γ᾽ ἀσχαλόωσα μέγα στυγερῇ ὑπ᾽ ἀνίη
τήκετ᾽ ἀκηχεμένη πόσιος περὶ κουριδίοιο.
αἰνὰ δ᾽ ἀναστενάχουσα φίλον προσελέξατο θυμόν"
“ὦ μοι ἀτασθαλίης, ὦ μοι στυγεροῦ βιότοιο,
ἣ πόσιν ἀμφαγάπησα δυσάμμορον, ᾧ ᾧ σὺν ἐώλπειν 425
γήραϊ τειρομένη βιότου κλυτὸν οὐδὸν ἱκέσθαι
αἰὲν ὁμοφρονέουσα" θεοὶ δ᾽ ἑτέρωσε βάλοντο"
ὥς μ᾽ ὄφελόν ποτε Kijpes ἀνηρείψαντο μέλαιναι,
ὁππότε νόσφιν ἔμελλον ᾿Αλεξάνδροιο, πέλεσθαι'
ἀλλὰ καὶ εἰ ζωός μ᾽ ἔλιπεν, μέγα τλήσομαι ἔργον 480
ἀμφ᾽ αὐτῷ θανέειν, ἐπεὶ οὔτι μοι εὔαδεν ἡ ἠώς.
“Os φαμένης ἐλεεινὰ κατὰ βλεφάροιιν ἐ ἔχυντο
δάκρυα, κουριδίοιο, δ᾽ ἀναπλήσαντος ὄλεθρον
μνωομένη, ἅτε κηρὸς ὑπαὶ πυρί, τήκετο λάθρῃ,
ἅξετο γὰρ πατέρα σφὸν! io” ᾿ἀμφιπόλ ους εὐπέπλους, 435
μέχρις ἐπὶ χθόνα δῖαν ἀπ᾽ EUPEOS | @KEaVOLO
νὺξ ἐχύθη, μερόπεσσι λύσιν καμάτοιο φέρουσα.
καί ῥα τόθ᾽ ὑπνώοντος ἐνὶ μεγάροισι τοκῆος
καὶ δμώων, πυλεῶνας ἀναρρήξασα μελάθρων
ἔκθορεν, ἠὔτ᾽ ἄελλα: φέρον δέ μιν ὠκέα γυῖα: 440
1 Zimmermann, for λέκτρον of v.
448
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK X
Some thought on parents, some on husbands slain,
These on their sons, on honoured kinsmen those.
One only heart was pierced with grief unfeigned,
Oenone. Not with them of Troy she wailed,
But far away within that desolate home
Moaning she lay on her lost husband’s bed.
As when the copses on high mountains stand
White-veiled with frozen snow, which o’er the glens
The west-wind blasts have strown, but now the sun
And east-wind melt it fast, and the long heights
With water-courses stream, and down the glades
Slide, as they thaw, the heavy sheets, to swell
The rushing waters of an ice-cold spring,
So melted she in tears of anguished pain,
And for her own, her husband, agonised,
And cried to her heart with miserable moans :
“Woe for my wickedness! O hateful life !
I loved mine hapless husband—dreamed with him
To pace to eld’s bright threshold hand in hand,
And heart in heart! The gods ordained not so.
Oh had the black Fates snatched me from the
earth
Ere I from Paris turned away in hate!
My living love hath left me !—yet will I
Dare to die with him, for I loathe the light.”
So cried she, weeping, weeping piteously,
Remembering him whom death had swallowed up,
Wasting, as melteth wax before the flame—
Yet secretly, being fearful lest her sire
Should mark it, or her handmaids—till the night
Rose from broad Ocean, flooding all the earth
With darkness bringing men release from toil.
Then, while her father and her maidens slept,
She slid the bolts back of the outer doors,
And rushed forth like a storm-blast. Fast she ran,
449
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
ὡς δ᾽ ὅτ᾽ ἀν᾽ οὔρεα πόρτιν ἐρασσαμένην μέγα
ταύρου
θυμὸς ἐποτρύνει ποσὶ καρπαλίμοισι φέρεσθαι
ἐσσυμένως, ἡ δ᾽ οὔτι λιλαιομένη φιλότητος
ταρβεῖ βουκόλον ἄνδρα, φέρει δέ μιν ἄσχετος ὁρμή,
εἴ που ἐνὶ ξυλόχοισιν ὁμήθεα ταῦρον ἴδοιτο" 445
ὡς ἡ ῥίμφα θέουσα διήνυε μακρὰ κέλευθα
διξομένη τάχα ποσσὶ πυρῆς ἐπιβήμεναι αἰνῆς.
οὐδέ τί οἱ κάμε γούνατ᾽ , ἐλαφρότεροι δ᾽ ἐφέροντο
ἐσσυμένης πόδες αἰέν: ἔπειγε γὰρ οὐλομένη Κὴρ
καὶ Κύπρις" οὐδέ τι θῆρας ἐδείδιε λαχνήενταςε 4δ0
ἀντομένους ὑπὸ νύκτα, πάρος μέγα πεφρικυῖα'
πᾶσα δέ οἱ λασίων ὀρέων ἐστείβετο πέτρη
καὶ κρημνοί, πᾶσαι δὲ διεπρήσσοντο χαράδραι.
τὴν δέ που εἰσορόωσα τόθ᾽ ὑψόθι δῖα Σελήνη
μνησαμένη κατὰ θυμὸν ἀμύμονος ᾿Ενδυμίωνος 455
πολλὰ μάλ᾽ ἐσσυμένην ὀλοφύρατο" καί οἱ ὕπερθε
λαμπρὸν παμφανόωσα μακρὰς ἀνέφαινε κελεύ-
θους.
ἽΚκετο δ᾽ ἐμβεβαυῖα δι᾽ οὔρεος, ἧχι καὶ ἄλλαι
νύμφαι.᾿Αλεξάνδροιο πυρὴν περικωκύεσκον.
τὸν δ᾽ ἔτι που κρατερὸν πῦρ ἄμφεχεν, οὕνεκ᾽ ap
αὐτῷ 460
μηλονόμοι ξυνιόντες ἀπ᾽ οὔρεος ἄλλοθεν ἄλλοι
ὕλην θεσπεσίην παρενήνεον, ἦρα φέροντες
ὑστατίην καὶ πένθος ὁ ὁμῶς ἑτάρῳ καὶ ἄνακτι,
κλαίοντες μάλα πολλὰ περισταδόν" ἡ δέ μιν οὔτι,
ἀμφαδὸν ὡς ἄθρησε, γοήσατο τειρομένη περ, 465
ἀλλὰ καλυψαμένη περὶ φάρεϊ καλὰ πρόσωπα
αἷψα πυρῇ ἐνέπαλτο: γόον δ᾽ ἄρα πουλὺν ὄρινε:
καίετο δ᾽ ἀμφὶ πόσει: Νύμφαι δέ μιν ἄλλοθεν
ἄλλαι
θάμβεον, εὖτ᾽ ἐσίδοντο μετ᾽ ἀνέρι πεπτηυϊαν"
καί τις ἑὸν κατὰ θυμὸν ἔπος ποτὶ τοῖον ἔειπεν 470
450
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK X
As when a heifer ’mid the mountains speeds,
Her heart with passion stung, to meet her mate,
And madly races on with flying feet,
And fears not, in her frenzy of desire,
The herdman, as her wild rush bears her on,
So she but find her mate amid the woods ;
So down the long tracks flew Oenone’s feet
Seeking the awful pyre, to leap thereon.
No weariness she knew: as upon wings
Her feet flew faster ever, onward spurred
By fell Fate, and the Cyprian Queen. She feared
No shaggy beast that met her in the dark—
Who erst had feared them sorely—rugged rock
And precipice of tangled mountain-slope,
She trod them all unstumbling ; torrent-beds
She leapt. The white Moon-goddess from on high
Looked on her, and remembered her own love,
Princely Endymion, and she pitied her
In that wild race, and, shining overhead
In her full brightness, made the long tracks plain.
Through mountain-gorges so she won to where
Wailed other Nymphs round Alexander’s corpse.
Roared up about him a great wall of fire:
For from the mountains far and near had come
Shepherds, and heaped the death-bale broad and
hig
For love’s and sorrow’s latest service done
To one of old their comrade and their king.
Sore weeping stood they round. She raised no wail,
The broken-hearted, when she saw him there,
But, in her mantle muffling up her face,
Leapt on the pyre: loud wailed that multitude.
There burned she, clasping Paris. All the Nymphs
Marvelled, beholding her beside her lord
Flung down, and heart to heart spake whispering :
451
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
“ἀτρεκέως Πάρις ἦἧεν ἀτάσθαλος, ὃς μάλα κεδνὴν
κάλλιπε κουριδίην καὶ ἀνήγαγε μάργον ἄκοιτιν
οἷ αὐτῷ καὶ Τρωσὶ καὶ ἄστεϊ λοίγιον ἄλγος,
, 2Q? ? 4 ΄ [τ \
νήπιος" οὐδ᾽ ἀλόχοιο περίφρονος ἅζετο θυμὸν
τειρομένης, ἥπερ μιν ὑπὲρ φάος ἠελίοιο 415
καίπερ ἀπεχθαίροντα καὶ οὐ φιλέοντα τίεσκεν.᾽"
Ὡς ἄρ᾽ ἔφη Νύμφη τις ἀνὰ φρένας" οἱ δ᾽ ἐνὶ
μέσσῃ
“A / / > ,
πυρκαϊῇ καίοντο λελασμένοι ᾿Ηριγενείης"
ἀμφὶ δὲ βουκόλοι ἄνδρες ἐθάμβεον, εὖτε πάροιθεν
᾿Αργεῖοι θάμβησαν ἀολλέες ἀθρήσαντες 480
Εὐάδνην Καπανῆος ἐπεκχυμένην μελέεσσιν
ἀμφὶ πόσιν δμηθέντα Διὸς στονόεντι κεραυνῷ.
ἀλλ᾽ ὁπότ᾽ ἀμφοτέρους ὀλοὴ πυρὸς ἤνυσε ῥιπὴ
Οἰνώνην τε Πάριν τε, μιῇ δ᾽ ὑποκάββαλε τέφρῃ,
δὴ τότε πυρκαϊὴν οἴνῳ σβέσαν: ὀστέα δ᾽ αὐτῶν 485
χρυσέῳ ἐν κρητῆρι θέσαν: περὶ δέ σφισι σῆμα
ἐσσυμένως τεύξαντο' θέσαν δ᾽ ἄρα δοιὼ ὕπερθε
/ ΄“ ΝΜ 4 Υ̓͂ ΝΜ
στήλας, αἵπερ ἔασι τετραμμέναι ἄλλυδις ἄλλη,
a Fis 8.239 / » ’ 1
ζῆλον ἐπ᾽ ἀλλήλῃσιν ETL στονόεντα φέρουσαι.
1 Verse supplied by Zimmermann, ex P.
452
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK X
“ Verily evil-hearted Paris was,
Who left a leal true wife, and took for bride
A wanton, to himself and Troy a curse.
Ah fool, who recked not of the broken heart
Of a most virtuous wife, who more than life
Loved him who turned from her and loved her not!”
So in their hearts the Nymphs spake: but they
twain
Burned on the pyre, never to hail again
The dayspring. Wondering herdmen stood around,
As once the thronging Argives marvelling saw
Evadne clasping mid the fire her lord
Capaneus, slain by Zeus’ dread thunderbolt.
But when the blast of the devouring fire
Had made twain one, Oenone and Paris, now
One little heap of ashes, then with wine
Quenched they the embers, and they laid their bones
In a wide golden vase, and round them piled
The earth-mound ; and they set two pillars there
That each from other ever turn away ;
For the old jealousy in the marble lives.
453
AOTOS ENAEKATO®
Τρωαὶ δὲ στενάχοντο κατὰ πτόλιν, οὐδ᾽ ἐδύναντο
ἐλθέμεναι ποτὶ τύμβον, ἐπεὶ μάλα τηλόθ᾽ ἔκειτο
ἄστεος αἰπεινοῖο" νέοι δ᾽ ἔκτοσθε πόληος
νωλεμέως πονέοντο: μάχη δ᾽ οὐ λῆγε φόνοιο,
καΐπερ ᾿Αλεξάνδροιο δεδουπότος, οὕνεκ᾽ ᾿Αχαιοὶ
Τρωσὶν ἐ ἐπεσσεύοντο ποτὶ πτόλιν, οἱ δὲ καὶ αὐτοὶ
τείχεος ἤιον ἐκτός ἐπεί σφεας ἢ ἦγεν ἀνάγκη"
ἐν γὰρ δὴ μέσσοισιν Ἔρις στονόεσσά τ᾽ ᾿Ενυὼ
στρωφῶντ᾽, ἀργαλέῃσιν ‘Epivvtow εἴκελαι ἄντην,
ἄμφω ἀπὸ στομάτων ὀλοὸν πνείουσαι ὄλεθρον"
ἀμφ᾽ αὐτοῖσι δὲ Kijpes ἀναιδέα θυμὸν ἔχουσαι
ἀργαλέως μαίνοντο: Φόβος δ᾽ ἑτέρωθι καὶ “Apns
λαοὺς ὀτρύνεσκον' ἐφέσπετο δέ σφισι Δεῖμος
φοινήεντι λύθρῳ πεπαλαγμένος, ὄφρα ἑ φῶτες
οἱ μὲν καρτύνωνται ὁρώμενοι, οἱ δὲ φέβωνται"
πάντῃ δ᾽ αἰγανέαι τε καὶ ἔγχεα καὶ βέλε᾽ ἀνδρῶν,
ἄλλυδις ἄλλα χέοντο κακοῦ μεμαῶτα φόνοιο'
ἀμφὶ δ᾽ ἄρα σφίσι δοῦπος ἐρειδομένοισιν ὁ ὀρώρει,
μαρναμένων ἑκάτερθε κατὰ φθισήνορα χάρμην.
"Ev? ἄρα Λαοδάμαντα Νεοπτόλεμος κατέ-
πεῴφνεν,
ὃς τράφη ἐν Λυκίῃ Ἐάνθου παρὰ καλὰ ῥέεθρα,
ἥν ποτ᾽ ἐριγδούποιο Διὸς δάμαρ ἀνθρώποισι
Λητὼ δῖ᾽ ἀνέφηνεν ἀναρρήξασα χέρεσσι
454
10
20
BOOK ΧΙ
How the sons of Troy for the last time fought from her
walls and her towers.
Troy’s daughters mourned within her walls ; might
none
Go forth to Paris’ tomb, for far away
From high-built Troy it lay. But the young men
Without the city toiled unceasingly
In fight wherein from slaughter rest was none,
Though dead was Paris ; for the Achaeans pressed
Hard on the Trojans even unto Troy.
Yet these charged forth—they could not choose but
80,
For Strife and deadly Enyo in their midst
Stalked, like the fell Erinyes to behold,
Breathing destruction from their lips like flame.
Beside them raged the ruthless-hearted Fates
Fiercely : here Panic-fear and Ares there
Stirred up the hosts: hard atter followed Dread
With slaughter’s gore besprent, that in one host
Might men see, and be strong, in the other fear ;
And all around were javelins, spears, and darts
Murder-athirst from this side, that side, showered.
Aye, as they hurled together, armour clashed,
As foe with foe grappled in murderous fight.
There Neoptolemus slew Laodamas,
Whom Lycia nurtured by fair Xanthus’ stream,
The stream revealed to men by Leto, bride
Of Thunderer Zeus, when Lycia’s stony plain
455
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
\ , ν 2 ΄ e fg ean
τρηχὺ πέδον Λυκίης ἐρικυδέος, ὁππόθ᾽ ἑοῖο
εσπεσίου τοκετοῖο πολυτλήτησιν ἀνίῃ
δάμναθ᾽ ὑπ᾽ ὠδίνεσσιν, ὅσην ὠδῖνες ἔγειρον.
τῷ δ᾽ ἔπι Νῖρον ὄλεσσε βαλὼν ἀνὰ δηιοτῆτα
δουρὶ διὰ γναθμοῖο: πέρησε δέ οἱ στόμα χαλκὸς
lal «
γλῶσσάν τ᾽ αὐδήεσσαν᾽" ὁ δ᾽ ἔγχεος ἄσχετον αἰχμὴν
ἄμφεχε βεβρυχώς" περὶ δ᾽ ἔρρεεν αἷμα γένυσσι
/ a -“
φθεγγομένου" καὶ τὸν μὲν ὑπὸ κρατερῆς χερὸς ἀλκῇ
ἐγχείη στονόεσσα ποτὶ χθονὸς οὖδας ἔρεισε
δευόμενον θυμοῖο. βάλεν δ᾽ Evnvopa δῖον
1)
\ e \ / \ > » 2 / a
τυτθὸν ὑπὲρ λαπάρην, διὰ δ᾽ ἤλασεν ἐς μέσον ἧπαρ
lal ase
αἰχμήν': τῷ δ᾽ ἀλεγεινὸς ἄφαρ συνέκυρσεν ὄλεθρος.
εἷλε δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ᾿Ιφιτίωνα καὶ ᾿ἱἹππομέδοντα δάμασσε
Μαινάλου ὄβριμον via, τὸν ᾽Ωκυρόη τέκε Νύμφη
, a
Σαγγαρίου ποταμοῖο παρὰ ῥόον: οὐδέ vu τόν γε
δέξατο νοστήσαντα" κακὴ δέ é Knp ἀπάμερσε
παιδὸς ἀνιηρῶς, μέγα δ᾽ υἱέος ἔμβαλε πένθος.
’
Αἰνείας δὲ Βρέμοντα καὶ ᾿Ανδρόμαχον κατέ-
πεφνεν,
A «
ὃς τράφη ἐν Κνωσσῷ, ὁ δ᾽ ἄρα ζαθέῃ ἐνὶ Λύκτῳ:
ἄμφω δ᾽ εἰς ἕνα χῶρον ἀπ᾽ ὠκυπόδων πέσον ἵππων'
e - an
Kai ῥ᾽ ὁ μὲν ἀσπαίρεσκε πεπαρμένος ἔγχεϊ μακρῷ
’ « ΝΜ 29 , > \ 4 /
λαιμόν, ὁ δ᾽ ἀλγινόεντος ava κροτάφοιο θέμεθλα
χερμαδίῳ στονόεντι μάλα κρατερῆς ἀπὸ χειρὸς
βλήμενος ἐκπνείεσκε, μέλας δέ μιν ἄμφεχε πότμος.
ἵπποι δ᾽ ἐπτοίηντο καὶ ἡνιόχων ἀπάνευθε
φεύγοντες πολλοῖσιν ἐνεπλάξζοντο νέκυσσι'
καὶ τοὺς μὲν θεράποντες ἀμύμονος Αἰνείαο
/ / , \ / /
μάρψαντες κεχάροντο φίλῃ περὶ ληίδι θυμόν.
wv , 5 A / / IA
Ev@a Φιλοκτήτης ὀλοῷ Bare []είρασον 1@
φεύγοντ᾽ ἐκ πολέμοιο: διέθρισε δ᾽ ἀγκύλα νεῦρα
γούνατος ἐξόπιθεν, κατὰ δ᾽ ἔκλασεν ἀνέρος ὁρμήν'
καὶ τὸν μὲν Δαναῶν τις ὅτ᾽ ἔδρακε γυιωθέντα
”
ἐσσυμένως ἀπάμερσε καρήατος ἄορι Tuas
456
40
δῦ
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK ΧΙ
Was by her hands uptorn mid agonies
Of travail-throes wherein she brought to light
Mid bitter pangs those babes of birth divine.
Nirus upon him laid he dead; the spear
Crashed through his jaw, aeaclem through mouth
and tongue
Passed : on the lance’s irresistible point
Shrieking was he impaled: flooded with gore
His mouth was as he cried. The cruel shaft,
Sped on by that strong hand, dashed him to earth
In throes of death. Evenor next he smote
Above the flank, and onward drave the spear
Into his liver: swiftly anguished death
Came upon him. Iphition next he slew:
He quelled Hippomedon, Hippasus’ bold son,
Whom Ocyone the Nymph had borne beside
Sangarius’ river-flow. Ne’er welcomed she
Her son’s returning face, but ruthless Fate
With anguish thrilled her of her child bereaved.
Bremon Aeneas slew, and Andromachus,
Of Cnossus this, of hallowed Lyctus that:
On one spot both from their swift chariots fell ;
This gasped for breath, his throat by the long spear
Transfixed ; that other, by a massy stone,
Sped from a strong hand, on the temple struck,
Breathed out his life, and black doom shrouded
him.
The startled steeds, bereft of charioteers,
Fleeing, mid all those corpses were confused,
And princely Aeneas’ henchmen seized on them
With hearts exulting in the goodly spoil.
There Philoctetes with his deadly shaft
Smote Peirasus in act to flee the war:
The tendons twain behind the knee it snapped,
And palsied all his speed. A Danaan marked,
And leapt on that maimed man with sweep of sword
457
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
᾽ , / , i Je / A
ἀλγινόεντα τένοντα" κόλον δ᾽ ὑπεδέξατο γαῖα
σῶμα: κάρη δ᾽ ἀπάτερθε κυλινδομένη πεφόρητο
φωνῆς ἱεμένοιο' ταχὺς δ᾽ ἅμ᾽ ἀπέπτατο θυμός.
Πουλυδάμας δὲ Κλέωνα καὶ Εὐρύμαχον βάλε
δουρί, 60
ς 7 “ e \ a ΝΜ
οἱ Σύμηθεν ἵκανον ὑπὸ Νιρῆι ἄνακτι
»Μ > / , > fe ’
ἄμφω ἐπιστάμενοι δόλον ἰχθύσι μητίσασθαι
᾽ Ae ’ > , / Ψ > τ “
αἰνοῦ ὑπ᾽ ἀγκίστροιο, βαλέσθαι T εἰς ἅλα δῖαν
δίκτυα καὶ παλάμησι περιφραδέως ἀπὸ νηὸς
> \ \ 5 , ς tah lage ) ’ὔ 7]
ἰθὺ καὶ αἶψα τρίαιναν ἐπ’ ἰχθύσι νωμήσασθαι' θὅ
2 Ψ by, / a / ” ”
ἀλλ᾽ οὔ σφιν τότε πῆμα θαλάσσια ἤρκεσεν ἔργα.
Εὐρύπυλος δὲ μενεπτόλεμος κτάνεϊ φαίδιμον
ἝΔλλον,
/ e \ / ’ I /
τόν pa παρὰ λίμνῃ Τυγαίῃ γείνατο μήτηρ
Κλειτὼ καλλιπάρῃος" ὁ δ᾽ ἐν κονίῃσι τανύσθη
πρηνής: τοῦ δ᾽ ἀπάτερθεν ὁμῶς δόρυ κάππεσε
μακρὸν 70
4 2 \ a if », “
ὦμου ἀπὸ βριαροῖο κεκομμένη ἄορι λυγρῷ
χεὶρ ἔτι μαιμώωσα ποτὶ κλόνον ἔγχος ἀεῖραν
μαψιδίως: οὐ γάρ μιν ἀνὴρ εἰς ἔργον ἐνώμα,
ἀλλ᾽ αὕτως ἤσπαιρεν ἅτε Bocupoto δράκοντος
» \ » NE ἀκ δ. 4 b] / τὺ Ἁ
οὐρὴ ἀποτμηθεῖσ᾽ ἀναπάλλεται, οὐδέ οἱ ἀλκὴ 75
ἕσπεται ἐς πόνον αἰπύν, ἵνα χραύσαντα διώξῃ"
ἃ » \
ὡς dpa δεξιτερὴ κρατερόφρονος ἀνδρὸς ἐς αἰχμὴν
ὥρμαινεν πονέεσθαι" ἀτὰρ μένος οὐκέτ᾽ ὀπήδει.
Αὐτὰρ ’Odvaceds Αἶνον ἐνήρατο καὶ Πολύδωρον
/ A
ἄμφω Κητείους, τὸν δούρατι, Tov δ᾽ ἀλεγεινῷ 80
” A Ta) :
ἄορι δηώσας. Σθένελος δ᾽ ἕλε δῖον "ΔΑ βαντὰ
αἰγανέην προϊείς: ἡ δ᾽ ἀσφαράγοιο διαπρὸ
ἐσσυμένη ἀλεγεινὸν ἐς ἰνίου ἦλθε τένοντα:
lal δ᾽ Oe ee » / = 6 7 ὃ a 2
λῦσε ὃ ἀρ ἀνέρος HTOP, UTEKAATEO ἅψεα πάντα.
Τυδείδης δ᾽ ἕλε Λαόδοκον, Μέλιον δ᾽ ᾿᾽Αγα-
μέμνων, 85
1 Zimmermann, for βάλε of v.
458
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XI
Shearing his neck through. On the breast of earth
The headless body fell: the head far flung
Went rolling with lips parted as to shriek ;
And swiftly fleeted thence the homeless soul.
Polydamas struck down Eurymachus
And Cleon with his spear. From Syme came
With Nireus’ following these: cunning were both
In craft of fisher-folk—to cast the hook
Baited with guile, to drop into the sea
The net, from the boat’s prow with deftest hands
Swiftly and straight to plunge the three-forked
spear.
But not from bane their sea-craft saved them now.
Eurypylus battle-staunch laid Hellus low,
Whom Cleito bare beside Gygaea’s mere,
Cleito the fair-cheeked. Face-down in the dust
Outstretched he lay: shorn by the cruel sword
From his strong shoulder fell the arm that held
His long spear. Still its muscles twitched, as though
Fain to uplift the lance for fight—in vain ;
For the man’s will no longer stirred therein,
But aimlessly it quivered, even as leaps
The severed tail of a snake malignant-eyed,
Which cannot chase the man who dealt the wound ;
So the right hand of that strong-hearted man
With impotent grip still clutched the spear for fight.
Aenus and Polydorus Odysseus slew,
Ceteians both; this perished by his spear,
That by his sword death-dealing. Sthenelus
Smote godlike Abas with a javelin-cast :
On through his throat and shuddering nape it
rushed :
Stopped were his heart-beats, all his limbs collapsed.
Tydeides slew Laodocus; Melius fell
459
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
Δηίφοβος δὲ Δρύαντα καὶ "Αλκιμον' αὐτὰρ
᾿Αγήνωρ
Ἵππασον ἐξενάριξεν ἀγακλειτόν περ ἐόντα,
ὅς ῥ᾽ ἀπὸ Πηνειοῦ ποταμοῦ Kiev" οὐδ᾽ ἐρατεινὰ
θρέπτρα τοκεῦσιν ἔδωκεν, ἐπεί ῥά μιν ἔκλασε
αίμων.
Ἔνθα Θόας ἐδάμασσε Λάλον καὶ ἀγήνορα
Λύγκον, 90
Μηριόνης δὲ Λυκῶνα, καὶ ᾿Αρχίλοχον. Μενέλαος,
ὅς ῥά τε Κωρυκίην ὑ ὑπὸ δειράδα VALETAAC KE
πέτρην θ᾽ Ἡφαίστοιο περίφρονος, ἡ i) τε βροτοῖσι
θαῦμα πέλει: δὴ γάρ οἱ ἐναίθεται a ἀκάματον πῦρ
ἄσβεστον νυκτός τε καὶ ἤματος" ἀμφὶ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ αὐτῷ 98
φοίνικες θαλέθουσι, φέρουσι δ᾽ ἀπείρονα καρπόν,
ῥίζης καιομένης ἅμα λάεσιν' ἀχλὰ τὸ μέν που
ἀθάνατοι τεύξαντο καὶ ἐσσομένοισιν ἰδέσθαι.
Τεῦκρος δ᾽ Ἵππομέδοντος a ἀμύμονος υἷα Μενοίτην
ἐσσυμένως ὥρμαινε βαλεῖν ἐ ἐπιόντα βελέμνῳ:" 100
καί p ῥα νόῳ καὶ χερσὶ καὶ ὄμμασιν ἰθύνεσκεν
ἰὸν ἀπὸ γναμπτοῖο κεράατος" ὃς δ᾽ ἀλεγεινὸν
ado θοῆς ἀπὸ χειρὸς ἐς ἀνέρα: τῷ δ᾽ ὕπο νευρὴ
εἰσέτι που κανάχιξεν' ὁ δ᾽ ἀντίον ἀσπαίρεσκε
βλήμενος, οὕνεκα Κῆρες ὁμῶς φορέοντο βελέμνῳ 105
καίριον ἐς κραδίην, ὅθι περ νόος ἕζεται ἀνδρῶν
καὶ μένος, ὀτραλέαι δὲ ποτὶ μόρον εἰσὶ κέλευθοι.
Εὐρύαλος δ᾽ ἄρα πολλὸν ἀπὸ στιβαρῆς βάλε
χειρὸς
λᾶα μέγαν, Τρώων δὲ θοὰς ἐλέλιξε φάλαγγας"
ὡς δ᾽ ὅτε τις γεράνοισι τανυφθόγγοισι χολωθεὶς 110
οὖρος ἀνὴρ πεδίοιο μέγ᾽ ἀσχαλόων ἐπορούσῃ,
δινήσας περὶ κρατὶ θοῇ χερὶ νεῦρα βόεια
λᾶα βάλῃ κατέναντα, διασκεδάσῃ δ᾽ ὑπὸ ῥοίζῳ
ἠέρι πεπταμένας δολιχὰς στίχας, αἱ δὲ φέβονται,
ἄλλη δ᾽ εἰς ἑτέρην εἰλεύμενα: ἀΐσσουσι 11ὅ
46ο
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK Xl
By Agamemnon’s hand; Deiphobus
Smote Alcimus and Dryas: Hippasus,
How war-renowned soe’er, Agenor slew
Far from Peneius’ river. Crushed by fate,
Love’s nursing-debt to parents ne’er he paid.
Lamus and stalwart Lyncus Thoas smote,
And Meriones slew Lycon; Menelaus
Laid low Archelochus. Upon his home
Looked down Corycia’s ridge, and that great rock
Of the wise Fire-god, marvellous in men’s eyes ;
For thereon, nightlong, daylong, unto him
Fire blazes, tireless and unquenchable.
Laden with fruit around it palm-trees grow,
While mid the stones fire plays about their roots.
Gods’ work is this, a wonder to all time.
By Teucer princely Hippomedon’s son was slain,
Menoetes: as the archer drew on him,
Rushed he to smite him ; but already hand
And eye, and bow-craft keen were aiming straight
On the arching horn the shaft. Swiftly released
It leapt on the hapless man, while sang the string.
Stricken full front he heaved one choking gasp,
Because the fates on the arrow riding flew
Right to his heart, the throne of thought and
strength
For men, whence short the path is unto death.
Far from his brawny hand Euryalus hurled
A massy stone, and shook the ranks of Troy.
As when in anger against long-screaming cranes
A watcher of the field leaps from the ground,
In swift hand whirling round his head the sling,
And speeds the stone against them, scattering
Before its hum their ranks far down the wind
Outspread, and they in huddled panic dart
461
QUINTUS SYMRNAEUS
λαγγηδὸν μάλα πάγχυ, πάρος KATA κόσμον ἰοῦσαι:
ὡς ἄρα δυσμενέες φοβερὸν βέλος ἀμφεφόβηθεν
ὀβρίμου Εὐρυάλοιο" τὸ δ᾽ οὐχ ἅλιον φέρε δαίμων,
> > \ / ff a ΄
ἀλλ᾽ ἄρα σὺν πήληκι κάρη κρατεροῖο Μέλητος
θλάσσε περὶ γλήνησι" μόρος δ᾽ ἐκίχανεν ἀρητός. 120
ἼΛλλος δ᾽ ἄλλον ἔπεφνε, περιστεναχίζετο δ᾽ aia:
ὡς δ᾽ ὅτ᾽ ἐπιβρίσαντος ἀπειρεσίου ἀνέμοιο
λάβρον ὑπὸ ῥιπῆς Bapunxéos ἄλλυδις ἄλλα
δένδρεα μακρὰ πέσῃσιν ὑπὲκ ῥιζέων ἐριπόντα
" > / / / - \ ,
ἄλσεος εὐρυπέδοιο, βρέμει δέ τε πᾶσα περὶ χθών' 125
ὡς οἵ γ᾽ ἐν κονίῃσι πέσον, κανάχησε δὲ τεύχη
lal ’
ἄσπετον, ἀμφὶ δὲ γαῖα μέγ᾽ éBpaxev: οἱ δὲ κυ-
δοιμοῦ
᾽ I 7 \ / A 7
ἀργαλέου μνώοντο, μετὰ σφίσι πῆμα τιθέντες.
» / A.
Kal τότ᾽ ἄρ᾽ Αἰνείαο μόλε σχεδὸν nus ᾿Απόλλων
ἠδ᾽ ᾿Αντηνορίδαο δαΐφρονος Evpupayoto: 180
οἱ γὰρ δὴ μάρναντο ποχλυσθενέεσσιν ᾿Αχαιοῖς
ἄγχι μάλ᾽ ἑσταότες κατὰ φύλοπιν, εὖθ᾽ ὑπ᾽ ἀπήνῃ
e ΄
δοιοὶ ὁμηλικίη κρατεροὶ βόες, οὐδ᾽ ἀπέληγον
ὑσμίνης" τοὺς δ᾽ αἶψα θεὸς ποτὶ μῦθον ἔειπεν
“. ͵
μάντεϊ εἰδόμενος Τολυμήστορι, τόν ποτε μήτηρ 188
,ὔ >> Nm ς A , > € 7
γείνατ᾽ ἐπὶ Ἐάνθοιο ῥοαῖς θεράπονθ' ᾿Εἰκάτοιο"
“ce E ’ 4 2 2 , θ a / " »
ὑρύμαχ᾽ Αἰνεία τε θεῶν γένος, οὔτι ἔοικεν
\
ὑμέας ᾿Αργείοισιν ὑπεικέμεν" οὐδὲ yap αὐτὸς
ὔμμιν ὑπαντιάσας κεχαρήσεται ὄβριμος ἤΑΛρης,
Ἃ 4 ἢ" 2 \ / ef A
Av ἐθέλητε μάχεσθαι ava κλόνον, οὕνεκα Μοῖραι 140
μακρὸν ἐπ᾽ ἀμφοτέροισι βίου τέλος ἐκλώσαντο."
“Os εἰπὼν ἀνέμοισι μίγη καὶ ἄϊστος ἐτύχθη"
οἱ δὲ νόῳ φράσσαντο θεοῦ μένος" αἶψα γὰρ αὐτοῖς
θάρσος ἀπειρέσιον κατεχεύατο. μαίνετο δέ σφι
θυμὸς ἐνὶ στήθεσσι, καὶ ἔνθορον ᾿ΑἈργείοισιν, 145
ἀργαλέοις σφήκεσσιν ἐοικότες, οἵ T ἀλεγεινὸν
ἐκ θυμοῦ κοτέοντες ἐπιβρίσωσι μελίσσαις,
1 Zimmermann, for πληγῇσι of ν.
462
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With wild cries this way and that, who theretofore
Swept on in ordered lines; so shrank the foe
To right and left from that dread bolt of doom
Hurled of Euryalus. Not in vain it flew
Fate-winged ; it shattered Meles’ helm and head
Down to the eyes: so met him ghastly death.
Still man slew man, while earth groaned all
around,
As when a mighty wind scourges the land,
And this way, that way, under its shrieking blasts
Through the wide woodland bow from the roots and
fall
Great trees, while all the earth is thundering round ;
So fell they in the dust, so clanged their arms,
So crashed the earth around. Still hot were they
For fell fight, still dealt bane unto their foes.
Nigh to Aeneas then Apollo came,
And to Eurymachus, brave Antenor’s son ;
For these against the mighty Achaeans fought
Shoulder to shoulder, as two strong oxen, matched
In age, yoked toa wain; nor ever ceased
From battling. Suddenly spake the God to these
In Polymestor’s shape, the seer his mother
By Xanthus bare to the Far-darter’s priest:
“ Kurymachus, Aeneas, seed of Gods,
‘Twere shame if ye should flinch from Argives! Nay,
Not Ares’ self should joy to encounter you,
An ye would face him in the fray ; for Fate
Hath spun long destiny-threads for thee and thee.”
He spake, and vanished, mingling with the winds.
But their hearts felt the God’s power: suddenly
Flooded with boundless courage were their frames,
Maddened their spirits: on the foe they leapt
Like furious wasps that in a storm of rage
Swoop upon bees, beholding them draw nigh
463
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
ἅς τε περὶ σταφυλῇς αὐαινομένῃς ἐν ὀπώρῃ
ἐρχομένας ἐσίδωσιν ἢ ἐκ σίμβλοιο θορούσας'
ὡς apa Τρώιοι υἷες ἐὐπτολέμοισιν ᾿Αχαιοῖς 150
évOopov ἐσσυμένως" κεχάροντο δὲ Kijpes ἐρεμναὶ
μαρναμένων: ἐγέλασσε δ᾽ “Apns: ἰάχησε 8 ᾿Ενυὼ
σμερδαλέον: μέγα δέ σφιν ἐπέβραχεν αἰόλα τεύχη.
οἱ δ᾽ ἄρα δυσμενέων ἀπερείσια φῦλα δάϊζον
χερσὶν ἀμαιμακέτῃσι: κατηρείποντο δὲ λαοὶ 155
αὕτως, nvr ἄμαλλα θέρευς εὐθαλπέος ὥ ὥρῃ,
ἦν ῥά τ᾽ ἐπιστέρχωσι θοοὶ χέρας ἀμητῆρες
δασσάμενοι κατ᾽ ἄρουραν ἀπείρονα μακρὰ πέλεθρα:
ὡς ἄρα τῶν ὑπὸ χερσὶ κατηρείποντο φάλαγγες
μυρίαι" ἀμφὶ δὲ γαῖα νεκρῶν περιπεπληθυῖα 160
αἵματι “πλημμύρεσκεν' Ἔρις δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἰαίνετο θυμῷ
ὀχλυμένων' οἱ δ᾽ οὔτι κακοῦ παύοντο ᾿μόθοιο,
ἀλλ᾽ ἅτε μῆλα λέοντες ἐπήιον" οἱ δ᾽ ἄρα φύζης
λευγαλέης μνώοντο καὶ ἐξ ὀλοοῦ πολέμοιο
φεῦγον, ὅσοις ἀδάϊκτον ἔτι σθένος ἐ ἐν ποσὶ κεῖτο. 165
υἱὸς δ᾽ ᾿Αγχίσαο δαΐφρονος ς αἰὲν ὀπήδει
υσμενέων μετόπισθεν ὑ ὑπ᾽ ἔγχεϊ νῶτα δαΐζων,
Εὐρύμαχος δ᾽ ᾿ἑτέρωθεν' ἰαίνετο δ᾽ ἄμβροτον 7 ἦτορ
ὑψόθεν εἰσορόωντος ἑκηβόλου ᾿Απόλλωνος.
Ὥς δ᾽ ὅ ὅτε τις σιάλοισιν ἀνὴρ ἐς λήιον αὖον 170
ἐρχομένοις, πρὶν ἄμαλλαν ὑπ᾽ ἀμητῆρσι δαμῆναι,
ἀντ é ἐπισσεύῃ κρατεροὺς κύνας, οἱ δ᾽ ὁρόωντες
ἐσσυμένους τρομέουσι, καὶ οὐκέτι μέμβλεται αὐτοῖς
εἴδατος, ἀλλὰ τρέπονται ἀνιηρὴν ἐπὶ φύζαν
πανσυδίῃ, τοὺς δ᾽ αἶψα κύνες κατὰ ποσσὶ κιχόντες 175
ἐξόπιθεν δάπτουσιν ἀμείλιχα, τοὶ δὲ φέβονται
μακρὸν ἀνιύζοντες, ἄναξ δ᾽ ἐπιτέρπετ᾽ ἀρούρης"
ὡς ap ἰαίνετο Φοῖβος, ὅτ᾽ ἔδρακεν ἐ ἐκ πολέμοιο
φεύγοντ᾽ ᾿Αργείων πουλὺν στρατόν" οὐ γὰρ ἔτ᾽
»
αὐτοῖς
464
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XI
In latter-summer to the mellowing grapes,
Or from their hives forth-streaming thitherward ;
So fiercely leapt these sons of Troy to meet
War-hardened Greeks. The black Fates joyed to
see
Their conflict, Ares laughed, Enyo yelled
Horribly. Loud their glancing armour clanged :
They stabbed, they hewed down hosts of foes
untold
With irresistible hands. The reeling ranks
Fell, as the swath falls in the harvest heat,
When the swift-handed reapers, ranged adown
The field’s long furrows, ply the sickle fast ;
So fell before their hands ranks numberless :
With corpses earth was heaped, with torrent blood
Was streaming: Strife incarnate o’er the slain
Gloated. They paused not from the awful toil,
But aye pressed on, like lions chasing sheep.
Then turned the Greeks to craven flight; all feet
Unmaimed as yet fled from the murderous war.
Aye followed on Anchises’ warrior son,
Smiting foes’ backs with his avenging spear:
On pressed Eurymachus, while glowed the heart
Of Healer Apollo watching from on high.
As when a man descries a herd of swine
Draw nigh his ripening corn, before the sheaves
Fall neath the reapers’ hands, and harketh on
Against them his strong dogs; as down they
rush,
The spoilers see and quake; no more think they
Of feasting, but they turn in panic flight
Huddling: fast follow at their heels the hounds
Biting remorselessly, while long and loud
Squealing they flee, and joys the harvest’s lord ;
So rejoiced Phoebus, seeing from the war
Fleeing the mighty Argive host. No more
465
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
ἔργ᾽ avdpav! μεμέλητο" πόδας δ᾽ εὔχοντο θεοῖσιν 180
aKa φέρειν: μούνοις γὰρ ἔτ᾽ ἐν ποσὶν ἔπλετο νόστου
ἐλπωρή: πάντας γὰρ ἐπήιεν ἔγχεϊ θύων
Εὐρύμαχός τε καὶ Αἰνείας, σὺν δέ σφιν ἑταῖροι.
Ἔνθα τις ᾿Αργείων, ἢ κάρτεϊ πάγχυ πεποιθώς,
AN , ἢ " ᾽ δ
ἢ Μοίρης ἰότητι, λιλαιομένης ply ὁλέσσαι, 185
φεύγοντ᾽ ἐκ πολέμοιο δυσηχέος ἵππον ἔρυκε
γνάμψαι ἐπειγόμενος ποτὶ φύλοπιν, ὄφρα μάχηται
> /
ἀντία δυσμενέων: τὸν δ᾽ ὀβριμόθυμος ᾿Αγήνωρ
A >) / “-
παρφθάμενος μυῶνα Kat ἀλγινόεντα δάϊξεν
> / an ’ὔ > PY / /
ἀμφιτόμῳ βουπλῆγι" Bin δ᾽ ὑπόειξε σιδήρου 190
ὀστέον οὐταμένοιο βραχίονος" ἀμφὶ δὲ νεῦρα
ς , » & / δ᾽ e / 2
ῥηιδίως ἤμησε' φλέβες δ᾽ ὑπερέβλυσαν αἷμα"
» / 2) es 3 > / s 2 yw?
ἀμφεχύθη δ᾽ ἵπποιο Kat’ αὐχένος: αἶψα δ᾽ ἄρ
αὐτὸς
/ > \ / / 2) ev, a
κάππεσεν ἀμφὶ νέκυσσι' λίπεν δ᾽ ἄρα χεῖρα Kpa-
ταιὴν
\ IS Lad de Ii A
στερρὸν ἔτ᾽ ἐμπεφυυῖαν ἐὐγνάμπτοιο χαλινοῦ, 195
4 Dh Ἢ lal
οἵη ἔτι ζώοντος ἔην: μέγα δ᾽ ἔπλετο θαῦμα,
οὕνεκα δὴ ῥυτῆρος ἀπεκρέμαθ᾽ αἱματόεσσα
wv > , , ὃ a /
Apeos ἐννεσίῃσι φόβον δηίοισι φέρουσα"
φαίης κεν χατέουσαν ἔθ᾽ ἱππασίης πονέεσθαι.
σῆμα δέ μιν φέρεν ἵππος ἀποκταμένοιο ἄνακτος. 200
Αἰνείας δ᾽ ἐδάμασσε βαλὼν ὑπὲρ ἰξύα δουρὶ
Αἰθαλίδην: αἰχμὴ δὲ παρ᾽ ὀμφαλὸν ἐξεπέρησεν
ἔγκατ᾽ ἐφελκομένη" ὁ δ᾽ ap ἐν κονίησι τανύσθη
συμμάρψας χείρεσσιν ὁμῶς χολάδεσσιν ἀκωκὴν
δεινὰ μάλα στενάχων, γαίῃ δ᾽ ἐνέρεισεν ὀδόντας 205
βεβρυχώς: ψυχὴ δὲ καὶ ἄλγεα κάλλιπον ἄνδρα.
᾿Αργεῖοι δὲ βόεσσιν ἐοικότες ἐπτοίηντο,
¢ , la) /
οὕς τ᾽ ἄμοτον μεμαῶτας ὑπὸ ζεύγλῃ καὶ ἀρότρῳ
τύψῃ ὑπὸ λαπάρην ταναοῖς ὑπὸ χείλεσιν οἶστρος
αἵματος ἱέμενος, τοὶ δ᾽ ἄσπετον ἀσχαλόωντες 210
1 Zimmermann, for μόθων, of Koechly.
466
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XI
Cared they for deeds of men, but cried to the Gods
For swift feet, in whose feet alone was hope
To escape Eurymachus’ and Aeneas’ spears
Which lightened ever all along their rear.
But one Greek, over-trusting in his strength,
Or by Fate’s malice to destruction drawn,
Curbed in mid flight from war’s turmoil his steed,
And strove to wheel him round into the fight
To face the foe. But fierce Agenor thrust
Ere he was ware; his two-edged partizan
Shore though his shoulder; yea, the very bone
Of that gashed arm was cloven by the steel ;
The tendons parted, the veins spirted blood :
Down by his horse’s neck he slid, and straight
Fell mid the dead. But still the strong arm hung
With rigid fingers locked about the reins
Like a live man’s. Weird marvel was that sight,
The bloody hand down hanging from the rein,
Scaring the foes yet more, by Ares’ will.
Thou hadst said, ““ It craveth still for horsemanship '”
So bare the steed that sign of his slain lord.
Aeneas hurled his spear ; it found the waist
Of Anthalus’ son, it pierced the navel through,
Dragging the inwards with it. Stretched in dust,
Clutching with agonized hands at steel and bowels,
Horribly shrieked he, tore with his teeth the earth
Groaning, till life and pain forsook the man.
Scared were the Argives, like a startled team
Of oxen ’neath the yoke-band straining hard,
What time the sharp-fanged gadfly stings their
flanks
Athirst for blood, and they in frenzy of pain
467
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
ἔργου ἑκὰς πον ἐπὶ σφίσι δ᾽ ἄχνυται ἀνὴρ
ἀμφότερον ᾿ πονέων τε πόνον, τρομέων T ἐπὶ
βουσί,
μὴ δή που κατόπισθεν ἐπαΐσσοντος ἀρ ότρου
κέρσῃ νεῦρα σίδηρος ἀμείλιχος ἐν ποσὶ κύρσας"
ὡς Δαναοὶ φοβέοντο" περὶ σφίσι δ᾽ ἄχνυτο θυμὸν 215
υἱὸς ᾿Αχιλλῆος" μέγα δ᾽ ἴαχε λαὸν ἐέργων:
‘a δειλοί, τί φέβεσθε, ἐοικότες οὐτιδανοῖσι
ψήρεσιν, οὕς T ἐφόβησεν t ἰὼν κατεναντία κίρκος;
ἀλλ᾽ ἄγε θέσθ᾽ ἔνι θυμόν, ἐ ἐπεὶ πολὺ λώιόν ἐστι
τεθνάμεν ἐ ἐν πολέμῳ ἢ ἀνάλκιδα φύξαν ἑλέσθαι." 220
“Os dato: τοὶ & ἐπίθοντο θρασὺν νόον ἐν φρεσὶ
θέντες
ἐσσυμένως" ὁ δὲ Τρωσὶ μέγα φρονέων ἐνόρουσε
πάλλων ἐν χείρεσσι θοὸν δόρυ: τῷ δ᾽ ἃ ἄρα λαοὶ
Μυρμιδόνων ἐφέποντο βίην ἀτάλαντον ἀέλλῃ
ἐν στέρνοισιν ἔχοντες" ἀνέπνευσαν δὲ κυδοιμοῦ 225
᾿Αργεῖοι" ὁ δ᾽ ap αἶψα φίλῳ πατρὶ θυμὸν ἐ ἐοικὼς
ἄλλον ἐπ᾽ ἄλλῳ ἔπε ve κατὰ μόθον" οἱ δ᾽ ἀπιόντες
χάξοντ᾽, ἠὔτε κύμαθ᾽, aT ἐκ βορέαο θυέλλης
πόλλ᾽ ἐπιπαφλάξζοντα κυλίνδεται αἰγιαλοῖσιν
ὀρνύμεν᾽ ἐκ πόντοιο, τὰ δ᾽ ἔκποθεν ἄλλος ἀήτης 230
ἀντίον ἀΐξας μεγάλῃ περὶ λαίλαπι θύων
ὥσῃ ἀπ᾽ ἠιόνων Βορέω ἔ ἔτι βαιὸν ἀέντος"
ὡς Τρῶας Δαναοῖσιν ἐποιχομένους τὸ πάροιθεν
υἱὸς ᾿Αχιλλῆος θεοειδέος ὦ ὦσεν ὀπίσσω
τυτθόν, ἐπεὶ μένος nu θρασύφρονος Αἰνείαο 235
φευγέμεν οὐκ εἴασκε, μένειν δ᾽ ἀνὰ φύλοπιν αἰνὴν
θαρσαλέως" ἑκάτερθε δ᾽ ἴσην ἐτάνυσσεν ᾿Ενυὼ
ὑσμίνην. ἀλλ᾽ οὔτι καταντίον Αἰνείαο
υἱὸς ᾿Αχιλλῆος πῆλεν δόρυ πατρὸς ἑοῖο,
ἀλλ᾽ ἄλλῃ τρέπε θυμόν, ἐπεὶ Θέτις ἀγλαόπεπλο. 240
ἁζομένη Κυθέρειαν ἀπέτραπεν υἱωνοῖο
1 Zimmermann, ex P, for ἀμφ᾽ ἄροτρον of v.
468
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XI
Start from the furrow, and sore disquieted
The hind is for marred work, and for their sake,
Lest haply the recoiling ploughshare light
On their leg-sinews, and hamstring his team ;
So were the Danaans scared, so feared for them
Achilles’ son, and shouted thunder-voiced :
“ Cravens, why flee, like starlings nothing-worth
Scared by a hawk that swoopeth down on them ?
Come, play the men! Better it is by far
To die in war than choose unmanly flight !”
Then to his ery they hearkened, and straightway
Were of good heart. Mighty of mood he leapt
Upon the Trojans, swinging in his hand
The lightening spear : swept after him his host
Of Myrmidons with hearts swelled with the strength
Resistless of a tempest, so the Greeks
Won breathing-space. With fury like his sire’s
One after other slew he of the foe.
Recoiling back they fell, as waves on-rolled
By Boreas foaming from the deep to the strand,
Are caught by another blast that whirlwind -like
Leaps, in a short lull of the north-wind, forth,
Smites them full-face, and hurls them back from the
shore ;
So them that erewhile on the Danaans pressed
Godlike Achilles’ son now backward hurled
A short space only—brave Aeneas’ spirit
Let him not flee, but made him bide the fight
Fearlessly ; and Enyo level held
The battle’s scales. Yet not against Aeneas
Achilles’ son upraised his father’s spear,
But elsewhither turned his fury: in reverence
For Aphrodite, Thetis splendour-veiled
Turned from that man her mighty son’s son’s rage
469
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
θυμὸν καὶ μέγα κάρτος ἐπ᾽ ἄλλων ἔθνεα λαῶν.
ἐνθ᾽ ὁ μὲν ἂρ Τρώων πολέας κτάνεν, ὃς δ᾽ ap’
᾿Αχαιῶν"
δάμνατο μυρία φῦλα' δαϊκταμένων δ᾽ ἐνὲ χάρμῃ
οἰωνοὶ κεχάροντο μεμαότες ἔ ἔγκατα φωτῶν
δαρδάψαι καὶ σάρκας" επεοξεν ἀχίουτρ δὲ Νύμφαι 245
καλλιρόου͵ Σιμόεντος ἰδὲ Ξάνθοιο θύγατρες.
Καί ῥ᾽ οἱ μὲν πονέοντο" κόνιν δ᾽ ἀκάμαντες ἀῆται
ὦρσαν ἀπειρεσίην" ἤχλυσε δὲ πᾶσαν ὕπερθεν
ἠέρα θεσπεσίην, ὥ ὡς τ᾽ ἀπροτίοπτος ὀμίχλη,
οὐδ᾽ ἃ ἄρα φαίνετο γαῖα, βροτῶν δ᾽ ἀμάθυνεν ὁ ὀπωπάς: 250
ἀλλὰ καὶ ὡς μάρναντο" καὶ ἐ ἐς χέρας ὅντιν᾽ «ἕλοντο
κτεῖνον ἀνηλεγέως, καὶ εἰ “μάλα φίλτατος 7 ev"
οὐ yap ἔην φράσσασθαι ἀ ἀνὰ κλόνον οὔτ᾽ ἐπιόντα
δήϊον. οὔτ᾽ ap ἑταῖρον' ἀμηχανίη δ᾽ ἔχε λαούς.
καί νύ κε μίγδ᾽ ἐγένοντο καὶ ἀργαλέως ἀπόλοντο 255
πάντες ὁμῶς ὀλοοῖσι περὶ ξιφέεσσι πεσόντες
ἀλλήλων, εἰ μή σφιν ἀπ᾿ Οὐλύμποιο Κρονίων
ἤρκεσε τειρομένοισι, κόνιν δ᾽ ἀπάτερθεν ἔλασσεν
ὑσμίνης, ὀλοὰς δὲ κατεπρήῦνεν ἀέλλας.
οἱ δ᾽ ἔτι δηριόωντο' πόνος δ᾽ ἄρα τοῖσιν ἐτύχθη 260
πολλὸν ἐλαφρότερος: δέρκοντο γὰρ εἴτε δαΐξαι
χρειὼ δήϊον ἄνδρα κατὰ κλόνον, εἴτ᾽ ἀλέασθαι.
καί ῥ᾽ ὁτὲ μὲν Δαναοὶ Τρώων ἀνέεργον ὅμιλον
ἄλλοτε δ᾽ αὖ Τρῶες Δαναῶν στίχας: ἔπλετο δ᾽
αἰνὴ
ὑσμίνη" νιφάδεσσι δ᾽ ἐοικότα πίπτε βέλεμνα 265
ἀμφοτέρωθεν i ἰόντα: δέος δ᾽ ἔχε μηλοβοτῆρας
ἔκποθεν ᾿Ιδαίων ὁ ὀρέων ὁρόωντας ἀὐτήν.
καί τις ἐς αἰθέρα χεῖρας ἐπουρανίοισιν ἀείρων
εὔχετο, δυσμενέας μὲν ὑπ᾽ “A pei πάντας ὀλέσθαι,
Τρῶας δὲ στονόεντος a ἀναπνεῦσαι πολέμοιο, 270
ἦμαρ ὃ εἰσιδέειν ποτ᾽ ἐλεύθερον: ἀλλά οἱ οὔτι
1 Supplied by Zimmermann, ex P.
470
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XI
And giant strength on other hosts of foes.
There slew he many a Trojan, while the ranks
Of Greeks were ravaged by Aeneas’ hand.
Over the battle-slain the vultures joyed,
Hungry to rend the hearts and flesh of men.
But all the Nymphs were wailing, daughters born
Of Xanthus and fair-flowing Simois.
So toiled they in the fight: the wind’s breath
rolled
Huge dust-clouds up; the illimitable air
Was one thick haze, as with a sudden mist:
Earth disappeared, faces were blotted out ;
Yet still they fought on; each man, whomso he met,
Ruthlessly slew him, though his very friend
It might be—in that turmoil none could tell
Who met him, friend or foe: blind wilderment
Enmeshed the hosts. And now had all been blent
Confusedly, had perished miserably,
All falling by their fellows’ murderous swords,
Had not Cronion from Olympus helped
Their sore strait, and he swept aside the dust
Of conflict, and he calmed those deadly winds.
Yet still the hosts fought on; but lighter far
Their battle-travail was, who now discerned
Whom in the fray to smite, and whom to spare.
The Danaans now forced back the Trojan host,
The Trojans now the Danaan ranks, as swayed
The dread fight to and fro. From either side
Darts leapt and fell like snowflakes. Far away
Shepherds from Ida trembling watched the strife,
And to the Heaven-abiders lifted hands
Of supplication, praying that all their foes
Might perish, and that from the woeful war
Troy might win breathing-space, and see at last
The day of freedom: the Gods hearkened not.
471
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
ἔκλυον' Αἶσα γὰρ ἄλλα πολύστονος ὁρμαίνεσ κεν"
ἅζετο δ᾽ οὔτε “Ζῆνα πελώριον, οὔτε τιν᾽ ἄλλων
ἀθανάτων' οὐ γάρ τι μετατρέπεται νόος αἰνὸς
κείνης, ὅντινα πότμον ἐπ᾽ ἀνδράσι γεινομένοισιν, 275
ἀνδράσιν ἢ ἢ πολίεσσιν ἐπικλώσηται ἀφύκτῳ
νήματι' τῇ δ᾽ ὕπο πάντα τὰ μὲν φθινύθει, τὰ δ᾽
ἀέξει"
τῆς καὶ ὑπ᾽ ἐννεσίησι πόνος καὶ δῆρις ὁ ὀρώρει
ἱππομάχοις Τρώεσσι καὶ ἀγχεμάχοισιν ᾿Αχαιοῖς.
τεῦχον δ᾽ ἀλλήλοισι φόνον καὶ ἀνηλέα πότμον 280
νωλεμέως" οὐ γάρ τιν᾽ ἔχεν δέος, ἀλλ᾽ ἐμάχοντο
προφρονέως: θάρσος γὰρ ἐφέλκεται ἄνδρας ἐς
αἰχμήν.
“ADK ὅτε δὴ πολλοὶ μὲν ἀπέφθιθεν ἐν κονίῃσι,
δὴ τότ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ᾿Αργείοισιν ὑπέρτερον ὥρνυτο κάρτος
Παλλάδος ἐ ἐννεσίῃσι δαΐφρονος, ἥ ἥ ῥα μολοῦσα 288
ὑσμίνης ἄγχιστα μέγ᾽ ᾿Αργείοισιν ἄμυνεν
ἐκπέρσαι μεμαυῖα κλυτὴν Πριάμοιο πόληα.
καὶ τότ᾽ ἄρ᾽ Αἰνείαν ἐρικυδέα δῖ᾽ ᾿Αφροδίτη,
ἥ pa μέγα στενάχιξεν ᾿Αλεξά' δροιο δαμέντος,
αὐτὴ ἀπὸ πτολέμοιο καὶ οὐλομένης ὑσμίνης 290
ἥρπασεν ἐσσυμένως: περὶ δ᾽ ἠέρα χευατο πουλύν'
οὐ γὰρ ἔτ᾽ αἴσιμον ἣεν ἀνὰ μόθον ἀνέρι κείνῳ
μάρνασθ' ᾿Αργείοισι πρὸ τείχεος αἰπεινοῖο.
τῷ καὶ ἄδην ἀλέεινε περίφρονα Τριτογένειαν
ἐκ θυμοῦ Δαναοῖσιν ἀρηγέμεναι μεμαυῖαν, 295
μὴ καὶ ὑπὲρ κῆράς μιν ἕλῃ θεός" οὐδὲ γὰρ αὐτοῦ
φείσατο πρόσθεν ἴΑρηος, ὅ περ πολὺ φέρτερος Hev.
Τρῶες δ᾽ οὐκέτ᾽ ἔμιμνον ἀνὰ στόμα δηιοτῆτος,
ἀλλ᾽ ὀπίσω χάξζοντο τεθηπότα θυμὸν ἔ ἔχοντες"
ἐν γάρ σφιν θήρεσσιν ἐ ἐοικότες ὠμοβόροισιν 800
ἔνθορον ᾿Αργεῖοι μέγα μαιμώωντες "Apne.
τῶν δ᾽ ἄγα δαμναμένων ποταμοὶ ὶ πλήθοντο νέκυσσι
καὶ πεδίον" πολλοὶ γὰρ ἄδην πέσον ἐν κονίῃσιν
472
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XI
Far other issues Fate devised, nor recked
Of Zeus the Almighty, nor of none beside
Of the Immortals. Her unpitying soul
Cares naught what doom she spinneth with her
thread
Inevitable, be it for men new-born
Or cities: all things wax and wane through her.
So by her hest the battle-travail swelled
’Twixt Trojan chariot-lords and Greeks that closed
In grapple of fight—they dealt each other death
Ruthlessly : no man quailed, but stout of heart
Fought on; for courage thrusts men into war.
But now when many had perished in the dust,
Then did the Argive might prevail at last
By stern decree of Pallas ; for she came
Into the heart of battle, hot to help
The Greeks to lay waste Priam’s glorious town.
Then Aphrodite, who lamented sore
For Paris slain, snatched suddenly away
Renowned Aeneas from the deadly strife,
And poured thick mist about him. Fate forbade
That hero any longer to contend
With Argive foes without the high-built wall.
Yea, and his mother sorely feared the wrath
Of Pallas passing-wise, whose heart was keen
To help the Danaans now—yea, feared lest she
Might slay him even beyond his doom, who spared
Not Ares’ self, a mightier far than he.
No more the Trojans now abode the edge
Of fight, but all disheartened backward drew.
For like fierce ravening beasts the Argive men
Leapt on them, mad with murderous rage of war.
Choked with their slain the river-channels were,
Heaped was the field ; in red dust thousands fell,
473
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
ἀνέρες ἠδ᾽ ἵπποι" μάλα δ᾽ ἅρματα πολλὰ κέχυντο
βαλλομένων' πάντῃ δ᾽ ἀπερείσιον ἔρρεεν αἷμα 305
ὑετὸς ὥς: ὀλοὴ yap ἐπήιεν Αἶσα κυδοιμόν.
(ae Ἐν e \ / / x /
Kai ῥ᾽ οἱ μὲν ξιφέεσσι πεπαρμένοι ἢ μελίῃσι
ra] /
KELVTO TAP ἀλλήλοισιν ἀλίγκιον ἐκχυμένοισι
δούρασιν, εὖτ᾽ ἐπὶ θινὶ βαρυγδούποιο θαλάσσης
ἀνέρες ἄσπετα δεσμὰ πολυκμήτων ἀπὸ γόμφων 310
/ / \ / \ Ne
λυσάμενοι σκεδάσωσι διὰ ξύλα μακρὰ Kal ὕλην
’ / δί / δ᾽ > ΄ » \
ἠλιβάτου σχεδίης, πάντῃ δ᾽ ἀναπλήθεται εὐρὺς
᾽ ΄ a \ Z / =
αἰγιαλός, τοῖσιν δὲ μέλαν ποτικλύζεται οἶδμα:
ὡς οἵ γ᾽ ἐν κονίῃσι καὶ αἵματι, δῃωθέντες
κεῖντο πολυκλαύτοιο λελασμένοι ἰωχμοῖο. 81
Παῦροι δὲ προφυγόντες ἀνηλέα δηϊοτῆτα
δῦσαν ἀνὰ πτολίεθρον ἀλευάμενοι βαρὺ πῆμα’
τῶν δ᾽ ἄλοχοι καὶ παῖδες ἀπὸ χροὸς αἱματόεντος
τεύχεα πάντα δέχοντο κακῷ πεφορυγμένα λύθρῳ.
πᾶσι δὲ θερμὰ λοετρὰ τετεύχατο: πᾶν δ᾽ ἀνὰ
ἄστυ 320
v hans aA > > / ’ fal
ἔσσυντ᾽ ἰητῆρες ἐς οὐταμένων αἰζηῶν
οἰκία ποιπνύοντες, ἵν οὐταμένους ἀκέσωνται.
τοὺς δ᾽ ἄλοχοι καὶ τέκνα περιστενάχοντο μολόν-
τας
ἐκ πολέμου: πολλοὺς δὲ καὶ οὐ παρεόντας av-
TEU)"
Kal ῥ᾽ οἱ μὲν στυγερῇ βεβολημένοι ἦτορ avin 325
κεῖντο βαρυστενάχοντες ἐπ᾽ ἄλγεσιν: οἱ δ᾽ ἐπὶ
όρπον
ἐκ καμάτοιο τρέποντο' θοοὶ δ᾽ ἐπαὕὔτεον ἵπποι
φορβῇ ἐπιχρεμέθοντες ἄδην' ἑτέρωθι δ᾽ ᾿Αχαιοὶ
πὰρ κλισίης νήεσσί θ᾽ ὁμοίια Τρωσὶ πένοντο.
Ἦμος & ὠκεανοῖο ῥοὰς ὑπερήλασεν ᾿Ηὼς 380
ἵππους μαρμαίροντας, ἀνέγρετο δ᾽ ἔθνεα φωτῶν,
δὴ τότ᾽ ἀρήιοι υἷες ἐὐσθενέων ᾿Αργείων,
οἱ μὲν ἔβαν ἸΙριάμοιο ποτὶ πτόλιν αἰπήεσσαν,
474
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XI
Horses and men; and chariots overturned
Were strewn there: blood was streaming all around
Like rain, for deadly Doom raged through the fray.
Men stabbed with swords, and men impaled on
spears
Lay all confusedly, like scattered beams,
When on the strand of the low-thundering sea
Men from great girders of a tall ship’s hull
Strike out the bolts and clamps, and scatter wide
Long planks and timbers, till the whole broad beach
Is paved with beams o’erplashed by darkling surge ;
So lay in dust and blood those slaughtered men,
Rapture and pain of fight forgotten now.
A remnant from the pitiless strife escaped
Entered their stronghold, scarce eluding doom.
Children and wives from their limbs blood-besprent
Received their arms bedabbled with foul gore ;
And baths for all were heated. Leeches ran
Through all the town in hot haste to the homes
Of wounded men to minister to their hurts.
Here wives and daughters moaned round men come
back
From war, there cried on many who came not.
Here, men stung to the soul by bitter pangs
Groaned upon beds of pain; there, toil-spent men
Turned them to supper. Whinnied the swift steeds
And neighed o'er mangers heaped. By tent and
shi
Far off the Greeks did even as they of Troy.
When o’er the streams of Ocean Dawn drove up
Her splendour-flashing steeds, and earth’s tribes
waked,
Then the strong Argives’ battle-eager sons
Marched against Priam’s city lofty-towered,
475
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
οἱ δ᾽ ap ἐνὶ κλισίῃσιν ἅμ᾽ ἀνδράσιν οὐταμένοισι
μίμνον, μή ποτε λαὸς ἐπιβρίσας ἀλεγεινὸς 335
νῆας ἕλῃ Τρώεσσι φέρων χάριν" οἱ δ᾽ ἀπὸ πύργων
μάρναντ᾽ ᾿Αργείοισι" μόθος δ᾽ ἀλεγεινὸς ὀρώρει.
Σκαιῆς μὲν προπάροιθε πύλης Καπανήιος υἱὸς
μάρναθ' ἅμ᾽ ἀντιθέῳ Διομήδεϊ" τοὺς δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ὕπερθε
Δηίφοβός τε μενεπτόλεμος κρατερός τε ἸΪολίτης 340
σύν τὶ ἄλλοις ἑτάροισιν ἐρητύεσκον ὀϊστοῖς
no apa. χερμαδίοισι" περικτυπέοντο δὲ φωτῶν
βαλλόμεναι κόρυθεές TE καὶ ἀσπίδες, αἵ T ἀλεγεινὸν
αἰζηῶν ῥύοντο μόρον καὶ ἀμείλιχον αἶσαν.
"Audi δ᾽ ap ᾿Ιδαίησιν ἐριδμαίνεσκε πύλῃσιν 840
υἱὸς ᾿Αχιλλῆος" πονέοντο δέ οἱ πέρι πάντες
Μυρμιδόνες κρατεροῖο δαήμονες ἐ ἰωχμοῖο"
τοὺς δ᾽ ἀπὸ τείχεος εἶργον ἀπειρεσίοις βελέεσσι
θαρσαλέως" "Enevos τε καὶ ὀβριμόθυμος ᾿Αγήνωρ,
Τρῶας ἐποτρύνοντες ἀνὰ μόθον" οἱ δὲ καὶ αὐτοὶ 350
προφρονέως μάρναντο φίλης περὶ τείχεσι πάτρης.
"Es πεδίον δὲ πύλῃσι καὶ ὠκυπόρους ἐπὶ νῆας
νισσομένῃς Ὀδυσεύς τε καὶ Εὐρύπυλος πονέοντο
νωλεμέως" τοὺς δ᾽ nus ἀφ᾽ ἕρκεος ὑψηλοῖο
Αἰνείας λάεσσι μέγα φρονέων ἀπέρυκε.
Πρὸς δὲ ῥόον Σιμόεντος ἔχεν πόνον ἀλγινόεντα
Τεῦκρος ἐὐμμελίης: ἄλλῃ δ᾽ ἔχεν ἄλλος ὀϊζύν. 856
Καὶ τότ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἀμφ᾽ ᾿Οδυσῆα δαΐφρονα κύδιμοι
ἄνδρες
κείνου τεχνήεντι vow ποτὶ μῶλον "Ἄρηος
ἀσπίδας € ἐντύναντο, βάλον δ᾽ ἐφύπερθε καρήνων. 860
θέντες ἐπ᾽ ἀλλήλῃσι: μιῇ δ᾽ ἅπαν ἥρμοσεν ἁρμῇ"
φαίης κεν μεγάροιο κατηρεφὲς ἐ ἔμμεναι ἕρκος
πυκνόν, OT οὔτ᾽ ἀνέμοιο διέρχεται ὑ ὑγρὸν ἀέντος
ῥιπὴ ἀπειρεσίη οὔτ᾽ ἐκ Διὸς ἄσπετος ὄμβρος"
τοῖαι ἄρ᾽ ᾿Αργείων πεπυκασμέναι ἀμφὶ βοείαις 866
καρτύναντο φάλαγγες" ἔχον δ᾽ ἕνα θυμὸν ἐς ἀλκήν
476
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XI
Save some that mid the tents by wounded men
Tarried, lest haply raiders on the ships
Might fall, to help the Trojans, while these fought
The foe from towers, while rose the flame of war.
Before the Scaean gate fought Capaneus’ son
And godlike Diomedes. High above
Deiphobus battle-staunch and strong Polites
With many comrades, stoutly held them back
With arrows and huge stones. Clanged evermore
The smitten helms and shields that fenced strong
men
From bitter doom and unrelenting fate,
Before the Gate Idaean Achilles’ son
Set in array the fight: around him toiled
His host of battle-cunning Myrmidons.
Helenus and Agenor gallant-souled,
Down-hailing darts, against them held the wall,
Aye cheering on their men. No spurring these
Needed to fight hard for their country’s walls.
Odysseus and Eurypylus made assault
Unresting on the gates that faced the plain
And looked to the swift ships. From wall and
tower
With huge stones brave Aeneas made defence.
In battle-stress by Simois Teucer toiled.
Each endured hardness at his several post.
Then round war-wise Odysseus men renowned,
By that great captain’s battle cunning ruled,
Locked shields together, raised them o’er their
heads
Ranged side by side, that many were made one.
Thou hadst said it was a great hall’s solid roof,
Which no tempestuous wind-blast misty wet
Can pierce, nor rain from heaven in torrents poured.
So fenced about with shields firm stood the ranks
Of Argives, one in heart for fight, and one
477
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
εἰς ἕν ἀρηράμενοι" καθύπερθε δὲ Τρώιοι υἷες
βάλλον χερμαδίοισι' τὰ δ᾽ ὡς στυφελῆς ἀπὸ
πέτρης
γαῖαν ἐπὶ τραφερὴν ἐκυλίνδετο' πολλὰ δὲ δοῦρα
καὶ βέλεα στονόεντα καὶ ἀλγινόεντες ἄκοντες 370
πήγνυντ᾽ ἐν σακέεσσι, τὰ δ᾽ ἐν χθονί, πολλὰ δ᾽
ἄπωθεν
μαψιδίως φορέοντο παραγναμφθέντα βελέμνοις"
πάντοθε βαλλομένων" οἱ δὲ κτύπον οὔτι φέβοντο
ἄσπετον, οὐδ᾽ ὑπόεικον, ἅτε ψεκάδων a ἀΐοντες
δοῦπον" ἄνω δ᾽ ὑπὸ τεῖχος ὁμῶς ἴσαν" οὐδέ τις
αὐτῶν 375
νόσφιν ἀφειστήκει" συναρηράμενοι δ᾽ ἐφέποντο,
ὡς νέφος ἠερόεν, τό ῥά που περὶ χείματι μέσσῳ
αἰθέρος ἐξ ὑπάτοιο μακρὸν διέτεινε Κρονίων.
πουλὺς δ᾽ ἀμφὶ φάλαγγι βρόμος, καναχή θ᾽ ὑπὸ
ποσσὶ
νισσομένων ἐτέτυκτο" κόνιν δ᾽ ἀπάτερθεν a ἀῆται 380
ὀρνυμένην μάλα τυτθὸν ὑ ὑπὲρ δαπέδοιο φέρεσκον
αἰξηῶν μετόπισθε" περίαχε δ᾽ ἄκριτος αὐδή,
οἷον ὑπὸ σμήνεσσι περιβρομέουσι μέλισσαι"
ἄσθμα δ᾽ ἀνήιε πουλὺ χύδην, περίχευε δ᾽ ἀὐτμὴν
λαοῦ ἀποπνείοντος" ἀπειρέσιον δ᾽ ἄρα θυμῴ 385
᾿Ατρεῖδαι κεχάροντο περὶ σφίσι κυδιόωντες
δερκόμενοι πολέμοιο δυσηχέος a ἄτρομον ἕρκος"
ὥρμηναν δὲ πύλησι θεηγενέος Πριάμοιο
ἀθρόοι ἐγχριμφθέντες ὑ ὑπ᾽ ἀμφιτόμοις πελέκεσσι
ῥῆξαι τείχεα μακρά, πύλας δ᾽ εἰς ovdas ἐ ἐρεῖσαι 3890
θαιρῶν ἐξερύσαντες" ἔχεν δ᾽ ἄρα μῆτις ἀγαυὴ
ἐλπωρήν' ἀλλ᾽ οὔ σφιν ἐπήρκεσαν οὔτε βόειαι
οὔτε θοοὶ βουπλῆγες, ἐπεὶ μένος Αἰνείαο
ὄβριμον ἀμφοτέρῃς ἐπαρηρότα χείρεσι λᾶαν
ἐμμεμαὼς ἐφέηκε, δάμασσε δὲ τλήμονι πότμῳ 395
1 Zimmermann, for περιγναμφθέντα βέλεμνα of v.
478
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XI
In that array close-welded. From above
The Trojans hailed great stones ; as from a rock
Rolled these to earth. Full many a spear and dart
And galling javelin in the pierced shields stood ;
Some in the earth stood ; many glanced away
With bent points falling baffled from the shields
Battered on all sides. But that clangorous din
None feared; none flinched ; as pattering drops of
rain
They heard it. Up to the rampart’s foot they
marched :
None hung back; shoulder to shoulder on they
came
Like a long lurid cloud that o’er the sky
Cronion trails in wild midwinter-tide.
On that battalion moved, with thunderous tread
Of tramping feet : a little above the earth
Rose up the dust; the breeze swept it aside
Drifting away behind the men. ‘There went
A sound confused of voices with them, like
The hum of bees that murmur round the hives,
And multitudinous panting, and the gasp
Of men hard-breathing. Exceeding glad the sons
Of Atreus, glorying in them, saw that wall
Unwavering of doom-denouncing war.
In one dense mass against the city-gate
They hurled themselves, with twibills strove to breach
The long walls, from their hinges to upheave
The gates, and dash to earth. The pulse of hope
Beat strong in those proud hearts. But naught
availed
Targes nor levers, when Aeneas’ might
Swung in his hands a stone like a thunderbolt,
Hurled it with uttermost strength, and dashed to
death
479
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
ἀνέρας, ods κατέμαρψεν ἐν ἀσπίσιν, εὖτ᾽ ἐν ὄρεσσι
φερβομένας ὑ ὑπὸ πρῶνα βίη κρημνοῖο ῥαγέντος
αἶγας, ὑποτρομέουσι δ᾽ ὅσαι σχεδὸν ἀμφινέμονται"
ὡς Δαναοὶ θάμβησαν'" ὁ δ᾽ εἰσέτι λᾶας ὕπερθεν
βάλλεν ἐπασσυτέρους, κλονέοντο δὲ πάγχυ φά-
λαγγες" 400
ὡς δ᾽ ὅτ᾽ ἐν οὔρεσι πρῶνας ᾿Ολύμπιος οὐρανόθι
Ζεὺς
ἀμφὶ μιῇ κορυφῇ συναρηρότας ἄλλυδις ἄλλον
ῥήξῃ ὑπὸ βροντῇσι καὶ αἰθαλόεντι κεραυνῷ,
ἀμφὶ δὲ μῆλα τρέμουσι καὶ ἄλλυδις ἄλλα φέ-
βονται: -
ὡς ap’ ᾿Αχαιῶν υἷες ὑπέτρεσαν, οὕνεκ᾽ ἄρ᾽ αὐτῶν 405
Αἰνείας συνέχευε θοῶς ἔ ἔρυμα πτολέμοιο
ἀσπίσιν ἀκαμάτῃσι τετυγμένον, οὕνεκ᾽ ἄρ᾽ αὐτῷ
κάρτος ἀπειρέσιον θεὸς ὥσασεν' οὐδέ τις αὐτῶν
ἔσθενέ οἱ κατὰ δῆριν ἐ ἐναντίον ὄσσε βαλέσθαι,
οὕνεκά οἱ μάρμαιρε περὶ βριαροῖς μελέεσσι 410
τεύχεα θεσπεσίῃσιν ἐειδόμενα στεροπῇσιν'
εἱστήκει δέ οἱ ἄγχι δέμας κεκαλυμμένος ὄρφνῃ
δεινὸς ᾿ “Ἄρης, καὶ πάντα κατιθύνεσκε βέλεμνα
ἢ μόρον ἢ δέος αἰνὸν er ᾿Αργείοισι φέροντα"
μάρνατο δ᾽ ὡς ὁπότ᾽ αὐτὸς ᾿Ολύμπιος οὐρανόθι
Ζεὺς 415
ἀσχαλόων ἐδάϊξεν ὑπέρβια φῦλα Γιγάντων
σμερδαλέων, καὶ γαῖαν ἀπειρεσίην ἐτίναξε
Τηθύν τ᾿ ᾿Ωκεανόν τε καὶ οὐρανόν, ἀμφὶ δὲ πάντῃ
yue ἐλελίξετ᾽ Ἄτλαντος U ὑπ᾽ ἀκαμάτου Διὸς ὁρμῆς"
ὡς ἄρ᾽ ὑπ᾽ Αἰνείαο κατηρείποντο φάλαγγες 420
τ ἀνὰ δῆριν: ὁ γὰρ περὶ τεῖχος ἁπάντῃ
ἔσσυτο δυσμενέεσσι χολούμενος, ἐκ δ᾽ ἄρα χειρῶν
πᾶν, ὅ τί οἱ παρέκυρσεν ἐπειγομένῳ ποτὶ μῶλον,
1 Zimmermann, for μηλονόμοι te καὶ ἄλλ᾽ ὅσα πάντα φ. of Vv.
480
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK ΧΙ
All whom it caught beneath the shields, as when
A mountain’s precipice-edge breaks off and falls
On pasturing goats, and all that graze thereby
Tremble; so were those Danaans dazed with dread.
Stone after stone he hurled on the reeling ranks,
As when amid the hills Olympian Zeus
With thunderbolts and blazing lightnings rends
From their foundations crags that rim a peak,
And this way, that way, sends them hurtling down ;
Then the flocks tremble, scattering in wild flight ;
So quailed the Achaeans, when Aeneas dashed
To sudden fragments all that battle-wall
Moulded of adamant shields, because a God
Gave more than human strength. No man of them
Could lift his eyes unto him in that fight,
Because the arms that lapped his sinewy limbs
Flashed like the heaven-born lightnings. At his side
Stood, all his form divine in darkness cloaked,
Ares the terrible, and winged the flight
Of what bare down to the Argives doom or dread.
He fought as when Olympian Zeus himself
From heaven in wrath smote down the insolent bands
Of giants grim, and shook the boundless earth,
And sea, and ocean, and the heavens, when reeled
The knees of Atlas neath the rush of Zeus.
So crumbled down beneath Aeneas’ bolts
The Argive squadrons. All along the wall
Wroth with the foeman rushed he: from his hands
Whatso he lighted on in onslaught-haste
481
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
βάλλεν, ἐπεὶ μάλα πολλὰ κακῆς ἀλκτήρια χάρμης
κεῖτο μενεπτολέμων ἐπὶ τείχεσι Δαρδανιώνων, 428
τοῖσί περ Αἰνείας μεγάλῳ περὶ κάρτεϊ θύων
δυσμενέων ἀπέρυκε πολὺν στρατόν: ἀμφὶ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽
αὐτῷ
a 2 “
Τρῶες καρτύναντο' κακὴ δ᾽ ἔχε πάντας ὀϊξὺς
b) N / Ν Ἅ ῇ > \ ᾽ a
ἀμφὶ πόλιν: πολλοὶ δὲ κατέκταθεν ἠμὲν ᾿Αχαιῶν
ἠδ᾽ ἄρα καὶ Τρώων: μέγα δ᾽ ἴαχον ἀμφοτέρωθεν, 430
Αἰνείας μὲν Τρωσὶ φιλοπτολέμοισι κελεύων
Z be \ / en > / 1 \ » a
μάρνασθ᾽ ἀμφὶ πόληος ἑῆς Gdoywv? τε Kal αὐτῶν
προφρονέως: υἱὸς δὲ μενεπτολέμου ᾿Αχιλῆος
᾿Αργείους ἐκέλευε παρὰ κλυτὰ τείχεα 'Γροίης
μίμνειν, ἄχρι πόληα πυρὶ πρήσαντες ἕλωσι. 435
τοὺς δ᾽ ἄμφω στονόεσσα καὶ ἄσπετος ἄμπεχ᾽ ἀὐτὴ
μαρναμένους πρόπαν ἦμαρ ἀνὰ κλόνον" οὐδέ τις
ἦεν
A , / » \ \
ἄμπνευσις πολέμοιο λιλαιομένων ava θυμὸν
a \ e a / Ci B32 Αἵ “" a 8
τῶν μὲν ἑλεῖν πτολίεθρον ὑπ᾽ "Αρεῖ, τῶν δὲ
σαῶσαι.
Αἴας δ᾽ αὖτ᾽ ἀπάτερθε θρασύφρονος Αἰνείαο 440
μαρνάμενος Τρώεσσι κακὰς ἐπὶ κῆρας ἴαλλε
a τ , > Vg Rit Cc. /
σφῇσιν ἑκηβολίῃσιν, ἐπεί ῥά ot ἄλλοτε μέν που
ἰθὺ βέλος πεπότητο δι᾿ ἠέρος, ἄλλοτε δ᾽ αὖτε
ἀλγινόεντες ἄκοντες" ἐπ᾽ ἄλλῳ δ᾽ ἄλλον ἔπεφνεν'
οἱ δὲ περιπτώσσοντες ἀμύμονος ἀνέρος ἀλκὴν 445
ἐς μόθον οὐκέτ᾽ ἔμιμνον: ἔλειπε δὲ τείχεα λαός.
Καὶ τότε οἱ θεράπων πολὺ φέρτατος ἐν δαὶ
Λοκρῶν
? / bee A ea / a
Αλκιμέδων ἐρίθυμος, ἑῷ πίσυνος βασιλῆι
κάρτεΐ τε σφετέρῳ καὶ θαρσαλέῃ νεότητι
> \ / a 2 Hf
ELE Laws πολέμοιο θοοῖς ἐπεβήσατο ποσσὶ 460
κλίμακος, ὄφρα κέλευθομ ἐπὶ πτόλιν ἀνδράσι θείη
λευγαλέην: σφετέρου δὲ καρήατος ἔμμεναι ἄλκαρ
1 Zimmermann, for ἑῶν τεκέων of ν.
482
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XI
Hurled he; for many a battle-staying bolt
Lay on the walls of those staunch Dardan men.
With such Aeneas stormed in giant might,
With such drave back the thronging foes. All round
The Trojans played the men. Sore travail and pain
Had all folk round the city: many fell,
Argives and Trojans. Rang the battle-cries:
Aeneas cheered the war-fain Trojans on
To fight for home, for wives, and their own souls
With a good heart: war-staunch Achilles’ son
Shouted: “ Flinch not, ye Argives, from the walls,
Till Troy be taken, and sink down in flames!”
And round these twain an awful measureless roar
Rang, daylong as they fought: no breathing-space
Came from the war to them whose spirits burned,
These, to smite Ilium, those, to guard her safe.
But from Aeneas valiant-souled afar
Fought Aias, speeding midst the men of Troy
Winged death; for now his arrow straight through
air
Flew, now his deadly dart, and smote them down
One after one: yet others cowered away
Before his peerless prowess, and abode
The fight no more, but fenceless left the wall.
Then one, of all the Locrians mightiest,
Fierce-souled Alcimedon, trusting in his prince
And his own might and valour of his youth,
All battle-eager on a ladder set
Swift feet, to pave for friends a death-strewn path
Into the town. Above his head he raised
483
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
ἀσπίδα θεὶς καθύπερθεν ἀνήιε λυγρὰ κέλευθα
ἄτρομον ἐνθέμενος κραδίῃ νόον" ἐν δ᾽ ἄρα χειρὶ
ἄλλοτε μὲν δόρυ πάλλεν ἀμείλιχον, ἄλλοτε δ᾽ αὗτε 455
Φ + \ > = ΄ re 3
εἷρπεν ἄνω" τὸν δ᾽ αἶψα διηερίη φέρεν oipos.
καί νύ κε δὴ Τρώεσσιν ἄχος γένετ᾽, εἰ μὴ ἄρ᾽ αὐτῷ
ἤδη ὑπερκύπτοντι καὶ εἰσορόωντι πόληα
ὑστάτιον καὶ πρῶτον ad’ ἕρκεος ὑψηλοῖο
Αἰνείας ἐπόρουσεν, ἐπεί ῥά μιν οὐ χλάθεν ὁρμὴ 460
ΦΙΚΥΘΝ, ἐν / 27 / / > foe /
οὐδ᾽ ἀπάτερθεν ἐόντα: βάλεν δέ μιν εὐρέϊ πέτρῳ
Ν A / X , / ’ \
Kak κεφαλῆς" μεγάλη δὲ Bin κρατερόφρονος ἀνδρὸς
/ vf ς / ς Ν We, , Deke) Dies \
κλίμακά οἱ συνέαξεν" ὁ δ᾽ ὑψόθεν nit ὀϊστὸς
ἔσσυτ᾽ ἀπὸ νευρῆς" ὀλοὸς δέ οἱ ἕσπετο πότμος
ἀμφελελιξαμένῳ: στονόεις δέ οἱ ἠέρι θυμὸς 465
3 \ a DRY \ > ,
αἶψα μίγη, πρὶν γαῖαν ἐπὶ στυφελὴν ἀφικέσθαι:
ἤριπε δ᾽ ἐν θώρηκι κατὰ χθονός, οὕνεκ᾽ ap αὐτοῦ
“ > 4 \ , \ 7 > \
νόσφιν ἀπεπλάγχθη βριαρὸν δόρυ καὶ σάκος εὐρὺ
καὶ κρατερὴ τρυφάλεια' περιστονάχησε δὲ Λοκρῶν
λαός, ὅτ᾽ “ἔδρακον ἄνδρα κακῇ δεδμημένον ἄ ἅτη" ..410
δὴ γάρ οἱ λασίοιο καρήατος ἄλλυδις ἄλλῃ
ἐγκέφαλος πεπάλακτο: συνηλοίηντο δὲ πάντα
ὀστέα καὶ θοὰ γυΐα λυγρῷ πεπαλαγμένα λύθρῳ.
Καὶ τότε δὴ Ποίαντος ἐ ἐὺς πάϊς ἀντιθέοιο,
ὡς ἴδεν Αἰνείαν περὶ τείχεα μαιμώωντα 475
θηρὶ βίην ἀτάλαντον, ἄφαρ προέηκεν ὀϊστὸν
ἰθύνων ἐς φῶτα περικλυτόν' οὐδ᾽ ἀφάμαρτεν
ἀνέρος, ἀλλά οἱ οὔτι Ov’ ἀσπίδος ἀκαμάτοιο
ἐς χρόα καλὸν i ἵκανεν, ἀπέτραπε γὰρ Κυθέρεια
καὶ σάκος, ἀλλ᾽ ἄρα τυτθὸν ἐπέγραφε δέρμα βοείης. 480
οὐδ᾽ ἄρα μαψιδίως χα μάδις πέσεν, ἀλλὰ Μέδοντα
μεσσηγὺς σάκεός τε καὶ ἱπποκόμου τρυφαλείης
τύψεν' ὁ & ἐκ TUPYOLO κατήριπεν, εὖτ᾽ ἀπὸ πέτρης
ἄγριον αἶγα βάλῃσιν ἀνὴρ στονόεντι βελέμνῳ"
484
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK Xl
The screening shield ; up that dread path he went
Hardening his heart from trembling, in his hand
Now shook the threatening spear, now upward
climbed :
Fast high in air he trod the perilous way.
Now on the Trojans had disaster come,
But, even as above the parapet
His head rose, and for the first time and the last
From her high rampart he looked down on Troy,
Aeneas, who had marked, albeit afar,
That bold assault, rushed on him, dashed on his head
So huge a stone that the hero’s mighty strength
Shattered the ladder. Down from on high he rushed
As arrow from the string: death followed him
As whirling round he fell; with air was blent
His lost life, ere he crashed to the stony ground.
Strong spear, broad shield, in mid fall flew from his
hands,
And from his head the helm: his corslet came
Alone with him to earth. The Locrian men
Groaned, seeing their champion quelled by evil doom ;
For all his hair and all the stones around
Were brain-bespattered : all his bones were crushed,
And his once active limbs besprent with gore.
Then godlike Poeas’ war-triumphant son
Marked where Aeneas stormed along the wall
In lion-like strength, and straightway shot a shaft
Aimed at that glorious hero, neither missed
The man: yet not through his unyielding targe
To the fair flesh it won, being turned aside
By Cytherea and the shield, but grazed
The buckler lightly: yet not all in vain
Fell earthward, but between the targe and helm
Smote Medon: from the tower he fell, as falls
A wild goat from a crag, the hunter's shaft
Deep in its heart: so nerveless- flung he fell,
485
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
ὡς ὁ πεσὼν τετάνυστο' λίπεν δέ μιν ἱερὸς αἰών.
Αἰνείας εἰ ἑτάροιο χολωσάμενος βάλε πέτρην,
καί pa Φιλοκτήταο κατέκτανεν ἐσθλὸν ἑ ἑταῖρον
Τοξαίχμην' θλάσσεν δὲ κάρη, συνέαξε ¢ δὲ πάντα
ὀστέα σὺν πήληκι: λύθη δέ οἱ ἀγλαὸν ἦτορ.
τῷ δ᾽ ἐπὶ μακρὸν ἄῦσε πάϊς ἸΠοίαντος ἀγαυοῦ"
ἡ ᾿Αἰνεία, νὺν ἔολπας ἐνὶ φρεσὶ σῇσιν ἄριστος
ἔμμεναι ἐκ πύργοιο πονεύμενος, ἔνθα γυναῖκες
δυσμενέεσσι μάχονται ἀνάλκιδες' εἰ δὲ τὶς ἐσσί,
ἔρχεο τείχεος ἐκτὸς ἐν ἔντεσιν, ὄφρα δαείης
Ποίαντος θρασὺν υἷα καὶ ἔγχεσι καὶ βελέεσσιν."
Ὡς ἃ ἄρ᾽ ἔφη" τὸν δ᾽ οὔτι θρασὺς πάϊς ᾿Αγχίσαο
καίπερ ἐελδόμενος προσεφώνεεν, οὕνεκ᾽ ὀρώρει
δῆρις ὀϊζυρὴ περὶ τείχεα μακρὰ καὶ ἄστυ
νωλεμέως" οὐ γάρ τι κακοῦ παύοντο μόθοιο"
οὐδέ σφιν μάλα δηρὸν ὑ ὑπ᾽ "Αρεῖ τειρομένοισιν
ἔσκε λύσις καμάτοιο" πόνος δ᾽ ἄπρηκτος ὀρώρει.
486
490
495
509
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XI
And fled away from him the precious life.
Wroth for his friend, a stone Aeneas hurled,
And Philoctetes’ stalwart comrade slew,
Toxaechmes; for he shattered his head and crushed
Helmet and skull-bones; and his noble heart
Was stilled. Loud shouted princely Poeas’ son:
« Aeneas, thou, forsooth, dost deem thyself
A mighty champion, fighting from a tower
Whence craven women war with foes! Now if
Thou be a man, come forth without the wall
In battle-harness, and so learn to know
In spear-craft and in bow-craft Poeas’ son!”
So cried he; but Anchises’ valiant seed,
How fain soe’er, naught answered, for the stress
Of desperate conflict round that wall and burg
Ceaselessly raging : pause from fight was none :
Yea, for long time no respite had there been
For the war-weary from that endless toil.
487
AOTOS AQAEKATOS.,
᾿Αλλ᾽ ὅτε δὴ μάλα πολλὰ κάμον περὶ τείχεα
Τροίης
αἰχμηταὶ Aavaoi, πολέμου δ᾽ οὐ γίνετο τέκμωρ,
δὴ τότ᾽ ἀριστήων ἄγυριν ποιήσατο Κάλχας
εὖ εἰδὼς ἀ ἀνὰ θυμὸν ὑ ὑπ᾽ ἐννεσίῃς ᾿Βκάτοιο
πτήσιας οἰωνῶν ἠδ᾽ ἀστέρας ἄλλα τε πάντα 5
onal’, ὅσ᾽ ἀνθρώποισι θεῶν ἰότητι πέλονται,
καί σφιν ἀγειρομένοισιν ἔπος ποτὶ τοῖον ἔειπε"
“ μηκέτι πὰρ τείχεσσιν ἐφεζόμενοι πονέεσθε,
ἀλλ᾽ ἄλλην τινὰ μῆτιν ἐνὶ φρεσὶ μητιάασθε
καὶ δόλον, ὃ ὃς λαοῖσι καὶ ἡμῖν ἔσσετ᾽ ὄνειαρ" 10
ἢ γὰρ ἔγωγε χθιζὸν ἐσέδρακον ἐνθάδε σῆμα:
ἴρηξ σεῦε πέλειαν' ἐπειγομένη δ᾽ ἄρα κείνη
χηραμὸν ἐς πέτρης κατεδύσατο" τῇ δ᾽ ὁ χολωθεὶς
ἀργαλέως μάλα πολλὸν ἐπὶ χρόνον ἀγχόθι μίμνε
χηραμοῦ: ἣ δ᾽ ἀλέεινεν" ὁ δ᾽ ἐνθέμενος χόλον
αἰνὸν 15
θάμνῳ ὑπεκρύφθη" ἡ δ᾽ ἔκθορεν ἀφραδίῃσιν
ἔμμεναι ἐλπομένη μιν ἀπόπροθεν" ὃς δ᾽ ἐπαερθεὶς
δειλαίῃ τρήρωνι φόνον στονόεντ᾽ ἐφέηκε'
τῷ νῦν μήτι βίῃ πειρώμεθα Τρώιον a ἄστυ
περσέμεν, ἀλλ᾽ εἴ πού τι δόλος καὶ μῆτις ἀνύσσῃ. ” 20
Ὡς ἄρ᾽ ἔφη: τῶν δ᾽ οὔτις ἔφη φρεσὶ τεκμήρα-
σθαι
ἄλκαρ ὀϊζυροῖο μόθου" δίξοντο δὲ μῆχος
488
BOOK XIl
Flow the Wooden Horse was fashioned, and brought into
Troy by her people.
WueN round the walls of Troy the Danaan host
Had borne much travail, and yet the end was not,
By Calchas then assembled were the chiefs ;
For his heart was instructed by the hests
Of Phoebus, by the flights of birds, the stars,
And all the signs that speak to men the will
Of Heaven; so he to that assembly cried :
“ No longer toil in leaguer of yon walls ;
Some other counsel let your hearts devise,
Some stratagem to help the host and us.
For here but yesterday I saw a sign:
A falcon chased a dove, and she, hard pressed,
Entered a cleft of the rock; and chafing he
Tarried long time hard by that rift, but she.
Abode in covert. Nursing still his wrath,
He hid him in a bush. Forth darted she,
In folly deeming him afar: he swooped,
And to the hapless dove dealt wretched death.
Therefore by force essay we not to smite
Troy, but let cunning stratagem avail.”
He spake ; but no man’s wit might find a way
To escape their grievous travail, as they sought
489
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
’ ΄
εὑρέμεναι" μοῦνος δὲ σαοφροσύνῃσι νόησεν
υἱὸς Λαέρταο καὶ ἀντίον ἔκφατο μῦθον'
ξε Ὁ 3 3 ’, / / a
ὦ φίλ᾽, ἐπουρανίοισι τετιμένε πάγχυ θεοῖσιν, 26
εἰ ἐτεὸν πέπρωται ἐῦπτολέμοισιν ᾿Αχαιοῖς
» £ 4 /
ἐκπέρσαι IIpidyoro δολοφροσύνῃσι πόληα,
ἵππον τεκτήναντες ἀριστέες ἐς λόχον ἄνδρες
/ 3. δι ι»ἤ : \ B43 \ / /
βησόμεθ᾽ ἀσπασίως" λαοὶ δ᾽ ἀπὸ νόσφι νέεσθαι
> / \ / > fal > Μ /
és Τένεδον σὺν νηυσίν, ἐνιπρῆσαι δ᾽ ἄρα πάντες 80
ἃς κλισίας, ἵνα “Τρῶες ἀπ᾽ ἄστεος ἀθρήσαντες
ἐς πεδίον προχέωνται ἀταρβέες: ἀλλά τις ἀνὴρ
θαρσαλέος, τόν Ἧι οὔτις ἐπίσταται ἐν Τρώεσσι,
μιμνέτω ἔκτοθεν ἵ ἵππου ἀρήϊον ἐνθέμενος κῆρ,
ὅστις ὑποκρίναιτο βίην ὑπέροπλον ᾿Αχαιῶν 35
ῥέξαι ὑπὲρ νόστοιο "λιλαιομένων μέγ᾽ 1 ἀλύξαι,
ἵππῳ ὑποπτήξας evepyéi: “ τὸν δ᾽ ἐκάμοντο
Παλλάδι ᾿ χωομένῃ Τρώων ὕ ὕπερ αἰχμητάων"
καὶ τὰ μὲν ὡς ἐπὶ δηρὸν ἀνειρομένοισι, πιφαύσκειν,
εἰσόκε οἱ πεπίθωνται ἀταρτηροί περ ἐόντες, 40
ἐς δὲ πόλιν μιν ἄγωσι θοῶς ἐλεεινὸν ἐόντα,
ὄφρ᾽ ἡμῖν. ἀλεγεινὸν ἐς ἼΑρεα σῆμα πέληται,
τοῖς μὲν ἄρ᾽ αἰθαλόεντα θοῶς ἀνὰ πυρσὸν ἀείρας,
τοὺς δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἐποτρύνας ἐκβήμεναι εὐρέος ἵππου,
ὁππότε Τρώιοι. υἷες ἀκηδέες ὑ ὑπνώωσιν.᾽" 45
“Os φάτο: τὸν δ᾽ ἄρα πάντες ἐπήνεον" ἔξοχα δ᾽
ἄλλων
Κάλχας μιν θαύμαζεν, ὅ ὅπως ὑπεθήκατ᾽ ᾿Αχαιοῖς
μῆτιν καὶ δόλον ἐσθλόν, ὃ ὃς ᾿Αργείοισιν ἔμελλε
νίκης ἔμμεναι ἄλκαρ, ἀτὰρ μέγα 'Τρώεσι πῆμα"
τοὔνεκ᾽ ἀριστήεσσιν ἐϊὐπτολέμοισι μετηύδα" δ0
“μηκέτι νῦν δόλον ἄλλον ἐνὶ φρεσὶ μητιάασθε,
ὦ φίλοι, ἀλλὰ πιθέσθαι ἐῦπτολέμῳ ᾿Οδυσῆε'
1 Zimmermann, for μέν οὗ Koechly.
490
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XII
To find a remedy, till Laertes’ son
Discerned it of his wisdom, and he spake:
“Friend, in high honour held of the Heavenly
Ones,
If doomed it be indeed that Priam’s burg
By guile must fall before the war-worn Greeks,
A great Horse let us fashion, in the which
Our mightiest shall take ambush. Let the host
Burn all their tents, and sail from hence away
To Tenedos ; so the Trojans, from their towers
Gazing, shall stream forth fearless to the plain.
Let some brave man, unknown of any in Troy,
With a stout heart abide without the Horse,
Crouching beneath its shadow, who shall say:
‘ Achaea’s lords of might, exceeding fain
Safe to win home, made this their offering
For safe return, an image to appease
The wrath of Pallas for her image stolen!
From Troy.’ And to this story shall he stand,
How long soe er they question him, until,
Though never so relentless, they believe,
And drag it, their own doom, within the town.
Then shall war’s signal unto us be given—
To them at sea, by sudden flash of torch,
To the ambush, by the cry, ‘Come forth the
Horse’!
When unsuspecting sleep the sons of Troy.”
He spake, and all men praised him: most of all
Extolled him Calchas, that such marvellous guile
He put into the Achaeans’ hearts, to be
For them assurance of triumph, but for Troy
Ruin ; and to those battle-lords he cried:
““ Let your hearts seek none other stratagem,
Friends ; to war-strong Odysseus’ rede give ear.
1 Some freedom, based on Vergil, has here been taken with
the text, to make the plan read intelligibly.
491
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
? ew ee A d- ’ f
οὐδέ οἱ ἔσσετ᾽ ἄπρηκτον ἐὐφρονέοντι νόημω"
ἤδη γὰρ Δαναοῖσι θεοὶ τελέουσιν ἐέλδωρ,
σήματα δ᾽ οὐκ ἀτέλεστ᾽ ἀναφαίνεται ἄλλοθεν ἄλλα" 55
Ζηνὸς μὲν γὰρ ὕπερθε μέγα κτυπέουσι δι αἴθρης
βρονταὶ ὁμῶς στεροπῇσι'" παραΐσσουσι δὲ λαοὺς
δεξιοὶ ὄρνιθες ταναῇ ὀπὶ κεκλήγοντες.
ἀλλ᾽ ἄγε μηκέτι πολλὸν ἐπὶ χρόνον ἀμφὶ πόληα
μίμνωμεν: Τρωσὶν γὰρ ἐνέπνευσεν μέγ᾽ ἀνάγκη
θάρσος, ὅ περ πρὸς “Apna καὶ οὐτιδανόν περ
ἐγείρει:
κάρτιστοι δὲ τότ᾽ ἄνδρες ἐ ἐπὶ μόθον, ὁ ὁππότε θυμὸν
παρθέμενοι στονόεντος ἀφειδήσωσιν ὀλέθρου"
ὡς νῦν Τρώιοι υἷες ἀταρβέες ἀμφιμάχονται
ἄστυ περὶ σφέτερον: μέγα δέ σφισι μαίνεται
ἦτορ.
τ τς ΤΣ προσέειπεν ᾿Αχιλλέος ὄβριμος υἱός"
ὦ Κάλχαν, δήϊοισι καταντίον ἄλκιμοι ἄνδρες
μάρνανται" τοὶ δ᾽ ἐντὸς ἀλευάμενοι ἀπὸ πύργων
οὐτιδανοὶ “πονέονται, ὅσων φρένα δεῖμα χαλέπτει"
τῷ νῦν μήτε δόλον φραζώμεθα, μήτε Tl μῆχος
ἄλλο: πόνῳ γὰρ ἔοικεν ἀριστέας ἔμμεναι ἄνδρας
καὶ δορί: θαρσαλέοι γὰρ ἀμείνονες ἐν δαὶ φῶτες.
ib φάμενον προσέειπε μένος Λαερτιάδαο"
“ὦ τέκος ὀβριμόθυμον ἀταρβέος Αἰακίδαο,
ταῦτα μέν, ὡς ἐπέοικεν ἀμύμονι φωτὶ καὶ ἐσθχῷ,
θαρσαλέως μάλα πάντα διίκεο χερσὶ πεποιθώς:
ἀλλ᾽ οὔτ᾽ ἀκαμάτοιο τεοῦ πατρὸς ἄτρομος ἀλκὴ
ἔσθενεν ὄλβιον ἄστυ διαπραθέειν [Πριάμοιο
οὔθ᾽ ἡμεῖς μάλα πολλὰ πονεύμενοι: ἀλλ᾽ ἄγε
θᾶσσον
Κάλχαντος βουλῇσι θοὰς ἐ ἐπὶ νῆας ἰόντες
ἵππον τεκταίνωμεν ὑπαὶ παλάμῃσιν ᾿Επειοῦ,
ὅς ῥά τε πολλὸν ἄριστος ἐν ᾿Αργείοισι τέτυκται
εἵνεκα τεκτοσύνης'" δέδαεν δέ μιν ἔργον ᾿Αθήνη."
492
60
70
75
80
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK ΧΙ
His wise thought shall not miss accomplishment.
Yea, our desire even now the Gods fulfil.
Hark! for new tokens come from the Unseen!
Lo, there on high crash through the firmament
Zeus’ thunder and lightning! See, where birds to
right
Dart past, and scream with long-resounding cry !
Go to, no more in endless leaguer of Troy
Linger we. Hard necessity fills the foe
With desperate courage that makes cowards brave ;
For then are men most dangerous, when they stake
Their lives in utter recklessness of death,
As battle now the aweless sons of ‘l'roy
All round their burg, mad with the lust of fight.”
But cried Achilles’ battle-eager son:
“ Calchas, brave men meet face to face their foes!
Who skulk behind their walls, and fight from towers,
Are nidderings, hearts palsied with base fear.
Hence with all thought of wile and stratagem!
The great war-travail of the spear beseems
True heroes. Best in battle are the brave.”
But answer made to him Laertes’ seed :
“ Bold-hearted child of aweless Aeacus’ son,
This as beseems a hero princely and brave,
Dauntlessly trusting in thy strength, thou say’st.
Yet thine invincible sire’s unquailing might
Availed not to smite Priam’s wealthy burg,
Nor we, for all our travail. Nay, with speed,
As counselleth Calchas, go we to the ships,
And fashion we the Horse by Epeius’ hands,
Who in the woodwright’s craft is chiefest far
Of Argives, for Athena taught his lore.”
493
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
“A / a δὲ Μ , 3 A ‘0
Ὡς φάτο: τῷ ὃ apa πάντες ἀριστῆες πεπίθοντο
νόσφι Νεοπτολέμοιο δαΐφρονος" οὐδὲ μὲν ἐσθλὸν 88
a \ 4
πεῖθε Φιλοκτήταο νόον Kpatepa φρονέοντος"
oo a ,
ὑσμίνης yap ἔτ᾽ ἔσκον ὀϊζυρῆς ἀκόρητοι.
Ὁ \ ΄ SHEN 4 2 \ \ \
ὥρμαινον δὲ μάχεσθαι ava κλόνον: ἀμφὶ δὲ λαοὺς
σφωιτέρους ἐκέλευον ἀπειρέσιον περὶ τεῖχος
/ VA “ a aN , 3 /
πάντα φέρειν, ὅσα δῆριν ἐνὶ πτολέμοισιν ὀφέλλει, 90
᾽ 4 ? > ., 2 /
ἐλπόμενοι πτολίεθρον ἐὔκτιτον ἐξαλαπάξαι:
a a a /
ἄμφω yap βουλῇσι θεῶν és δῆριν ἵκοντο.
4 1 / [τὰ / »
καί νύ κεν αἶψα τέλεσσαν, ὅσα σφίσιν ἤθελε
θυμός,
᾽ Ἁ \ »ἭἬ > ᾽ ΪθΘ / 9 \ δὲ a
εἰ μὴ Levs νεμέσησεν ἀπ᾿ αἰθέρος, ἀμφὶ δὲ γαῖαν
7 / 3 / 6 \ / \ δ᾽ oy ἡ
Αργείων ἐλέλιξεν ὑπαὶ ποσί, σὺν ὃ ἐτίναξεν 95
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δὴ τότ᾽ ᾿Αθηναίη μακάρων ἕδος αἰπὺ λιποῦσα
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ἔγνω δ᾽ ἀθάνατον θεὸν ἄμβροτον: οὐδέ ot ἦτορ
494
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XII
Then all their mightiest men gave ear to him
Save twain, fierce-hearted Neoptolemus
And Philoctetes mighty-souled ; for these
Still were insatiate for the bitter fray,
Still longed for turmoil of the fight. They bade
Their own folk bear against that giant wall
What things soe’er for war’s assaults avail,
In hope to lay that stately fortress low,
Seeing Heaven’s decrees had brought them both
to war.
Yea, they had haply accomplished all their will,
But from the sky Zeus showed his wrath; he shook
The earth beneath their feet, and all the air
Shuddered, as down before those heroes twain
He hurled his thunderbolt: wide echoes crashed
Through all Dardania. Unto fear straightway
Turned were their bold hearts: they forgat their
might,
And Calchas’ counsels grudgingly obeyed.
So with the Argives came they to the ships
In reverence for the seer who spake from Zeus
Or Phoebus, and they obeyed him utterly.
What time round splendour-kindled heavens the
stars
From east to west far-flashing wheel, and when
Man doth forget his toil, in that still hour
Athena left the high mansions of the Blest,
Clothed her in shape of a maiden tender-fleshed,
And came to ships and host. Over the head
Of brave Epeius stood she in his dream,
And bade him build a Horse of tree: herself
Would labour in his labour, and herself
Stand by his side, to the work enkindling him.
Hearing the Goddess’ word, with a glad laugh
Leapt he from careless sleep: right well he knew
The Immortal One celestial. Now his heart
495
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
ἄλλο παρὲξ ὥ iene voov δ᾽ ἔχεν αἰὲν ἐπ᾽ ἔργῳ 115
θεσπεσίῳ" πινυτὴ δὲ περὶ φρένας ἤιε τέχνη.
ὼς δ᾽ ὁππόθ᾽ ἵκανεν ἀπωσαμένη κνέφας ἢ
εἰς ἔρεβος, χαροπὴ δὲ δι ἠέρος ἤιεν αἴγλη,
δὴ τότε θεῖον ¢ ὄνειρον ἐν ᾿Αργείοισιν᾽ "Erecos,
ὡς ἴδεν, ὡς ἤκουσεν, ἐελδομένοισιν ἔειπεν" 120
οἱ δέ οἱ εἰσαΐοντες ἀπειρέσιον κεχάροντο.
καὶ τότ᾽ ap’ ᾿Ατρέος vies ἐς ἄγκεα τηλεθάοντα
Ἴδης ὑψικόμοιο θοοὺς προέηκαν ἱκέσθαι
ἀνέρας" οἱ δ᾽ ἐλάτῃσιν ἐπιβρίσαντες ἀ ἀν᾽ ὕλην,
τάμνον δένδρεα μακρά: περικτυπέοντο δὲ βῆσσαι 125
θεινομένων' δολιχαὶ δὲ κατ᾽ οὔρεα μακρὰ κολῶναι
δεύοντ᾽ ἐκ ᾿ξυλόχοιο" νάπη δ ἀνεφαίνετο πᾶσα
θήρεσιν οὐκέτι τόσσον ἐ ἐπήρατος, ὡς τὸ πάροιθε'
πρέμνα δ᾽ ἀπαυαίνοντο βίην ποθέοντ᾽ ἀνέμοιο.
καὶ τὰ μὲν ἂρ πελέκεσσι “διατμήγοντες ᾿Αχαιοὶ 130
ἐσσυμένως φορέεσκον ἐπ᾽ ἡόνας Ἑλλησπόντου
ἐξ ὄρεος λασίοιο" μόγησε δὲ "θυμὸς ἐ ἐπ᾽ ἔργῳ
αἰζηῶν a Kal ἡμιόνων" πονέοντο δὲ λαοὶ
ἄσπετον" ἄλλοθεν ἄλλος ὑποδρήσσοντες "Exes"
ἠὺ
οἱ μὲν γὰρ τέμνεσκον vr ὀκριόεντι σιδήρῳ 135
Sovpata καὶ σανίδας διεμέτρεον: οἱ δ᾽ ap ἀπ᾽
ὄξους
λείαινον πελέκεσσιν ἔτ᾽ ἀπρίστων ἀπὸ φιτρῶν,
ἄλλος δ᾽ ἄλλο τι ῥέζε πονεύμενος" αὐτὰρ ᾿Επειὸς
ἵππου δουρατέοιο πόδας κάμεν, αὐτὰρ ἔπειτα
νηδύα, τῇ δ᾽ ἐφύπερθε συνήρμοσε νῶτα καὶ ἰξὺν 140
ἐξόπιθεν, δειρὴν δὲ πάρος, καθύπερθε δὲ χαίτην
αὐχένος ὑψηλοῖο καθήρμοσεν, ὡς ἐτεόν περ
κινυμένην, λάσιον δὲ κάρη καὶ ἐὔτριχον οὐρήν,
οὔατά T ͵ ὀφθαλμούς τε διειδέας ἄλλα τε πάντα,
οἷς ἐ ἐπικίνυται ἵππος" ἀέξετο δ᾽ ἱερὸν ἔργον 145
ws ἐτεὸν ζώοντος, ἐπεὶ θεὸς ἀνέρι τέχνην
1 Supplied by Zimmermann.
496
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XII
Could hold no thought beside ; his mind was fixed
Upon the wondrous work, and through his soul
Marched marshalled each device of craftsmanship.
When rose the dawn, and thrust back kindly
night
To Erebus, and through the firmament streamed
Glad glory, then Epeius told his dream
To eager Argives—all he saw and heard ;
And hearkening joyed they with exceeding joy.
Straightway to tall-tressed Ida’s leafy glades
The sons of Atreus sent swift messengers.
These laid the axe unto the forest-pines,
And hewed the great trees: to their smiting rang
The echoing glens. On those far-stretching hills
All bare of undergrowth the high peaks rose :
Open their glades were, not, as in time past,
Haunted of beasts: there dry the tree-trunks rose
Wooing the winds. Even these the Achaeans hewed
With axes, and in haste they bare them down
From those shagged mountain heights to Hellespont’s
shores.
Strained with a strenuous spirit at the work
Young men and mules; and all the people toiled
Each at his task obeying Epeius’s hest.
For with the keen steel some were hewing beams,
Some measuring planks, and some with axes lopped
Branches away from trunks as yet unsawn :
Each wrought his several work. LEpeius first
Fashioned the feet of that great Horse of Wood:
The belly next he shaped, and over this
Moulded the back and the great loins behind,
The throat in front, and ridged the towering neck
With waving mane: the crested head he wrought,
The streaming tail, the ears, the lucent eyes—
All that of lifelike horses have. So grew
Like a live thing that nore than human work,
497
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
δῶκ᾽ ἐρατήν" τετέλεστο δ᾽ ἐνὶ τρισὶν ἤμασι πάντα
Παλλάδος ἐννεσίῃσι: πολὺς δ᾽ ἐπεγήθεε λαὸς
᾿Αργείων: θαύμαζε δ᾽ ὅπως ἐπὶ δούρατι θυμὸς
καὶ τάχος ἐκπεπόνητο ποδῶν, χρεμέθοντί τ᾽
ἐῴκει. 180
καὶ τότε δῖος ᾿Επειὸς ὑπὲρ μεγακήτεος ἵππου
εὔχετ᾽ ἐπ᾽ ἀκαμάτῳ Τριτωνίδι χεῖρας ὀρέξας"
“κλῦθι, θεὰ μεγάθυμε, σάου δ᾽ ἐμὲ καὶ τεὸν
ἵππον."
“Qs dato: τοῦ δ᾽ ἐσάκουσε θεὰ πολύμητις
᾿Αθήνη,
καί ῥά οἱ ἔργον ἔτευξεν ἐπιχθονίοισιν a ἀγητὸν 155
πᾶσιν, ὅσοι μιν ἴδοντο καὶ οἱ μετόπισθε πύθοντο.
᾿Αλλ᾽ ὅτε δὴ Δαναοὶ μὲν ἐγήθεον ἔργον ᾿Επειοῦ
δερκόμενοι, Τρῶες δὲ πεφυζότες ἔνδοθι πύργων
μίμνον ἀλευάμενοι θάνατον καὶ ἀνηλέα κῆρα,
δὴ τότ᾽ ἐπ᾽ ᾿᾽Ωκεανοῖο ῥοὰς καὶ Τηθύος ἄντρα 160
Ζηνὸς ὑπερθύμοιο θεῶν ἀπάτερθε μολόντος
ἔμπεσεν ἀθανάτοισιν ἐ ἔρις: δίχα δέ σφισι θυμὸς
ἔπλετ᾽ ὀρινομένων" ἀνέμων δ᾽ ἐπιβάντες ἀέλλαις
οὐρανόθεν φορέοντο ποτὶ χθόνα. τοῖσι δ᾽ ὕπ᾽ αἰθὴρ
ἔβραχεν' οἱ δὲ μολόντες ἐπὶ Ἐάνθοιο ῥέεθρα 16ὅ
ἀλλήλων ἵσταντο καταντίον, οἱ μὲν ᾿Αχαιῶν
οἱ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ὑπὲρ Τρώων: πολέμου δ᾽ ἔρος ἔμπεσε
υμῷ.
τοῖσι δ᾽ ὁ ὁμῶς ἀγέροντο καὶ οἱ λάχον εὐρέα πόντον.
καί ῥ᾽ οἱ μὲν δολόεντα κοτεσσάμενοι μενέαινον
ἵππον ἀμαλδῦναι σὺν νήεσιν, οἱ δ᾽ ἐρατεινὴν 170
Ἴλιον" Αἶσα δ᾽ ἔρυκε πολύτροπος, ἐς δὲ κυδοιμὸν
τρέψε νόον μακάρεσσιν" [Ἄρης δ᾽ ἐξῆρχε μόθοιο,
ἄλτο δ᾽ ᾿Αθηναίης κατεναντίον: ὡς δὲ καὶ ἄλλοι
σύμπεσον ἀλλήλοισι: περί σφισι © ἄμβροτα
τεύχη
498
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK ΧΗ
For a God gave to a man that wondrous craft.
And in three days, by Pallas’s decree,
Finished was all. Rejoiced thereat the host
Of Argos, marvelling how the wood expressed
Mettle, and speed of foot—yea, seemed to neigh.
Godlike Epeius then uplifted hands
To Pallas, and for that huge Horse he prayed :
« Hear, great-souled Goddess : bless thine Horse and
me!”
He spake: Athena rich in counsel heard,
And made his work a marvel to all men
Which saw, or heard its fame in days to be.
But while the Danaans o’er Epeius’ work
Joyed, and their routed foes within the walls
Tarried, and shrank from death and pitiless doom,
Then, when imperious Zeus far from the Gods
Had gone to Ocean’s streams and Tethys’ caves,
Strife rose between the Immortals: heart with
heart
Was set at variance. Riding on the blasts
Of winds, from heaven to earth they swooped: the
air
Crashed round them. Lighting down by Xanthus’
stream
Arrayed they stood against each other, these
For the Achaeans, for the Trojans those ;
And all their souls were thrilled with lust of war :
There gathered too the Lords of the wide Sea.
These in their wrath were eager to destroy
The Horse of Guile and all the ships, and those
Fair Ilium. But all-contriving Fate
Held them therefrom, and turned their hearts to
strife
Against each other. Ares to the fray
Rose first, and on Athena rushed. Thereat
Fell each on other: clashed around their limbs
499
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
4 / i > \ δὲ ,
χρύσεα κινυμένοισι μέγ᾽ ἴαχεν" ἀμφὶ δὲ πόντος 178
εὐρὺς ἐπεσμαράγησε' κελαινὴ δ᾽ ἔτρεμε γαῖα
΄, Ν
ἀθανάτων ὑπὸ ποσσί: μακρὸν δ᾽ ἅμα πάντες
ἄῦσαν.
7 > 3 \ , > \ sg 7
σμερδαλέη δ᾽ ἐνοπὴ μέχρις οὐρανὸν εὐρὺν ἵκανε,
/ 3. Sr - a ς / /
μέχρις ἐπ᾽ ᾿Αϊδονῆος ὑπερθύμοιο βέρεθρον"
Τιτῆνες δ᾽ ὑπένερθε μέγ᾽ ἔτρεσαν' ἀμφὶ δὲ μακρὴ 180
jj ρθε μέγ μακρὴ
ν 9 a / the 2
[dn ἐπέστενε πᾶσα καὶ ἠχήεντα ῥέεθρα
ἀενάων ποταμῶν, δολιχαὶ δ᾽ ἅμα τοῖσι χαράδραι
νῆές τ᾽ ᾿Αργείων Πριάμοιό τε κύδιμον ἄστυ.
> Φ > > , / / > Te | /
ἀλλ, οὐκ ἀνθρώποισι πέλεν δέος" OVS ἐνόησαν
> aA bd ’ a ” € \ ,
αὐτῶν ἐννεσίῃσι θεῶν Epiv οἱ δὲ κολώνας 185
χερσὶν ἀπορρήξαντες ἀπ᾽ οὔρεος ᾿Ἰδαίοιο
βάλλον ἐπ᾽ ἀλλήλους" αἱ δὲ ψαμάθοισιν ὁμοῖαι
ῥεῖα διεσκίδναντο θεῶν ἀμφ᾽ ἄσχετα γυῖα
ς 7 \ / \ 2: 9 \ , ,
ῥηγνύμεναι διὰ τυτθά. Διὸς δ᾽ ἐπὶ πείρασι γαίης
οὐ λάθον HY νόημα: λιπὼν δ᾽ ἄφαρ ᾿Ωκεανοῖο 190
χεύματ᾽ ἐς οὐρανὸν εὐρὺν ἀνήιε" τὸν δὲ φέρεσκον
Εὖρος καὶ Βορέης, Ζέφυρος δ᾽ ἐπὶ τοῖσι Νότος τε,
A e \ / \ eA 3 “
τοὺς ὑπὸ θεσπέσιον ζυγὸν αἰόλος ἤγαγεν Ἶρις
[τ dt. a, “ ε 4 ΝΜ >\
ἅρματος αἰὲν ἐόντος, ὅ οἱ κάμεν ἄμβροτος Αἰὼν
χερσὶν ὑπ᾽ ἀκαμάτῃσιν ἀτειρέος ἐξ ἀδάμαντος. 195
4 > 4 cP? / \ > iy ie Malt
ἵκετο © Οὐλύμποιο ῥίον μέγα: σὺν δ᾽ ἐτίναξεν
ἠέρα πᾶσαν ὕπερθε χολούμενος" ἄλλοθε δ᾽ ἄλλαι
« A A
βρονταὶ ὁμῶς στεροπῇσι μέγ᾽ extumov: ἐκ δὲ
κεραυνοὶ
/ bd / \ / “΄ bee
ταρφέες ἐξεχέοντο ποτὶ χθόνα" καίετο δ᾽ ἀὴρ
ἄσπετον" ἀθανάτοισι δ᾽ ὑπὸ φρένας ἔμπεσε δεῖμα: 200
πάντων δ᾽ ἔτρεμε γυῖα καὶ ἀθανάτων περ ἐόντων.
τῶν δὲ περιδδείσασα κλυτὴ Θέμις εὖτε νόημα
Ψ / / / 3 ,
ἄλτο διὰ vehéwv: τάχα δέ σφεας εἰσαφίκανεν"
500
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XII
The golden arms celestial as they charged.
Round them the wide sea thundered, the dark earth
Quaked ‘neath immortal feet. Rang from them all
Far-pealing battle-shouts ; that awful ery
Rolled up to the broad-arching heaven, and down
Even to Hades’ fathomless abyss:
Trembled the Titans there in depths of gloom.
Ida’s long ridges sighed, sobbed clamorous streams
Of ever-flowing rivers, groaned ravines
Far-furrowed, Argive ships, and Priam’s towers.
Yet men feared not, for naught they knew of all
That strife, by Heaven’s decree. Then her high
peaks
The Gods’ hands wrenched from Ida’s crest, and
hurled
Against each other: but like crumbling sands
Shivered they fell round those invincible limbs,
Shattered to small dust. But the mind of Zeus,
At the utmost verge of earth, was ware of all:
Straight left he Ocean’s stream, and to wide heaven
Ascended, charioted upon the winds,
The East, the North, the West-wind, and the South:
For Iris rainbow-plumed led ‘neath the yoke
Of his eternal car that stormy team,
The car which Time the immortal framed for him
Of adamant with never-wearying hands.
So came he to Olympus’ giant ridge.
His wrath shook all the firmament, as crashed
From east to west his thunders ; lightnings gleamed,
As thick and fast his thunderbolts poured to earth,
And flamed the limitless welkin. Terror fell
Upon the hearts of those Immortals: quaked
The limbs of all—ay, deathless though they were!
Then Themis, trembling for them, swift as thought
Leapt down through clouds, and came with speed to
them—
501
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
οἴη γὰρ στονόεντος ἀπόπροθι μίμνε μόθοιο"
τοῖον δ᾽ ἔκφατο μῦθον € ἐρυκανόωσα μάχεσθαι" 20ὅ
ἡ ἴσχεσθ' ἰωχμοῖο δυσηχέος" οὐ γὰρ ἔοικε
Ζηνὸς χωομένοιο μινυνθαδίων ἕ ἕνεκ᾽ ἀνδρώ ν
μάρνασθ'᾽ αἰὲν ἐόντας, ἐπεὶ τάχα πάντες ἄϊστοι
ἔσσεσθ᾽ 7 γὰρ ὕπερθεν ἐφ᾽ ὑμέας οὔρεα πάντα
εἰς ἕν ἀναρρήξας οὔθ᾽ υἱῶν οὔτε θυγατρῶν 210
φείσεται, ἀλλ᾿ ἄρα πάντας ὁμῶς ἐφύπερθε
καλύψει
γαίῃ ἀπειρεσίῃ" οὐδ᾽ ἔσσεται ὕμμιν ἄλυξις
ἐς φάος: ἀργαλέος δὲ περὺ ζόφος αἰὲν ἐρύξει.᾽"
Ἃς φάτο" τοὶ δ᾽ ἐπίθοντο Διὸς τρομέοντες
,ὁμοκλήν,
ὑσμίνης δ᾽ ἴσχοντο, χόλον δ᾽ ἀπὸ νόσφι βάλοντο 215
ἀργαλέον, φιλότητα δ᾽ ὁμήθεα ποιήσαντο"
καί ῥ᾽ οἱ μὲν νίσσοντο πρὸς οὐρανόν, οἱ δ᾽ ἁλὸς
εἴσω,
οἱ δ᾽ ἀνὰ γαῖαν ἔμιμνον. ἐὐπτολέμοισι, δ᾽ ᾿Αχαιοῖς
υἱὸς Λαέρταο πύκα φρονέων φάτο μῦθον'
“ὦ κλυτοὶ ᾿Αργείων σημάντορες ὀβριμόθυμοι, 220
νῦν μοι ἐελδομένῳ τεκμήρατε, οἵτινές ἐστε
ἐκπάγλως κρατεροὶ καὶ ἀμύμονες" ἢ γὰρ ἱκάνει
ἔργον ἀναγκαίης" ἀλλὰ μνησώμεθ᾽ [Αρηος,
ἐς δ᾽ ἵππον βαίνωμεν ἐύξοον, ὄφρα κε τέκμωρ
εὕρωμεν πολέμοιο δυσηχέος" ὡς γὰρ ἄμεινον 225
ἔσσεται, ἤν KE δόλῳ καὶ μήδεσιν ἀργαλέοισιν
ἄστυ μέγ᾽ ἐκπέρσωμεν, οὗ εἵνεκα δεῦρο μολόντες
πάσχομεν ἄλγεα πολλὰ φίλης ἀπὸ τηλόθι γαίης.
ἀλλ᾽ ἄγε δή, μένος HU καὶ ἄλκιμον ἐν ἐὰν θέντες
* * * * *
καὶ γάρ Τίς" κατὰ δῆριν a ἀνιηρῇ ὑπ᾽ ἀνάγκῃ 230
θαρσήσας ἀνὰ θυμὸν ἀ ἀμείνονα φῶτα κατέκτα
χειρότερος γεγαώς" μάλα γὰρ μέγα θυμὸν ἀέξει
θάρσος, ὅ πέρ τε μάλιστα πέλει κλέος ἀνθρώποισιν.
502
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XII
For in the strife she only had no part—
And stood between the fighters, and she cried:
“ς Forbear the conflict! O, when Zeus is wroth,
It ill beseems that everlasting Gods
Should fight for men’s sake, creatures of a day:
Else shall ye be all suddenly destroyed ;
For Zeus will tear up all the hills, and hurl
Upon you: sons nor daughters will he spare,
But bury ‘neath one ruin of shattered earth
All. No escape shall ye find thence to light,
In horror of darkness prisoned evermore.”
Dreading Zeus’ menace gave they heed to her,
From strife refrained, and cast away their wrath,
And were made one in peace and amity.
Some heavenward soared, some plunged into the
sea,
On earth stayed some. Amid the Achaean host
Spake in his subtlety Laertes’ son:
“Ὁ valorous-hearted lords of the Argive host,
Now prove in time of need what men ye be,
How passing-strong, how flawless-brave! The hour
Is this for desperate emprise : now, with hearts
Heroic, enter ye yon carven horse,
So to attain the goal of this stern war.
For better it is by stratagem and craft
Now to destroy this city, for whose sake
Hither we came, and still are suffering
Many afflictions far from our own land.
Come then, and let your hearts be stout and strong
For he who in stress of fight hath turned to bay
And snatched a desperate courage from despair,
Oft, though the weaker, slays a mightier foe.
For courage, which is all men’s glory, makes
The heart great. Come then, set the ambush, ye
Boo
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
ἀλλ᾽ ἄγ᾽, ἀριστῆες μὲν ἐὺν λόχον ἐντύνεσθε:
οἱ δ᾽ ἄλλοι Τενέδοιο πρὸς ἱερὸν ἄστυ μολόντες 280
μιμνέμεν, εἰσόκεν ἄμμε ποτὶ πτόλιν εἰρύσσωσι
δήϊοι ἐλπόμενοι Τριτωνίδι δῶρον ἄγεσθαι.
αἰζηῶν δέ τις ἐσθλός, ὃν οὐ σάφα Τρῶες ἴσασι,
μιμνέτω ἄγχ᾽ ἵπτποιο σιδήρεον ἐνθέμενος κῆρ'
καί οἱ πάντα μέλοιτο μάλ᾽ ἔμπεδον, ὁππόσ᾽
ἔγωγε 240
πρόσθ᾽ ἐφάμην: καὶ μή τι περὶ φρεσὶν ἄλλο
νοήσῃ,
ὄφρα μὴ ἀμφαδὰ Τρωσὶν ᾿Αχαιῶν ἔ ἔργα πέληται.᾽
Ὡς φάτο' τὸν δὲ Σίνων ἀπαμείβετο κύδιμος
ἀνὴρ
ἄλλων δειδιότων" μάλα γὰρ μέγα ἔργον ἔμελλεν
ἐκτελέειν" τῷ καί μιν ἐὐφρονέοντ᾽ ἀνὰ θυμὸν 245
εὐρὺς ἀγάσσατο λαός" ὁ δ᾽ ἐν μέσσοισιν ἔειπεν"
ὦ ᾿Οδυσεῦ καὶ πάντες ᾿Αχαιῶν φέρτατοι υἷες,
ἔργον μὲν τόδ᾽ ἔγωγε λιλαιομένοισι τελέσσω,
εἰ καὶ ἀεικίξωσι καὶ εἰ πυρὶ μητιόωνται
βάλλειν ζωὸν ἐόντα" τὸ γάρ νύ μοι evade θυμῴ, 250
ἢ θανέειν δηΐοισιν ὑ vm ἀνδράσιν, ἢ ὑπαλύξαι
᾿Αργείοις μέγα κῦδος ἐελδομένοισι φέροντα."
Ὡς φάτο θαρσαλέως: μέγα δ᾽ ᾿Αργεῖοι κεχά-
povTo:
καί τις ἔφη" “ὡς τῷδε θεὸς μέγα θάρσος ἔδωκε
σήμερον: οὐ γὰρ πρόσθεν ἔην θρασύς: ἀλλά ἑ
δαίμων 255
ὀτρύνει πάντεσσι κακὸν Τρώεσσι γενέσθαι
ἢ νῶιν' νῦν γάρ που ὀΐομαι ἐσσυμένως περ
ἀργαλέου πολέμοιο τέκμωρ ἀΐδηλον ἔσεσθαι."
“Os ap ἔφη κατὰ λαὸν ἀρηϊφίλων TLS ᾿Αχαιῶν"
Νέστωρ δ᾽ αὖθ᾽ ἑτέρωθεν ἐποτρύνων μετέειπε" 260
“νῦν χρειώ, φίλα τέκνα, Bins καὶ θάρσεος ἐσθλοῦ"
νῦν γὰρ τέρμα πόνοιο θεοὶ καὶ ἀμύμονα νίκην
504
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XIll
Which be our mightiest, and the rest shall go
To Tenedos’ hallowed burg, and there abide
Until our foes have haled within their walls
Us with the Horse, as deeming that they bring
A gift unto Tritonis. Some brave man,
One whom the Trojans know not, yet we lack,
To harden his heart as steel, and to abide
Near by the Horse. Let that man bear in mind
Heedfully whatsoe’er I said erewhile.
And let none other thought be in his heart,
Lest to the foe our counsel be revealed.”’
Then, when all others feared, a man far-famed
Made answer, Sinon, marked of destiny
To bring the great work to accomplishment.
Therefore with worship all men looked on him,
The loyal of heart, as in the midst he spake :
“ Odysseus, and all ye Achaean chiefs,
This work for which ye crave will I perform—
Yea, though they torture me, though into fire
Living they thrust me ; for mine heart is fixed
Not to escape, but die by hands of foes,
Except I crown with glory your desire.”
Stoutly he spake: right glad the Argives were ;
And one said: “ How the Gods have given to-day
High courage to this man! He hath not been
Heretofore valiant. Heaven is kindling him
To be the Trojans’ ruin, but to us
Salvation. Now full soon, I trow, we reach
The goal of grievous war, so long unseen.”’
So a voice murmured mid the Achaean host.
Then, to stir up the heroes, Nestor cried :
“Now is the time, dear sons, for courage and
strength :
Now do the Gods bring nigh the end of toil :
595
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
δ. 3 2 , > a v
ἧμιν ἐελδομένοισι φίλας ἐς χεῖρας ἄγουσιν'
> 9 oo. , / yy “
ἀλλ᾽ ἄγε θαρσαλέως πολυχανδέος ἔνδοθεν ἵππου
Baiver’, ἐπεὶ μερόπεσσι κλέος μέγα θάρσος ὀπάζει" 265
ὡς ὄφελον μέγα κάρτος ἐμοῖς ἔτι γούνασι κεῖτο,
οἷον ὅτ᾽ Αἴσονος υἱὸς ἔσω νεὸς ὠκυπόροιο
᾿Αργῴης. καλέεσκεν ἀριστέας, ὁππότ᾽ “ἔγωγε
πρῶτος ἀριστήων καταβήμεναι ὁ ὁρμαίνεσκον,
εἰ μὴ ἄρ᾽ ἀντίθεος Πελίης ἀέκοντά μ᾽ ἔρυκε: 270
νῦν δέ με γῆρας ἔπεισι πολύστονον: ἀλλ᾽ ἄρα
καὶ ὥς,
ὡς νέος ἡβώων, καταβήσομαι ἔνδοθεν ἵππου
θαρσαλέως" θάρσος δὲ κλέος καὶ κῦδος ὁπάσσει.
Ὡς φάμενον προσέειπε πάϊς “ξανθοῦ ᾿Αχιλῆος'
ὦ Νέστορ, σὺ μὲν ἐσσὶ vow προφερέστατος
ἀνδρῶν 275
πάντων" ἀλλά σε “γῆρας ἀμείλιχον ἀμφιμέμαρπεν,
οὐδέ τοι ἔμπεδός ἐ ἐστι βίη χατέοντι πόνοιο"
τῷ σε χρὴ Τενέδοιο πρὸς ἠόνας ἀπονέεσθαι"
ἐς δὲ λόχον νέοι ἄνδρες ἔθ᾽ ὑσμίνης ἀκόρητοι
βησόμεθ᾽, ὡς σύ, γεραιέ, λιλαιομένοις ἐπιτέλλεις." 280
Ὡς φάτο' τοῦ δ᾽ ἄγχιστα κιὼν Νηλήιος υἱὸς
ἀμφοτέρας οἱ ἔκυσσε = χέρας κεφαλήν T ἐφύπερθεν,
οὕνεχ᾽ ὑπέσχετο πρῶτος ἐς εὐρέα δύμεναι ἵ ἵππον,
αὐτὸν δ᾽ αὖτε κέλευε γεραίτερον ἔκτοθι μίμνειν
ἄλλοις σὺν Δαναοῖσιν: ἐέλδετο γὰρ πονέεσθαι' 285
καί ῥά μιν ἰωχμοῖο λελαιόμενον προσέειπεν"
“ἐσσὶ πατρὸς κείνοιο βίῃ καὶ εὔφρονι μύθῳ
pes ᾿Αχιλῆος" ἔολπα δὲ σῇσι χέρεσσιν
᾿Αργείους Πριάμοιο διαπραθέειν κλυτὸν ἄστυ"
ὀψὲ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἐκ καμάτοιο μέγα κλέος ἔσσεται ἡμῖν 290
πολλὰ πονησαμένοισι κατὰ κλόνον ἄλγεα λυγρά"
ἄλγεα μὲν παρὰ ποσσὶ θεοὶ θέσαν ἀνθρώποισιν,
ἐσθλὰ δὲ πολλὸν ἄπωθε' πόνον δ᾽ ἐς μέσσον
ἔλασσαν'
506
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK NII
Now give they victory to our longing hands.
Come, bravely enter ye this cavernous Horse.
For high renown attendeth courage high.
Oh that my limbs were mighty as of old,
When Aeson’s son for heroes called, to man
Swift Argo, when of the heroes foremost I
Would gladly have entered her, but Pelias
The king withheld me in my own despite.
Ah me, but now the burden of years—O nay,
As I were young, into the Horse will I
Fearlessly! Glory and strength shall courage give.”
Answered him golden-haired Achilles’ son :
“ Nestor, in wisdom art thou chief of men;
But cruel age hath caught thee in his grip:
No more thy strength may match thy gallant will;
Therefore thou needs must unto Tenedos’ strand.
We will take ambush, we the youths, of strife
Insatiate still, as thou, old sire, dost bid.”
Then strode the son of Neleus to his side,
And kissed his hands, and kissed the head of him
Who offered thus himself the first of all
To enter that huge horse, being peril-fain,
And bade the elder of days abide without.
Then to the battle-eager spake the old:
“Thy father’s son art thou! Achilles’ might
And chivalrous speech be here! O, sure am I
That by thine hands the Argives shall destroy
The stately city of Priam. At the last,
After long travail, glory shall be ours,
Ours, after toil and tribulation of war ;
The Gods have laid tribulation at men’s feet
But happiness far off, and toil between :
5°7
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
τούνεκα ῥηιδίη μὲν ἐς ἀργαλέην κακότητα
αἰζηοῖσι κέλευθος, ἀνιηρὴ δ᾽ ἐπὶ κῦδος, 295
μέσφ᾽ ὅτε τις στονόεντα πόνον διὰ ποσσὶ TEPHON.
Ὃς φάτο: τὸν δ᾽ ᾿Αχιλῆος ἀμείβετο κύδιμος
υἷος"
“ὦ γέρον, ὡς σύ γ᾽ ἔολπας ἐνὶ φρεσί, τοῦτο πέλοιτο
ἡμῖν εὐχομένοισιν, ἐπεὶ πολὺ λώιον οὕτως"
εἰ δ᾽ ἑτέρως ἐθέλουσι θεοί, καὶ τοῦτο τετύχθω: 800
βουλοίμην γὰρ ὑπ᾽ “Apei ἐὐκλειῶς ἀπολέσθαι,
ἠὲ φυγὼν Τροίηθεν ὀνείδεα πολλὰ φέρεσθαι."
“Os εἰπτὼν ὥμοισι κατ᾽ ἄμβροτα θήκατο τεύχη
πατρὸς ἑοῦ" τοὶ δ᾽ αἶψα καὶ αὐτοὶ θωρήχθησαν
ς , £ oF “ \ 7 /
NP@MWV οἱ ἄριστοι, OTOLS θρασὺς ἔπλετο θυμός. 305
τούς μοι νῦν καθ᾽ ἕκαστον ἀνειρομένῳ σάφα
Μοῦσαι
ἔσπεθ᾽, ὅσοι κατέβησαν ἔσω πολυχανδέος ἵππου"
ὑμεῖς γὰρ πᾶσάν μοι ἐνὶ φρεσὶ θήκατ᾽ ἀοιδήν,
πρίν μοι ἔτ᾽ ἀμφὶ παρειὰ κατασκίδνασθαι ἴουλον,
μύρνης ἐν δαπέδοισι περικλυτὰ μῆλα νέμοντε 810
τρὶς τόσον ρμοῦ ἄπωθεν, ὅσον βοόωντος
ἀκοῦσαι,
᾿Αρτέμιδος περὶ νηὸν ᾿Ελευθερίῳ ἐνὶ κήπῳ,
οὔρεΐ τ᾽ οὔτε λίην χθαμαλῷ οὔθ᾽ ὑψόθι πολλῷ.
Πρῶτος μὲν κατέβαινεν ἐς ἵππον κητώεντα
υἱὸς ᾿Αχίλλῆος, σὺν δὲ κρατερὸς Μενέλαος 315
5 \ i NES /
ἠδ᾽ ᾿Οδυσεὺς ΣΘθένελός τε καὶ ἀντίθεος Διομήδης"
βῆ δὲ Φιλοκτήτης τε καὶ “AvtikXos ἠδὲ Μενε-
σθεύς,
σὺν δὲ Θόας ἐρίθυμος ἰδὲ ξανθὸς Πολυποίτης,
Αἴας τ᾽ Εὐρύπυλός τε καὶ ἰσόθεος Θρασυμήδης,
Μηριόνης τε καὶ ᾿Ιδομενεὺς ἀριδεικέτω ἄμφω, 820
σὺν δ᾽ ap évpperins Ποδαλείριος Εὐρύμαχός τε
Τεῦκρός τ᾽ ἀντίθεος καὶ ᾿Ιάλμενος ὀβριμόθυμος,
Θάλπιος ᾿Αντίμαχός τε μενεπτόλεμός τε Λεοντεύς"
508
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK ΣΙ
‘Therefore for men full easy is the path
To ruin, and the path to fame is hard,
Where feet must press right on through painful toil.’
He spake: replied Achilles’ glorious son :
“Old sire, as thine heart trusteth, be it vouchsafed
In answer to our prayers; for best were this:
But if the Gods will otherwise, be it so.
Ay, gladlier would I fall with glory in fight
Than flee from Troy, bowed neath a load of shame.”
Then in his sire’s celestial arms he arrayed
His shoulders ; and with speed in harness sheathed
Stood the most mighty heroes, in whose hearts
Was dauntless spirit. Tell, ye Queens of Song,
Now man by man the names of all that passed
Into the cavernous Horse ; for ye inspired
My soul with all my song, long ere my cheek
Grew dark with manhood’s beard, what time I fed
My ‘goodly sheep on Smyrna’s pasture-lea,
From Hermus thrice so far as one may hear
A man’s shout, by the fane of Artemis,
In the Deliverer’s Grove, upon a hill
Neither exceeding low nor passing high.
Into that cavernous Horse Achilles’ son
First entered, strong Menelaus followed then,
Odysseus, Sthenelus, godlike Diomede,
Philoctetes and Menestheus, Anticlus,
Thoas and Polypoetes golden-haired,
Aias, Eurypylus, godlike Thrasymede,
Idomeneus, Meriones, far-famous twain,
Podaleirius of spears, Eurymachus,
Teucer the godlike, fierce Ialmenus,
Thalpius, Antimachus, Leonteus staunch,
5°9
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
σὺν δ᾽ Εὔμηλος ἔβη θεοείκελος Εὐρύαλός τε
Δημοφόων τε καὶ ᾿Αμφίμαχος κρατερός τ᾽ ᾿Αγα-
πήνωρ, 325
σὺν δ᾽ ᾿Ακάμας te Μέγης te κραταιοῦ Φυλέος
υἱός"
ἄλλοι δ᾽ αὖ κατέβαινον, ὅσοι ἔσαν ἔξοχ᾽ ἄριστοι,
ὅσσους χάνδανεν ἵ ἵππος €vEoos ἐντὸς ἐέργειν.
ἐν δέ σφιν πύματος κατεβήσατο δῖος ᾿Επειός,
ὅς ῥα καὶ ἵππον ἔτευξεν' ἐπίστατο δ᾽ ᾧ ἐνὶ θυμῷ 380
ἠμὲν ἀναπτύξαι κείνου πτύχας ἠδ᾽ ἐπερεῖσαι:
τοὔνεκα δὴ πάντων βῆ δεύτατος" εἴρυσε δ᾽ εἴσω
κλίμακας, ἧς ἀνέβησαν: ὁ δ᾽ αὖ μάλα πάντ᾽
ἐπερείσας
αὐτοῦ πὰρ κληῖδι καθέζετο" Tol δὲ σιωπῇ
πάντες ἔσαν μεσσηγὺς ὁμῶς νίκης καὶ ὀλέθρου. 335
Οἱ δ᾽ ἄλλοι νήεσσιν ἐπέπλεον εὐρέα πόντον
ἃς κλισίας πρήσαντες, ὅπῃ πάρος αὐτοὶ iavov.
τοῖσι δὲ κοιρανέοντε δύω ᾿κρατερόφρονε φῶτε
σήμαινον, Νέστωρ τε καὶ αἰχμητὴς ᾿Αγαμέμνων'
τοὺς δὲ καὶ ὶ ἐλδομένους καταβήμεναι. ἔνδοθεν ἵππου 340
᾿Αργεῖοι κατέρυξαν, i iv ἐν νήεσσι μένοντες
λαοῖς σημαίνωσιν, ἐπεὶ πολὺ λώιον ἄνδρες
ἔργον ἐποίχονται, ὁπότ᾽ εἰσορόωσιν ἄνακτες"
τοὔνεκ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἔκτοθι μίμνον ἀριστῆές περ ἐόντες.
οἱ δὲ θοῶς ἀφίκοντο πρὸς ἠιόνας Τενέδοιο" 345
εὐνὰς δ᾽ ἔνθ᾽ ἔβαλον κατὰ βένθεος: ἐκ δ᾽ ἔβαν
αὐτοὶ
νηῶν ἐσσυμένως: ἀπὸ δ᾽ ἔκτοθι πείσματ᾽ ἔδησαν
ἠιόνων" αὐτοὶ δὲ παραυτόθι μίμνον ἕκηλοι
δέγμενοι, ὁ ὁππότε πυρσὸς ἐελδομένοισι φανείη.
Οἱ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἐν ἵππῳ ἔσαν δηΐων σχεδόν, ἄλλοτε
μέν που 350
θεῖσθαι ὁ ὀϊόμενοι, ὁτὲ δ᾽ ἱερὸν ἄστυ δαΐξαι"
καὶ τὰ μὲν ἐχλπομένοισιν ἐπήλυθεν ᾿Ηριγένεια.
510
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK Xll
Eumelus, and Euryalus fair as a God,
Amphimachus, Demophoon, Agapenor,
Akamas, Meges stalwart Phyleus’ son—
Yea, more, even all their chiefest, entered in,
So many as that carven Horse could hold.
Godlike Epeius last of all passed in,
The fashioner of the Horse; in his breast lay
The secret of the opening of its doors
And of their closing: therefore last of all
He entered, and he drew the ladders up
Whereby they clomb: then made he all secure,
And set himself beside the bolt. So all
In silence sat ’twixt victory and death.
But the rest fired the tents, wherein erewhile
They slept, and sailed the wide sea in their ships.
Two mighty-hearted captains ordered these,
Nestor and Agamemnon lord of spears.
Fain had they also entered that great Horse,
But all the host withheld them, bidding stay
With them a-shipboard, ordering their array :
For men far better work the works of war
When their kings oversee them; therefore these
Abode without, albeit mighty men.
So came they swiftly unto Tenedos’ shore,
And dropped the anchor-stones, then leapt in haste
Forth of the ships, and silent waited there
Keen-watching till the signal-torch should flash.
But nigh the foe were they inthe Horse, and now
Looked they for death, and now to smite the town;
And on their hopes and fears uprose the dawn.
SIT
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
~ /
Τρῶες δ᾽ εἰσενόησαν ἐπ᾽ ἠόσιν ᾿Ελλησπόντου
καπνὸν ἔτ᾽ ἀΐσσοντα δι᾽ ἠέρος" οὐδ᾽ ἄρα νῆας
δέρκονθ᾽, ai σφιν ἔνεικαν ἀφ᾽ ᾿Ελλάδος αἰνὸν
ὄλεθρον. 355
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γηθόσυνοι δ᾽ apa πάντες ἐπέδραμον αἰγιαλοῖσι
΄ὔ “ιν , » \ 4 v ,
tevye ἐφεσσάμενοι" ἔτι yap δέος audexe θυμόν'
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ἵππον δ᾽ εἰσενόησαν ἐὔξοον. ἀμφὶ δ᾽ ap αὐτῷ
θάμβεον ἑσταότες" μάλα γὰρ μέγα ἔργον ἐτύχθη"
> , Σ ς- , , ᾽ ,
ἀγχόθι δ᾽ atte Σίνωνα δυσάμμορον eicevoncav: 360
καί μιν ἀνειρόμενοι Δαναῶν ὕπερ ἄλλοθεν ἄλλος
, 5 ΄ , > \ | 7
μέσσον ἐκυκλώσαντο περισταδόν' ἀμφὶ δὲ μύθοις
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μειλιχίοις εἴροντο πάρος: μετέπειτα δ᾽ ὁμοκλῇ
σμερδαλέῃ: καὶ πολλὰ δολόφρονα φῶτα δάϊξον
Ἁ 3 \ , 27 e δ Ὁ > A , =
πολλὸν ἔπι χρονον αἰέν" O δ᾽ ἔμπεδον nvte πέτρη 365
μίμνεν ἀτειρέα yul ἐπιειμένος" ὀψὲ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ αὐτοῦ
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oval’ ὁμῶς Kal ῥῖνας ἀπὸ μελέων ἐτάμοντο
πάμπαν ἀεικίζοντες, ὅπως νημερτέα εἴπῃ,
ὅππῃ ἔβαν Δαναοὶ σὺν νήεσιν, ἢ τί καὶ ἵππος
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᾽ , Υ
ἀργαλέως: “Hon γὰρ ἐνέπνευσεν μέγα κάρτος"
τοῖα δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἐν μέσσοισι δολοφρονέων ἀγόρευεν"
“᾿Αργεῖοι μὲν νηυσὶν ὑπὲρ πόντοιο φέβονται 375
μακρῷ ἀκηδήσαντες ἐπὶ πτολέμῳ καὶ avin’
7 ,
Κάλχαντος δ᾽ ἰότητι δαΐφρονι Τριτογενείῃ
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πάγχυ κοτεσσαμένης Τρώων ὕπερ' ἀμφὶ δὲ νόστου
ἐννεσίῃς ᾿Οδυσῆος ἐμοὶ μενέαινον ὄλεθρον, 330
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ὄφρα με δηώσωσι δυσηχέος ἄγχι θαλάσσης
512
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XII
Then marked the Trojans upon Hellespont’s
strand
The smoke upleaping yet through air: no more
Saw they the ships which brought to them from
Greece
Destruction dire. With joy to the shore they ran,
But armed them first, for fear still haunted them.
Then marked they that fair-carven Horse, and stood
Marvelling round, for a mighty work was there.
A hapless-seeming man thereby they spied,
Sinon ; and this one, that one questioned him
Touching the Danaans, as in a great ring
They compassed him, and with unangry words
First questioned, then with terrible threatenings.
Then tortured they that man of guileful soul
Long time unceasing. Firm as a rock abode
The unquivering limbs, the unconquerable will.
His ears, his nose, at last they shore away
In every wise tormenting him, until
He should declare the truth, whither were gone
The Danaans in their ships, what thing the Horse
Concealed within it. He had armed his mind
With resolution, and of outrage foul
Recked not; his soul endured their cruel stripes,
Yea, and the bitter torment of the fire;
For strong endurance into him Hera breathed ;
And still he told them the same guileful tale
“The Argives in their ships flee oversea
Weary of tribulation of endless war.
This horse by Calchas’ counsel fashioned they
For wise Athena, to propitiate
Her stern wrath for that guardian image stol’n!
From Troy. And by Odysseus’ prompting I
Was marked for slaughter, to be sacrificed
To the sea-powers, beside the moaning waves,
1 See note to 1. 37 of this book.
513
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
Ν 3
δαίμοσιν εἰναλίοις. ἐμὲ δ᾽ οὐ λάθον, ἀλλ᾽ ἀλεγεινὰς
/ /
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Eas
3 , lal ‘ \ ,ὔ A
ἀθανάτων βουλῇσι παραὶ ποσὶ κάππεσον ἵππου"
ς \ \ > ’ / ᾽ ἣν /
οἱ δὲ Kal οὐκ ἐθέλοντες ἀναγκαίῃ μὲ ALTTOVTO 385
/ \ ,
ἁζόμενοι μεγάλοιο Διὸς κρατερόφρονα κούρην."
Α ΄
‘Os φάτο κερδοσύνῃσι καὶ οὐ κάμεν ἄλγεσι
θυμόν"
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ἀνδρὸς yap κρατεροῖο κακὴν ὑποτλῆναι ἀνάγκην.
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φῆ δόλον ἔμμεναι αἰνὸν ὑπ᾽ ἐννεσίησιν ᾿Αχαιῶν,
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πάντας δ᾽ ὀτρύνεσκε θοῶς ἐμπρησέμεν ἵππον,
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᾽ὔ e /
Kai νύ κέ of πεπίθοντο καὶ ἐξήλυξαν ὄλεθρον, 395
εἰ μὴ Τριτογένεια, κοτεσσαμένη περὶ θυμῷ
αὐτῷ καὶ Τρώεσσι καὶ ἄστεϊ, γαῖαν ἔνερθεν
θεσπεσίην ἐλέλιξεν ὑπαὶ ποσὶ Λαοκόωντος.
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τοῦ δ᾽ ὁτὲ μὲν φαίνοντο μεμιγμένοι αἵματι πολλῷ
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πολλάκι δ᾽ Eppeov οἷον ὅτε στυφελῆς ἀπὸ πέτρης
εἴβεται ἐξ ὀρέων νιφετῷ πεπαλαγμένον ὕδωρ" 410
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514
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XII
To win them safe return. But their intent
I marked; and ere they spilt the drops of wine,
And sprinkled hallowed meal upon mine head,
Swiftly I fled, and, by the help of Heaven,
I flung me down, clasping the Horse’s feet ;
And they, sore loth, perforce must leave me there
Dreading great Zeus’s daughter mighty-souled.”
In subtlety so he spake, his soul untamed
By pain ; for a brave man’s part is to endure
To the uttermost. And of the Trojans some
Believed him, others for a wily knave
Held him, of whose mind was Laocoon.
Wisely he spake: “ A deadly fraud is this,”
He said, “ devised by the Achaean chiefs!”
And cried to all straightway to burn the Horse,
And know if aught within its timbers lurked.
Yea, and they had obeyed him, and had ’scaped
Destruction ; but Athena, fiercely wroth
With him, the Trojans, and their city, shook
Earth’s deep foundations ‘neath Laocoon’s feet.
Straight terror fell on him, and trembling bowed
The knees of the presumptuous: round his head
Horror of darkness poured ; a sharp pang thrilled
His eyelids ; swam his eyes beneath his brows ;
His eyeballs, stabbed with bitter anguish, throbbed
Even from the roots, and rolled in frenzy of pain.
Clear through his brain the bitter torment pierced
Even to the filmy inner veil thereof ;
Now bloodshot were his eyes, now ghastly green ;
Anon with rheum they ran, as pours a stream
Down from a rugged crag, with thawing snow
Made turbid. As a man distraught he seemed :
915
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
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μαινομένῳ δ᾽ ἤικτο, καὶ ἔδρακε διπλόα πάντα
αἰνὰ μάλα στενάχων. καὶ ἔτι Τρώεσσι κέλευεν,
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δῖα θεά: λευκαὶ δ᾽ ap ὑπὸ βλέφαρ᾽ ἔσταν ὁπωπαὶ
αἵματος ἐξ ὀλοοῖο' περιστενάχιζε δὲ λαὸς 415
4 3
οἰκτείρων φίλον ἄνδρα, καὶ ἀθανάτην ᾿Αγελείην
ἐρριγώς, μὴ δή τι παρήλιτεν ἀφραδίῃσιν,
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οὕνεκα λωβήσαντο δέμας μογεροῖο Yivwvos
ἐλπόμενοι κατὰ θυμὸν ἐτήτυμα πάντ᾽ ἀγορεύσειν"" 420
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ὀψέ περ οἰκτείραντες. ἀγειρόμενοι δ᾽ ἅμα πάντες
σειρὴν ἀμφεβάλοντο θοῶς περιμήκεϊ ἵππῳ
/ ΄ 5 Vip. ake Ὁ 5 \ ’ \
ησάμενοι καθύπερθεν, ἐπεί ῥά ot ἐσθλὸς ᾿Ιὑπειὸς
ἴα xf ΄ nae!
ποσσὶν ὑπὸ βριαροῖσιν ἐὔτροχα Sovpat ἔθηκεν, 425
ὄφρα κεν αἰζηοῖσιν ἐπὶ πτολίεθρον ἕπηται
ἑλκόμενος Τρώων ὑπὸ χείρεσιν. οἱ δ᾽ ἅμα πάντες
e aA a
εἷλκον ἐπιβρίσαντες ἀολλέες, NUTE νῆα
ἕλκωσιν μογέοντες ἔσω ἁλὸς ἠχηέσσης
> Ψ N Ν / /
αἰζηοί, στιβαραὶ δὲ περιστενάχουσι φάλαγγες 430
, / -
τριβόμεναι, δεινὸν δὲ τρόπις TEPLTETPLYVLA
2 \ ? / / 2 δ \ >
ἀμφὶς ὀλισθαίνουσα κατέρχεται εἰς ἁλὸς οἷδμα:
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ὡς of ye σφίσι πῆμα ποτὶ πτόλιν ἔργον ᾿Ε πειοῦ
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πανσυδίῃ μογέοντες avetpvov ἀμφὶ δ᾽ ap αὐτῷ
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πολλὸ;" ἄδην στεφέων ἐριθηλέα κόσμον ἔθεντο: 435
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αὐτοὶ δ᾽ ἐστέψαντο κάρη: μέγα δ᾽ ἤπυον αὐλοὶ
ἀλλήλοις ἐπικεκλομένοι: ἐγέλασσε δ᾽ ᾿νυὼ
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ἄστυ ποτὶ σφέτερον μεγάλης κρήδεμνα πόληος 440
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λυσάμενοι λυγρὸν ἵππον ἐσήγαγον" αἱ δ᾽ ὀλόλυξαν
1 Zimmermann, for ἀγορεύειν of ν.
516
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XII
All things he saw showed double, and he groaned
Fearfully ; yet he ceased not to exhort
The men of Troy, and recked not of his pain.
Then did the Goddess strike him utterly blind.
Stared his fixed eyeballs white from pits of blood ;
And all folk groaned for pity of their friend,
And dread of the Prey-giver, lest he had sinned
In folly against her, and his mind was thus
Warped to destruction—yea, lest on themselves
Like judgment should be visited, to avenge
The outrage done to hapless Sinon’s flesh,
Whereby they hoped to wring the truth from him.
So led they him in friendly wise to Troy,
Pitying him at the last. Then gathered all,
And o’er that huge Horse hastily cast a rope,
And made it fast above; for under its feet
Smooth wooden rollers had Epeius laid,
That, dragged by Trojan hands, it might glide on
Into their fortress. One and all they haled
With multitudinous tug and strain, as when
Down to the sea young men sore-labouring drag
A ship; hard-crushed the stubborn rollers groan,
As, sliding with weird shrieks, the keel descends
Into the sea-surge ; so that host with toil
Dragged up unto their city their own doom,
Epeius’ work. With great festoons of flowers
They hung it, and their own heads did they wreathe,
While answering each other pealed the flutes.
Grimly Enyo laughed, seeing the end
Of that dire war ; Hera rejoiced on high ;
Glad was Athena. When the Trojans came
Unto their city, brake they down the walls,
Their city’s coronal, that the Horse of Death
Might be led in. Troy’s daughters greeted it
517
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
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Τρωιάδες, πᾶσαι δὲ περισταδὸν εἰσορόωσαι
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θάμβεον ὄβριμον ἔργον" ὃ δέ σφισιν ἔκρυφε πῆμα.
Λαοκόων δ᾽ ἔτ᾽ ἔμιμνεν ἐποτρύνων ἑτάροισιν
“ > A A , SPINAL NE ise
ἵππον ἀμαλδῦναι μαλερῷ πυρί: τοὶ δέ οἱ οὔτι 445
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πείθοντ᾽, ἀθανάτων yap ὑποτρομέεσκον ομοκλήν.
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τῷ δ᾽ ἔπι κύντερον ἄλλο θεὰ μεγάθυμος ᾿Αθήνη
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δυστήνοις τεκέεσσιν ἐμήδετο Λαοκόωντος.
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δὴ γάρ που πέλεν ἄντρον ὑπὸ στυφελώδεϊ πέτρῃ
2 UL a ’ / nods a
nepoev, θνητοῖσιν ἀνέμβατον, ᾧ ἔνι θῆρες 450
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σμερδαλέοι ναίΐεσκον ἔτ᾽ οὐλομένοιο γενέθλης
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λαοὶ ἐπικλείουσιν ἔσω ἁλὸς ἀντια 'Γροίης.
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ἔνθεν ἀναστήσασα βίην καλέεσκε δρακόντων
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νῆσον ὅλην ἐτίναξαν: ἐπεσμαράγησε δὲ πόντος
7 a ot ᾽
νισσομένων, καὶ κῦμα διΐστατο: τοὶ δ᾽ ἐφέροντο
SEN / »Μ \ / /
αἰνὸν λιχμώωντες" ἔφριξε δὲ κήτεα πόντου"
’ \ ) Μ / / _—— 6 / /,
ἀμφὶ & apa στενάχοντο μέγα Ἐξάνθοιο θύγατρες
Νύμφαι καὶ Σιμόεντος" ἀπ᾽ Οὐλύμποιο δὲ Κύπρις 460
” \ 3. ἊΨ a “ \ bd 7
ἄχνυτο" τοὶ δ᾽ ἄφαρ ἷξον ὅπῃ θεὸς ὀτρύνεσκε,
θήγοντες βλοσυρῇσι γενειάσι λοιγὸν ὀδόντων
δυστήνοις ἐπὶ παισί: κακὴ δ᾽ ἐπενίσσετο pula
Τρῶας, ὅτ᾽ εἰσενόησαν ἀνὰ πτόλιν αἰνὰ πέλωρα"
> / 2 “ 70) > / ” 9
οὐδέ τις αἰζηῶν οὐδ᾽ εἰ μένος ἄτρομος HEV 465
a ” / \ > / δ», -“
μεῖναι ἔτλη: πάντας γὰρ ἀμείλιχον ἄμφεχε δεῖμα
“ 7 a
θῆρας ἀλευομένους, ὀδύνη δ᾽ ἔχεν: ἂν δὲ γυναῖκες
οἴμωξον" καί πού τις ἑῶν ἐπελήσατο τέκνων
᾽ \ > / \ / > \ Ν ’͵
αὐτὴ ἀλευομένη στυγερὸν μόρον: ἀμφὶ δὲ Τροίη
4 3) 9g. f \ Sy Δ 3 ἃ Saf
EOTEV ETTETOUMEVOV’ πολλοὶ ὃ apap εἰς ἕν LOVTES 470
γυῖα περιδρύφθησαν' ἐνεστείνοντο δ᾽ ἀγυιαῖς
ἀμφιπεριπτώσσοντες. ἔλειπτο δὲ μοῦνος ἄπωθεν
518
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XII
With shouts of salutation ; marvelling all
Gazed at the mighty work—where lurked their
doom.
But still Laocoon ceased not to exhort
His countrymen to burn the Horse with fire:
They would not hear, for dread of the Gods’ wrath.
But then a yet more hideous punishment
Athena visited on his hapless sons.
A cave there was, beneath a rugged cliff
Exceeding high, unscalable, wherein
Dwelt fearful monsters of the deadly brood
Of Typhon, in the rock-clefts of the isle
Calydna that looks Troyward from the sea.
Thence stirred she up the strength of serpents
twain,
And summoned them to Troy. By her uproused
They shook the island as with earthquake: roared
The sea ; the waves disparted as they came.
Onward they swept with fearful-flickering tongues :
Shuddered the very monsters of the deep:
Xanthus’ and Simois’ daughters moaned aloud,
The River-nymphs: the Cyprian Queen looked
down
In anguish from Olympus. Swiftly they came
Whither the Goddess sped them: with grim jaws
Whetting their deadly fangs, on his hapless sons
Sprang they. All Trojans panic-stricken fled,
Seeing those fearsome dragons in their town.
No man, though ne’er so dauntless theretofore,
Dared tarry ; ghastly dread laid hold on all
Shrinking in horror from the monsters. Screamed
The women; yea, the mother forgat her child,
Fear-frenzied as she fled: all Troy became
One shriek of fleers, one huddle of jostling limbs :
The streets were choked with cowering fugitives.
Alone was left Laocoon with his sons,
519
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
Λαοκόων ἅμα παισί: πέδησε yap οὐλομένη Κὴρ
Ν , e , Cee 3 e ΄, »
καὶ θεός. οἱ δέ οἱ υἷας ὑποτρομέοντας ὄλεθρον
’ / > A > / /
ἀμφοτέρους ὀλοῆσιν ἀνηρεΐψαντο γένυσσι 475
\ , ’ / ΟΝ / ΣΧ of ϑὺ 3 ,ὔ
πατρὶ φίλῳ ὀρέγοντας ἑὰς χέρας" οὐδ᾽ ὅ γ᾽ ἀμύνειν
ἔσθενεν: ἀμφὶ δὲ Τρῶες ἀπόπροθεν εἰσορόωντες
nan e \ , , e > aS, hee JUNE ) 4
κλαῖον ὑπὸ Kpadinat τεθηπότες. οἱ δ᾽ ap ᾿Αθήνης
4 , 9 > / \ 2 \
προφρονέως τελέσαντες ἀπεχθέα Τρωσὶν ἐφετμὴν
” ».. 7 e δὴ , lal > n
ἄμφω ἀϊστώθησαν ὑπὸ χθόνα: τῶν δ᾽ ETL σῆμα 480
φαίνεθ᾽, ὅπου κατέδυσαν ἐς ἱερὸν ᾿Απόλλωνος
Περγάμῳ ἐν ζαθέῃ. προπάροιθε δὲ Τρώιοι vies
παίδων Λαοκόωντος ἀμείλιχα δῃωθέντων
τεῦξαν ἅμ᾽ ἀγρόμενοι κενεὸν τάφον, ᾧ ἔπι δάκρυ
a \ ? a ¢e > bY δ \ /
NEVE πατὴρ ἀλαοίσιν UT ομμασιν' ἀμφὶ δὲ Μή ΤΉΡ 485
πολλὰ κινυρομένη κενεῷ ἐπαὕὔτεε τύμβῳ
/ New: , ΝΜ Fee
ἐλπομένη τι καὶ ἄλλο κακώτερον, ἔστενε ὃ ἄτην
ἀνέρος ἀφραδίῃς, μακάρων δ᾽ ὑπεδείδιε μῆνιν"
ὡς δ᾽ ὅτ᾽ ἐρημαίην περιμύρεται ἀμφὶ καλιὴν
πολλὰ μάλ᾽ ἀχνυμένη κατὰ δάσκιον ἄγκος ἀηδών, 490
ἧς ἔτι νήπια τέκνα, πάρος κελαδεινὸν ἀείδειν,
δάμναθ'᾽ ὑπὸ γναθμοῖσι μένος βχλοσυροῖο δράκοντος,
μητέρι δ᾽ ἄλγεα θῆκε, καὶ ἄσπετον ἀσχαλόωσα
μύρεται ἀμφὶ δόμον κενεὸν μάλα κεκληγυΐϊα"
ἃ o , A , eS ὙΠ
ὡς ἥ γε στενάχιξζε λυγρῷ τεκέων ἐπ ὀλέθρῳ 495
μυρομένη κενεῷ περὶ σήματι" σὺν δέ οἱ ἄλλο
πῆμα μάλ᾽ ἀργαλέον πόσιος πέλεν ἀμφ᾽ ἀλαοῖο.
Καί ῥ᾽ ἡ μὲν φίλα τέκνα καὶ ἀνέρα κωκύεσκε
τοὺς μὲν ἀποφθιμένους τὸν δ᾽ ἄμμορον ἠελίοιο"
Τρῶες δ᾽ ἀθανάτοισιν ἐπεντύνοντο θυηλὰς 500
λείβοντες μέθυ λαρόν, ἐπεί σφισιν ἧτορ ἐώλπει
λευγαλέου πολέμοιο βαρὺ σθένος ἐξυπαλύξειν.
ἱερὰ δ᾽ οὐ καίοντο, πυρὸς δ᾽ ἐσβέννυτ᾽ ἀὐτμή,
ὄμβρου ὅπως καθύπερθε δυσηχέος ἐσσυμένοιο"
520
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XII
For death’s doom and the Goddess chained their feet.
Then, even as from destruction shrank the lads,
Those deadly fangs had seized and ravined up
The twain, outstretching to their sightless sire
Agonized hands: no power to help had he.
Trojans far off looked on from every side
Weeping, all dazed. And, having now fulfilled
Upon the Trojans Pallas’ awful hest,
Those monsters vanished ‘neath the earth; and still
Stands their memorial, where into the fane
They entered of Apollo in Pergamus
The hallowed. Therebefore the sons of Troy
Gathered, and reared a cenotaph for those
Who miserably had perished. Over it
Their father from his blind eyes rained the tears:
Over the empty tomb their mother shrieked,
Boding the while yet worse things, wailing o'er
The ruin wrought by folly of her lord,
Dreading the anger of the Blesséd Ones.
As when around her void nest in a brake
In sorest anguish moans the nightingale
Whose fledglings, ere they learned her plaintive
song,
A hideous serpent’s fangs have done to death,
And left the mother anguish, endless woe,
And bootless crying round her desolate home ;
So groaned she for her children’s wretched death,
So moaned she o’er the void tomb; and her pangs
Were sharpened by her lord’s plight stricken blind.
While she for children and for husband moaned—
These slain, he of the sun’s light portionless—
The Trojans to the Immortals sacrificed,
Pouring the wine. Their hearts beat high with hope
To escape the weary stress of woeful war.
Howbeit the victims burned not, and the flames
Died out, as though ‘neath heavy-hissing rain ;
521
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
καπνὸς δ᾽ αἱματόεις ἀνεκήκιε" μηρὰ δὲ πάντα 505
πῖπτε χαμαὶ τρομέοντα" κατηρείποντο δὲ βωμοί"
σπονδαὶ δ᾽ αἷμα γένοντο" θεῶν δ᾽ ἐξέρρεε δάκρυ,
καὶ νηοὶ δεύοντο λύθρῳ" στοναχαὶ δ᾽ ἐφέροντο
ἔκποθεν am poparoto" περισσείοντο δὲ μακρὰ
τείχεα καὶ πύργοι μεγάλ᾽ ἔκτυπον, ὡς ἀχέοντες' 1 510
αὐτόματοι 7 ap Ὁ ὀχῆες ἀνωίγνυντο πυλάων
αἰνὸν κεκλήγοντες" ἐπεστενάχοντο δὲ λυγρὸν
ἐννύχιοι ὄρνιθες ἐρημαῖον βοόωντες"
ἄστρα δὲ πάντ᾽ ἐφύπερθε θεοδμήτοιο πόληος
ἀχλὺς ἀμφεκάλυψε καὶ ἀννεφέλου περ ἐόντος 515
οὐρανοῦ αἰγλήεντος" ἀπαυαίνοντο δὲ δάφναι
πὰρ νηῷ Φοίβοιο πάρος θαλεραί περ ἐοῦσαι"
ἐν δὲ λύκοι καὶ θῶες ἀναιδέες ὠρύσαντο
ἔντοσθεν πυλέων: μάλα μυρία δ᾽ ἄλλα φαάνθη
σήματα Δαρδανίδῃσι, καὶ ἄστεϊ πῆμα φέροντα. 520
ἀλλ᾽ ov Set’ ἀλεγεινὸν ὑπὸ Τρώων φρένας ἧξε
δερκομένων ἀλεγεινὰ τεράατα πάντα κατ᾽ ἄστυ"
Κῆρες γὰρ πάντων νόον ἔκβαλον, ὄφρ᾽ ἐπὶ δαιτὶ
πότμον ἀναπλήσωσιν ὑπ᾽ ᾿Αργείοισι δαμέντες.
Οἴη δ᾽ ἔμπεδον ἦ ap ἔχεν πινυτόν τε νόημα 525
Κασσάνδρη, τῆς οὔποτ᾽ ἔπος γένετ᾽ ἀκράαντον,
ἀλλ᾽ ap’ ἐτήτυμον ἔσκεν'" ἀκούετο δ᾽ ἔκ τινος αἴσης
ὡς “ἀνεμώλιον αἰέν, ἵν᾽ ἄλγεα Τρωσὶ γένηται.
ἡ ῥ᾽ ὅτε σήματα λυγρὰ κατὰ πτόλιν εἰσενόησεν
εἰς ἕν ἅμ᾽ ἀΐσσοντα, μέγ᾽ ἴαχεν, εὖτε λέαινα, 530
ἥν ῥά τ᾽ ἐνὶ ξυλόχοισιν ἀνὴρ λελιημένος ἄγρης
οὐτάση ἠὲ βάλῃ, τῆς δ᾽ ἐν φρεσὶ μαίνεται ἦτορ
πάντῃ ἀν᾽ οὔρεα μακρά, πέλει δέ οἱ ἄσχετος ἀλκή;
ὡς ἄρα μαιμώωσα θεόπροπον ἔνδοθεν 7 ἦτορ
ἤλυθεν ἐ εκ μεγάροιο" κόμαι δέ οἱ ἀμφεκέχυντο 535
ὦμοις ἀργυφέοισι μετάφρενον ἄχρις ἰοῦσαι"
1 Zimmermann, for ἐτεόν περ οὗ ν.
522
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XII
And writhed the smoke-wreaths blood-red, and the
thighs
Quivering from crumbling altars fell to earth.
Drink-offerings turned to blood, Gods’ statues wept,
And temple-walls dripped gore: along them rolled
Echoes of groaning out of depths unseen ;
And all the long walls shuddered: from the towers
Came quick sharp sounds like cries of men in pain ;
And, weirdly shrieking, of themselves slid back
The gate-bolts. Screaming “ Desolation !”’ wailed
The birds of night. Above that God-built burg
A mist palled every star; and yet no cloud
Was in the flashing heavens. By Phoebus’ fane
Withered the bays that erst were lush and green.
Wolves and foul-feeding jackals came and howled
Within the gates. Ay, other signs untold
Appeared, portending woe to Dardanus’ sons
And Troy: yet no fear touched the Trojans’ hearts
Who saw all through the town those portents dire :
Fate crazed them all, that midst their revelling
Slain by their foes they might fill up their doom.
One heart was steadfast, and one soul clear-eyed,
Cassandra. Never her words were unfulfilled ;
Yet was their utter truth, by Fate’s decree,
Ever as idle wind in the hearers’ ears,
That no bar to Troy’s ruin might be set.
She saw those evil portents all through Troy
Conspiring to one end ; loud rang her cry,
As roars a lioness that mid the brakes
A hunter has stabbed or shot, whereat her heart
Maddens, and down the long hills rolls her roar,
And her might waxes tenfold ; so with heart
Aflame with prophecy came she forth her bower.
Over her snowy shoulders tossed her hair
523
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
ὄσσε δέ οἱ μάρμαιρεν ἀναιδέα: τῆς δ᾽ ὑπὸ δειρή,
ἐξ ἀνέμων ἅτε πρέμνον, ἄδην ἐλελίζετο πάντῃ.
καί ῥα μέγα -στονάχησε καὶ ἴαχε παρθένος eo Ora
“ἃ δειλοί, νῦν βῆμεν ὑ ὑπὸ ζόφον" ἀμφὶ γὰρ ἡμῖν ὅ40
ἔμπλειον πυρὸς ἄστυ καὶ αἵματος ἠδὲ καὶ οἴτου
λευγαλέου: πάντῃ δὲ τεράατα δακρυόεντα
ἀθάνατοι φαίνουσι, καὶ ἐν ποσὶ τέρματ᾽ ὀλέθρου.
σχέτλιοι, οὐδέ TL ἴστε κακὸν μόρον, ἀλλ᾽ ἅμα
πάντες
χαίρετ᾽ ἄρ ᾿ ἀφραδέοντες, ov [ἡγάγετ᾽ ἐς πόλιν αὐτοὶ
᾿Αργείων λυγρὸν ἵππον }}] ὃ γὰρ μέγα πῆμα
κέκευθεν. 545
ἀλλά μοι ov πείθεσθ᾽, οὐδ᾽ εἰ μάλα πόλλ᾽ ἀγορεύω,
οὕνεκ᾽ ᾿Εριννύες ἄκρα γάμου κεχολωμέναι αἰνοῦ
ἀμφ᾽ Ἑλένης, καὶ Κῆρες ἀμείλεχοι ἀΐσσουσι
πάντῃ ἀνὰ πτολίεθρον: ἐπ᾽ εἰλαπίνῃ δ᾽ ἀλεγεινῇ
δαίνυσθ᾽ ὕστατα δόρπα κακῷ πεφορυγμένα λύθρῳ 550
ἤδη ἐπιψαύοντες ὁμὴν ὁδὸν εἰδώλοισι."
Καί τις κερτομέων ὀλοφώιον ἔςφατο μῦθον'
“ὦ κούρη ἹΠριάμοιο, τί ἤ νύ σε μάργος ἀνώγει
ens κακοφραδίη τὶ ἀνεμώλια πάντ᾽ ἀγορεύειν;
οὐδέ σε παρθενικὴ καὶ ἀκήρατος ἀμφὲ ἔχει αἰδώς, 556
ἀλλά σε λύσσ᾽ ὀλοὴ περιδέδρομε: τῷ νύ σε πάντες
αἰὲν ἀτιμάζουσι βροτοὶ πολύμυθον ἐοῦσαν.
ἔρρε καὶ ᾿Αργείοισι κακὴν προτιόσσεο φήμην
ἠδ᾽ αὐτῇ: τάχα γάρ σε καὶ ἀργαλεώτερον ἄλγος
μίμνει Λαοκόωντος ἀναιδέος" οὐ γὰρ ἔοικεν 560
ἀθανάτων φίλα δῶρα δαϊξέμεν ἀφραδέοντα."
Ὡς ἄρ᾽ ἔφη Τρώων τις ἀνὰ πτόλιν" ὡς δὲ καὶ
ἄλλοι
κούρην μωμήσαντο καὶ οὐ φάσαν ἄρτια βάζειν,
οὕνεκ᾽ ἄρα σφίσι πῆμα καὶ ἀργαλέον μένος Αἴσης
ἄγχι παρειστήκει" τοὶ δ᾽ οὐ νοέοντες ὄλεθρον 565
1 Stadtmueller’s suggested supplementum of lacuna.
524
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XII
Streaming far down, and wildly blazed her eyes.
Her neck writhed, like a sapling in the wind
Shaken, as moaned and shrieked that noble maid :
“QO wretches ! into the Land of Darkness now
We are passing ; for all round us full of fire
And blood and dismal moan the city is.
Everywhere portents of calamity
Gods show: destruction yawns before your feet.
Fools! ye know not your doom : still ye rejoice
With one consent in madness, who to Troy
Have brought the Argive Horse where ruin lurks!
Oh, ye believe not me, though ne’er so loud
I cry! The Erinyes and the ruthless Fates,
For Helen’s spousals madly wroth, through Troy
Dart on wild wings. And ye, ye are banqueting
there
In your last feast, on meats befouled with gore,
When now your feet are on the Path of Ghosts!”
Then cried a scofling voice an ominous word:
“Why doth a raving tongue of evil speech,
Daughter of Priam, make thy lips to cry
Words empty as wind? No maiden modesty
With purity veils thee: thou art compassed round
With ruinous madness ; therefore all men scorn
Thee, babbler! Hence, thine evil bodings speak
To the Argives and thyself! For thee doth wait
Anguish and shame yet bitterer than befell
Presumptuous Laocoon. Shame it were
In folly to destroy the Immortals’ gift.”
So scoffed a Trojan: others in like sort
Cried shame on her, and said she spake but lies,
Saying that ruin and Fate’s heavy stroke
Were hard at hand. They knew not their own
doom,
525
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
κείνην KEPTOMEOVTES ἀπέτρεπον εὐρέος ἵππου"
ἢ γάρ οἱ μενέαινε διὰ ξύλα πάντα κεδάσσαι,
ἠὲ καταπρῆσαι μαλερῷ Tupi: τοὔνεκα πεύκης
αἰθομένης ἔτι δαλὸν ἀπ᾽ ἐσχαρεῶνος ἑλοῦσα
ἔσσυτο μαιμώωσ᾽" ἑτέρῃ δ᾽ ἐν χειρὶ φέρεσκεν 570
ἀμφίτυπον βουπλῆγα: λυγροῦ δ᾽ ἐπεμαίετο ἵππου,
ὄφρα λόχον στονόεντα καὶ ἀμφαδὸν ἀθρήσωσι
Τρῶες: τοὶ δέ οἱ αἶψα χερῶν ἀπὸ νόσφι βαλόντες
πῦρ ὀλοόν τε σίδηρον, ἀκηδέες ἐντύνοντο
δαῖτα λυγρήν: μάλα γάρ σφας ἐπήιεν ὑστατίη νύξ. 575
᾿Αργεῖοι δ᾽ ἔντοσθεν ἐγήθεον εἰσαΐοντες
δαινυμένων ὅμαδον κατὰ "Γλιον οὐδ᾽ ἀλεγόντων
Κασσάνδρης, τήν ῥ᾽ αὐτοὶ ἐθάμβεον, ὡς ἐτέτυκτο
ἀτρεκέως εἰδυῖα νόον καὶ μῆτιν ᾿Αχαιῶν.
Ἢ δ᾽ ἅτε πόρδαλις ἔσσυτ᾽ ἐν οὔρεσιν ἀσχα-
λόωσα, ὅ80
ἥν τ᾽ ἀπὸ μεσσαύλοιο κύνες μογεροί τε νομῆες
σεύοντ᾽ ἐσσυμένως, ἡ δ᾽ ἄγριον ἦτορ ἔχουσα
ἐντροπαλιζομένη ἀναχάζεται τειρομένη περ"
ἃ Ὁ » > / 7 > / / a
ὡς ἥ γ᾽ εὐρέος ἵππου ἀπέσσυτο τειρομένη κῆρ
Τρώων ἀμφὶ φόνῳ' μάλα γὰρ μέγα δέχνυτο
πῆμα. 585
526
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XII
And mocked, and thrust her back from that huge
Horse :
For fain she was to smite its beams apart,
Or burn with ravening fire. She snatched a brand
Of blazing pine-wood from the hearth and ran
In fury : in the other hand she bare
A two-edged halberd: on that Horse of Doom
She rushed, to cause the Trojans to behold
Witb their own eyes the ambush hidden there.
But straightway from her hands they plucked and
flung
Afar the fire and steel, and careless turned
To the feast; for darkened o’er them their last
night.
Within the horse the Argives joyed to hear
The uproar of Troy’s feasters setting at naught
Cassandra, but they marvelled that she knew
So well the Achaeans’ purpose and device.
As mid the hills a furious pantheress,
Which from the steading hounds and shepherd-folk
Drive with fierce rush, with savage heart turns back
Even in departing, galled albeit by darts :
So from the great Horse fled she, anguish-racked
For Troy, for all the ruin she foreknew.
527
AOTOS TPIZKAIAEKATOS
Οἱ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἀνὰ πτολίεθρον ἐδόρπεον" ἐν δ᾽ ἄρα τοῖσιν
αὐλοὶ ὁμῶς σύριγξι μέγ᾽ ἤπυον' ἀμφὶ δὲ πάντῃ
μολπὴ ἐπ᾽ ὀρχηθμοῖσι καὶ ἄκριτος ἔσκεν arn
δαινυμένων, οἵη τε πέλει παρὰ δαιτὶ καὶ οἴνῳ.
ὧδε δέ τις χείρεσσι λαβὼν ἔμπλειον ἄλεισον 5
πῖνεν ἀκηδέστως" βαρύθοντο δέ οἱ φρένες ἔνδον
ἀμφὶ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ὀφθαλμοὶ στρεφεδίνεον: ἄλλο δ᾽ ἐπ᾽
ἄλλῳ
ἐκ στόματος προΐεσκεν ἔπος κεκολουμένα βάζων'
Kab ῥά οἱ ἐν μεγάρῳ κειμήλια καὶ δόμος αὐτὸς
φαίνετο κινυμένοισιν ἐοικότα" πάντα δ᾽ ἐώλχπει 10
᾽ ip 3
ἀμφιπεριστρωφᾶσθαι ἀνὰ πτόλιν: ὄσσε δ᾽ a
ἀχλὺς
ἄμφεχεν' ἀκρήτῳ γὰρ ἀμαλδύνονται ὁ ὀπωπαὶ
καὶ νόος αἰζηῶν, ὁπότ᾽ ἐς φρένα χανδὸν | ἵκηται"
καί ῥα καρηβαρέων τοῖον ποτὶ μῦθον ἐ ἔειπεν'
τ ῥ᾽ ἅλιον Δαναοὶ πουλὺν στρατὸν ἐνθάδ᾽
ἄγειραν, 15
σχέτλιοι, οὐδ᾽ ἐτέλεσσαν ὅσα φρεσὶ μηχανόωντο,
ἀλλ᾽ αὕτως ἀπόρουσαν ἀπ᾽ ἄστεος ἡμετέροιο
νηπιάχοις παίδεσσιν ἐ ἐοικότες ἠὲ γυναιξίν."
Ὡς ὦ ἄρ᾽ ἔφη Τρώων τις ἐεργόμενος φρένας οἴνῳ,
νήπιος: οὐδ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἐφράσσατ᾽ ἐπὶ προθύροισιν
ὄλεθραν. 20
528
BOOK XIII
How Troy in the night was taken and sacked nith
γα and slaughter.
So feasted they through Troy, and in their midst
Loud pealed the flutes and pipes: on every hand
Were song and dance, laughter and cries confused
Of banqueters beside the meats and wine.
They, lifting in their hands the beakers brimmed,
Recklessly drank, till heavy of brain they grew,
Till rolled their fluctuant eyes. Now and again
Some mouth would babble the drunkard’s broken
words.
The household gear, the very roof and walls
Seemed as they rocked: all things they looked on
seemed
Whirled in wild dance. About their eyes a veil
Of mist dropped, for the drunkard’s sight is dimmed,
And the wit dulled, when rise the fumes to the brain :
And thus a heavy-headed feaster cried :
“For naught the Danaans mustered that great host
Hither! Fools, they have wrought not their intent,
But with hopes unaccomplished from our town
Like silly boys or women have they fled.”
So cried a Trojan wit-befogged with wine,
Fool, nor discerned destruction at the doors.
529
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
Edte yap ὕπνος ἔρυκεν ἀνὰ πτόλιν ἄλλοθεν ἄλλον
οἴνῳ ἀναπλήθοντας ἀπειρεσίῳ καὶ ἐδωδῇ,
δὴ TOT ἄρ᾽ αἰθαλόεντα, Σίνων ἀνὰ πυρσὸν ἄειρε
δεικνὺς ᾿Αργείοισι πυρὸς σέλας. ἀμφὶ δέ οἱ κῆρ
ἄσπετα πορφύρεσκε κατὰ φρένα, μή μιν ἴδωνται
Τρῶες ἐύσθενέες, τάχα δ᾽ ἀμφαδὰ πάντα γένηται"
ἀλλ οἱ μὲν λεχέεσι πανύστατον ὕ ὕπνον ἴαυον
πολλῷ ὑπ᾽ ἀκρήτῳ βεβαρηότες" οἱ δ᾽ ἐσιδόντες
ἐκ Τενέδου νήεσσιν ἐπὶ πλόον ἐντύνοντο.
Αὐτὸς δ᾽ ἄγχ᾽ ἵπποιο Σίνων κίεν: hea δ᾽ ἄῦσεν,
ἧκα μάλ᾽, ὡς μήπου τις ἐνὶ Τρώεσσι πύθηται,
> > Φ' A « ὔ -- ᾽ Ἂ ,
ἀλλ᾽ οἷοι Δαναῶν ἡγήτορες, ὧν ἀπὸ νόσφιν
ὕπνος ἄδην πεπότητο λιλαιομένων πονέεσθαι.
PINE Cr wv ΒΡ 2 / > ».» an
οἵ pa οἱ ἔνδον ἐόντες ἐπέκλυον, ἐς δ᾽ ᾽Οδυσῆα
Ὁ ᾽
πάντες ἐπ᾿ οὔατ᾽ ἔνευσαν" ὁ δέ o peas OT PUVED KEV
ἧκα καὶ ἀτρεμέως ἐκβήμεναι" οἱ δ᾽ ἐπίθοντο
ἐς μόθον ὁ ὀτρύνοντι, καὶ ἐξ ἵπποιο χαμᾶζε
ὥρμαινον προνέεσθαι: ὁ δ᾽ ἰδρείῃσιν ἔρυκε
πάντας ἅμ᾽ ἐσσυμένους" αὐτὸς δ᾽ ἄρα χερσὶ θοῆσιν
ἵππου δουρατέοιο μάλ᾽ ἀτρέμας ἔνθα καὶ ἔνθα
\ 7. Je vi ς “Ὁ A
πλευρὰ διεξώϊξεν ἐϊμμελίῃ, ὑπ᾽ “Ered.
\ DD be / / “ > \ \ ie
βαιὸν δ᾽ ἐξανέδυ σανίδων ὕπερ, ἀμφὶ δὲ πάντῃ
Tp@as παπταίνεσκεν, ἐγρηγορότ᾽ εἴπου ἴδουτο"
e - ἂν > / nr / 3
ὡς ὃ ὅταν ἀργαλέῳ λιμῷ βεβολημένος TOP
ἐξ ὁ ὀρέων ἔλθῃσι λύκος χατέων μάλ᾽ ἐδωδῆς
ποίμνης πρὸς σταθμὸν εὐρύν, ἀλευόμενος δ᾽ ἄρα
φῶτας
καὶ κύνας, οἵ ῥά τε μῆλα φυλασσέμεναι μεμάασι,
βαίνῃ ποσσὶν ἕκηλος ὑπὲρ ποιμνήιον ἕρκος"
ὡς ᾿Οδυσεὺς ἵ ἵπποιο κατήιεν" ἀμφὶ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ αὐτῷ
ὄβριμοι ἄλλοι ἕποντο Πανελλήνων βασιλῆες.
νισσόμενοι κλίμαξι κατὰ στίχας, ao περ ᾿Επειὸς
τεῦξεν a ἀριστήεσσιν ἐὐσθενέεσσι κέλευθα
ἵππον ἐσερχομένοισι καὶ ἐξ ἵπποιο κιοῦσιν.
430
25
35
40
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XIII
When sleep had locked his fetters everywhere
Through Troy on folk fulfilled of wine and meat,
Then Sinon lifted high a blazing torch
To show the Argive men the splendour of fire.
But fearfully the while his heart beat, lest
The men of Troy might see it, and the plot
Be suddenly revealed. But on their beds
Sleeping their last sleep lay they, heavy with wine.
The host saw, and from Tenedos set sail.
Then nigh the Horse drew Sinon: softly he called,
Full softly, that no man of Troy might hear,
But only Achaea’s chiefs, far from whose eyes
Sleep hovered, so athirst were they for fight.
They heard, and to Odysseus all inclined
Their ears: he bade them urgently go forth
Softly and fearlessly ; and they obeyed
That battle-summons, pressing in hot haste
To leap to earth: but in his subtlety
He stayed them from all thrusting eagerly forth.
But first himself with swift unfaltering hands,
Helped of Epeius, here and there unbarred
The ribs of the Horse of beams: above the planks
A little he raised his head, and gazed around
On all sides, if he haply might descry
One Trojan waking yet. As when a wolf,
With hunger stung to the heart, comes from the hills,
And ravenous for flesh draws nigh the flock
Penned in the wide fold, slinking past the men
And dogs that watch, all keen to ward the sheep,
Then o’er the fold-wall leaps with soundless feet ;
So stole Odysseus down from the Horse: with him
Followed the war-fain lords of Hellas’ League,
Orderly stepping down the ladders, which
Epeius framed for paths of mighty men,
For entering and for passing forth the Horse,
531
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
Les, a Mv
οἵ pa TOT ἀμφ᾽ αὐτῇσι κατήιον ἄλλοθεν ἄλλοι,
/ / ¢
θαρσαλέοις σφήκεσσιν ἐοικότες, οὕσ τε κλονήσῃ δ
e Se ΄ > / A
δρυτόμος, οἱ δ᾽ ἅμα πάντες ὀρινόμενοι περὶ θυμῷ
ὄζου ὑπεκπροχέονται, ὅτε κτύπον εἰσαΐουσιν'
a a's) “ ’ ,
ὡς οἵ γ᾽ ἐξ ἵπποιο μεμαότες ἐξεχέοντο
ὅ / , Sek > > yd Lal
ἐς Τρώων πτολίεθρον ἐὔκτιτον" ἐν δ᾽ ἄρα τοῖσι
πάλλετ᾽ ἐνὶ στέρνοισι KEap ἢ ii Ῥ 60
* a * ΄ δ᾽ ε \ »
τάχα δ᾽ οἱ μὲν ἔναιρον
δυσμενέας ἕ ᾿ τ ᾿ εἰ +
5) , >
* τοὶ δ᾽ ἔτ᾽ ἔρεσσον ἔσω ἁλός" ai δ᾽ ἐφέροντο
a ig \ / a / > ow ΄
νῆες ὑπὲρ μέγα χεῦμα: Θέτις δ᾽ ἴθυνε κέλευθα
5 oA / 9 2. ἦν 3 a
οὖρον ἐπιπροϊεῖσα" νόος δ᾽ ap tatvet’ ᾿Αχαιῶν"
/ ’ / 3 , ¢ ,
καρπαλίμως δ᾽ ἐλθόντες ἐπ᾽ yovas “λλησπόντου,
y ’ 9 / / \ b eee A /
ἔνθ᾽ αὖθις στήσαντο νέας, σὺν δ᾽ ἄρμενα πάντα 65
& / δ δ
εἷλον ἐπισταμένως, ὅσα νήεσιν αἰὲν ἕπονται.
> 3 ᾽ , ᾽ /
αὐτοὶ δ᾽ aiw ἐκβάντες ἐς Ἴλιον ἐσσεύοντο
yd df a \ \ > A.
ἄβρομοι, niTE μῆλα ποτὶ σταθμὸν ἀΐσσοντα
A 3 \ \ /
ἐκ νομοῦ VAREVTOS ὀπωρινὴν ὑπὸ νύκτα"
ΩΣ “ 3 » , Nr noe /
ὡς οἵ y αὐιαχοι Tpwwy ποτὶ ἄστυ νέοντο 70
πάντες ἀριστήεσσιν ἀρηγέμεναι μεμαῶτες.
€ δὲ - ὃ N ΄ \ 1 tal ΄
οἱ ὃ, ὡς σμερὸνὰ λύκοὶ λιμῷ περιπαιφάσσοντες
A , . » \ ἰζ
σταθμῷ ἐπιβρίσωσι κατ᾽ οὔρεα μακρὰ καὶ ὕλην
εὕδοντος μογεροῦ σημάντορος, ἄλλα δ᾽ ἐπ᾽ ἄλλοις
ὃ / θ᾽ “ > Ν e \ / ’ \ δὲ / 2 as
apvavd ἕρκεος ἐντὸς ὕπο κνέφας, ἀμφὶ ὃὲ πάντῃ" 75
* * * * * * *
* * * * * * *
* * * * * * *
1 Zimmermann, for ἀργαλέῳφ of v.
2. All editors agree that there is a long lacuna here. In the
translation is given a summary of what the missing lines may
be conjectured to have contained.
532
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XIII
Who down them now on this side, that side, streamed
As fearless wasps startled by stroke of axe
In angry mood pour all together forth
From the tree-bole, at sound of woodman’s blow ;
So battle-kindled forth the Horse they poured
Into the midst of that strong city of Troy
With hearts that leapt expectant. [With swift hands
Snatched they the brands from dying hearths, and fired
Temple and palace. Onward then to the gates
Sped they,] and swiftly slew the slumbering guards,
[Then held the gate-towers till their friends should
come.
Fast rowed the host the while ; on swept the ships
Over the great flood: Thetis made their paths
Straight, and behind them sent a driving wind
Speeding them, and the hearts Achaean glowed.
Swiftly to Hellespont’s shore they came, and there
Beached they the keels again, and deftly dealt
With whatso tackling appertains to ships.
Then leapt they aland, and hasted on to Troy
Silent as sheep that hurry to the fold
From woodland pasture on an autumn eve ;
So without sound of voices marched they on
Unto the Trojans’ fortress, eager all
To help those mighty chiefs with foes begirt.
Now these—as famished wolves fierce-glaring round
Fall on a fold mid the long forest-hills,
While sleeps the toil-worn watchman, and they rend
The sheep on every hand within the wall
In darkness, and all round [are heaped the slain ;
So these within the city smote and slew,
As swarmed the awakened foe around them; yet,
Fast as they slew, aye faster closed on them
Those thousands, mad to thrust them from the gates. |
533
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
“ \ ͵ ’ / ’ SCAN Μ
αἵματι καὶ νεκύεσσιν, ὀρώρει δ᾽ αἰνὸς ὄλεθρος,
/ / la)
καίπερ ἔτι πλεόνων Δαναῶν ἔκτοσθεν ἐόντων"
3 > ef \
Αλλ᾽ ὅτε δὴ μάλα πάντες ἔβαν ποτὶ τείχεα
/
Τροίης,
\ , ’ ᾽ 3 /
δὴ τότε μαιμώωντες ἀνηλεγέως ἐσέχυντο
2 ΄, / 7 / ”
és Πριάμοιο πόληα μένος πνείοντες "Αρηος. 80
~ > @ , > 7 7
πᾶν δ᾽ εὗρον πτολίεθρον ἐνίπλειον πολέμοιο
,
καὶ νεκύων: πάντῃ δὲ πυρὶ στονόεντα μέλαθρα
Ve Div 3 / / \ \ 3. πλ
καιόμεν᾽ ἀργαλέως: μέγα δὲ φρεσὶν ἰαίνοντο.
b) \ > \ \ \ / oY
ἐν δὲ καὶ αὐτοὶ Τρωσὶ κακὰ φρονέοντες ὄρουσαν"
ὔ 29 , ” ΄ 2 ͵ τ,
μαίνετο δ᾽ ἐν μέσσοισιν “Apns στονόεσσα τ᾽ ᾿Ενυώ: 85
, 3... \ ere s \ \
πάντῃ δ᾽ αἷμα κελαινὸν ὑπέρρεε, Severo δὲ χθὼν
Τρώων τ᾽ ὀλλυμένων ἠδ᾽ ἀλλοδαπῶν ἐπικούρων.
a >’ J
τῶν οἱ μὲν θανάτῳ δεδμημένοι ὀκρυόεντι
A \ iA » “ Ν 39 /
κεῖντο κατὰ πτολίεθρον ἐν αἵματι" τοὶ δ᾽ ἐφύπερθε
a e 3) SS,
πῖπτον ἀποπνείοντες ἑὸν μένος" of δ᾽ apa χερσὶ 90
/ » st? Do “ > /
δράγδην ἔγκατ᾽ ἔχοντες ὀϊζυρῶς ἀλάληντο
, an /
ἀμφὶ δόμους" ἄλλοι δὲ ποδῶν ἑκάτερθε κοπέντων
ἀμφὶ νεκροὺς εἵρπυζον ἀάσπετα κωκύοντες"
πολλῶν δ᾽ ἐν κονίῃσι μαχέσσασθαι μεμαώτων
A ¢ n an an
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ἔπλετο λευγαλέη: περὶ δ᾽ ἴαχε πάντα μέλαθρα
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ἄσπετον" οἰμωγὴ δὲ TENE στονόεσσα γυναικῶν
εἰδομένων γεράνοισιν, ὅτ᾽ αἰετὸν ἀθρήσωσιν
534
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XIII
Slipping in blood and stumbling o’er the dead
[Their line reeled,] and destruction loomed o’er them,
Though Danaan thousands near and nearer drew.
But when the whole host reached the walls of Troy,
Into the city of Priam, breathing rage
Of fight, with reckless battle-lust they poured ;
And all that fortress found they full of war
And slaughter, palaces, temples, horribly
Blazing on all sides; glowed their hearts with joy.
In deadly mood then charged they on the foe.
Ares and fell Enyo maddened there :
Blood ran in torrents, drenched was all the earth,
As Trojans and their alien helpers died.
Here were men lying quelled by bitter death
All up and down the city in their blood;
Others on them were falling, gasping forth
Their life’s strength ; others, clutching in their hands
Their bowels that looked through hideous gashes
forth,
Wandered in wretched plight around their homes :
Others, whose feet, while yet asleep they lay,
Had been hewn off, with groans unutterable
Crawled mid the corpses. Some, who had rushed
to fight,
Lay now in dust, with hands and heads hewn off.
Some were there, through whose backs, even as they
fled,
The spear had passed, clear through to the breast,
and some
Whose waists the lance had pierced, impaling them
Where sharpest stings the anguish-laden steel.
And all about the city dolorous howls
Of dogs uprose, and miserable moans
Of strong men stricken to death; and every home
With awful cries was echoing. Rang the shrieks
Of women, like to screams of cranes, which see
535
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
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᾿ li
ὡς dpa Τρωιάδες μέγα κώκυον ἄλλοθεν ἄλλαι,
αἱ μὲν ἀνεγρόμεναι λέχεων ἄπο, ταὶ δ᾽ ἐπὶ γαῖαν
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καύματος ἐσσυμένοιο δυσαέος ἤματι μέσσῳ
536
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XIII
An eagle stooping on them from the sky,
Which have no courage to resist, but scream
Long terror-shrieks in dread of Zeus’s bird ;
So here, so there the Trojan women wailed,
Some starting from their sleep, some to the ground
Leaping: they thought not in that agony
Of robe and zone; in naught but tunics clad
Distraught they wandered: others found nor veil
Nor cloak to cast about them, but, as came
Onward their foes, they stood with beating hearts
Trembling, as fettered by despair, essaying,
All-hapless, with their hands alone to hide
Their nakedness. And some in frenzy of woe:
Their tresses tore, and beat their breasts, and
screamed.
Others against that stormy torrent of foes
Recklessly rushed, insensible of fear,
Through mad desire to aid the perishing,
Husbands or children; for despair had given
High courage. Shrieks had startled from their
slee
Soft little babes whose hearts had never known
Trouble—and there one with another lay
Gasping their lives out! Some there were whose
dreams
Changed to a sudden vision of doom. All round
The fell Fates gloated horribly o’er the slain.
And even as swine be slaughtered in the court
Of a rich king who makes his folk a feast,
So without number were they slain. The wine
Left in the mixing-bowls was blent with blood
Gruesomely. No man bare a sword unstained
With murder of defenceless folk of Troy,
Though he were but a weakling in fair fight.
And as by wolves or jackals sheep are torn,
What time the furnace-breath of midnoon-heat
5.9.
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
ποιμένος οὐ παρεόντος, ὅτε σκιερῷ ἐνὶ χώρῳ 135
ἰλαδὸν ἀλλήλοισιν ὁμῶς συναρηρότα πάντα
μίμνωσιν, κείνοιο γλάγος ποτὶ δῶμα φέροντος,
* * * * * *
? Mp / 4 3059 ,
νηδύα πλησάμενοι πολυχανδέα πάντ᾽ ἐπιόντες
αἷμα μέλαν πίνουσιν, ἅπαν δ᾽ ὀλέκουσι μένοντες
πῶῦ, κακὴν δ᾽ ἄρα δαῖτα λυγρῷ τεύχουσι νομῆφ" 140
ἃ \ / \ , Μ ΑΔ Pe) ΗΟ
ὡς Δαναοὶ ἸΪριάμοιο κατὰ πτολιν ἄλλον ἐπ᾿ ἄλλῳ
κτεῖνον ἐπεσσύμενοι πυμάτην ἀνὰ δηϊοτῆτα"
»Ὸ7 5 Ae ” Ἢ ΄ » ΄ ᾽ > ef
οὐδ᾽ ap ἔην Τρώων tis ἀνούτατος, ἀλλ᾽ ἅμα
πάντων
\ / / , 3 “
γναμπτὼ μέλη πεπάλακτο μελαίινομεν αἵματ
πολλῷ.
Οὐδὲ μὲν ᾿Αργείοισιν ἀνούτατος ἔπλετο δῆρις, 145
ἀλλ᾽ οἱ μὲν δεπάεσσι τετυμμένοι, οἱ δὲ τραπέζαις,
οἱ δ᾽ ἔτι καιομένοισιν ἐπ᾽ ἐσχαρεῶνι τυπέντες
δαλοῖς, οἱ δ᾽ ὀβελοῖσι πεπαρμένοι ἐκπνείεσκον,
οἷς ἔτι που καὶ σπλάγχνα συῶν περὶ θερμὰ
λέλειπτο
Ἥ i, a , 5... a
φαίστου μαλεροῖο περιίζείοντος ἀὕτμῇῃ" 150
" ᾽ > 7 ΔΕ a
ἄλλοι δ᾽ av πελέκεσσι καὶ ἀξίνῃσι Conow
ἤσπαιρον δμηθέυτες ἐν αἵματι" τῶν δ᾽ ἀπὸ χειρῶν
δάκτυλοι ἐτμήθησαν, ἐπὶ ξίφος εὖτε βάλοντο
χεῖρας ἐελδόμενοι στυγερὰς ἀπὸ Κῆρας ἀμύνειν"
καί πού τις Bpexpov τε καὶ ἐγκέφαλον συνέχευε 155
Aaa βαλὼν ἑ ἑτάροιο κατὰ μόθον' οἱ δ᾽ ἅτε θῆρες
οὐτάμενοι σταθμοῖς ἔ ἔνι ποιμένος ἀγραύλοιο
ἀργαλέξως μαίνοντο διεγρομένοιο χόλοιο
νύχθ᾽ ὑπὸ λευγαλέην: μέγα δ᾽ ὦ ἰσχανόωντες ἼΑρηος
ἀμφὶ δόμους Πριάμοιο κυδοίμεον ἄλλοθεν ἄλλον 160
σεύοντες. πολλοὶ δὲ καὶ ἐγχείῃσι δάμησαν
᾿Αργείων: Τρῶες γὰρ ὅσοι φθάσαν ἐν μεγάροισιν
ἢ ξίφος ἢ δόρυ μακρὸν ἑῆς ἀνὰ χερσὶν ἀεῖραυ,
δυσμενέας δάμναντο καὶ ὡς βεβαρηότες οἴνῳ.
538
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XIII
Darts down, and all the flock beneath the shade
Are crowded, and the shepherd is not there,
But to the homestead bears afar their milk ;
And the fierce brutes leap on them, tear their throats,
Gorge to the full their ravenous maws, and then
Lap the dark blood, and linger still to slay
All in mere lust of slaughter, and provide
An evil banquet for that shepherd-lord ;
So through the city of Priam Danaans slew
One after other in that last fight of all.
No Trojan there was woundless, all men’s limbs
With blood in torrents spilt were darkly dashed.
Nor scatheless were the Danaans in the fray:
With beakers some were smitten, with tables some,
Thrust in the eyes οὗ some were burning brands
Snatched from the hearth; some died transfixed
with spits
Yet left within the hot flesh of the swine
Whereon the red breath of the Fire-god beat ;
Others struck down by bills and axes keen
Gasped in their blood: from some men’s hands
were shorn
The fingers, who, in wild hope to escape
The imminent death, had clutched the blades of
swords.
And here in that dark tumult one had hurled
A stone, and crushed the crown of a friend’s head.
Like wild beasts trapped and stabbed within a fold
On a lone steading, frenziedly they fought,
Mad with despair-enkindled rage, beneath
That night of horror. Hot with battle-lust
Here, there, the fighters rushed and hurtled through
The palace of Priam. Many an Argive fell
Spear-slain ; for whatso Trojan in his halls
Might seize a sword, might lift a spear in hand,
Slew foes—ay, heavy though he were with wine.
539
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
Αὔἴγλη δ᾽ ἄσπετος wpto bt ἄστεος, οὕνεκ᾽
᾿Αχαιῶν 165
πολλοὶ ἔχον χείρεσσι πυρὸς σέλας, ὄφρ᾽ ἀνὰ δῆριν
δυσμενέας τε φίλους τε μάλ᾽ ἀτρεκέως ὁρόωσι.
Καὶ τότε Τυδέος υἱὸς ἀνὰ μόθον a ἀντιόωντα
αἰχμητῆρα Κόροιβον ἀγαυοῦ Μύγδονος υἷα
ἐγχείῃ κοίλοιο διὰ στομάχοιο πέρησεν, 170
ἦχι θοαὶ πόσιός τε καὶ εἴδατός εἰσι κέλευθοι.
καὶ τὸν μὲν περὶ δουρὶ μέλας ἐκιχήσατο πότμος"
κάππεσε δ᾽ ἐς μέλαν αἷμα καὶ ἄλλων ἔθνεα νε-
κρῶν,
νήπιος, οὐδ᾽ ἀπόνητο γάμων, ὧν οὕνεχ᾽ ἵκανε
χθιξὸς ὑ ὑπὸ Πριάμοιο πόλιν ;
ὲ καὶ ὑπέσχετ᾽ "Ayatovs 178
Ἰλίον ἂψ ὧσαι: τῷ δ᾽ οὐ θεὸς ἐξετέλεσσεν
ἐλπωρήν' Κῆρες γὰρ ἐπιπροέηκαν ὄλεθρον.
σὺν δέ οἱ Εὐρυδάμαντα κατέκτανεν ἀντιόωντα
γαμβρὸν ἐὐμμελίην ᾿Αντήνορος, ὅς ῥα μάλιστα
θυμὸν ἐ ἐνὶ Τρώεσσι σαοφροσύνῃσι κέκαστο. 180
ἔνθα καὶ Ἰλιονῆι συνήντετο δημογέροντι,
καί οἱ ἔπι ξίφος αἰνὸν ἐρύσσατο' τοῦ δ᾽ ἄρα πάγχυ
γηραλέου κλάσθησαν ἄδην ἐ ἐπὶ σώματι γυῖα:
καί pa περιτρομέων ἅμα χείρεσιν ἀμφοτέρῃσι
τῇ μὲν ἄορ συνέδραξε θοὸν, ΤΉ δ᾽ ἥψατο γούνων 185
ἀνδροφόνου ἥ ἥρωος" ὁ δ᾽ ἐς μόθον ἐ ἐσσύμενός περ
ἢ χόλου ἀμβολίῃ, ἢ ἢ καὶ θεοῦ ὁ ὀτρύνοντος,
τὼν ἀπέσχε γέροντος ἑὸν ξίφος, ὄφρα. τί εἴπῃ
λισσόμενος θοὸν ἄνδρα καὶ ὄβριμον: ὃς δ᾽ ἀλε-
γεινὸν
ἴαχεν ἐσσυμένως" στυγερὸν δέ μιν ἄμφεχε δεῖμα" 190
᾿γουνοῦμαί σ᾽, ὅτις ἐσσὶ πολυσθενέων ᾿Αργείων,
αἴδεσαι ἀμφιπεσόντος ἐμὰς χέρας, ἀργαλέου τε
λῆγε χόλου" καὶ γάρ ῥα πέλει μακρὸν ἀνέρι κῦδος
ἄνδρα νέον κτείναντι καὶ ὄβριμον: ἢν δὲ γέροντα
540
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XIII
Upflashed a glare unearthly through the town,
For many an Argive bare in hand a torch
To know in that dim battle friends from foes.
Then Tydeus’ son amid the war-storm met
Spearman Coroebus, lordly Mygdon’s son,
And ’neath the left ribs pierced him with the lance
Where run the life-ways of man’s meat and drink ;
So met him black death borne upon the spear:
Down in dark blood he fell mid hosts of slain.
Ah fool ! the bride he won not, Priam’s child
Cassandra, yea, his loveliest, for whose sake
To Priam’s burg but yesterday he came,
And vaunted he would thrust the Argives back
From Ilium. Never did the Gods fulfil
His hope: the Fates hurled doom upon his head.
With him the slayer laid Eurydamas low,
Antenor’s gallant son-in-law, who most
For prudence was pre-eminent in Troy.
Then met he Ilioneus the elder of days,
And flashed his terrible sword forth. All the limbs
Of that grey sire were palsied with his fear:
He put forth trembling hands, with one he caught
The swift avenging sword, with one he clasped
The hero’s knees. Despite his fury of war,
A moment paused his wrath, or haply a God
Held back the sword a space, that that old man
Might speak to his fierce foe one word of prayer.
Piteously cried he, terror-overwhelmed :
“T kneel before thee, whosoe’er thou be
Of mighty Argives. Oh compassionate
My suppliant hands! Abate thy wrath! To slay
The young and valiant is a glorious thing ;
But if thou smite an old man, small renown
541
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
Aiyin δ᾽ ἄσπετος wpto bt ἄστεος, οὕνεκ᾽
᾿Αχαιῶν 166
πολλοὶ ἔχον χείρεσσι πυρὸς σέλας, ὄφρ᾽ ἀνὰ δῆριν
δυσμενέας τε φίλους τε μάλ᾽ ἀτρεκέως ὁρόωσι.
Καὶ τότε Τυδέος υἱὸς ἀνὰ μόθον ἀντιόωντα
αἰχμητῆρα Κόροιβον ἀγαυοῦ Μύγδονος υἷα
ἐγχείῃ κοίλοιο διὰ στομάχοιο πέρησεν, 170
ἦχι θοαὶ πόσιός τε καὶ εἴδατός εἰσι κέλευθοι.
καὶ τὸν μὲν περὶ δουρὶ μέλας ἐκιχήσατο πότμος"
κάππεσε δ᾽ ἐς μέλαν αἷμα καὶ ἄλλων ἔθνεα νε-
κρῶν,
νήπιος, οὐδ᾽ ἀπόνητο γάμων, ὧν οὕνεχ᾽ ἵκανε
χθιξὸς ὑ ὑπὸ Πριάμοιο πόλιν ἧ
" καὶ ὑπέσχετ᾽ ᾿Αχαιοὺξ 175
Ἰλίον ἂψ waar τῷ δ᾽ οὐ θεὸς ἐξετέλεσσεν
ἐλπωρήν' Κῆρες γὰρ ἐπιπροέηκαν ὄλεθρον.
σὺν δέ οἱ Εὐρυδάμαντα κατέκτανεν ἀντιόωντα
γαμβρὸν ἐὐμμελίην ᾿Αντήνορος, ὅς pa μάλιστα
θυμὸν ἐ ἐνὶ Τρώεσσι σαοφροσύνῃσι κέκαστο. 180
ἔνθα καὶ ᾿Τλιονῆι συνήντετο δημογέροντι,
καί οἱ ἔπι ξίφος αἰνὸν ἐρύσσατο' τοῦ δ᾽ ἄρα πάγχυ
γηραλέου κλάσθησαν ἄδην ἐ ἐπὶ σώματι γυῖα:
καί ῥα περιτρομέων ἅμα χείρεσιν « ἀμφοτέρῃσι
τῇ μὲν ἄορ συνέδραξε θοόν, τῇ δ᾽ ἥψατο γούνων 18ὅ
ἀνδροφόνου ἥ ἥρωος" ὁ δ᾽ ἐς μόθον ἐ ἐσσύμενός περ
ἢ χόλου ἀμβολίῃ, ἢ ἢ καὶ θεοῦ ὁ ὀτρύνοντος,
βαιὸν ἀπέσχε γέροντος ἑὸν ξίφος, ὄφρα. τι εἴπῃ
λισσόμενος θοὸν ἄνδρα καὶ ὄβριμον: ὃς δ᾽ ἀλε-
γεινὸν
ἴαχεν ἐσσυμένως" στυγερὸν δέ μιν ἄμφεχε δεῖμα' 190
“γουνοῦμαί σ᾽, ὅτις ἐσσὶ πολυσθενέων ᾿Αργείων,
αἴδεσαι ἀμφιπεσόντος ἐμὰς χέρας, ἀργαλέου τε
λῆγε χόλου' καὶ γάρ ῥα πέλει μακρὸν ἀνέρι κῦδος
ἄνδρα νέον κτείναντι καὶ ὄβριμον" ἢν δὲ γέροντα
540
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XIII
Upflashed a glare unearthly through the town,
For many an Argive bare in hand a torch
To know in that dim battle friends from foes.
Then Tydeus’ son amid the war-storm met
Spearman Coroebus, lordly Mygdon’s son,
And ’neath the left ribs pierced him with the lance
Where run the life-ways of man’s meat and drink ;
So met him black death borne upon the spear:
Down in dark blood he fell mid hosts of slain.
Ah fool! the bride he won not, Priam’s child
Cassandra, yea, his loveliest, for whose sake
To Priam’s burg but yesterday he came,
And vaunted he would thrust the Argives back
From Ilium. Never did the Gods fulfil
His hope: the Fates hurled doom upon his head.
With him the slayer laid Eurydamas low,
Antenor’s gallant son-in-law, who most
For prudence was pre-eminent in Troy.
Then met he Ilioneus the elder of days,
And flashed his terrible sword forth. All the limbs
Of that grey sire were palsied with his fear:
He put forth trembling hands, with one he caught
The swift avenging sword, with one he clasped
The hero’s knees. Despite his fury of war,
A moment paused his wrath, or haply a God
Held back the sword a space, that that old man
Might speak to his fierce foe one word of prayer.
Piteously cried he, terror-overwhelmed :
«1 kneel before thee, whosoe’er thou be
Of mighty Argives. Oh compassionate
My suppliant hands! Abate thy wrath! To slay
The young and valiant is a glorious thing ;
But if thou smite an old man, small renown
541
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
θυμὸν ἐέλδετο παισὶν ἐπὶ σφετέροισιν ὀλέσσαι:
τοὔνεκά μιν προσέειπε λιλαιόμενος θανέεσθαι' 22ὅ
“« ὦ τέκος ὀβριμόθυμον ἐῦπτολέμου ᾿Αχιλῆος,
κτεῖνον, μηδ᾽ ἐλέαιρε δυσάμμορον' οὐ γὰρ ἔγωγε
τοῖα παθὼν καὶ τόσσα λιλαίομαι εἰσοράασθαι
ἠελίοιο φάος. πανδερκέος, ἀλλά που ἤδη
φθεῖσθαι ὁ ὁμῶς τεκέεσσι καὶ ἐκλελαθέσθαι ἀνίης 230
λευγαλέης, ὁμάδου τε δυσηχέος. ὡς ὄφελόν με
σεῖο πατὴρ κατέπεφνε, πρὶν αἰθομένην ἐσιδέσθαι
Ἴλιον, ὁ ὁππότ ᾿ ἄποινα περὶ κταμένοιο φέρεσκον
ἽἝκτορος, ὅν μοι ἔπεφνε πατὴρ τεός: ἀλλὰ τὸ μέν
που
Κῆρες ἐπεκλώσαντο" σὺ δ᾽ ἡμετέροιο φόνοιο 235
ἄασον ὄβριμον % ἦτορ, ὅπως λελάθωμ᾽ ὀδυνάων."
{fs ᾿ φάμενον προσέειπεν ᾿Αχιλλέος ὄβριμος υἱός:
“ὦ γέρον, ἐμμεμαῶτα καὶ ἐσσύμενόν περ ἀνώγεις"
οὐ γάρ σ᾽ ἐχθρὸν ἐόντα μετὰ ζωοῖσιν ἐάσω"
οὐ γάρ τι ψυχῆς πέλει ἀνδράσι φίλτερον ἄλλο." 240
“Os εἰπὼν ἀπέκοψε κάρην πολιοῖο γέροντος
ῥηιδίως, ὡς εἴ τις ἀπὸ στάχυν ἀμήσηται
ληίου ἀξαλέοιο θέρευς εὐθαλπέος ὥρῃ.
ἡ δὲ μέγα μύξουσα κυλίνδετο πολλὸν ἐπ᾽ αἷαν
νόσφ᾽ ἄχλων μελέων, ὁπόσοις ἐγκίνυται ἀνήρ... 245
κεῖτο δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἐς μέλαν αἷμα καὶ εἰς ἑτέρων φόνον
ἀνδρῶν
+ * * * *
ὄχβῳ καὶ γενεῇ καὶ ἀπειρεσίοις τεκέεσσιν'
οὐ γὰρ δὴν ἐπὶ κῦδος ἀέξεται ἀνθρώποισιν,
ἀλλ᾽ ἄρα που καὶ ὄνειδος ἐπέσσυται ἀπροτίοπτον'
καὶ τὸν μὲν πότμος εἷλε: κακῶν δ᾽ ὅ γε λήσατο
πάντων. 250
Οἱ δὲ καὶ ᾿Αστυάνακτα βάλον Δαναοὶ ταχύ-
TW OL
πύργου ap ὑψηλοῖο, φίλον δέ οἱ ἦτορ ὄλεσσαν
544
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XIll
Himself to lay his life down midst his sons ;
And craving death to Achilles’ seed he spake :
“ Fierce-hearted son of Achilles strong in war,
Slay me, and pity not my misery.
I have no will to see the sun’s light more,
Who have suffered woes so many and so dread.
With my sons would I die, and so forget
Anguish and horror of war. Oh that thy sire
Had slain me, ere mine eyes beheld aflame
Ilium, had slain me when I brought to him
Ransom for Hector, whom thy father slew.
He spared me—so the Fates had spun my thread
Of destiny. But thou, glut with my blood
Thy fierce heart, and let me forget my pain.”
Answered Achilles’ battle-eager son :
“ Fain am I, yea, in haste to grant thy prayer.
A foe like thee will I not leave alive ;
For naught is dearer unto men than life.”
With one stroke swept he off that hoary head
Lightly as when a reaper lops an ear
In a parched cornfield at the harvest-tide.
With lips yet murmuring low it rolled afar
From where with quivering limbs the body lay
Amidst dark-purple blood and slaughtered men.
So lay he, chiefest once of all the world
In lineage, wealth, in many and goodly sons.
Ah me, not long abides the honour of man,
But shame from unseen ambush leaps on him
So clutched him Doom, so he forgat his woes.
Yea, also did those Danaan car-lords hurl
From a high tower the babe Astyanax,
545
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
/
μητρὸς ἀφαρπάξαντες ἐν ἀγκοινῃσιν ἐόντα
95 an ,
“Βκτορι χωόμενοι, ἐπεὶ ἦ σφισι πῆμα κορυσσε
Neti a7: A Valens / , is
ζωὸς ἐών: τῷ Kal οἱ ἀπηχθήραντο γενέθλην, 255
,ὔ ς a® 3 / 3. 3 A
καί οἱ παῖδ᾽ ἐβάλοντο Kal’ ἕρκεος αὐπεινοῖο,
νήπιον, οὔπω δῆριν ἐπιστάμενον πολέμοιο.
Sk / yy Ψ, / 2 a
nite πόρτιν ὄρεσφι λύκοι χατέοντες ἐδωδῆς
7ὔ
κρημνὸν ἐς ἠχήεντα κακοφραδίῃσι βάλωνται
\ ’ / I= / > \ A
μητρὸς ἀποτμήξαντες ἐὐγχλωγέων ἀπὸ μαζῶν, 260
ἡ δὲ θέῃ γοόωσα φίλον τέκος ἔνθα καὶ ἔνθα
\ , a > 7 ἃ »Μ
μακρὰ κινυρομένη, τῇ δ᾽ ἐξόπιθεν κακὸν ἄλλο
” 9 pe , 5) ΄, \ Sau
ἔλθῃ, ἐπεί € λέοντες ἀναρπάξωσι καὶ αὐτήν'
/ a
ὼς τὴν ἀσχαλόωσαν ἄδην περὶ παιδὸς ἑοῖο
ἦγον δήϊοι ἄνδρες ἅμ᾽ ἄλλῃς ληιάδεσσι 265
’ ἵ \ a
κούρην ᾿Ηετίωνος ἀμύμονος αἰνὰ βοῶσαν.
e bh ἢ \ eae Se Dae / »O\ A
ἡ δ᾽ ἄρα παιδὸς ἑοῖο καὶ ἀνέρος ἠδὲ TOK Hos
/ ΄ ee 2... > ,
μνησαμένη φόνον αἰνὸν éevadupos ᾿Ηετιώνη
ὥρμηνεν θανέεσθαι, ἐπεὶ βασιλεῦσιν ἄμεινον
/ 7
τεθνάμεν ἐν πολέμῳ ἢ χείροσιν ἀμφιπολεύειν' 270
καί ῥ᾽ ὀλοφυδνὸν duce μέγ᾽ ἀχνυμένη κέαρ ἔνδον"
“εἰ δ᾽ ἄγε νῦν καὶ ἐμεῖο δέμας κατὰ τείχεος αἰνοῦ
\
ἢ κατὰ πετράων ἢ ἔσω πυρὸς αἶψα βάλεσθε,
᾿Αργεῖοι: μάλα γάρ μοι ἀάσπετα πήματ᾽ ἔασι"
\ 7 Ames \ δ. , e\
καὶ yap μευ πατέρ᾽ ἐσθλὸν ἐνήρατο Ἰ]ηλέος vies 275
’ >]
Θήβῃ ἐνὶ Fabén, Τροίῃ ὃ ἔνι φαίδιμον ἄνδρα,
ef »Μ / / / ” rf
ὅς μοι ἔην μάλα πάντα, τά T ἔλδετο θυμὸς ἐμεῖο"
καί μοι κάλλιπε τυτθὸν ἐνὶ μεγάροις ἔτι παῖδα,
ᾧ ἔπι κυδιάασκον ἀπείριτον, ᾧ ἔπι πολλὰ
/ > / \ WW ee ΄ 4
ἐλπομένην ἀπάφησε κακὴ καὶ ἀτάσθαλος Αἶσα. 280
A / ee) / ΄ 2 "
τῷ νύ μ᾽ ἀκηχεμένην πολυτειρέος ἐκ βιότοιο
νοσφίσατ᾽ ἐσσυμένως, μηδ᾽ εἰς ἑὰ δώματ᾽ ἄγεσθε
/ A
μίγδα δορυκτήτοισιν, ἐπεί νύ μοι οὐκέτι θυμῷ
εὔαδεν ἀνθρώποισι μετέμμεναι, οὕνεκα δαίμων
546
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XIIl
Dashing him out of life. They tore the child
Out of his mother’s arms, in wrathful hate
Of Hector, who in life had dealt to them
Such havoc ; therefore hated they his seed,
And down from that high rampart flung his child—
A wordless babe that nothing knew of war !
As when amid the mountains hungry wolves
Chase from the mother’s side a suckling calf,
And with malignant cunning drive it o'er
An echoing cliff’s edge, while runs to and fro
Its dam with long moans mourning her dear child,
And a new evil followeth hard on her,
For suddenly lions seize her for a prey ;
So, as she agonized for her son, the foe
To bondage haled with other captive thralls
That shrieking daughter of King Eétion.
Then, as on those three fearful deaths she thought
Of husband, child, and father, Andromache
Longed sore to die. Yea, for the royally-born
Better it is to die in war, than do
The service of the thrall to baser folk.
All piteously the broken-hearted cried :
“Oh hurl my body also from the wall,
Or down the cliff, or cast me midst the fire,
Ye Argives! Woes are mine unutterable!
For Peleus’ son smote down my noble father
In Thebe, and in Troy mine husband slew,
Who unto me was all mine heart’s desire,
Who left me in mine halls one little child,
My darling and my pride—of all mine hopes
In him fell merciless Fate hath cheated me!
Oh therefore thrust this broken-hearted one
Now out of life! Hale me not overseas
Mingled with spear-thralls ; for my soul henceforth
Hath no more pleasure in life, since God hath
slain
547
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
κηδεμονῆας ὄλεσσεν' ἄχος δέ με δέχνυται αἰνὸν 285
ἐκ Τρώων στυγεροῖσιν ἐπ᾽ ἄλγεσιν οἰωθεῖσαν.᾽"
Ἦ ῥα λιλαιομένη χθόνα δύμεναι" οὐ γὰρ ἔοικε
ζωέμεναι κείνοισιν, ὅσων μέγα κῦδος ὄνειδος
> / \ \ e , 4 ”
ἀμφιχάνῃ: δεινὸν yap ὑπόψιον ἔμμεναι ἄλλων.
€ δ PN Ὁ. ἢ 3 \ ΄ 3
οἱ δὲ Bin ἀέκουσαν ἄγον ποτὶ δούλιον ἦμαρ. 290
ἼΛλλοι δ᾽ αὖτ᾽ ἄλλοις ἐν δώμασι θυμὸν ἔλειπον
ἀνέρες" ἐν δ᾽ ἄρα τοῖσι βοὴ πολύδακρυς ὀρώρει"
3 3 > b] / 3 tA Ὁ 3: SL 15 > A
ἄλλ, οὐκ ἐν μεγάροις Αντήνορος, OUVEK ἂρ αὑτοῦ
᾿Αργεῖοι μνήσαντο φιλοξενίης ἐ ἐρατεινῆς,
ὡς ξείνισσε πάροιθε κατὰ πτόλιν ἠδ᾽ ἐσάωσεν 295
ἰσόθεον Μενέλαον ὁμῶς Ὀδυσῆι μολόντα'
τῷ δ᾽ ἐπίηρα φέροντες ᾿Αχαιῶν φέρτατοι υἷες
αὐτὸν μὲν ζώοντα λίπον καὶ κτῆσιν ἔασαν "
\ / Cy / / \ x
καὶ Θέμιν ἁζόμενοι πανδερκέα καὶ φίλον ἄνδρα.
Ν “ \ 7. > Ν > 7 ’ ,
Καὶ τότε δὴ πάϊς ἐσθλὸς ἀμύμονος ᾿Αγχίσαο 800
πολλὰ καμὼν περὶ ἄστυ θεηγενέος ΤΙριάμοιο
δουρὶ καὶ ἠνορέῃ, πολλῶν δ᾽ ἀπὸ θυμὸν ὀλέσσας,
ὡς ἴδε δυσμενέων ὑπὸ χείρεσι λευγαλέῃσιν
᾽ Ud , ? 7 > ὦ \
αἰθόμενον πτολίεθρον, ἀπολλυμένους θ᾽ ἅμα λαοὺς
πανσυδίη, καὶ κτῆσιν ἀπείρυτον, ἔκ τε ᾿ μελάθρων 305
ἑλκομένας “ἀλόχους ἅμα παίδεσιν, οὐκέτ᾽ ἄρ᾽ αὐτοῦ
ἐλπωρὴν ἐ ἔχε θυμὸς ἰδεῖν εὐτειχέα πάτρην,
ἀλλά οἱ ὁρμαίγεσκε νόος μέγα πῆμ᾽ “ὑπαλύξαι.
ὡς δ᾽ ὅθ᾽ ἁλὸς κατὰ βένθος ἀνὴρ oinia νωμῶν
νηὸς ἐπισταμένως ἄνεμον καὶ Kop ἀλεείνων * 310
πάντοθεν € ἐσσύμενον στυγερῇ ὑπὸ χείματος ὥρῃ
χεῖρα κάμῃ καὶ θυμόν, ὑποβρυχίης δ᾽ ἄρα νηὸς
ὀλλυμένης ἀπάνευθε λιπὼν οἰήϊα μοῦνα
\ 53. ὦ ΄, > / ͵ Ὁ 35. 7 \
τυτθὸν ἐπὶ σκάφος εἶσι, μέλει δέ οἱ οὐκέτι νηὸς
/ ἃ 7. > \ > 3 /
φορτίδος" ὡς mais ἐσθλὸς ἐὔφρονος ᾿Αγχίσαο, 81
1 Zimmermann, for ἅπασαν of v.
2 Zimmermann, for ἀλεγεινὸν of MS.
548
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XIII
My nearest and my dearest! For me waits
Trouble and anguish and lone homelessness ! ”
So cried she, longing for the grave ; for vile
Is life to them whose glory is swallowed up
Of shame : a horror is the scorn of men.
But, spite her prayers, to thraldom dragged they her.
In all the homes of Troy lay dying men,
And rose from all a lamentable cry,
Save only Antenor’s halls; for unto him
The Argives rendered hospitality’s debt,
For that in time past had his roof received
And sheltered godlike Menelaus, when
He with Odysseus came to claim his own.
Therefore the mighty sons of Achaea showed
Grace to him, as to a friend, and spared his life
And substance, fearing Themis who seeth all.
Then also princely Anchises’ noble son—
Hard had he fought through Priam’s burg that night
With spear and valour, and many had he slain—
When now he saw the city set aflame
By hands of foes, saw her folk perishing
In multitudes, her treasures spoiled, her wives
And children dragged to thraldom from their homes,
No more he hoped to see the stately walls
Of his birth-city, but bethought him now
How from that mighty ruin to escape.
And as the helmsman of a ship, who toils
On the deep sea, and matches all his craft
Against the winds and waves from every side
Rushing against him in the stormy time,
Forspent at last, both hand and heart, when now
The ship is foundering in the surge, forsakes
The helm, to launch forth in a little boat,
And heeds no longer ship and lading ; so
549
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
ἄστυ λιπὼν δηΐοισι καταιθόμενον πυρὶ πολλῷ,
υἱέα καὶ πατέρα σφὸν ἀναρπάξας φορέεσκε,
τὸν μὲν ἐπὶ πλατὺν ὦμον Ὁ ἢ ἘΣ κρατερῇσι
ἐρσὶ πολυτλήτῳ ὑπὸ γήραϊ μοχθίζοντα,
τὸν δ᾽ ἁπαλῆς ἅμα χειρὸς ἐπιψαύοντα πόδεσσι 320
γαίης" οὐλομένου τε φοβεύμενον ἔ ἔργα μόθοιο
ἐξῆγεν πολέμοιο δυσηχέος" ὃς δ᾽ ὑπ᾽ ἀνάγκης
ἐκρέματ᾽ ἐμπεφυὼς ἀταλὸς πάϊς" ἀμφὶ δὲ δάκρυ
χεύατό οἱ ἁπαλῇσι παρηίσιν' αὐτὰρ ὁ νεκρῶν
σώμαθ᾽ ὑπέρθορε πολλὰ θοοῖς ποσί, πολλὰ δ᾽ ἐν
ὄρφνῃ 82ὅ
οὐκ ἐθέλων στείβεσκε" Κύπρις δ᾽ ὁδὸν ἡγεμόνευεν
υἱωνὸν καὶ παῖδα καὶ ἀνέρα πήματος. αἰνοῦ
πρόφρων ῥνομένη" τοῦ δ᾽ ἐσσυμένου ὑπὸ ποσσὶ
πάντῃ πῦρ ὑπόεικε'" περισχίζοντο δ᾽ ἀὐτμαὶ
Ἡφαίστου μαλεροῖο" καὶ ἔγχεα καὶ Bere “ἀνδρῶν 330
πῖπτον ἐτώσια πάντα κατὰ χθονὸς, ὁ ὁππόσ᾽ ᾿Αχαιοὶ
κείνῳ ἐπέρριψαν πολέμῳ ἐνὶ δακρυόεντι.
καὶ τότε δὴ Κάλχας μεγάλ᾽ ἴαχε λαὸν ἐέργων"
“ ἴσχεσθ' Αἰνείαο κατ᾽ ἰφθίμοιο καρήνου
βάλλοντες στονόεντα βέλη καὶ λοίγια δοῦρα" 335
τὸν yap θέσφατόν ἐ ἐστι θεῶν ἐρικυδέϊ βουλῇ
Θύμβριν ἐ ἐπ᾽ εὐρυρέεθρον ἀπὸ Ξάνθοιο μολόντα
τευξέμεν ἱερὸν ἄστυ καὶ ἐσσομένοισιν ἀγητὸν
ἀνθρώποις, αὐτὸν δὲ πολυσπερέεσσι βροτοῖσι
κοιρανέειν: ἐκ τοῦ δὲ γένος μετόπισθεν ἀνάξειν 840
ἄχρις ἐπ᾽ ἀντολίην τε καὶ ἀκαμάτου δύσιν ἠοῦς"
καὶ δ᾽ αὐτῷ θέμις ἐ ἐστὶ μετέμμεναι ἀθανάτοισιν,
οὕνεκα δὴ πάϊς ἐστὶν ἐὐπλοκάμου ᾿Αφροδίτης.
καὶ δ᾽ ἄχλως τοῦδ᾽ ἀνδρὸς ἑ ἑὰς ᾿ἀπεχώμεθα χεῖρας,
οὕνεκα καὶ χρυσοῖο καὶ ἄλλ᾽ ὅσα οἱ κτέατ᾽ ἐστίν, 345
ἄνδρ᾽ ἃ σαοῖ! φεύγοντα καὶ ἀλλοδαπὴν ἐπὶ γαῖαν,
1 Zimmermann, for ἄλλων [lacuna] ἄλλοις ἐν κτεάτεσσιν
ἄνδρα odo: of Koechly.
55°
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XIII
Anchises’ gallant son forsook the town
And left her to her foes, a sea of fire.
His son and father alone he snatched from death ;
The old man broken down with years he set
On his broad shoulders with his own strong hands,
And led the yeung child by his small soft hand,
Whose little footsteps lightly touched the ground ;
And, as he quaked to see that work of death,
His father led him through the roar of fight,
And clinging hung on him the tender child,
Tears down his soft cheeks streaming. But the
man
O’er many a body sprang with hurrying feet,
And in the darkness in his own despite
Trampled on many. Cypris guided them,
Earnest to save from that wild ruin her son,
His father, and his child. As on he pressed,
The flames gave back before him everywhere :
The blast of the Fire-god’s breath to right and left
Was cloven asunder. Spears and javelins hurled
Against him by the Achaeans harmless fell.
Also, to stay them, Calchas cried aloud :
“ Forbear against Aeneas’ noble head
To hurl the bitter dart, the deadly spear !
Fated he is by the high Gods’ decree
To pass from Xanthus, and by Tiber’s flood
To found a city holy and glorious
Through all time, and to rule o’er tribes of men
Far-sundered. Of his seed shall lords of earth
Rule from the rising to the setting sun.
Yea, with the Immortals ever shall he dwell,
Who is son of Aphrodite lovely-tressed.
From him too is it meet we hold our hands
Because he hath preferred his father and son
To gold, to all things that might profit a man
551
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
τῶν πάντων προβέβουλεν ἑὸν πατέρ᾽ ἠδὲ καὶ via:
νὺξ δὲ μί᾽ ἧμιν ἔφηνε καὶ υἱέα πατρὶ γέροντι
ἤπιον ἐκπάγλως καὶ ἀμεμφέα παιδὶ τοκῆα.
“Os dato: τοὶ δ᾽ ἐπίθοντο καὶ ὡς θεὸν εἰσο-
ράασκον 350
πάντες" ὁ δ᾽ ἐσσυμένως ἐξ ἄστεος οἷο "βεβήκει,
ἧχί ἑ ποιπνύοντα πόδες φέρον' οἱ δ᾽ ἔτι Τροίης
᾿Αργεῖοι πτολίεθρον ἐ ἐὐκτίμενον διέπερθον.
Καὶ τότε δὴ Μενέλαος ὑπὸ ξίφεὶ στονόεντι
Δηίφοβον κατέπεφνε καρηβαρέοντα κιχήσας 355
ἀμφ᾽ Ἑλένης λεχέεσσι δυσάμμορον' ἡ ἡ δ᾽ ὑπὸ φύξῃ
κεύθετ᾽ ἐνὶ μεγάροισιν" ὁ δ᾽ αἵματος ἐκχυμένοιο
γήθεεν ἀμφὶ φόνῳ" τοῖον δ᾽ ἐπὶ μῦθον ἔ ἔειπεν"
¢ ὦ κύον, ὥς τοι ἔγωγε φόνον στονόεντ᾽ ἐφέηκα
σήμερον" οὐδέ σε δῖα κιχήσεται ᾿Ηριγένεια 360
ζωὸν ἔτ᾽ ἐν Τρώεσσι, καὶ εἰ Διὸς εὔχεαι εἶναι
γαμβρὸς ἐ ἐρισμαράγοιο' μέλας δέ σε δέξατ᾽ ὄλεθρος
ἡμετέρης ἀλόχοιο παρὰ μεγάροισι δαμέντα
ἀργαλέως" ὡς εἴθε καὶ οὐλομένοιο πάροιθε
θυμὸν ᾿Αλεξάνδροιο κατὰ μόθον ἀντιόωντος 365
νοσφισάμην: καί κέν μοι ἐλαφρότερον πέλεν
ἄλγος"
ἀλλ᾽ ὁ μὲν ἤδη ἵκανεν ὑπὸ ζόφον ὀκρυόεντα
τίσας αἴσιμα πάντα" σὲ δ οὐκ ἄρα μέλλεν ὀνήσειν
ἡμετέρη παράκοιτις, ἐπεὶ Θέμιν οὔποτ᾽ ἀλετροὶ
ἀνέρες ἐξαλέονται ἀ ἀκήρατον, οὕνεκ᾽ ἄρ᾽ αὐτοὺς 870
εἰσοράᾳ νυκτός τε καὶ ἤματος, ἀμφὶ δὲ πάντῃ
ἀνθρώπων ἐ ἐπὶ φῦλα διηερίη πεπότηται
τινυμένη σὺν Ζηνὶ κακῶν ἐπιίστορας ἔργων.
Ὡς εἰπὼν δηΐοισιν ἀνηλέα τεῦχεν ὄλεθρον"
μαίνετο γάρ οἱ θυμὸς ὑ ὑπὸ κραδίῃ μέγ᾽ ἀέξων 375
ζηλήμων' Kal πολλὰ περὶ φρεσὶ θαρσαλέησι
Τρωσὶ κακὰ φρονέεσκε, τὰ δὴ θεὸς ἐξετέλεσσε
πρέσβα Δίκη" κεῖνοι γὰρ ἀτάσθαλα πρῶτοι ἔρεξαν
552
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XIlIl
Who fleeth exiled to an alien land.
This one night hath revealed to us a man
Faithful to death to his father and his child.”
Then hearkened they, and as a God did all
Look on him. Forth the city hasted he
Whither his feet should bear him, while the foe
Made havoc still of goodly-builded Troy.
Then also Menelaus in Helen’s bower
Found, heavy with wine, ill-starred Deiphobus,
And slew him with the sword: but she had fled
And hidden her in the palace. O’er the blood
Of that slain man exulted he, and cried :
“Dog! I, even I have dealt thee unwelcome death
This day! No dawn divine shall meet thee again
Alive in Troy—ay, though thou vaunt thyself
Spouse of the child of Zeus the thunder-voiced !
Black death hath trapped thee slain in my wife’s
bower!
Would I had met Alexander too in fight
Ere this, and plucked his heart out! So my griet
Had been a lighter load. But he hath paid
Already justice’ debt, hath passed beneath
Death’s cold dark shadow. Ha, small joy to thee
My wife was doomed to bring! Ay, wicked men
Never elude pure Themis: night and day
Her eyes are on them, and the wide world through
Above the tribes of men she floats in air,
Holpen of Zeus, for punishment of sin.”’
On passed he, dealing merciless death to foes,
For maddened was his soul with jealousy.
Against the Trojans was his bold heart full
Of thoughts of vengeance, which were now fulfilled
By the dread Goddess Justice, for that theirs
553
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
app “Ἑλένης, πρῶτοι δὲ καὶ ὅρκια πημήναντο,
σχέτλιοι, ὁππότε κεῖνο διὲκ μέλαν αἷμα καὶ ἱρὰ 380
ἀθανάτων πατέοντο παραιβασίῃσι νόοιο'
τῷ καί σφιν μετόπισθεν ᾿Εριννύες ἄλγεα τεῦχον'
τοὔνεκ᾽ ἄρ᾽ οἱ μὲν ὄλοντο πρὸ τείχεος, οἱ δ᾽ ἀνὰ
ἄστυ
τερπόμενοι παρὰ δαιτὶ καὶ ᾿ἠὐκόμοις ἀλόχοισιν.
‘Owe δὲ δὴ Μενέλαος ἐ ἐνὶ μυχάτοισι, δόμοιο 385
εὗρεν ἑὴν παράκοιτιν ὑποτρομέουσαν ὁμοκλὴν
ἀνδρὸς κουριδίοιο θρασύφρονος, ὃ ὅς μιν ἀθρήσας
ὥρμηνε κτανέειν ζηλημοσύνῃσι νόοιο,
εἰ μή οἱ κατέρυξε βίην ἐρόεσ σ᾽ ᾿Αφρ οδίτη,
ἥ ῥά οἱ ἐκ χειρῶν ἔβαλε ξίφος, ἐ ἔσχε δ᾽ ἐρωήν' 390
τοῦ γὰρ ζῆλον ἐρεμνὸν ἀπώσατο, καί οἱ ἔνερθεν
ἡδὺν ὑφ᾽ ἵμερον ὦρσε κατὰ φρενὸς ἠδὲ καὶ ὄσσων.
τῷ δ᾽ ἄρα θάμβος ἄελπτον ἐπήλυθεν" οὐδ᾽ ap’ ἔτ᾽
ἔτλη
κάλλος ἰδὼν ἀρίδηλον ἐπὶ ξίφος αὐχένι κῦρσχιι,
ἀλλ᾽ ὥστε ξύλον αὖον ἐν οὔρεϊ ὑλήεντι 395
εἱστήκει, TO μὲν οὔτε θοαὶ Bopéao θύελλαι
ἐσσύμεναι κλονέουσι δι’ ἠέρος οὔτε νότοιο'
ὡς ὁ ταφὼν μένε δηρόν: ὑπεκλάσθη δέ οἱ ἀλκὴ
δερκομένου παράκοιτιν: ἄφαρ δ᾽ ὅ γε λήσατο
πάντων,
ὅσσα οἱ ἐν λεχέεσσι παρήλιτε κουριδίοισι" 400
πάντα γὰρ ἠμάλδυνε θεὴ Κύπρις, ἥ περ ἁπάντων
ἀθανάτων δάμνησι νόον θνητῶν T ἀνθρώπων.
ἀλλὰ καὶ ὡς θοὸν ἄορ ἀπὸ χθονὸς αὖθις ἀείρας
κουριδίῃ ἐ ἐπόρουσε: νόος δέ οἱ ἄλλ᾽ ἐνὶ θυμῷ
ὡρμᾶτ᾽ ἐσσυμένοιο" δόλῳ δ᾽ ἄρα θέλγεν ᾿Αχαιούς. 405
καὶ τότε μιν “κατέρυξεν ἀδελφεὸς ἑ ἱέμενόν περ
μειλεχίοις μάλα πολλὰ παραυδήσας ἐπέεσσι:
δείδιε γὰρ μὴ δή σφιν ἐτώσια πάντα γένηται"
554
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XIII
Was that first outrage touching Helen, theirs
That profanation of the oaths, and theirs
That trampling on the blood of sacrifice
When their presumptuous souls forgat the Gods.
Therefore the Vengeance-friends brought woes on
them
Thereafter, and some died in fighting field,
Some now in Troy by board and bridal bower.
Menelaus mid the inner chambers found
At last his wife, there cowering from the wrath
Of her bold-hearted lord. He glared on her,
Hungering to slay her in his jealous rage.
But winsome Aphrodite curbed him, struck
Out of his hand the sword, his onrush reined,
Jealousy’s dark cloud swept she away, and stirred
Love’s deep sweet well-springs in his heart and
eyes.
Swepte Ὁ him strange amazement: powerless all
Was he to lift the sword against her neck,
Seeing her splendour of beauty. Like a stock
Of dead wood in a mountain forest, which
No swiftly-rushing blasts of north-winds shake,
Nor fury of south-winds ever, so he stood,
So dazed abode long time. ΑἹ] his great strength
Was broken, as he looked upon his wife.
And suddenly had he forgotten all—
Yea, all her sins against her spousal-troth ;
For Aphrodite made all fade away,
She who subdueth all immortal hearts
And mortal. Yet even so he lifted up
From earth his sword, and made as he would rush
Upon his wife—but other was his intent,
Even as he sprang: he did but feign, to cheat
Achaean eyes. Then did his brother stay
His fury, and spake with pacifying words,
Fearing lest all they had toiled for should be lost :
555
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
“ἴσχεο viv, Μενέλαε, χολούμενος" ov yap ἔοικε
κουριδίην παράκοιτιν ἐναιρέμεν, ἧς πέρι πολλὰ 410
ἄλγε᾽ ἀνέτλημεν Ἰ]ριάμῳ κακὰ μητιόωντες"
> / «ς / / dae 4 ς 7 2) 8
ov yap τοι ᾿λένη πέλει αἰτίη, ὡς σύ γ᾽ ἔολπας,
> \ oe if NS \ a /
ἀλλὰ 1]άρις Eeviovo Διὸς καὶ σεῖο τραπέζης
λησάμενος" τῷ καί μιν ἐν ἄλγεσι τίσατο δαίμων."
“Os dal: ὁ δ᾽ ai’ ἐπίθησε. θεοὶ δ᾽ ἐρικυδέα
Τροίην 415
/ / / /
κυανέοις νεφέεσσι καλυψάμενοι yoaac Kor,
νόσφιν ἐὐπλοκάμου Τριτωνίδος ἠδὲ cat” Hpns.
αἱ μέγα κυδιάασκον ἀνὰ φρένας, εὗτ᾽ ἐσίδοντο
περθόμενον κλυτὸν ἄστυ θεηγενεος Πριάμοιο.
ἀλλ᾽ οὐ μὰν οὐδ᾽ αὐτὴ ἐΐφρων Τριτογένεια 420
πάμπαν ἄδακρυς ἔην, ἐπεὶ ἢ ῥά οἱ ἔνδοθι νηοῦ
Κασσάνδρην ἤσχυνεν ᾿Οἱλέος ὄβριμος υἱὸς
θυμοῦ τ᾽ ἠδὲ νόοιο βεβλαμμένος: ἡ δέ οἱ αἰνὸν
εἰσοπίσω βάλε πῆμα καὶ ἀνέρα τίσατο λώβης:
? \ \ » » \ 2 / ᾽ » « >] NN
οὐδὲ μὲν ἔργον ἀεικὲς ἐσέδρακεν, ἀλλά οἱ αἰδὼς 425
Kal χόλος ἀμφεχύθη: βλοσυρὰς δ᾽ ἔτρεψεν ὁ ὀπωπὰς
νηὸν ἐς ὑψόροφον" περὶ δ᾽ ἔβραχε θεῖον ἄγαλμα,
καὶ δάπεδον νηοῖο μέγ᾽ ἔτρεμεν" οὐδ᾽ ὅ γε λυγρῆς
λῆγεν ἀτασθαλίης, ἐπεὶ ἣ φρένας dace Κύπρις.
Πάντῃ δ᾽ ἄλλοθεν ἄλλα κατηρείποντο μέλαθρα 430
ὑψόθεν: ἀξαλέη δὲ κόνις συνεμίσγετο καπνῷ"
ὦρτο δ᾽ ἄρα κτύπος αἰνός, ὑπετρομέοντο δ᾽ ἀγυιαί:
καίετο δ᾽ Αἰνείαο δόμος, καίοντο δὲ πάντα
᾽ 7 / / Oe 30. A
Αντιμάχοιο μέλαθρα. καταίθετο δ ἄσπετος ἄκρη
Πέργαμον ἀμφ᾽ ἐρατὴν περί θ᾽ ἱερὸν ᾿Απόλλωνος
νηόν τε ζάθεον Τριτωνίδος ἀμφί τε βωμὸν 435
Ἑρκείου" θάλαμοι δὲ κατεπρήθοντ᾽ ἐρατεινοὶ
υἱωνῶν Ἰ]ριάμοιο' πόλις δ᾽ ἀμαθύνετο πᾶσα.
1 Two hemistichs supplied by Zimmermann, ex P.
556
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XIII
“ Forbear wrath, Menelaus, now: ’twere shame
To slay thy wedded wife, for whose sake we
Have suffered much affliction, while we sought
Vengeance on Priam. Not, as thou dost deem,
Was Helen’s the sin, but his who set at naught
The Guest-lord, and thine hospitable board ;
So with death-pangs hath God requited him.”
Then hearkened Menelaus to his rede.
But the Gods, palled in dark clouds, mourned for
Troy,
A ruined glory—save fair-tressed Tritonis
And Hera: their hearts triumphed, when they saw
The burg of god-descended Priam destroyed.
Yet not the wise heart Trito-born herself
Was wholly tearless ; for within her fane
Outraged Cassandra was of Oileus son
Lust-maddened. But grim vengeance upon him
Ere long the Goddess wreaked, repaying insult
With mortal sufferance. Yea, she would not look
Upon the infamy, but clad herself
With shame and wrath as with a cloak: she turned
Her stern eyes to the temple-roof, and groaned
The holy image, and the hallowed floor
Quaked mightily. Yet did he not forbear
His mad sin, for his soul was lust-distraught.
Here, there, on all sides crumbled flaming homes
In ruin down: scorched dust with smoke was blent :
Trembled the streets to the awful thunderous crash.
Here burned Aeneas’ palace, yonder flamed
Antimachus’ halls: one furnace was the height
Of fair-built Pergamus; flames were roaring round
Apollo’s temple, round Athena’s fane,
And round the Hearth-lord’s altar: flames licked up
Fair chambers of the sons’ sons of a king ;
And all the city sank down into hell.
557
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
a aA δ ε Ν \ e 3 7A , 2 ,
pwes ὃ οἱ μὲν παισὶν UT Δργείων ολέκοντο,
οἱ & ὑπὸ λευγαλέου τε πυρὸς σφετέρων τε
μελάθρων,
ἔνθα σφιν καὶ μοῖρα κακὴ καὶ τύμβος ἐτύχθη, 440
ἄλλοι δὲ ξιφέεσσιν ἑ ἑὸν διὰ λαιμὸν ἔλασσαν
πῦρ ἅμα δυσμενέεσσιν ἐ ἐπὶ προθύροισιν ἰδόντες,
οἱ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ὁμῶς τεκέεσσι κατακτείναντες ἄκοιτιν
κάππεσον ἄσχετον ἔργον ἀναπλήσαντες ἀνάγκῃ.
καί ῥά τις οἰόμενος δηΐων ἑ ἑκὰς ἔμμεν᾽ ἀὑὐτὴν 445
ἔκποθεν ‘Hdaiatoo θοῶς ἀνὰ κάλπιν ἀείρας
ὥρμηνεν πονέεσθαι ἐφ᾽ ὕδατι: τὸν δὲ -παραφθὰς
᾿Αργείων τις ἔτυψεν ὑπ᾽ ἔγχεϊ καί οἱ ὄλεσσε
θυμὸν ὑπ᾽ ἀκρήτῳ βεβαρημένον": ἤ ἤριπε δ᾽ εἴσω
δώματος" ἀμφὶ δέ οἱ κενεὴ περικάππεσε κάλπις. 450
ἄλλῳ δ᾽ αὖ φεύγοντι διὰ μεγάροιο μεσόδμη
ἔμπεσε καιομένη, ἐπὶ δ᾽ ἤριπεν αἰπὺς ὄλεθρος.
πολλαὶ δ᾽ αὖτε γυναῖκες ἀνιηρὴν ἐπὶ φύζαν
ἐσσύμεναι μνήσαντο φίλων ὑπὸ δώματι παίδων,
οὺς λίπον ἐν λεχέεσσιν: ἄφαρ δ᾽ ἀνὰ ποσσὶν
ἰοῦσαι 4δῦ
παισὶν ὁμῶς ἀπόλοντο δόμων ἐφύπερθε πεσόντων.
ἵπποι δ᾽ αὗτε κύνες τε δι᾽ ἄστεος ἐπτοίηντο
φεύγοντες στυγεροῖο πυρὸς μένος" ἀμφὶ δὲ ποσσὶ
στεῖβον ἀποκταμένους, ζωοῖσι δὲ πῆμα φέροντες
αἰὲν ἐνερρήγνυντο. βοὴ δ᾽ ἀμφίαχεν ἄστυ. 460
καί τινος αἰζηοῖο διὰ φλογὸς ἐσσυμένοιο
* * * * * *
φθεγγομένου: τοὺς δ᾽ ἔνδον ἀμείλιχος Aica δά-
μασσεν'
ἄλλον δ᾽ ἄλλα κέλευθα φέρον στονόεντος ὀλέθρου.
φλὸξ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἐς ἠέρα δῖαν ἀνέγρετο' πέπτατο δ᾽
αἴγλη
ἄσπετος: ἀμφὶ δὲ φῦλα περικτιόνων ὁρόωντο 465
1 Zimmermann, ex P, for ἐπερρώοντο of Koechly.
558
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XIII
Of Trojans some by Argos’ sons were slain,
Some by their own roofs crashing down in fire,
Giving at once ill death and tomb to them:
Some in their own throats plunged the steel, when
foes
And fire were in the porch together seen :
Some slew their wives and children, and flung them-
selves
Dead on them, when despair had done its work
Of horror. One, who deemed the foe afar,
Caught up a vase, and, fain to quench the flame,
Hasted for water. Leapt unmarked on him
An Argive, and his spirit, heavy with wine,
Was thrust forth from the body by the spear.
Clashed the void vase above him, as he fell
Backward within the house. As through his hall
Another fled, the burning roof-beam crashed
Down on his head, and swift death came with it.
And many women, as in frenzied flight
They rushed forth, suddenly remembered babes
Left in their beds beneath those burning roofs :
With wild feet sped they back—the house fell in
Upon them, and they perished, mother and child.
Horses and dogs in panic through the town
Fled from the flames, trampling beneath their feet
The dead, and dashing into living men
To their sore hurt. Shrieks rang through all the
town.
In through his blazing porchway rushed a man
To rescue wife and child. Through smoke and flame
Blindly he groped, and perished while he cried
Their names, and pitiless doom slew those within.
The fire-glow upward mounted to the sky,
The red glare o’er the firmament spread its wings,
And all the tribes of folk that dwelt around
559
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
μεχρις ἐπ᾽ ᾿Ιδαιων ὀρεων ὑψηλὰ καρηνα
Θρηικίης τε Σάμοιο καὶ ἀγχιάλου Tevédoto:
Kab τις ἁλὸς κατὰ βένθος ἔσω νεὸς ἔκφατο μῦθον'
“ἤνυσαν ᾿Αργεῖοι κρατερόφρονες ἄσπετον ἔργον
πολλὰ μάλ᾽ ἀμφ᾽ “Ἑλένης ἑλικοβλεφάροιο κα-
μοντες, 470
πᾶσα δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἡ τὸ πάροιθε πανόλβιος ἐν πυρὶ Τροίη
καίεται: οὐδὲ θεῶν τις ἐελδομένοισιν ἄμυνε:
πάντα γὰρ ἄσχετος Αἶσα βροτῶν ἐπιδέρκεται
ἔργα"
καὶ τὰ μὲν ἀκλέα πολλὰ καὶ οὐκ ἀρίδηλα γεγῶτα
κυδήεντα τίθησι, τὰ δ᾽ ὑψόθι μείον᾽ ἔθηκε: 475
πολλάκι © ἐξ ἀγαθοῖο πέλει κακόν, ἐκ δὲ κακοῖο
ἐσθλὸν ἀμειβομένοιο πολυτλήτου βιότοιο.
“Os ap’ ἔφη μερόπων τις ἀπόπροθεν ἄσπετον
αἴγλην
εἰσορόων. στονόεσσα δ᾽ ἔτ᾽ ἄμφεχε Τρῶας oi Sus:
᾿Αργεῖοι, δ᾽ ἀνὰ ἄστυ κυδοίμεον, HUT ἀῆται 480
λάβροι ἀπείρονα πόντον ὀρινόμενοι κ«λονέουσιν,
ὁππότ᾽ ap ἀντιπέρηθε δυσαέος ᾿Αρκτούροιο
βηλὸν ἐς ἀστερόεντα Θυτήριον ἀντέλλῃσιν
ἐς νότον ἠερόεντα τετραμμένον, ἀμφὶ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ αὐτῷ
πολλαὶ ὑπόβρυχα νῆες ἀμαλδύνοντ᾽ ἐνὶ πόντῳ 488
ὀρνυμένων ἀνέμων" τοῖς εἴκελοι υἷες ᾿Αχαιῶν
πόρθεον" Ἵλιον αἰπύ: τὸ δ᾽ ἐν πυρὶ καίετο πολλῷ.
ἠύτ᾽ ὄρος λασίῃσιν ἄδην καταείμενον ὕλῃς
ἐσσυμένως καίηται ὑπαὶ πυρὸς ὀρνυμένοιο
ἐξ a ἀνέμων, δολιχαὶ δὲ περιβρομέουσι κολῶναι, 490
τῷ δ᾽ ἄρα λευγαλέως ἐνιτείρεται ἄγρια πάντα
Ἡφαίστοιο Ringe περιστρεφθέντα καθ᾽ ὕλην'
ὡς Τρῶες κτείνοντο κατὰ πτόλιν' οὐδέ τις αὐτοὺς
ῥύετ᾽ ἐπουρανίων' περὶ γὰρ λίνα πάντοθε Μοῖραι
μακρὰ περιστήσαντο, τά περ βροτὸς οὔποτ᾽ ἄλυξε. 495
560
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XIII
Beheld it, far as Ida’s mountain-crests,
And sea-girt Tenedos, and Thracian Samos.
And men that voyaged on the deep sea cried:
“The Argives have achieved their mighty task
After long toil for star-eyed Helen’s sake.
All Troy, the once queen-city, burns in fire :
For all their prayers, no God defends them now ;
For strong Fate oversees all works of men,
And the renownless and obscure to fame
She raises, and brings low the exalted ones.
Oft out of good is evil brought, and good
From evil, mid the travail and change of life.”
So spake they, who from far beheld the glare
Of Troy’s great burning. Compassed were her folk
With wailing misery: through her streets the foe
Exulted, as when madding blasts turmoil
The boundless. sea, what time the Altar ascends
To heaven’s star-pavement, turned to the misty south
Overagainst Arcturus tempest-breathed,
And with its rising leap the wild winds forth,
And ships full many are whelmed ‘neath ravening
5688 ;
Wild as those stormy winds Achaea’s sons
Ravaged steep Ilium while she burned in flame.
As when a mountain clothed with shaggy woods
Burns swiftly in a fire-blast winged with winds,
And from her tall peaks goeth up a roar,
And all the forest-children this way and that
Rush through the wood, tormented by the flame ;
So were the Trojans perishing: there was none
To save, of all the Gods. Round these were staked
The nets of Fate, which no man can escape.
561
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
Kal τότε Δημοφόωντει μενεπτολεμῳ τ᾽ ᾿Ακά-
μαντι
Θησῆος μεγάλοιο δι᾽ ἄστεος ἤντετο μήτηρ
Αἴθρη ἐελδομένη" μακάρων δέ τις ἡγεμόνευεν,
ὅς μεν ἄγεν κείνοισι καταντίον" ἡ δ᾽ ἀλάλυκτο
φεύγουσ᾽ ἐκ πολέμοιο καὶ ἐκ πυρός" οἱ δ᾽ ἐσ-
ἰδόντες 500
αἴγλῃ ἐν Ἥ φαίστοιο δέμας μέγεθός τε γυναικὸς
αὐτὴν ἔμμεν ἔφαντο θεηγενέος Πριάμοιο
ἀντιθέην παράκοιτιν' ἄφαρ δέ οἱ ἐμμεμαῶτες
χεῖρας ἐπερρίψαντο λιλαιόμενοί μιν ἄγεσθαι
ἐς Δαναούς ἡ δ᾽ αἰνὸν ἀναστενάχουσα μετηύδα" 505
“un νύ με, κύδιμα τέκνα φιλοπτολέμων ᾿Αργείων,
δήϊον ἃ ὡς ἐρύοντες ἑ ἑὰς ἐπὶ νῆας ἄγεσθε'
οὐ γὰρ Τρωιάδων γένος εὔχομαι, ἀλλά μοι ἐσθλὸν
αἷμα πέλει Δαναῶν μάλ᾽ ἐὐκλεές, οὕνεκα ἸΠιτθεὺς
γείνατό μ᾽ ἐν Τροιζῆνι" γάμῳ δ᾽ ἑδνώσατο δῖος 810
Αἰγεύς: ἐκ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἐμεῖο κλυτὸς πάϊς ἔπλετο
ησεύς.
ἀλλά με, πρὸς μεγάλοιο Διός, τερπνῶν τε τοκήων,
εἰ ἐτεὸν Θησῆος ἀμύμονος ἐνθάδ᾽ ἵκοντο
υἷες ἅμ᾽ ᾿Ατρείδῃσι, φίλοις παίδεσσιν ἐκείνου
δείξατ᾽ ἐελδομένοισι κατὰ στρατόν, οὕς rue ὀΐω 515
Dep ὁμήλικας ἔμμεν" ἀναπνεύσει δέ μευ ἦτορ,
ἢν κείνους ζώοντας ἴδω καὶ ἀριστέας ἄμφω."
Ὡς φάτο: τοὶ δ᾽ ἀΐοντες ἑοῦ μνήσαντο τοκῆος,
ἀμφ᾽ “Ἑλένης ὅσ᾽ ἔρεξε, καὶ ὡς διέπερσαν ᾿Αφίδνας
κοῦροι ἐριγδούποιο Διὸς πάρος, ὁππότ᾽ ἄρ᾽ αὐτοὺς 520
ὑσμίνης ἀπάνευθεν ἀπεκρύψαντο τιθῆναι
νηπιάχους ἔχ € ἐόντας" ἀνεμνήσαντο δ᾽ ἀγανῆς
Αἴθρης, ὅ ὅσσ᾽ ἐμόγησε δορυκτήτῳ ὑ ὑπ᾽ ἀνάγκῃ,
ἄμφω ὁμῶς ἑκυρή τε καὶ ἀμφίπολος yeyavia
ἀντιθέης Ἑλένης" σὺν δ᾽ ἀμφασίῃ κεχάροντο. 525
Δημοφόων δέ μιν His ἐελδομένην προσέειπεν"
562
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XIII
Then were Demophoon and Acamas
By mighty Theseus’ mother Aethra met.
Yearning to see them was she guided on
To meet them by some Blesséd One, the while
’Wildered from war and fire she fled. They saw
In that red glare a woman royal-tall,
Imperial-moulded, and they weened that this
Was Priam’s queen, and with swift eagerness
Laid hands on her, to lead her captive thence
To the Danaans ; but piteously she moaned :
« Ah, do not, noble sons of warrior Greeks,
To your ships hale me, as I were a foe!
I am not of Trojan birth: of Danaans came
My princely blood renowned. In Troezen’s halls
Pittheus begat me, Aegeus wedded me,
And of my womb sprang Theseus glory-crowned.
For great Zeus’ sake, for your dear parents’ sake,
I pray you, if the seed of Theseus came
Hither with Atreus’ sons, O bring ye me
Unto their yearning eyes. I trow they be
Young men like you. My soul shall be refreshed
If living I behold those chieftains twain.”
Hearkening to her they called their sire to mind,
His deeds for Helen’s sake, and how the sons
Of Zeus the Thunderer in the old time smote
Aphidnae, when, because these were but babes,
Their nurses hid them far from peril of fight ;
And Aethra they remembered—all she endured
Through wars, as mother-in-law at first, and thrall
Thereafter of Helen. Dumb for joy were they,
Till spake Demophoon to that wistful one :
563
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
“ gol μὲν δὴ τελέουσι θεοὶ θυμηδὲς ἐέλδωρ
αὐτίκ᾽, ἐπεί ῥα δέδορκας ἀμύμονος υἱέος υἷας
ἡμέας, οἵ σε φίλῃς συναειράμενοι παλάμῃσιν
οἴσομεν ἐς νῆας, καὶ ἐς ᾿Ιϑλλάδος ἱερὸν ovdas 530
ἄξομεν ἀσπασίως, ὅθι περ πάρος éuBacineves.”
“Os φάμενον μεγάλοιο πατρὸς προσπτύξατο
μήτηρ
χείρεσιν ἀμφιβαλοῦσα, κύσεν δέ οἱ εὐρέας ὦμους
καὶ κεφαλὴν καὶ στέρνα γένειά τε λαχνήεντα"
ὡς δ᾽ αὕτως ᾿Ακάμαντα κύσεν, περὶ δέ σφισι
δάκρυ 535
ἡδὺ κατὰ βλεφάροιϊν ἐχεύατο μυρομένοισιν"
ὡς δ᾽ ὁπότ᾽ αἰζηοῖο μετ᾽ ἀλλοδαποῖσιν ἐόντος
λαοὶ φημίξωσι μόρον, τὸν δ᾽ ἔκποθεν υἷες
ὕστερον ἀθρήσαντες ἐς οἰκία νοστήσαντα
κλαίουσιν μάλα τερπνόν ὁ δ᾽ ἔμπαλι παισὶ καὶ
αὐτὸς 540
μύρεται ἐν μεγάροισιν ἐπωμαδόν, ἀμφὶ δὲ δῶμα
ἡδὺ κινυρομένων γοερὴ περιπέπτατ᾽ tw"
ὡς TOV πυρομένων λαρὸς γόος ἀμφιδεδήει.
Καὶ τότε που Πριάμοιο πολυκτήτοιο θύγατρα
Λαοδίκην ἐ ἐνέπουσιν ἐς αἰθέρα χεῖρας ὀρέξαι 545
εὐχομένην μακάρεσσιν ἀτειρέσιν, ὄφρα ἑ γαῖα
ἀμφιχάνῃ, πρὶν χεῖρα βαλεῖν ἐ ἐπὶ δούλια ἔργα.
τῆς δὲ θεῶν τις ἄκουσε καὶ αὐτίκα γαῖαν ἔνερθεν
ῥῆξεν ἀπειρεσίην: ἡ δ ἐννεσίῃσι θεοῖο
κούρην δέξατο δῖαν ἔ ἔσω κοίλοιο βερέθρου, 550
Ἰλίου ὀλλυμένης, ἧς εἵνεκά φασι καὶ αὐτὴν
᾿Ηλέκτρην βαθύπεπλον ἑ ἐὸν δέμας ἀμφικαλύψαι
ἀχλύϊ καὶ νεφέεσσιν ἀποιχομένην χοροῦ ἄλλων
Πληιάδων, al δή οἱ ἀδελφειαὶ γεγάασιν'
ἀλλ᾽ αἱ μὲν μογεροῖσιν ἐπόψιαι ἀνθρώποισιν 555
ἰλαδὸν ἀντέλλουσιν ἐς “οὐρανόν: ἡ δ᾽ ἄρα μούνη
κεύθεται αἰὲν ἄϊστος, ἔπεί ῥά οἱ υἱέος ἐσθλοῦ
504
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XIII
«“ Even now the Gods fulfil thine heart's desire:
We whom thou seést are the sons of him,
Thy noble son: thee shall our loving hands
Bear to the ships: with joy to Hellas’ soil
Thee will we bring, where once thou wast a queen.”
Then his great father’s mother clasped him round
With clinging arms: she kissed his shoulders broad,
His head, his breast, his bearded lips she kissed,
And Acamas kissed withal, the while she shed
Glad tears on these who could not choose but weep.
As when one tarries long mid alien men,
And folk report him dead, but suddenly
He cometh home: his children see his face,
And break into glad weeping; yea, and he,
His arms around them, and their little heads
Upon his shoulders, sobs : echoes the home
With happy mourning’s music-beating wings ;
So wept they with sweet sighs and sorrowless moans.
Then, too, affliction-burdened Priam’s child,
Laodice, say they, stretched her hands to heaven,
Praying the mighty Gods that earth might gape
To swallow her, ere she defiled her hand
With thralls’ work ; and a God gave ear, and rent
Deep earth beneath her: so by Heaven’s decree
Did earth’s abysmal chasm receive the maid
In Troy’s last hour. Electra’s self withal,
The Star-queen lovely-robed, shrouded her form
In mist and cloud, and left the Pleiad-band,
Her sisters, as the olden legend tells.
Still riseth up in sight of toil-worn men
Their bright troop in the skies; but she alone
Hides viewless ever, since the hallowed town
565
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
Δαρδάνου ἱερὸν ἄστυ κατήριπεν" οὐδέ οἱ αὐτὸς
ε , 2 ε
Ζεὺς ὕπατος χραίσμησεν ἀπ᾽ αἰθέρος, οὕνεκα
/
Μοίραις
\
εἴκει καὶ μεγάλοιο Διὸς μένος: ἀλλὰ TO μέν TOU 560
ἀθανάτων τάχ᾽ ἔρεξεν ἐὺς νόος, ἠὲ καὶ αὐταί: 1
al > \ "
᾿Αργεῖοι δ᾽ ἔτι θυμὸν ἐπὶ 'Γρώεσσιν ὄρινον
/ A, / Μ ᾽ ΨΜ ,
πάντῃ ava πτολίεθρον: “Epis δ᾽ ἔχε πείρατα
, 2
χάρμης.
1 Zimmermann, for οὐκί of v.
2 Verse supplied by Zimmermann, ex P,
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XIII
Of her son Dardanus in ruin fell,
When Zeus most high from heaven could help her
not,
Because to Fate the might of Zeus must bow ;
And by the Immortals’ purpose all these things
Had come to pass, or by Fate’s ordinance.
Still on Troy’s folk the Argives wreaked their
wrath,
And battle’s issues Strife Incarnate held.
567
AOTOS ΤΕΣΣΑΡΑΚΑΙΔΕΚΑΤΟΣ.
Καὶ τότ᾽ am’ ’Oxeavoio θεὰ χρυσόθρονος ᾿Ηὼς
οὐρανὸν εἰσανόρουσε: χάος δ᾽ ὑπεδέξατο νύκτα.
,
οἱ δὲ Bin Τροίην evepxéa δηώσαντο
A an ,
᾿Αργεῖοι Kal κτῆσιν ἀπείρονα ληίσσαντο,
χειμάρροις ποταμοῖσιν ἐοικότες, οἵ τε φέρονται
ἐξ ὀρέων καναχηδὸν ὀρινομένου ὑετοῖο,
\ \ \ \ «ς t 4 ᾽
πολχλὰ δὲ δένδρεα μακρὰ καὶ ὁππόσα φύετ
ὄρεσφιν
3 a \ ΄ yy / ἢ
αὐτοῖς σὺν πρώνεσσιν ἔσω φορέουσι θαλάσσης"
ὡς Δαναοὶ πέρσαντες ὑπαὶ πυρὶ Τρώιον ἄστυ
κτήματα πάντα φέρεσκον evaKdpOpous ἐπὶ νῆας.
\ ty Ν / / bY bY
σὺν δ᾽ ἄρα Tpwiddas Katayiveov ἄλλοθεν ἄλλας,
τὰς μὲν ἔτ᾽ ἀδμῆτας Kal νηίδας οἷο γάμοιο,
Ἂν δι SG b 2 lad J / ’
τὰς δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ὑπ᾽ αἰζηοῖσι νέον φιλότητι δαμείσας,
Υ' ᾽ > / dod > Ape Siena J
ἄλλας δ᾽ αὖ πολιοπλοκάμους, ἑτέρας δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἐκει-
νων
e / > a > 4 b) ΠΝ Ν a
ὁπλοτέρας, ὧν παῖδας ἀπειρύσσαντ᾽ ἀπὸ μαζῶν
ὑστάτιον χείλεσσι YAAYOS περιμαιμώωντας.
Τοῖσιν δὴ Μενέλαος ἐνὶ μέσσοισι καὶ αὐτὸς
Hryev ἑὴν παράκοιτιν ἀπ᾽ ἄστεος αἰθομένοιο
b] 4 4 δ », Tne, if ἊΝ >] ,
ἐξανύσας μέγα ἔργον: ἔχεν δέ ἑ χάρμα καὶ αἰδώς.
Κασσάνδρην δ᾽ ἄγε δῖαν ἐὐμμελίης ᾿Αγαμέμνων:
ἘΝ ὃ γι δ᾽ 7A x ΣΝ LA > \ "06
νδρομάχην χιλῆος ἐὺς πάϊς" αὐτὰρ ᾿Οδυσ-
σεὺς
€ A
εἷλκε Bin “Ἑκάβην: ths δ᾽ ἁθρόα δάκρυ᾽ am’ ὄσσων
568
10
15
BOOK XIV.
How the conquerors sailed from Troy unto judgment of
tempest and shipwreck.
Tuen rose from Ocean Dawn the golden-throned
Up to the heavens ; night into Chaos sank.
And now the Argives spoiled fair-fencéd Troy,
And took her boundless treasures for a prey.
Like river-torrents seemed they, that sweep down,
By rain-floods swelled, in thunder from the hills,
And seaward hurl tall trees and whatsoe’er
Grows on the mountains, mingled with the wreck
Of shattered cliff and crag; so the long lines
Of Danaans who had wasted Troy with fire
Seemed, streaming with her plunder to the ships.
Troy’s daughters therewithal in scattered bands
They haled down seaward—virgins yet unwed,
And new-made brides, and matrons silver-haired,
And mothers from whose bosoms foes had torn
Babes for the last time closing lips on breasts.
Amidst of these Menelaus led his wife
Forth of the burning city, having wrought
A mighty triumph—joy and shame were his.
Cassandra heavenly-fair was haled the prize
Of Agamemnon: to Achilles’ son
Andromache had fallen: Hecuba
Odysseus dragged unto his ship. The tears
569
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
πίδακος ἃ ὡς ἐχεοντο" περίτρομεεσκε δὲ γυῖα,
καὶ κραδίη ἀλάλυκτο φόβῳ, δεδάϊκτο δὲ χαίτας
κράατος ἐκ πολιοῖο" “τέφρη δ᾽ ἐπεπέπτατο πολλή,
τήν που ἀπ᾽ ἐσχαρεῶνος ἄδην κατεχεύατο χερσὶν
ὀλλυμένου Πριάμοιο καὶ ἄστεος αἰθομένοιο"
καί ῥα μέγα στονάχιξεν, ὅ ὅτ᾽ ἄμφεχε δούλιον ἢ ἦμαρ
μὰψ ἀεκαζομένην' ἕτερος δ᾽ ἑτέρην γοόωσαν
ἦγεν Τρωιάδων σφετέρας ἐπὶ νῆας ἀνάγκῃ"
αἱ δ᾽ ἀδινὸν γοόωσαι ἀνίαχον ἄλλοθεν ἄλλαι
νηπιάχοις ἅμα παισὶ κινυρόμεναι μάλα λυγρῶς'
ὡς δ᾽ ὁπότ᾽ ᾿ἀργιόδουσιν ὁ ὁμῶς συσὶ νήπια τέκνα
σταθμοῦ ἀπὸ προτέροιο ποτὶ σταθμὸν ἄλλον
ἄγωσιν
ἀνέρες ἐγρομένῳ ὑπὸ χείματι, τοὶ δ᾽ ἀλεγεινὸν
μίγδα περιτρύζουσι διηνεκὲς ἀλλήλοισιν"
ὡς Τρφαὶ Δαναοῖσιν ὑ ὑπ᾽ ἐστενάχοντο δαμεῖσαι"
ἴσην δ᾽ αὖ καὶ ἄνασσα φέρεν καὶ δμωὶς ἀνάγκην.
"AAN οὐ μὰν Ἑλένην γόος ἄμφεχεν' ἀλλά οἱ
αἰδὼς
ὄμμασι κυανέοισιν ἐφίζανε, καί οἱ ὕπερθεν
καλὰς ἀμφερύθηνε παρηίδας" ἐν δέ οἱ ἦτορ
ἄσπετα πορφύρεσκε κατὰ φρένα, μή € κιοῦσαν
κυανέας ἐπὶ νῆας ἀεικίσσωνται ᾿Αχαιοί:
τοὔνεχ᾽ ὑποτρομέουσα φίλῳ περιπάλλετο θυμῷ.
καί ῥα καλυψ αμένη κεφαλὴν ἐφύπερθε καλύπτρῃ
ἕσπετο νισσομένοιο κατ᾽ ἴχνιον ἀνδρὸς ἑ ἑοῖο
αἰδοῖ πορφύρουσα παρήιον, nite Κύπρις,
εὗτέ μιν Οὐρανίωνες ἐν ἀγκοίνῃσιν “Apnos
ἀμφαδὸν εἰσενόησαν ἑὸν λέχος αἰσχύνουσαν
δεσμοῖς ἐ ἐν θαμινοῖσι δαήμονος Ἡφαίστοιο,
τοῖς ἔνι κεῖτ’ ἀχέουσα περὶ φρεσὶν αἰδομένη τε
ἰλαδὸν ἀγρομένων μακάρων γένος ἠδὲ καὶ αὐτὸν
“Ἡφαιστον' δεινὸν γὰρ ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖσιν ἀκοίτεω
ἀμφαδὸν εἰσοράασθαι ἐπ᾽ αἴσχεϊ θηλυτέρηοι.
570
80
35
45
50
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XIV
Poured from her eyes as water from a spring ;
Trembled her limbs, fear-frenzied was her heart ;
Rent were her hoary tresses and besprent
With ashes of the hearth, cast by her hands
When she saw Priam slain and Troy aflame.
And aye she deeply groaned for thraldom’s day
That trapped her vainly loth. Each hero led
A wailing Trojan woman to his ship.
Here, there, uprose from these the wild lament,
The woeful-mingling cries of mother and babe.
As when with white-tusked swine the herdmen
drive
Their younglings from the hill-pens to the plain
As winter closeth in, and evermore
Each answereth each with mingled plaintive cries ;
So moaned Troy’s daughters by their foes enslaved,
Handmaid and queen made one in thraldom’s lot.
But Helen raised no lamentation: shame
Sat on her dark-blue eyes, and cast its flush
Over her lovely cheeks. Her heart beat hard
With sore misgiving, lest, as to the ships
She passed, the Achaeans might mishandle her.
Therefore with fluttering soul she trembled sore ;
And, her head darkly mantled in her veil,
Close-following trod she in her husband's steps,
With cheek shame-crimsoned, like the Queen ot
Love,
What time the Heaven-abiders saw her clasped
In Ares’ arms, shaming in sight of all
The marriage-bed, trapped in the myriad-meshed
Toils of Hephaestus : tangled there she lay
In agony of shame, while thronged around
The Blesséd, and there stood Hephaestus’ self:
For fearful it is for wives to be beheld
By husbands’ eyes doing the deed of shame.
571
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
τῇ Ελένη εἰκυῖα δέμας καὶ ἀκήρατον αἰδῶ 55
ἤιε σὺν Τρῳῇσι δορυκτήτοισι, καὶ αὐτὴ
νῆας ἔπ᾽ ᾿Αργείων εὐήρεας' “ἀμφὶ δὲ λαοὶ
θάμβεον ἀθρήσαντες ἀμωμήτοιο γυναικὸς
ἀγλαΐην. καὶ κάλλος ἐπήρατον: οὐδέ τις ἔτλη
κείνην. οὔτε κρυφηδὸν ἐπεσβολίῃσι χαλέψαι, 60
οὔτ᾽ οὖν ἀμφαδίην, ἀλλ᾽ ὡς θεὸν εἰσορόωντο
ἀσπασίως: πᾶσιν γὰρ ἐελδομένοισι φαάνθη.
ὡς δ᾽ or ἀλωομένοισι δι ἀκαμάτοιο θαλάσσης
πατ ὶς én) μετὰ δηρὸν ἐελδομένοισι φανείη,
οἱ δὲ καὶ ἐκ πόντοιο καὶ ἐκ θανάτοιο φυγόντες 65
πάτρῃ χεῖρ᾽ ὀρέγουσι γεγηθότες a ἄσπετα θυμῷ"
ὡς Δαναοὶ περὶ πάντες ἐγήθεον: οὐ γὰρ ἔτ᾽ αὐτοῖς
μνῆστις ἔην καμάτοιο δυσαλγέος οὐδὲ κυδοιμοῦ'
τοῖον γὰρ Κυθέρεια νόον ποιήσατο πάντων
ἦρα φέρουσ᾽ Ἑλένῃ ἑλικώπιδι καὶ Διὶ πατρί. 70
αἱ TOT ἄρ᾽, ὡς ἐνόησε φίλον δεδαϊγμένον ἄστυ
Ξάνθος ἔθ᾽ al 'ματόεντος. ἀναπνείων ὀρυμαγδοῦ
μύρετο σὺν Νύμφησιν, ἐπεὶ κακὸν ἔμπεσε Τροίῃ
ἔκποθε καὶ Πριάμοιο κατημάλδυνε TOANA*
ὡς δ᾽ ὅτε λήιον αὖον ἐπιβρίσασα χάλαξα 75
τυτθὰ διατμήξῃ, στάχυας δ᾽ ἀπὸ πάντας ᾿ἀμέρσῃ
ῥιπῇ ὑπ᾽ ἀργαλέῃ, καλάμη δ᾽ ἄρα χεύατ᾽ ἔραζε
μαψιδίη καρποῖο κατ᾽ οὔδεος ὀχλυμένοιο
λευγαλέως, λυγρῷ δὲ πέλει μέγα πένθος ἄνακτι"
ὡς ἄρα καὶ Ξάνθοιο περὶ φρένας ἤλυθεν ἄλγος 80
Ἰλίου οἰωθέντος" ἔχεν δέ μιν αἰὲν ὀϊξὺς
ἀθάνατόν περ ἐόντα" μακρὴ δ᾽ ἀμφέστενεν᾽ Ἴδη
καὶ Σιμόεις" μύροντο δ᾽ ἀπόπροθι πάντες ἔναυλοι
᾿Ιδαῖοι Πριάμοιο πόλιν περικωκύοντες.
᾿Αργεῖοι δ᾽ ἐπὶ νῆας ἔβαν μέγα καγχαλόωντες 8ὅ
μέλποντες νίκης ἐρικυδέος ὄβριμον ἀλκήν,
ἄλλοτε δὲ ζάθεον μακάρων γένος ἦδε καὶ αὐτῶν
θυμὸν τολμήεντα καὶ ἄφθιτον ἔργον ᾿Ε'πειοῦ.
572
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XIV
Lovely as she in form and roseate blush
Passed Helen mid the Trojan captives on
To the Argive ships. But the folk all around
Marvelled to see the glory of loveliness
Of that all-flawless woman. No man dared
Or secretly or openly to cast
Reproach on her. As on a Goddess all
Gazed on her with adoring wistful eyes.
As when to wanderers on a stormy sea,
After long time and passion of prayer, the sight
Of fatherland is given ; from deadly deeps
Escaped, they stretch hands to her joyful-souled ;
So joyed the Danaans all, no man of them
Remembered any more war’s travail and pain.
Such thoughts Cytherea stirred in them, for grace
To Helen starry-eyed, and Zeus her sire.
Then, when he saw that burg beloved destroyed,
Xanthus, scarce drawing breath from bloody war,
Mourned with his Nymphs for ruin fallen on Troy,
Mourned for the city of Priam blotted out.
As when hail lashes a field of ripened wheat,
And beats it small, and smites off all the ears
With merciless scourge, and levelled with the ground
Are stalks, and on the earth is all the grain
Woefully wasted, and the harvest’s lord
Is stricken with deadly grief; so Xanthus’ soul
Was utterly whelmed in grief for Ilium made
A desolation ; grief undying was his,
Immortal though he was. Mourned Simois
And long-ridged Ida: all who on Ida dwelt
Wailed from afar the ruin of Priam’s town.
But with loud laughter of glee the Argives sought
Their galleys, chanting the triumphant might
Of victory, chanting now the Blessed Gods,
Now their own valour, and Epeius’ work
Ever renowned. Their song soared up to heaven,
519
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
μολπὴ δ᾽ οὐρανὸν ike δι᾿ αἰθέρος, εὖτε κολοιῶν
X\ . 7 « Tay ΤᾺ ΕΣ ie “
κλαγγὴ ἀπειρεσίη, ὁπότ᾽ εὔδιον ἦμαρ ἵκηται 90
’ 2 2 a / ah | / > /
χείματος ἐξ ὀλοοῖο, πέλει δ᾽ ἄρα νήμενος αἰθήρ'
ὡς τῶν πὰρ νήεσσι μέγ᾽ ἔνδοθι γηθομένων κῆρ
* * * * * *
ἀθάνατοι τέρποντο κατ᾽ οὐρανόν, ὅσσοι ἀρωγοὶ
ἐκ θυμοῖο πέλοντο φιλοπτολέμων ᾿Αργείων'
ἄλλοι δ᾽ αὖ χαλέπαινον, ὅσοι Τρώεσσιν ἄμυνον, 95
δερκόμενοι Πριάμοιο καταιθόμενον πτολίεθρον'
ἀλλ᾽ οὐ μὰν ὑπὲρ Αἶσαν ἐελδόμενοί περ ἀμύνειν
ἔσθενον: οὐδὲ yap αὐτὸς ὑπὲρ μόρον οὐδὲ Κρονιων
ῥηιδίως δύνατ᾽ Αἶσαν ὠπωσέμεν, ὃ ὃς περὶ πάντων
ἀθανάτων σθένος ἐστί, Διὸς δ᾽ ἐκ πάντα πέ-
λονταῖι. 100
᾿Αργεῖοι δ᾽ ἄρα πολλὰ βοῶν ἐ ἐπὶ μηρία θέντες
καῖον ὁμῶς σχίζῃσι, καὶ ἐσσύμενοι περὶ βωμοὺς
λείβεσκον μέθυ λαρὸν ἐπ’ αἰθομένῃσι θυηλῇς
ἦρα θεοῖσι φέροντες, ἐπεὶ μέγα ἤνυσαν ἔργον.
πολλὰ δ᾽ ἐν εἰλαπίνῃ θυμηδέϊ κυδαίνεσκον 105
πάντας, ὅσους ὑπέδεκτο σὺν ἔντεσι , δούριος @ ἵππος"
θαύμαζον δὲ Σίνωνα περικλυτόν, οὕνεχ᾽ ὑπέτλη
λώβην δυσμενέων πολυκηδέα" καί ῥά € πάντες
μολπῇ καὶ γεράεσσιν ἀπειρεσίοισι τίεσ κον"
ὃς δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἐνὶ φρεσὶν now ἐγήθεε τλήμονι θυμῺΑΔ,λο 110
νίκῃ én ᾿Αργείων, σφετέρῃ δ᾽ οὐκ ἄχνυτο λώβῃ:"
ἀνέρι γὰρ πινυτῷ καὶ _ ἐπίφρονι πολλὸν ἄμεινον
κῦδος καὶ χρυσοῖο καὶ εἴδεος ἠδὲ καὶ ἄλλων
ἐσθλῶν, ὁππόσα τ᾽ ἐστὶ καὶ ἔσσεται ἀνθρώποισιν.
οἱ δ᾽ ἄρα πὰρ νήεσσιν ἀταρβέα θυμὸν ἔ ἔχοντες 118
δόρπεον ἀλλήλοισι διηνεκέως ἐνέποντες"
“ἠνύσαμεν πολέμοιο μακροῦ τέλος: pape? εὐρὺ
κῦδος ὁμῶς δηΐοισι μέγα πτολίεθρον ἑλόντες"
ἀλλά, Ζεῦ, καὶ νόστον ἐελδομένοις κατάνευσον.᾽"
574
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XIV
Like multitudinous cries of daws, when breaks
A day of sunny calm and windless air
After a ruining storm: from their glad hearts
So rose the joyful clamour, till the Gods
Heard and rejoiced in heaven, all who had helped
With willing hands the war-fain Argive men.
But chafed those others which had aided Troy,
Beholding Priam’s city wrapped in flame,
Yet powerless for her help to override
Fate; for not Cronos’ Son can stay the hand
Of Destiny, whose might transcendeth all
The Immortals, and Zeus sanctioneth all her deeds.
The Argives on the flaming altar-wood
Laid many thighs of oxen, and made haste
To spill sweet wine on their burnt offerings,
Thanking the Gods for that great work achieved.
And loudly at the feast they sang the praise
Of all the mailed men whom the Horse of Tree
Had ambushed. Far-famed Sinon they extolled
For that dire torment he endured of foes:
Yea, song and honour-guerdons without end
All rendered him: and that resolvéd soul
Glad-hearted joyed for the Argives’ victory,
And for his own misfeaturing sorrowed not.
For to the wise and prudent man renown
Is better far than gold, than goodlihead,
Than all good things men have or hope to win.
So, feasting by the ships all void of fear,
Cried one to another ever and anon:
““ We have touched the goal of this long war, have
won
Glory, have smitten our foes and their great town!
Now grant, Ὁ Zeus, to our prayers safe home-
return, |;
55
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
“Os ἔφαν: ἀλλ’ ov πᾶσι πατὴρ ἐπὶ νοστον
ἔνευσε. 120
τοῖς δέ τις ἐν μέσσοισιν ἐπιστάμενος hae
4 ᾿ οὐ γὰρ ἔτ᾽ αὐτοῖς
δεῖμα πέλεν ᾿πολέμοιο δυσηχέος, ἀλλ᾽ ἐπὶ ἔργα
εὐνομίης ἐτράποντο καὶ εὐφροσύνης ἐρατεινῆς.
ὃς δ᾽ ἤτοι πρῶτον μὲν ἐελδομένοισιν ἄειδεν, 125
λαοὶ ὅπως συνάγερθεν ἐ ἐς Αὐλίδος ἱ ἱερὸν οὗδας,
ἠδ᾽ ὡς Πηλείδαο μέγα σθένος ἀκαμάτοιο
δώδεκα μὲν. κατὰ “πόντον ἰὼν διέπερσε πόληας,
ἕνδεκα δ᾽ αὖ κατὰ γαῖαν ἀπείριτον, ὅσσα τ᾽ ἔρεξε
Τήλεφον ἀμφὶς ἄνακτα καὶ ὄβριμον Ἠετίωνα, 130
ὡς δὲ Κύκνον κατέπεφνεν ὑπέρβιον, ἠδ᾽ ὅσ᾽
᾿Αχαιοὶ
μαρνάμενοι κατὰ μῆνιν ᾿Αχίλλεος ἐ ἔργα κάμοντο,
“Ἕκτορα δ᾽ ὡς εἴρυσσεν ens. περὶ τείχεα πάτρης,
ὥς τ᾿’ ἕλε Πενθεσίλειαν ἀνὰ μόθον, ὥς τ᾽ ἐδά-
μασσεν
υἱέα Τιθωνοῖο, καὶ ὡς κτάνε καρτερὸς Αἴας 135
Γλαῦκον ἐὐμμελίην, ἠδ᾽ ὡς ἐρικυδέα φῶτα
Εὐρύπυλον κατέπεφνε θοοῦ πάϊς Αἰακίδαο,
ὡς δὲ Πάριν δαμάσαντο Φιλοκτήταο βέλεμνα,
ἡδ᾽ ὁπόσοι δολόεντος ἐσήλυθον ἔνδοθεν ἵππου
ἀνέρες, ὥς τε πόληα θεηγενέος Πριάμοιο 140
πέρσαντες δαίνυντο κακῶν ἀπὸ νόσφι κυδοιμῶν.
ἄλλα δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἄλλος ἄειδεν, ὅ τι φρεσὶν ἡ ῃσι μενοίνα.
᾿Αλλ᾽ ὅτε δαινυμένοισ, μέσον περιτέλλετο
νυκτός,
δὴ τότε που δόρποιο καὶ ἀκρήτοιο πότοιο
παυσάμενοι πάντες λαθικηδέα κοῖτον ἕλοντο" 145
χθιζὸν γὰρ καμάτοιο μένος κατεδάμνατο πάντας"
τῷ καὶ παννύχιοι λελιημένοι εἰλαπινάξειν
παύσανθ᾽, οὕνεκεν ὕπνος ἄδην ἀέκοντας ἔρυκεν"
576
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XIV
But not to all the Sire vouchsafed return.
Then rose a cunning harper in their midst.
And sang the song of triumph and of peace
Re-won, and with glad hearts untouched by care
They heard ; for no more fear of war had they,
But of sweet toil of law-abiding days
And blissful-fleeting hours henceforth they dreamed.
All the War’s Story in their eager ears
He sang—how leaguéd peoples gathering met
At hallowed Aulis—how the invincible strength
Of Peleus’ son smote fencéd cities twelve
In sea-raids, how he marched o’er leagues on leagues
Of land, and spoiled eleven—all he wrought
In fight with Telephus and Eétion—
How he slew giant Cycnus—all the toil
Of war that through Achilles’ wrath befell
The Achaeans — how he dragged dead Hector round
His own Troy’s wall, and how he slew in fight
Penthesileia and Tithonus’ son :—
How Aias laid low Glaucus, lord of spears,
Then sang he how the child of Aeacus’ son
Struck down Eurypylus, and how the shafts
Of Philoctetes dealt to Paris death.
Then the song named all heroes who passed in
To ambush in the Horse of Guile, and hymned
The fall of god-descended Priam’s burg ;
The feast he sang last, and peace after war ;
Then many another, as they listed, sang.
But when above those feasters midnight’s stars
Hung, ceased the Danaans from the feast and wine,
And turned to sleep’s forgetfulness of care,
For that with yesterday’s war-travail all
Were wearied ; wherefore they, who fain all night
Had revelled, needs must cease: how loth soe’er,
Sleep drew them thence; here, there, soft slumbered
they.
577
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
ἄλλῃ δ᾽ ἄλλος ἴαυεν" ὁ δ᾽ ἐν κλισίῃσιν ἑῇσιν
᾿Ατρείδης ὀάριξε μετ᾽ ἠὐκόμοιο γυναικός" 150
ov γάρ πω κείνοισιν ἐπ ὄμμασιν ὕπνος ἔπιπτεν,
ἀλλὰ Κύπρις πεπόνητο περὶ φρένας, ὄφρα παλαιοῦ
λέκτρου ἐπιμνήσωνται, ἄχος δ᾽ ἀπὸ νόσφι βά-
λωνται.
πρώτη δ᾽ αὖθ' “Ἑλένη τοῖον ποτὶ μῦθον ἔειπε"
“μή. νύ μοι, ὦ Μενέλαε, χόλον ’ ποτιβάλλεο θυμῷ' 155
ov yap ἐγὼν ἐθέλουσα λίπον σέο δῶμα Kal εὐνήν,
ἀλλά μ᾽ ᾿Αλεξάνδροιο Bin καὶ Τρώιοι υἷες
σεῦ ἀπὸ νόσφιν ἐόντος ἀνηρείψαντο κιόντες,
καί pe ἄμοτον μεμαυῖαν ὀϊξυρῶς ἀπολέσθαι
ἢ βρόχῳ. ἀργαλέῳ ἢ καὶ ξίφεϊ στονόεντι 160
εἶργον ἐνὶ μεγάροισι παρηγορέοντες ἔπεσσι
σεῦ ἕνεκ᾽ ἀχνυμένην καὶ τηλυγέτοιο θυγατρός"
τῆς νύ σε πρός τε γάμου πολυγηθέος ἠδὲ σεῦ
αὐτοῦ
λίσσομαι, ἀμφ᾽ ἐμέθεν στυγερῆς λελαθέσθαι
avins.”
“Os φαμένην προσέειπε πύκα φρονέων Mevé-
aos: 165
“ μηκέτι νῦν μέμνησ᾽, ἀλλ᾽ ἰσχέμεν ἄλγεα θυμῷ"
ἀλλὰ τὰ μέν που πάντα μέλας δόμος ἐ ἐντὸς. ἐέργοι
λήθης" οὐ γὰρ ἔοικε κακῶν μεμνῆσθαι ἔτ᾽ ἔργων.
“Os φάτο" τὴν δ᾽ ἕλε χάρμα, δέος δ᾽ ἐξέσσυτο
θυμοῦ"
ἔλπτετο γὰρ παύσασθαι ἀ ἀνιηροῖο χόλοιο 170
ὃν πόσιν: ἀμφὶ δέ μιν βάλε πήχεε' καί σφιν ἅμ᾽
ἄμφω
δάκρυ κατὰ βλεφάροιιν ἐλείβετο ἡδὺ γοώντων.
ἀσπασίως δ᾽ ἄρα τώ γε παρ᾽ ἀλλήλοισι κλιθέντε
σφωιτέρου κατὰ θυμὸν ἀνεμνήσαντο γάμοιο"
ὡς δ᾽ ὅτε που κισσός τε καὶ ἡμερὶς ἀμφιβάλωνται 175
ἀλλήλους περὶ πρέμνα, τὰ δ᾽ οὔποτε is ἀνέμοιο
578
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XIV
But in his tent Menelaus lovingly
With bright-haired Helen spake ; for on their eyes
Sleep had not fallen yet. The Cyprian Queen
Brooded above their souls, that olden love
Might be renewed, and heart-ache chased away.
Helen first brake the silence, and she said :
“0 Menelaus, be not wroth with me!
Not of my will I left thy roof, thy bed,
But Alexander and the sons of Troy
Came upon me, and snatched away, when thou
Wast far thence. Oftentimes did I essay
By the death-noose to perish wretchedly,
Or by the bitter sword ; but still they stayed
Mine hand, and still spake comfortable words
To salve my grief for thee and my sweet child.
For her sake, for the sake of olden love,
And for thine own sake, I beseech thee now,
Forget thy stern displeasure against thy wife.”
Answered her Menelaus wise of wit :
“No more remember past griefs : seal them up
Hid in thine heart. Let all be locked within
The dim dark mansion of forgetfulness.
What profits it to call ill deeds to mind?”
Glad was she then: fear flitted from her heart,
And came sweet hope that her lord’s wrath was
dead.
She cast her arms around him, and their eyes
With tears were brimming as they made sweet
moan ;
And side by side they laid them, and their hearts
Thrilled with remembrance of old spousal joy.
And as a vine and ivy entwine their stems
Each around other, that no might of wind
579
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
σφῶν ἄπο νόσφι βαλέσθαι ἐπισθένει" ὡς ἄρα τώ γε
ἀλλήλοις συνέχοντο λιλαιόμενοι φιλότητος.
᾿Αλλ ὅτε δὴ καὶ τοῖσιν ἐπήλυθεν ὕπνος
ἀπήμων,
δὴ τότ᾽ ᾿Αχιλλῆος κρατερὸν κῆρ ἰσοθέοιο 180
ἔστη ὑπὲρ κεφαλῆς οὗ υἱέος, οἷος ἔην περ
ζωὸς ἐών, ὅτε Τρωσὶν ἄχος πέλε, χάρμα ὃ
᾿Αχαιοῖς.
κύσσε δέ οἱ δειρὴν καὶ φάεα μαρμαίροντα
ἀσπασίως" καὶ τοῖα παρηγορέων προσέειπε:
αἶρε, τέκος, καὶ μήτι δαΐζεο πένθεϊ θυμὸν 185
εἵνεκ᾽ ἐμεῖο θανόντος, ἐ ἐπεὶ μακάρεσσι θεοῖσιν
ἤδη ὁμέστιός εἰμι" σὺ δ᾽ ἴσχεο τειρόμενος Kip
ἀμφ᾽ ἐμέθεν, καὶ κάρτος ἄδην ἐ ἐμὸν ἔνθεο θυμῷ.
αἰεὶ δ᾽ ᾿Αργείων πρόμος ἵστασο μηδενὶ εἴκων
ἠνορέῃ" ἀγορῇ δὲ παλαιοτέροισι βροτοῖσι 190
πείθεο: καὶ νύ σε πάντες ἐὔῴφρονα μυθήσονται.
tie δ᾽ ἀμύμονας ἄνδρας, ὅσοις νόος ἔμπεδός ἐστιν"
ἐσθλῷ γὰρ φίλος ἐσθλὸς ἀνήρ, χαλεπῷ δ᾽ ἀλε-
γεινός.
ἢν δ᾽ ἀγαθὸν φρονέῃς, ἀγαθῶν καὶ τεύξεαι ἔ ἔργων"
κεῖνος δ᾽ οὔποτ᾽ ἀνὴρ ᾿Αρετῆς ἐπὶ τέρμαθ᾽ ἵκανεν, 195
ᾧτινι μὴ νόος ἐστὶν ἐναίσιμος" οὕνεκ᾽ ἄρ᾽ αὐτῆς
πρέμνον δύσβατόν ἐστι, μακρὸν δέ οἱ ἄχρις ἐπ᾽
αἴθρην
ὄζοι ἀνηέξηνθ᾽- ὁπόσοισι δὲ κάρτος ὀπηδεῖ
καὶ πόνος, ἐκ καμάτου πολυγηθέα καρπὸν ἀμῶνται
εἰς ᾿Αρετῆς ἀναβάντες ἐὐστεφάνου κλυτὸν ἔρνος. 200
ἀλλ᾽ ἄγε, κύδιμος ἔ ἔσσο, καὶ ἐν φρεσὶ πευκαλίμῃσι
μήτ᾽ ἐπὶ πήματι πάγχυ δαΐζεο θυμὸν ἀνίῃ,
μήτ᾽ ἐσθλῷ μέγα χαῖρε" νόος δέ τοι ἤπιος ἔστω
ἔς τε φίλους é ἑτάρους ἔς θ᾽ υἱέας ἔς τε γυναῖκα 1
μνωομένῳ κατὰ θυμόν, ὅτι σχεδὸν ἀνθρώποισιν 205
1 Zimmermann, ex P, for γυναῖκας of v.
580
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XIV
Avails to sever them, so clung these twain
Twined in the passionate embrace of love.
When came on these too sorrow-drowning sleep,
Even then above his son’s head rose and stood
Godlike Achilles’ mighty shade, in form
As when he lived, the Trojans’ bane, the joy
Of Greeks, and kissed his neck and flashing eyes
Lovingly, and spake comfortable words:
“ All hail, my son! Vex not thine heart with grief
For thy dead sire ; for with the Blesséd Gods
Now at the feast I sit. Refrain thy soul
From sorrow, and plant my strength within thy
mind.
Be foremost of the Argives ever; yield
To none in valour, but in council bow
Before thine elders: so shall all acclaim
Thy courtesy. Honour princely men and wise ;
For the true man is still the true man’s friend,
Even as the vile man cleaveth to the knave.
If good thy thought be, good shall be thy deeds:
But no man shall attain to Honour’s height,
Except his heart be right within: her stem
Is hard to climb, and high in heaven spread
Her branches: only they whom strength and toil
Attend, strain up to pluck her blissful fruit,
Climbing the Tree of Honour glory-crowned.
Thou therefore follow fame, and let thy soul]
Be not in sorrow afflicted overmuch,
Nor in prosperity over-glad. To friends,
To comrades, child and wife, be kindly of heart,
Remembering still that near to all men stand
581
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
> , UA \ ΄ A
οὐλομένοιο μόροιο πύλαι Kal δώματα νεκρῶν"
ἀνδρῶν γὰρ γένος ἐστὶν ὁμοίιον ἄνθεσι ποίης,
“ 2 “ \ \ ΄ δῶν un
ἄνθεσιν εἰαρινοῖσι" τὰ μὲν φθινύθει, τὰ δ᾽ ἀέξει:
τοὔνεκα μείλιχος ἔσσο. καὶ ᾿Αργείοισιν ἔνισπε
᾿Ατρείδῃ δὲ μάλιστ᾽ ᾿Αγαμέμνονι, εἴ γέ τε θυμῷ 210
μέμνηνθ᾽, ὅσσ᾽ ἐμόγησα περὶ ἸΠριάμοιο πόληα,
> Ψ ΄ \ 4 > ey A
ἠδ᾽ ὅσα ληισάμην πρὶν Tpw.oy οὖδας ἱκέσθαι,
τῷ μοι νῦν ποτὶ τύμβον ἐελδομένῳ περ ἀγόντων
3
ληΐδος ἐκ Πριάμοιο ἸΤολυξείνην εὔπεπλον
% Π % % * *
ὄφρα θοῶς ῥέξωσιν, ἐπεί σφισι χώομαι ἔμπης —-215
n ‘SD τῷ Ν 4 / > v3
μᾶλλον ἔτ᾽ ἢ TO πάρος Βρισηΐδος: ἀμφὶ δ᾽ ap
οἶδμα
/ 4 lal ΞΡ ΦΈΡΟΝ, ’ a
κινήσω πόντοιο, βαλῶ δ᾽ ἐπὶ χείματι χεῖμα,
v ΄ > / ea
ὄφρα καταφθινύθοντες ἀτασθαλίῃσιν ἑῆσι
’ f ΄
μίμνωσ᾽ ἐνθάδε πολλὸν ἐπὶ χρόνον, εἰσόκ᾽ ἔμουγε
΄ 4
λοιβὰς ἀμφιχέωνται ἐελδόμενοι μέγα νόστου" 220
3 Ἁ 3 Μ 2 ie 2 \ > \ Ν e-
αὐτὴν δ᾽, εἴ κ ἐθέλωσιν, ἐπὴν ἀπὸ θυμὸν EXwvTaL,
κούρην ταρχύσασθαι ἀπόπροθεν οὔτι peyaipw.”
ca τὶ a /
Ὡς εἰπὼν ἀπόρουσε θοῇ ἐναλίγκιος αὔρῃ"
3 2) aS 2 4 , ’ e /
αἶψα δ᾽ ἐς ᾿Ηλύσιον πεδίον κίεν, ἧχι τέτυκται
a >
οὐρανοῦ ἐξ ὑπάτοιο καταιβασίη τ᾽ ἄνοδός τε 225
Ὁ , /
ἀθανάτοις μακάρεσσιν" ὁ δ᾽, ὁππότε μιν λίπεν
ὕπνος,
’ Ν en , δέ Le Re ae θ
μνήσατο πατρὸς ἑοῖο: νόος δέ οἱ ἠὺς ἰάνθη.
2. CN τὰς πὶ > Ἂν Ρ} \ > , 3 7
AN’ ὅτ᾽ ἐς οὐρανὸν εὐρὺν ἀνήιεν ᾿Ηριγένεια
νύκτα διασκεδάσασα, φάνη δ᾽ ἄρα γαῖα και
αἰθήρ,
Qv Yale Jer | a > Xv f Doh
δὴ τότ᾽ ᾿Αχαιῶν υἷες ἀπὲκ λεχέων ἀνόρουσαν 230
:
ἱέμενοι νόστοιο, νέας δ᾽ és βένθεα πόντου
΄ A
εἷλκον καγχαλόωντες ava φρένας, εἰ μὴ ἄρ᾽ αὐτοὺς
ἐσσυμένους κατέρυκεν ᾿Αχιλλέος ὄβριμος υἱός,
1 Zimmermann, for κατὰ θυμὸν ἐελδ. περὶ πάντων of ν.
582
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XIV
The gates of doom, the mansions of the dead :
For humankind are like the flower of grass,
The blossom of spring; these fade the while those
bloom :
Therefore be ever kindly with thy kind.
Now to the Argives say—to Atreus’ son
Agamemnon chiefly—if my battle-toil
Round Priam’s walls, and those sea-raids I led
Or ever I set foot on Trojan land,
Be in their hearts remembered, to my tomb
Be Priam’s daughter Polyxeina led —
Whom as my portion of the spoil 1 claim—
And sacrificed thereon: else shall my wrath
Against them more than for Briseis burn.
The waves of the great deep will I turmoil
To bar their way, upstirring storm on storm,
That through their own mad folly pining away
Here they may linger long, until to me
They pour drink-offerings, yearning sore for home.
But, when they have slain the maiden, I grudge not
That whoso will may bury her far from me.”
Then as a wind-breath swift he fleeted thence,
And came to the Elysian Plain, whereto
A path to heaven reacheth, for the feet
Ascending and descending of the Blest.
Then the son started up from sleep, and called
His sire to mind, and glowed the heart in him.
When to wide heaven the Child of Mist uprose,
Scattering night, unveiling earth and air,
Then from their rest upsprang Achaea’s sons
Yearning for home. With laughter ’gan they hale
Down to the sea the keels: but lo, their haste
Was reined in by Achilles’ mighty son :
583
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
εἰς ἀγορήν τ᾽ ἐκάλεσσε Kal ἔκφατο πατρὸς ἐφετμήν"
“κέκλυτέ μευ, φίλα τέκνα μενεπτολέμων ᾿Αρ-
γείων, 235
πατρὸς ἐφημοσύνην ἐρικυδέος, ἥν μοι ἔνισπε
χθιζὸς ἐνὶ λεχέεσσι διὰ κνέφας ὑπνώοντι"
φῆ γὰρ ἀειγενέεσσι μετέμμεναι ἀθανάτοισιν"
ed + ae dey A \? / a
ἠνώγει δ᾽ ὑμέας Te καὶ ᾿Ατρείδην βασιλῆα,
ὄφρα οἱ ἐκ πολέμοιο γέρας περικαλλὲς ἄγοιτε! 240
΄ὔ δι > 4 , DA
τύμβον ἐπ’ εὐρώεντα ἸΠολυξείνην εὔπεπλον'
καί μιν ἔφη ῥέξαντας ἀπόπροθι ταρχύσασθαι:"
εἰ δέ οἱ οὐκ ἀλέγοντες ἐπιπλώοιτε θάλασσαν,
ἠπείλει κατὰ πόντον ἐναντία κύματ᾽ ἀείρας
λαὸν ὁμῶς νήεσσι πολὺν χρόνον ἐνθάδ᾽ ἐρύξειν." “46
Ὡς φαμένου πείθοντο, καὶ ὡς θεῷ εὐχετόωντο"
καὶ γὰρ δὴ κατὰ βένθος ἀέξετο κῦμα θυέλλῃ
εὐρύτερον καὶ μᾶλλον ἐπήτριμον, ἢ πάρος ἦεν,
μαινομένου ἀνέμοιο" μέγας δ᾽ ὀροθύνετο πόντος
χερσὶ Ποσειδάωνος: ὁ γὰρ κρατερῷ ᾿Αχιλῆι 250
ἦρα φέρεν' πᾶσαι δὲ θοῶς ἐ ἐνόρουσαν ἄελλαι
ἐς πέλαγος" Δαναοὶ δὲ μέγ᾽ εὐχόμενοι ᾿Αχιλῆι
πάντες ὁμῶς μάλα τοῖα πρὸς ἀλλήλους ὀάριζον"
“ ἀτρεκέως γενεὴ μεγάλου Διὸς ἢ ev ᾿Αχιλλεύς"
τῷ καὶ νῦν θεός ἐστι, καὶ εἰ πάρος ἔσκε μεθ᾽
ἡμῖν' 25
οὐ γὰρ ἀμαλδύνει μακάρων γένος ἄμβροτος αἰών."
Ὡς φάμενοι ποτὶ τύμβον ᾿Αχιλλέος ἀπονέοντο"
τὴν δ᾽ ἄγον, ἠῦτε πόρτιν ἐς ἀθανάτοιο θνηλὰς
μητρὸς ἀπειρύσσαντες ἐνὶ ξυλόχοισι βοτῆρες,
ἡ δ᾽ ἄρα μακρὰ βοῶσα κινύρεται ἀχνυμένη κῆρ' 260
ὡς τῆμος Πριάμοιο πάϊς περικωκύεσκε
υσμενέων ἐ ἐν χερσίν: ἄδην δέ οἱ ἔκχυτο δάκρυ"
ὡς δ᾽ ὁπότε βριαρῷ ὑπὸ χέρματι καρπὸς ἐλαίης
1 Zimmermann, for ἄροιτε of v.
584
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XIV
He assembled them, and told his sire’s behest :
“ Hearken, dear sons of Argives battle-staunch,
To this my glorious father’s hest, to me
Spoken in darkness slumbering on my bed:
He saith, he dwells with the Immortal Gods:
He biddeth you and Atreus’ son the king
To bring, as his war-guerdon passing-fair,
To his dim dark tomb Polyxeina queenly-robed,
To slay her there, but far thence bury her.
But if ye slight him, and essay to sail
The sea, he threateneth to stir up the waves
To bar your path upon the deep, and here
Storm-bound long time to hold you, ships and men.”
Then hearkened they, and as to a God they
prayed ;
For even now a storm-blast on the sea
Upheaved the waves, broad-backed and thronging
fast
More than before beneath the madding wind.
Tossed the great deep, smit by Poseidon’s hands
For a grace to strong Achilles. ΑἹ] the winds
Swooped on the waters. Prayed the Dardans all
To Achilles, and a man to his fellow cried:
“ Great Zeus’s seed Achilles verily was ;
Therefore is he a God, who in days past
Dwelt among us; for lapse of dateless time
Makes not the sons of Heaven to fade away.”
Then to Achilles’ tomb the host returned,
And led the maid, as calf by herdmen dragged
For sacrifice, from woodland pastures torn
From its mother’s side, and lowing long and loud
It moans with anguished heart; so Priam’s child
Wailed in the hands of ἴοεε. Down streamed her
tears
As when beneath the heavy sacks of sand
585
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
οὔπω χειμερίῃσι μελαινόμενος ψεκάδεσσι
χεύῃ πολλὸν ἄλειφα, περιτρίζωσι δὲ μακρὰ 265
ἄρμεν᾽ ὑπὸ σπάρτοισι βιαζομένων αἰξηῶν'
ὡς ἄρα καὶ ἸΤριάμοιο πολυτλήτοιο θυγατρὸς
ἑλκομένης ποτὶ τύμβον ἀμειλίκτου ᾿Αχιλῆος
αἰνὸν ὁμῶς στοναχῆσι κατὰ βλεφάρων ῥέε δάκρυ"
καί οἱ κόλπος ἔνερθεν. ἐπλήθετο' δεύετο δὲ χρὼς 270
ἀτρεκέως ἀτάλαντος ἐὐκτεάνῳ ἐλέφαντι.
Καὶ τότε λευγαλέοις ἐπὶ πένθεσι κύντερον
ἄλγος
τλήμονος ἐς κραδίην. ‘ExaBns πέσεν' ἐν δέ οἱ ἦτορ
μνήσατ᾽ ὀϊξυροῖο καὶ ἀλγινόεντος ὀνείρου,
τόν ῥ ᾿ἴδεν ὑ ὑπνώουσα παροιχομένῃ ἐνὶ νυκτί" 275
ἢ γὰρ ὀΐετο τύμβον ἐ ἔπ᾽ ἀντιθέου ᾿Αχιλῆος
ἑστάμεναι γοόωσα, κόμαι δέ οἱ ἄχρις ἐπ᾽ οὖδας
ἐκ κεφαλῆς ἐκέχυντο, καὶ ἀμφοτέρων ἀπὸ μαζῶν
ἔρρεε φοίνιον αἷμα ποτὶ χθόνα, δεῦε δὲ σῆμα'
τοῦ πέρι δειμαίνουσα καὶ ὁ ὀσσομένη μέγα πῆμα 280
οἰκτρὸν ἀνοιμώζξεσκε, γόῳ δ᾽ ἐπὶ μακρὸν ἀὕτει:
εὖτε κύων προπάροιθε κινυρομένη μεγάροιο
μακρὸν ὑλαγμὸν i ἵησι, νέον σπαραγεῦσα γάλακτι,
τῆς ἄπο νήπια τέκνα πάρος φάος εἰσοράασθαι
νόσφι βάλωσιν ἄ ἄνακτες ἕλωρ ἔμεν οἰωνοῖσιν, 285
ἡ δ᾽ ὁτὲ μέν θ᾽ ὑλακῇσι κινύρεται, ἄλλοτε δ᾽ αὖτε
ὠρυθμῷ, στυγερὴ δὲ δι᾽ ἠέρος ἔσσυτ᾽ ἀὐτή'
ὡς Ἑκάβη “γοόωσα μέγ᾽ ἴαχεν ἀμφὶ θυγατρί:
“ὦ μοι ἐγώ, τί νυ πρῶτα, τί δ᾽ ὕστατον ἀχνυμένη
κῆρ
κωκύσω πολέεσσι περιπλήθουσα κακοῖσιν, 200
εἰόέις: ἢ: πόαιν αἰνὰ καὶ οὐκ ἐπίελπτα παθόντας,
ἢ πόλιν ἠὲ θύγατρας ἀεικέας, ἢ “ἐμὸν αὐτῆς
ἦμαρ ἀναγκαϊονὶμαν' δούλμον; οὕνεκα Κῆρες
σμερδαλέαι πολέεσσί μ᾽ ἐνειλήσαντο κακοῖσι.
586
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XIV
Olives clear-skinned, ne’er blotched by drops of
storm,
Pour out their oil, when the long levers creak
As strong men strain the cords; so poured the
tears
Of travail-burdened Priam’s daughter, haled
To stern Achilles’ tomb, tears blent with moans.
Drenched were her bosom-folds, glistened the drops
On flesh clear-white as costly ivory.
Then, to crown all her griefs, yet sharper pain
Fell on the heart of hapless Hecuba.
Then did her soul recall that awful dream,
The vision of sleep of that night overpast :
Herseemed that on Achilles’ tomb she stood
Moaning, her hair down-streaming to the ground,
And from her breasts blood dripped to earth the
while,
And drenched the tomb. Fear-haunted touching
this,
Foreboding all calamity, she wailed
Piteously ; far rang her wild lament.
As a dog moaning at her master’s door,
Utters long howls, her teats with milk distent,
Whose whelps, ere their eyes opened to the light,
Her lords afar have flung, a prey to kites ;
And. now with short sharp cries she plains, and
now
Long howling: the weird outcry thrills the air;
So wailed and shrieked for her child Hecuba:
“ Ah me! what sorrows first or last shall I
Lament heart-anguished, who am full of woes?
Those unimagined ills my sons, my king
Have suffered ?>—or my city, or daughters shamed ἢ -
Or my despair, my day of slavery?
Oh, the grim fates have caught me in a net
Of manifold 115} O child, they have spun for thee
587
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
τέκνον ἐμόν, σοὶ δ᾽ αἰνὰ καὶ οὐκ ἐπίελπτα Kal
αὐτῇ 295
ἄλγε᾽ ἐπεκλώσαντο" γάμου δ᾽ ἄπο νόσφι βάλοντο
ἐγγὺς ἐόνθ᾽ Ὑμεναῖον, ἐπεκρήναντο δ᾽ ὄλεθρον
ἄσχετον ἀργαλέον τε καὶ οὐ φατόν' ἦ yap ᾿Αχιὰ-
λεὺς
καὶ νέκυς ἡμετέρῳ ἔτ᾽ ἰαίνεται αἵματι θυμόν:
ὥς μ᾽ ὄφελον μετὰ σεῖο, φίλον τέκος, ἤματι τῷδε 300
γαῖα χανοῦσα κάλυψε, πάρος σέο πότμον
ἰδέσθαι."
“Os φαμένης GNANKTO κατὰ βλεφάροιιν ἔ ἔχυντο
δάκρυα" λευγαλέον γὰρ ἔχεν μετὰ πένθεσι πένθος.
οἱ δ᾽ ὅτ᾽ ἔβαν ποτὶ τύμβον ᾿Αχιλλῆος ζαθέοιο,
δὴ τότε οἱ φίλος υἱὸς ἐρυσσάμενος θοὸν ἄορ 80ὅ
σκαιῇ μὲν κούρην κατερήτνυε, δεξιτερῇ δὲ
τύμβῳ ἐπιψαύων τοῖον ποτὶ μῦθον ἔειπε"
“κλῦθι, πάτερ, σέο παιδὸς ἐπευχομένοιο καὶ
ἄλλων
Ἀργείων, μηδ᾽ ἧμιν ἔτ᾽ ἀργαλέως χαλέπαινε:
ἤδη γάρ᾽ τοι πάντα τελέσσομεν, ὅσσα μενοινᾷς 310
σῇσιν ἐνὶ πραπίδεσσι" σὺ δ᾽ ἵλαος ὦ ἄμμι γένοιο
τεύξας εὐχομένοισι θοῶς θυμηδέα νόστον.
“Os εἰπὼν κούρης διὰ λοίγιον ἤλασεν ὦορ
λευκανίης" τὴν δ᾽ αἶψα λίπεν πολυήρατος αἰὼν
οἰκτρὸν ἀνοιμώξασαν ἐφ᾽ ὑστατίῃ βιότοιο: 315
καί ῥ᾽ ἡ μὲν πρηνὴς χαμάδις πέσε" τῆς δ᾽ ὑπὸ
δειρῇ
φοινίχθη περὶ πάντα, χιὼν ὥς, ἥ μ ἐν ὄρεσσιν
ἢ συὸς ἢ ἄρκτοιο κατουταμένης ὑπ᾽ ἄκοντι
αἵματι πορφυρόεντι θοῶς ἐρυθαίνεθ᾽ ὕπερθεν.
᾿Αργεῖοι δέ μιν αἶψα δόσαν ποτὶ ἄστυ φέρεσθαι 320
ἐς δόμον ἀντιθέου ᾿Αντήνορος, οὕνεκ᾽ ἄρ᾽ αὐτὴν
κεῖνος ἐνὶ Τρώεσσιν ἑ ἐῷ πάρος. υἱέϊ δίῳ
Εὐρυμάχῳ ἀτίταλλεν ᾿ἐνὴ μεγάροισιν ἄκοιτιν.
588
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XIV
Dread weird of unimagined misery !
They have thrust thee away, when near was Hymen’s
hymn,
From thine espousals, marked thee for destruction
Dark, unendurable, unspeakable '
For lo, a dead man’s heart, Achilles’ heart,
Is by our blood made warm with life to-day!
O child, dear child, that I might die with thee,
That earth might swallow me, ere I seé thy doom !”’
So cried she, weeping never-ceasing tears,
For grief on bitter grief encompassed her.
But when these reached divine Achilles’ tomb,
Then did his son unsheathe the whetted sword,
His left hand grasped the maid, and his right hand
Was laid upon the tomb, and thus he cried :
“ Hear, father, thy son’s prayer, hear all the prayers
Of Argives, and be no more wroth with us!
Lo, unto thee now all thine heart’s desire
Will we fulfil. Be gracious to us thou,
And to our praying grant sweet home-return.”’
Into the maid’s throat then he plunged the blade
Of death: the dear life straightway sobbed she
forth,
With the last piteous moan of parting breath.
Face-downward to the earth she fell: all round
Her flesh was crimsoned from her neck, as snow
Stained on a mountain-side with scarlet blood
Rushing from javelin-smitten boar or bear.
The maiden’s corpse then gave they, to be borne
Unto the city, to Antenor’s home,
For that, when Troy yet stood, he nurtured her
In his fair halls, a bride for his own son
Eurymachus. The old man buried her,
589
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
ὃς δ᾽ ἐπεὶ οὖν τάρχυσε κλυτὴν Πριάμοιο θύγατρα
ἐγγὺς ἑοῖο δόμοιο, παραὶ Γανυμήδεος ἱ ἱρῷ 825
σήματι" καὶ νηοῖο καταντίον ᾿Ατρυτώνης,
δὴ τότε παύσατο κῦμα, κατευνήθη δὲ θύελλα
σμερδαλέη, καὶ χεῦμα κατεπρήῦνε γαλήνη.
Οἱ δὲ θοῶς ἐ ἐπὶ νῆας ἔβαν μέγα καγχαλόωντες
μέλποντες μακάρων ἱερὸν γένος ἠδ᾽ ᾿Αχιλῆα. 330
ainva δὲ Sait’ ἐπάσαντο βοῶν ἀπὸ μῆρα ταμόντες
ἀθανάτοις" ἐρατὴ δὲ θυηπολίη πέλε πάντῃ"
οἱ δέ που ἀργυρέοισι καὶ ἐν χρυσέοισι κυπέλλοις
πῖνον ἀφυσσάμενοι λαρὸν μέθυ- γήθεε δέ σφι
θυμὸς ἐελδομένων σφετέρην ἐπὶ γαῖαν ἱκέσθαι. 335
ἀλλ᾽ ὅτε δὴ δόρποιο καὶ εἰλαπίνης κορέσαντο,
δὴ τότε Νηλέος υἱὸς ἐελδομένοισιν ἔ ἔειπεν"
“ κλῦτε, φίλοι, πολέμοιο μακρὴν προφυγόντες
ὁμοκλήν,
ὄφρα λιλαιομένοισιν ἔπος θυμῆρες ἐ ἐνίσπω"
ἤδη γὰρ νόστοιο πέλει θυμηδέος ὥ ὥρη" 840
ἀλλ᾽ ἴομεν" δὴ γώρ που ᾿Αχιλλέος ὄβριμον ἢ ἦτορ
παύσατ᾽ ὀϊζυροῖο χόλου" κατέρυξε δὲ κῦμα
ὄβριμον Ἐννοσίγαιος" ἐπιπνείουσι δ᾽ ἀῆται
μείλεχοιυ" οὐδ᾽ ἔτι κῦμα κορύσσεται: GAN ἄγε
νῆας
εἰς ἁλὸς oldu ἐρύσαντες ἀναμνησώμεθα νόστου." 345
“Os har ἐελδομένοις" οἱ δ᾽ ἐς πλόον ἐντύνοντο.
ἔνθα τέρας θηητὸν ἐπιχθονίοισι φαάνθη,
οὕνεκα δὴ Πριάμοιο δάμαρ πολυδακρύτοιο
ἐκ βροτοῦ ἀλγινόεσσα κύων γένετ᾽" ἀμφὶ δὲ. λαοὶ
θάμβεον ἀγρόμενοι" τῆς δ᾽ ἅψεα λάϊνα πάντα 850
θῆκε θεός, μέγα θαῦμα καὶ ἐσσομένοισι βροτοῖσι"
καὶ τὴν μὲν Κάλχαντος ὑ um ἐννεσίησιν ᾿Αχαιοὶ
νηὸς ἐπ᾽ ὠκυπόροιο πέραν θέσαν Ἑλλησπόντου.
καρπαλίμως δ᾽ ἄρα νῆας ἔσω ἁλὸς εἰρύσσαντες
1 Zimmermann, for ipa δώματα of MS.
59°
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XIV
King Priam’s princess-child, nigh his own house,
By Ganymedes’ shrine, and overagainst
The temple of Pallas the Unwearied One.
Then were the waves stilled, and the blast was
hushed
To sleep, and all the sea-flood lulled to calm.
Swift with glad laughter hied they to the ships,
Hymning Achilles and the Blessed Ones.
A feast they made, first severing thighs of kine
For the Immortals. Gladsome sacrifice
Steamed on all sides: in cups of silver and gold
They drank sweet wine: their hearts leaped up with
hope
Of ascii to their fatherland again.
But when with meats and wine all these were filled,
Then in their eager ears spake Neleus’ son:
‘«‘ Hear, friends, who have ’scaped the long turmoil
of war,
That I may say to you one welcome word :
Now is the hour of heart’s delight, the hour
Of home-return. Away! Achilles soul
Hath ceased from ruinous wrath ; Earth-shaker stills
The stormy wave, and gentle breezes blow ;
No more the waves toss high. Haste, hale the ships
Down to the sea. Now, ho for home-return!”’
Eager they heard, and ready made the ships.
Then was a marvellous portent seen of men ;
For all-unhappy Priam’s queen was changed
From woman’s form into a pitiful hound ;
And all men gathered round in wondering awe.
Then all her body a God transformed to stone—
A mighty marvel for men yet unborn!
At Calchas’ bidding this the Achaeans bore
In a swift ship to Hellespont’s far side.
Then down to the sea in haste they ran the keels:
591
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
κτήματα πάντ᾽ ἐβάλονθ᾽, ὁπόσ᾽ λιον εἰσανι-
όντες 355
/ / /
ληΐσσαντο πάροιθε περικτίονας δαμάσαντες,
ἡδ᾽ 6 i 3) 3 a vw 3 ’ὔ ἷ /
ἠδ᾽ ὁπόσ᾽ ἐξ αὐτῆς ἄγον ᾽Ιλίου, οἷσι μάλιστα
/ 6“ 3 » / uy a > fu
γήθεον, οὕνεκ᾽ ἔσαν μάλα μυρία: τοῖς δ᾽ ἅμα
πολλαὶ
,ὔ / L~ ita) Uy. \ ,
ληιάδες συνέποντο μάλ᾽ ἀχνύμεναι κατὰ θυμόν"
3 \ ᾽ 3 \ “ a 3 3 »
αὐτοὶ δ᾽ ἐντὸς ἵκοντο νεῶν. ἀλλ᾽ οὔ σφισι
Κάλχας 360
“ Se , x e [ὦ 3 \ Ny:
EOMTET ἐπειγομένοισιν EOW ANOS, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἄλλους
Zz
᾿Αργείους κατέρυκε: Καφηρίσι yap περὶ πέτρῃς
δείδιεν αἰνὸν ὄλεθρον ἐπεσσύμενον Δαναοῖσιν.
οἱ δέ οἱ οὔτι πίθοντο' παρήπαφε γὰρ νόον ἀνδρῶν
Alcoa κακή: μοῦνος δὲ θεοπροπίας εὖ εἰδὼς 86ῦ
"A ir θ Ν εν" > VA PA 4
μφίλοχος, θοὸς υἱὸς ἀμύμονος ᾿Αμφιαράου,
, COR 7, ,ὔ a \
μίμνεν ὁμῶς Κάλχαντι περίφρονι: τοῖσι yap ἦεν
αἴσιμον ἀμφοτέροισιν ἑῆς ἀπὸ τηλόθι γαίης
Παμφύλων Κιλίκων τε ποτὶ πτολίεθρα νέεσθαι.
3 \ N \ 4 \ / 2 ee
Αλλὰ τὰ μὲν μετόπισθε θεοὶ θέσαν" αὐτὰρ
» \
Αχαιοὶ 370
a , > +. 3 \ \ 2Q\ \ 3 GN
νηῶν πείσματ᾽ ἔλυσαν ἀπὸ χθονὸς ἠδὲ καὶ εὐνὰς
ἐσσυμένως ἀνάειραν: ἐπίαχε δ᾽ “Ελλήσποντος
σπερχομένων" νῆες δὲ περικλύζοντο θαλάσση:"
Φ \ > Ἂν J δὰ \ ΄ ”
ἀμφὶ δ᾽ apa σφίσι πολλὰ περὶ πρώρῃσιν ἔκειντο
ἔντε᾽ ἀποκταμένων: καθύπερθε δὲ σήματα νίκης 375
, s a
μυρί᾽ ἀπῃώρηντο" κατεστέψαντο δὲ νῆας
καὶ κεφαλὰς καὶ δοῦρα καὶ ἀσπίδας, οἷσι μάχοντο
’
ἀντία δυσμενέων: ἀπὸ δὲ πρώρηθεν ἄνακτες
εἰς ἅλα κυανέην λεῖβον μέθυ πολλὰ θεοῖσιν
εὐχόμενοι μακάρεσσιν ἀκηδέα νόστον ὀπάσσαι: 380
εὐχωλαὶ δ᾽ ἀνέμοισι μίγεν καὶ ἀπόπροθι νηῶν
2
μαψιδίως νεφέεσσι καὶ ἠέρι συμφορέοντο.
Αἱ δ᾽ ἄρα παπταίνεσκον ἐς Ἴλιον ἀχνύμεναι κῆρ
,
ληιάδες" καὶ πολλὰ κινυρόμεναι γοάασκον
592
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XIV
Their wealth they laid aboard, even all the spoil
Taken, or ever unto Troy they came,
From conquered neighbour peoples; therewithal
Whatso they took from Ilium, wherein most
They joyed, for untold was the sum thereof.
And followed with them many a captive maid
With anguished heart : so went they aboard the ships.
But Calchas would not with that eager host
Launch forth; yea, he had fain withheld therefrom
All the Achaeans, for his prophet-soul
Foreboded dread destruction looming o’er
The Argives by the Rocks Capherean.
But naught they heeded him; malignant Fate
Deluded men’s souls: only Amphilochus
The wise in prophet-lore, the gallant son
Of princely Amphiaraus, stayed with him.
Fated were these twain, far from their own land,
To reach Pamphylian and Cilician burgs ;
And this the Gods thereafter brought to pass.
But now the Achaeans cast the hawsers loose
From shore: in haste they heaved the anchor-stones.
Roared Hellespont beneath swift-flashing oars ;
Crashed the prows through the sea. About the bows
Much armour of slain foes was lying heaped:
Along the bulwarks victory-trophies hung
Countless. With garlands wreathed they all the ships,
Their heads, the spears, the shields wherewith they
had fought
Against their foes. The chiefs stood on the prows,
And poured into the dark sea once and again
Wine to the Gods, to grant them safe return.
But with the winds their prayers mixed ; far away
Vainly they floated blent with cloud and air.
With anguished hearts the captive maids looked
back
On Ilium, and with sobs and moans they wailed,
593
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
κρύβδην ᾿Αργείων μέγ᾽ ἐνὶ φρεσὶ πένθος & ἔχουσαι" 385
καί ῥ᾽ αἱ μὲν περὶ γούνατ᾽ ἔχον χέρας" ai δὲ
μέτωπα
χερσὶν ἐπηρείδοντο δυσάμμορι" αἱ δ᾽ ἄρα τέκνα 1
ἄμφεχον ἀγκοίνῃσι: τὰ δ᾽ οὔπω δούλιον ἦμαρ
ἔστενον οὐδὲ πάτρης ἐπὶ πήμασιν, ἀλλ᾽ ἐπὶ μαζῷ
θυμὸν ἔ ἔχον" κηδέων γὰρ ἀπόπροθι νήπιον ἦτορ.
πάσῃσιν δ᾽ ἐλέλυντο κόμαι καὶ στήθεα λυγρὰ 390
ἀμφ᾽ ὀνύχεσσι δέδρυπτο" παρειῇσιν δ᾽ ἔπι δάκρυ
αὐαλέον περίκειτο, κατείβετο δ᾽ ἄλλ᾽ ἐφύπερθε
πυκνὸν ἀπὸ βλεφάρων' δέρκοντο δὲ τλήμονα
πάτρην
αἰθομένην ἔτι πάγχυ, πολὺν δ᾽ ἀνὰ καπνὸν ἰόντα"
ἀμφὶ δὲ Κασσάνδρην περικυδέα ππαπταίνουσαι 395
πᾶσαί μιν θηεῦντο θεοπροπίης ἀλεγεινῆς
μνωόμεναι" ἡ δέ σφιν ἐπεγγελάασκε γοώσαις,
καΐπερ ἀκηχεμένη στυγεροῖς ἐπὶ πήμασι πάτρης.
Τρώων δ᾽ ὅσσοι ἄχυξαν ἀνηλέος ἐκ πολέμοιο,
ἀγρόμενοι κατὰ ἄστυ περὶ νέκυας πονέοντο 400
θαπτέμεναι μεμαῶτες" ἄγεν δ᾽ ἀλεγεινὸν ἐς ἔργον
᾿Αντήνωρ' αὐτὴν δὲ πυρὴν πολέεσσι τίθεντο.
᾿Αργεῖοι δ᾽ ἄχληκτον ἐνὶ φρεσὶ καγχαλόωντες
ἄλλοτε μὲν κώπῃσι διέπρησσον μέλαν ὕδωρ,
ἄλλοτε δ ἱστία νηυσὶ μεμαότες ἐντύνοντο 405
ἐσσυμένως" ὀπίσω δὲ θοῶς ἀπελείπετο πᾶσα
Δαρδανίη καὶ τύμβος ᾿Αχιλλέος: οἱ δ᾽ ἀνὰ θυμὸν
καίπερ ἰαινόμενοι κταμένων μνησθέντες ἑ ἑταίρων
ἀργαλέως ἀκάχοντο καὶ ἀλλοδαπῶν ἐπὶ γαῖαν
ὄσσε βάλον. ἡ δέ σφιν ἐφαίνετο τηλόθι νηῶν 410
χαξζομένη' τοὶ δ᾽ αἶψα παρ᾽ ἀγχιάλοιο φέροντο
ῥηγμῖνας Τενέδοιο: παρημείβοντο δὲ Χρῦσαν
καὶ Φοίβου Σμινθῆος ἕδος ζαθέοιό τε Κίλλης"
1 Verse supplied by Zimmerman, ex P.
594
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XIV
Striving to hide their grief from Argive eyes.
Clasping their knees some sat; in misery some
Veiled with their hands their faces; others nursed
Young children in their arms: those innocents
Not yet bewailed their day of bondage, nor
Their country’s ruin; all their thoughts were set
On comfort of the breast, for the babe’s heart
Hath none affinity with sorrow. All
Sat with unbraided hair and pitiful breasts
Scored with their fingers. On their cheeks there lay
Stains of dried tears, and streamed thereover now
Fresh tears full fast, as still they gazed aback
On the lost hapless home, wherefrom yet rose
The flames, and o’er it writhed the rolling smoke.
Now on Cassandra marvelling they gazed,
Calling to mind her prophecy of doom ;
But at their tears she laughed in bitter scorn,
In anguish for the ruin of her land.
Such Trojans as had ’scaped from pitiless war
Gathered to render now the burial-dues
Unto their city’s slain. Antenor led
To that sad work: one pyre for all they raised.
But laughed with triumphing hearts the Argive
men,
As now with oars they swept o’er dark sea-ways,
Now hastily hoised the sails high o’er the ships,
And fleeted fast astern Dardania-land,
And Hero Achilles’ tomb. But now their hearts,
How blithe soe’er, remembered comrades slain,
And sorely grieved, and wistfully they looked
Back to the alien’s land ; it seemed to them
Aye sliding farther from their ships. Full soon
By Tenedos’ beaches slipt they: now they ran
By Chrysa, Sminthian Phoebus’ holy place,
And hallowed Cilla. Far away were glimpsed
595
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
Λέσβος δ᾽ ἠνεμόεσσ᾽ ἀνεφαίνετο" κάμπτετο δ᾽
ἄκρη
ἐσσυμένως Λεκτοῖο, τόθι ῥίον ὕστατον Ἴδης. 415
λαίφεα δὲ πρησθέντα περίαχεν' ἀμφὶ δὲ πρώραις
ἔβραχεν οἶδμα κελαινόν' ἐπεσκιόωντο δὲ μακρὰ
κύματα' λευκαίνοντο δ᾽ ὑπὲρ πόντοιο κέλευθοι.
Καί νύ κεν ᾿Αργεῖοι κίον Ἑλλάδος ἑ ἱερὸν οὗδας
πάντες ἁλὸς κατὰ βένθος ἀκηδέες, εἰ μὴ ἄρα ode 420
κούρη ἐρυγδούποιο Διὸς νεμέσησεν ᾿Αθήνη'
καί ῥ᾽ ὁπότ᾽ Εὐβοίης σχεδὸν ἤλυθον ἠνεμοέσσης,
δὴ τότε μητιόωσα βαρὺν καὶ ἀνηλέα πότμον
ἀμφὶ Λοκρῶν βασιλῆι καὶ ἄσχετον ἀσχαλόωσα
Ζηνὶ θεῶν μεδέοντι παρισταμένη φάτο μῦθον 425
ἀθανάτων ἀπάνευθε: “χόλον δέ οἱ οὐ χάδε θυμός:
τ Ζεῦ πάτερ, οὐκέτ᾽ ἀνεκτὰ θεοῖς é ἐπιμηχανόωνται
ἀνέρες, οὐκ ἀλέγοντες ἀνὰ φρένας οὔτε σεῦ αὐτοῦ
οὔτ᾽ ἄλλων μακάρων, ἐπεὶ 7 τίσις οὐκέτ᾽ ὀπηδεῖ
ἀνδράσι λευγαλέοισι, κακοῦ δ᾽ ἄρα πολλάκις
ἐσθλὸς 430
συμφέρετ' ἄλγεσι μᾶλλον, ἔχει δ᾽ ἄλληκτον olor:
τοὔνεκ᾽ ἄρ᾽ οὔτε δίκην τις ἔθ᾽ ἅξεται, οὐδέ τις
αἰδὼς
ἔστι παρ᾽ ἀνθρώποισιν: ἔγωγε μὲν οὔτ᾽ ἐν
᾿Ολύμπῳ
ἔσσομαι, οὔτ᾽ ἔτι σεῖο κεκλήσομαι, εἰ μὴ ᾿Αχαιῶν
τίσομ' ἀτασθαλίην, ἐπεὶ 7 νύ μοι ἔνδοθι νηοῦ 485
υἱὸς ᾿Οἴλῆος μέγ᾽ ἐνήλιτεν, οὐδ᾽ ἐλέαιρε
Κασσάνδρην ὁ ὀρέγουσαν ἀκηδέας εἰς ἐμὲ χεῖρας
πολλάκις, οὐδ᾽ ὅ γ᾽ ἔδεισεν ἐμὸν μένος, οὐδέ τι
θυμῷ
ἠδέσατ᾽ ἘΜᾺ ἀλλ᾽ ἄσχετον ἔργον ἔρεξε.
τῷ νύ μοι ἀμβροσίῃσι περὶ φρεσὶ μή τι μεγήρῃς 440
ῥέξαι, ὅ ὅπως μοι θυμὸς ἐέλδεται, ὄφρα καὶ ἄλλοι
αἰζηοὶ τρομέωσι θεῶν ἀρίδηλον ὁμοκλήν.᾽"
596
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XIV
The windy heights of Lesbos. Rounded now
Was Lecton’s foreland, where is the last peak
Of Ida. In the sails loud hummed the wind,
Crashed round the prows the dark surge: the long
waves
Showed shadowy hollows, far the white wake gleamed.
Now had the Argives all to the hallowed soil
Of Hellas won, by perils of the deep
Unscathed, but for Athena Daughter of Zeus
The Thunderer, and her indignation’s wrath.
When nigh Euboea’s windy heights they drew,
She rose, in anger unappeasable
Against the Locrian king, devising doom
Gn ushing and pitiless, and drew nigh to Zeus
Lord of | the Gods, and spake to hana apart
In wrath that in her breast would not be pent:
“ Zeus, Father, unendurable. of Gods
Is men’s presumption! They reck not of thee,
Of none of the Blesséd reck they, forasmuch
As vengeance followeth after sin no more ;
And ofttimes more afflicted are good men
Than evil, and their misery hath no end.
Theretore no man regardeth justice: shame
Lives not with men! And I, I will not dwell
Hereafter in Olympus, not be named
Thy daughter, if I may not be avenged
On the Achaeans’ reckless sin ! Behol d,
Within my very temple Oileus’ son
Hath wrought iniquity, hath pitied not
Cassandra stretching unregarded hands
Once and again to me; nor did he dread
My might, nor reverenced in his wicked heart
The Immortal, but a deed intolerable
He did. Therefore Jet not thy spirit divine
Begrudge mine heart's desire, that so all men
May quake before the manifest wrath of Gods.”’
597
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
“Os φαμένην προσέειπε πατὴρ ἀγανοῖς ἐπέ-
εσσιν"
“ὦ τέκος, οὔτι ἔγωγ᾽ ἀνθίσταμαι εἵνεκ᾽ ᾿Αχαιῶν,
ἀλλὰ καὶ ἔντεα πάντα, τά μοι πάρος ἦρα φέ-
povies 445
epoly ὑπ᾽ ἀκαμάτῃσιν ἐτεκτήναντο Κύκλωπες
δώσω ἐέλδομένῃ" σὺ δὲ σῷ κρατερόφρονι θυμῷ
αὐτὴ χεῖμ᾽ ἀλεγεινὸν ἐπ᾽ ᾿Δργείοισιν ὁ ὄρινον.᾽
Ὡς εἰπὼν στεροπήν τε θοὴν ὀλούν τε κεραυνὸν
καὶ βροντὴν στονόεσσαν ἀταρβέος ἀγχόθι κούρης 450
θήκατο" τῆς δ᾽ ἄρα θυμὸς ὑπὸ κραδίῃ μέγ᾽ ἰάνθη.
αὐτίκα δ᾽ αἰγίδα θοῦριν. ἐδύσατο παμφανόωσαν,
ἄρρηκτον βριαρήν τε καὶ ἀθανάτοισιν ἀγητήν"
ἐν γάρ οἱ πεπόνητο κάρη βλοσυροῖο Μεδούσης
σμερδαλέον" κρατεροὶ δὲ καὶ ἀκαμάτου πυρὸς
ὁρμὴν 455
λάβρον ἀποπνείοντες ἔσαν καθύπερθε δράκοντες"
ἔβραχε δ᾽ αἰγὶς ἅπασα περὶ στήθεσσιν a ἀνάσσης,
οἷον ὅτε στεροπῇσιν ἐπιβρέμει ἃ ἄσπετος αἰθήρ.
λάζετο δ᾽ ἔντεα πατρός, ἅπερ θεὸς οὔτις ἀείρει
νόσφι Διὸς μεγάλοιο: τίναξε δὲ μακρὸν "Ολυμπιον" 460
σὺν δ᾽ ἔχεεν νεφέλας τε καὶ ἠέρα πᾶσαν ὕπερθε:
νὺξ δ᾽ ἐχύθη περὶ γαῖαν, ἐπήχλυσεν. δὲ θάλασσα:
Ζεὺς δὲ μέγ᾽ εἰσορόων ἐπετέρπετο" κίνυτο δ᾽ εὐρὺς
οὐρανὸς ἀμφὶ πόδεσσι θεῆς: περὶ Lo ἔβραχεν αἰθήρ,
ὡς Διὸς ἀκαμάτοιο ποτὶ κλόνον ἐμμεμαῶτος. 465
ἡ δ᾽ ἄφαρ ἠερόεντος ὑπὲρ πόντοιο φέρεσθαι
οὐρανόθεν προέηκεν ἐς Αἴολον ἄμβροτον Ἶριν,
ὄφρ᾽ ἀνέμους ἅμα πάντας ἐπιβρίσαντας ἰάλλῃ
ἐλθέμενα: κραναοῖο ΚΚαφηρέος ἐγγύθεν ἄκρων +
νωλεμέως χριμφθέντας, ἀνοιδῆναί τε θάλασσαν, 410
λευγαλέῃς ῥιπῇσι μεμηνότας. ἡ δ᾽ ἀΐουσα
ἐσσυμένως οἴμησε περυγναμφθεῖσα νέφεσσι"
1 Zimmermann, for ἔνθεν ᾿Αχαιῶν of MSS.
598
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XIV
Answered the Sire with heart-assuaging words:
“Child, not for the Argives’ sake withstand
thee ;
But all mine armoury which the Cyclops’ might
To win my favour wrought with tireless hands,
To thy desire I give. O strong heart, hurl
A ruining storm thyself on the Argive fleet.”
Then down before the aweless Maid he cast
Swift lightning, thunder, and deadly thunderbolt ;
And her heart leapt, and gladdened was her soul.
She donned the stormy Aegis flashing far,
Adamantine, massy, a marvel to the Gods,
Whereon was wrought Medusa’s ghastly head,
Fearful: strong serpents breathing forth the blast
Of ravening fire were on the face thereof.
Crashed on the Queen’s breast all the Aegis-links,
As after lightning crashes the firmament.
Then grasped she her father’s weapons, which
no God
Save Zeus can lift, and wide Olympus shook.
Then swept she clouds and mist together on high ;
Night over earth was poured, haze o'er the sea.
Zeus watched, and was right glad as broad heaven's
floor
Rocked ’neath the Goddess’s feet, and crashed the
sky,
As ree invincible Zeus rushed forth to war.
Then sped she Iris unto Aeolus,
From heaven far-flying over misty seas,
To bid him send forth all his buffeting winds
O’er iron-bound Caphereus’ cliffs to sweep
Ceaselessly, and with ruin of madding blasts
To upheave the sea. And Iris heard, and swift
She darted, through cloud-billows plunging down—
mal
599
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
φαίης κεν πῦρ ἔμμεν ἅμ᾽ ἠέρι καὶ μέλαν ὕδωρ.
ἵκετο δ᾽ Αἰολίην, ἀνέμων ὅθι λάβρον ἀέντων
ἄντρα πέλει στυφελῇσιν ἀρηράμεν᾽ ἀμφὶ πέτρῃσι 475
κοῖλα καὶ ἠχήεντα" δόμοι δ᾽ ἄγχιστα πέλονται
Αἰόλου Ἱπποτάδαο. κίχεν δέ μιν ἔνδον ἐόντα
σύν T ἀλόχῳ καὶ παισὶ δυώδεκα" καί οἱ ἔειπεν,
ὁππόσ᾽ ᾿Αθηναίη Δαναῶν ἐπεμήδετο νόστῳ.
αὐτὰρ ὅ γ᾽ οὐκ ἀπίθησε, μολὼν δ᾽ ἔκτοσθε μελά-
θρων 480
χερσὶν ὑπ᾽ ἀκαμάτησιν ὄρος μέγα τύψε τριαίνη,
ἔνθ᾽ ἄνεμοι κελαδεινὰ δυσηχέες ηὐλίξοντο
ἐν κενεῷ κευθμῶνι: περίαχε δ᾽ αἰὲν ἰωὴ
βρυχομένη ἀλεγεινά" Bin δ᾽ ἔρρηξε κολώνην.
οἱ δ᾽ ἄφαρ ἐξεχέοντο" κέλευσε δὲ πάντας ἐρεμνὴν 485
λαίλαπα συμφορέοντας ἀήμεναι, ὄφρ᾽ ἀλεγεινὸν
ὀρνυμένης ἁλὸς οἶδμα Καφηρέος ἄκρα καλύψη.
οἱ δὲ θοῶς ὥρνυντο πάρος βασιλῆος ἀκοῦσαι
πᾶν ἔπος" ἐσσυμένοισι δ᾽ ᾿ἐπεστενάχιξε θάλασσα
ἄσχετον" ἠλιβάτοισι δ᾽ ἐοικότα κύματ᾽ ὄρεσσιν 490
ἄλλοθεν ἄλλα φέροντο. κατεκλάσθη δ᾽ ἀρ’
᾿Αχαιῶν
θυμὸς ἐνὶ στέρνοισιν, ἐπεὶ νέας ἄλλοτε μέν που
ὑψηλὸν φέρε κῦμα du ἠέρος, ἄλλοτε δ᾽ αὖτε
οἷα κατὰ κρημνοῖο κυλινδομένας. φορέεσκε
βυσσόν ἐς ἠερόεντα βίη δέ τις ἄσχετος αἰεὶ 490
ψάμμον ἀναβλύζεσκε διοιγομένοιο κλύδωνος.
οἱ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἀμηχανίῃ βεβολημένοι οὔτ᾽ ἐπ᾽ ἐρετμῷ
χεῖρα βαλεῖν ἐδύναντο τεθηπότες οὔτ᾽ ἄρα λαίφη
ἔσθενον ἀμφὶ κέρα λελεημένοι εἰρύσσασθαι
ῥηγνύμεν' ἐξ a ἀνέμων, οὐδ᾽ ἔμπαλιν ἰθύνασθαι 500
ἐς πλόον: ἀργαλέαι γὰρ en εκλονέοντο θύελλαι"
οὐδὲ κυβερνήτῃσι πέλεν μένος εἰσέτι νηῶν
χερσὶν ἐπισταμένῃσι θοῶς οἰήϊα νωμᾶν"
600
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XIV
Thou hadst said: “Lo, in the sky dark water and
fires
And to Aeolia came she, isle of caves,
Of echoing dungeons of mad-raging winds
With rugged ribs of mountain overarched,
Whereby the mansion stands of Aeolus
Hippotas’ son. Him found she therewithin
With wife and twelve sons; and she told to him
Athena’s purpose toward the homeward-bound
Achaeans. He denied her not, but passed
Forth of his halls, and in resistless hayds
Upswung his trident, smiting the mountain-side
Within whose chasm-cell the wild winds dwelt
Tempestuously shrieking. Ever pealed
Weird roarings of their voices round its vaults.
Cleft by his might was the hill-side; forth they
poured.
He bade them on their wings bear blackest storm
To upheave the sea, and shroud Caphereus’ heights.
Swiftly upsprang they, ere their king’s command
Was fully spoken. Mightily moaned the sea
As they rushed o’er it; waves like mountain-cliffs
From all sides were uprolled. The Achaeans’ hearts
Were terror-palsied, as the uptowering surge
Now swung the ships up high through palling mist,
Now hurled them rolled as down a precipice
To dark abysses. Up through yawning deeps
Some power resistless belched the boiling sand
From the sea’s floor. Tossed in despair, fear-dazed,
Men could not grasp the oar, nor reef the sail
About the yard-arm, howsoever fain,
Ere the winds rent it, could not with the sheets
Trim the torn canvas, buffeted so were they
By ruining blasts. The helmsman had no power
ΤῸ guide the rudder with his practised hands,
For those ill winds hurled all confusedly.
601
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
πάντα yap ἄλλυδις ἄλλα κακαὶ διέχευον ἄελλαι.
οὐδέ τις ἐχπωρὴ βιότου πέλεν, οὕνεκ᾽ ἐρεμνὴ δ0ὅ
νὺξ ἅμα καὶ μέγα χεῖμα καὶ ἀθανάτων χόλος αἰνὸς
ὦρτο: Ποσειδάων yap ἀνηλέα πόντον ὄρινεν
ἦρα κασιγνήτοιο φέρων ἐρικυδέϊ κούρῃ,
ἥ ῥα καὶ αὐτὴ ὕπερθεν ἀμείλιχα μαιμώωσα
θῦνε μετ᾽ ἀστεροπῇσιν' ἐπέκτυπε δ᾽ οὐρανόθεν
Ζεὺς 510
κυδαίνων ἀνὰ θυμὸν ἑὸν τέκος, ἀμφὶ δὲ πᾶσαι
νῆσοί T ἤπειροί τε κατεκλύξοντο θαλάσσῃ
Εὐβοίης οὐ πολλὸν ἀπόπροθεν, ἧ ἦχι μάλιστα
τεῦχεν ἀμειλίκτοισιν ἐπ᾽ ἄλγεσιν ἄλγεα δαίμων
᾿Αργείοις. στοναχὴ δὲ καὶ οἰμωγὴ κατὰ νῆας 515
ἔπλετ᾽ ,“ἀπυλλυμένων' κανάχιζε δὲ δούρατα νηῶν
ἀγνυμένων" αἱ γάρ ῥα συνωχαδὸν ἀλλήλῃσιν
αἰὲν ἐπερρήγνυντο" πόνος δ᾽ ἄπρηκτος ὀρώρει:
Kat p οἱ μὲν κώπῃσιν ἀπωσέμεναι μεμαῶτες
νῆας ἐπεσσυμένας αὐτοῖς ἅμα δούρασι λυγροὶ 520
κάππεσον ἐς μέγα βένθος, ἀμειλίκτῳ δ᾽ ὑπὸ
TOT LO
κάτθανον, οὕνεκ᾽ ἄρα σφιν ἐπέχραον ἄλλοθεν
ἄλλα
νηῶν δούρατα μακρά: συνηλοίηντο δὲ πάντων
σώματα λευγαλέως: οἱ δ᾽ ἐν νήεσσι πεσόντες
κεῖντο καταφθιμένοισιν ἐοικότες" οἱ δ᾽ ὑπ᾽ ἀνάγκης 525
νήχοντ᾽ ἀμφιπεσόντες ἐὐξέστοισιν ἐρετμοῖς"
ἄλλοι δ᾽ αὖ σανίδεσσιν ἐπέπλεον: ἔβραχε δ᾽ ἅλμη
βυσσόθεν, ὥστε θάλασσαν io οὐρανὸν ἠδὲ καὶ αἷαν
φαίνεσθ᾽ ἀλλήλοισιν ὁμῶς συναρηρότα πάντα.
Ἢ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἀπ᾿ Οὐλύμποιο Ba ύκτυπος ᾿Ατρυ-
τώνη 580
οὔτι καταισχύνεσκε βίην πατρός: ἀμφὶ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽
αἰθὴρ
602
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XIV
No hope of life was left them: blackest night,
Fury of tempest, wrath of deathless Gods,
Raged round them. Still Poseidon heaved and
swung
The merciless sea, to work the heart’s desire
Of his brother’s glorious child ; and she on high
Stormed with her lightnings, ruthless in her rage.
Thundered from heaven Zeus, in purpose fixed
To glorify his daughter. All the isles
And mainlands round were lashed by leaping seas
Nigh to Euboea, where the Power divine
Scourged most with unrelenting stroke on stroke
The Argives. Groan and shriek of perishing men
Rang through the ships; started great beams and
snapped
With ominous sound, for ever ship on ship
With shivering timbers crashed. With hopeless toil
Men strained with oars to thrust back hulls that
reeled
Down on their own, but with the shattered planks
Were hurled into the abyss, to perish there
By pitiless doom ; for beams of foundering ships
From this, from that side battered out their lives,
And crushed were all their bodies wretchedly.
Some in the ships fell down, and like dead men
Lay there ; some, in the grip of destiny,
Clinging to oars smooth-shaven, tried to swim ;
Some upon planks were tossing. Roared the surge
From fathomless depths: it seemed as though sea,
sky,
And land were blended all confusedly.
Still from Olympus thundering Atrytone
Wielded her Father’s power unshamed, and stil]
603
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
» e ’ ” ἣ \ A /
ἴαχεν. ἡ δ᾽ Αἴαντι χόλον καὶ πῆμα φέρουσα
ἔμβαλε νηὶ κεραυνόν: ἄφαρ δέ μιν ἄλλυδις ἄλλῃ
3 / \ / ie ’ 5 \ » ¢
ἐσκέδασεν διὰ τυτθά' περίαχε δ᾽ ala καὶ αἰθήρ"
2 la 5
ἐκλύσθη δ᾽ ἄρα πᾶσα περίδρομος ᾿Αμφιτρίτη:. δ30
e >] ” Ν / 2 , ’ \ ᾽ pe?
οἱ © ἔκτοσθε νεὸς πέσον ἀθρόοι: ἀμφὶ δ᾽ ap
αὐτοὺς
/ \ / \ a Ser?
κύματα μακρὰ φέροντο' περὶ στεροπῇσι δ᾽ ἀ-
νάσσης
v , \ / > Sf
αἴγλη μαρμαίρεσκε διὰ κνέφας ἀΐσσουσα"
id Pile ἑκα / Cc \ / “
οἱ δ᾽ ἄποτον λάπτοντες ἁλὸς πολυηχέος ἅλμην
/
θυμὸν ἀποπνείοντες ὑπὲρ πόντοιο φέροντο. 540
Ληιάσιν δ᾽ ἄρα χάρμα καὶ ὀλλυμένῃσι τέτυκτο"
[Ee ς Ν ᾿ »Μ, 6 \ 3 ἴω
καί ῥ᾽ αἱ μὲν κατέδυσαν ἔσω ἁλὸς ἀμφιβαλοῦσα!
A fal >
χεῖρας ἑοῖς τεκέεσσι δυσάμμοροι' αἱ δ᾽ ἀλεγεινὰ
δυσμενέων περὶ κρᾶτα βάλον χέρας, οἷς ἅμα
λυγραὶ
σπεῦδον ἀποφθίσασθαι ἑῆς ἀντάξια λώβης 545
/ Ψ ς Ὁ ie. ’ 9 ,
τινύμεναι Δαναούς: ἡ δ᾽ ὑψόθεν εἰσορόωσα
τέρπεθ᾽ ἑὸν κατὰ θυμὸν ἀγαυὴ Τριτογένεια.
,
Αἴας δ᾽ ἄλλοτε μὲν περινήχετο δούρατι νηός,
A \
ἄλλοτε δ᾽ av χείρεσσι διήνυεν ἁλμυρὰ βένθη
» ΄, A , eset s 5) , ΕἾ
ἀκαμάτῳ Τιτῆνι βίην ὑπέροπλον ἐοικώς" 550
σχίζετο δ᾽ ἁλμυρὸν οἶδμα περὶ κρατερῇσι χέρεσσιν
/
ἀνδρὸς ὑπερθύμοιο" θεοὶ δέ μιν εἰσορόωντες
᾽ , Ν i 24 / “ > \ δὲ A
ἠνορέην Kal κάρτος ἐθάμβεον: ἀμφὶ δὲ κῦμα
vy \ / ΄ 3 Jett pee ne J Ἐὰν oP,
ἄλλοτε μὲν φορέεσκε πελωριον NUT ἐπ ἄκρην
ς a 5 ~~
οὔρεος ὑψηλοῖο δι’ ἠέρος, ἄλλοτε δ᾽ αὖτε 555
ὑψόθεν οἷα φάραγξιν ἐνέκρυφεν" οὐδ᾽ ὅ γε χεῖρας
΄ / ’ \ ” Nie Ὁ
κάμνε πολυτλήτους" πολλοί γε μὲν ἔνθα καὶ ἔνθα
΄ / /
σβεννύμενοι σμαράγιζον ἔσω πόντοιο κεραυνοί"
οὔπω γάρ οἱ θυμὸν ἐμήδετο κηρὶ δαμάσσαι
604
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XIV
The welkin shrieked around. Her ruin of wrath
Now upon Aias hurled she: on his ship
Dashed she a thunderbolt, and shivered it
Wide in a moment into fragments small,
While earth and air yelled o’er the wreck, and
whirled
And plunged and fell the whole sea down thereon.
They in the ship were all together flung
Forth: all about them swept the giant waves,
Round them leapt lightnings flaming through the
dark.
Choked with the strangling surf of hissing brine,
Gasping out life, they drifted o’er the sea.
But even in death those captive maids rejoiced,
As some ill-starred ones, clasping to their breasts
Their babes, sank in the sea; some flung their arms
Round Danaans’ horror-stricken heads, and dragged
These down with them, so rendering to their foes
Requital for foul outrage down to them.
And from on high the haughty Trito-born
Looked down on all this, and her heart was glad.
But Aias floated now on a galley’s plank,
Now through the brine with strong hands oared his
path,
Like some old Titan in his tireless might.
Cleft was the salt sea-surge by the sinewy hands
Of that undaunted man: the Gods beheld
And marvelled at his courage and his strength.
But now the billows swung him up on high
Through misty air, as though to a mountain’s peak,
Now whelmed him down, as they would bury him
In ravening whirlpits: yet his stubborn hands
Toiled on unwearied. Aye to right and left
Flashed lightnings down, and quenched them in the
sea ;
For not yet was the Child of Thunderer Zeus
605
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
κούρη ἐριγδούποιο Διὸς μάλα περ κοτέουσα, 560
\ a 4 \ \ ες 4
πρὶν τλῆναι κακὰ πολλὰ καὶ ἄχνγεσι πάγχυ
μογῆσαι"
τοὔνεκά μιν κατὰ βένθος ἐδάμνατο δηρὸν ὀϊζὺς
πάντοθε τειρόμενον' περὶ γὰρ κακὰ μυρία Κῆρες
ἀνδρὶ περιστήσαντο' μένος δ᾽ ἐνέπνευσεν ἀνάγκη"
φῆ δέ, καὶ εἰ μάλα πάντες ᾿Ολύμπιοι εἰς ν
ἵκωνται 565
χωόμενοι καὶ πᾶσαν ἀναστήσωσι θάλασσαν
ἐκφυγέειν: ἀλλ᾽ οὔτι θεῶν ὑπάλυξεν ὁμοκλήν'"
δὴ γάρ οἱ νεμέσησεν ὑπέρβιος ᾿Εἐννοσίγαιος,
εὖτέ μιν εἰσενόησεν ἐφαπτόμενον χερὶ πέτρης
Γυραίης, καί οἱ μέγ᾽ ἐχώσατο" σὺν δ᾽ ἐτίναξε 570
πόντον ὁμῶς καὶ γαῖαν ἀπείριτον: ἀμφὶ δὲ πάντῃ
κρημνοὶ ὑπεκλονέοντο Καφηρέος" αἱ δ᾽ ἀλεγεινὸν
θεινόμεναι ῥηγμῖνες ἐπέβραχον οἴδματι λάβρῳ
χωομένοιο ἄνακτος" ἀπέσχισε δ᾽ εἰς ἅλα πέτρον
εὐρέα, τοῦ περ ἐκεῖνος ἑῆς ἐπεμαίετο χερσί. 575
καί ῥά οἱ ἀμφὶ πάγοισιν ἑλισσομένου para δηρὸν
χεῖρες ἀπεδρύφθησαν, ὑπέδραμε δ᾽ aly’ ὀνύχεσσι:
μορμῦρον δέ οἱ αἰὲν ὀρινομένου περὶ κῦμα
ἀφρὸς ἄδην λεύκαινε κάρη λάσιόν τε γένειον"
καὶ νύ κεν ἐξήλυξε κακὸν μόρον, εἰ μὴ ἄρ᾽ αὐτῷ 580
* * * * # *
ῥήξας γαῖαν ἔνερθεν ἐπιπροέηκε κολώνην"
εὖτε πάρος μεγάλοιο κατ᾽ ᾿Εἰγκελάδοιο δαΐφρων
Παλλὰς ἀειραμένη Σικελὴν ἐπικάββαλε νῆσον,
Hp ἔτι καίεται αἰὲν ὑπ᾽ ἀκαμάτοιο Diryavtos
αἰθαλόεν πνείοντος ἔσω χθονός" ὡς ἄρα Λοκρῶν 585
ἀμφεκάλυψεν ἄνακτα δυσάμμορον οὔρεος ἄκρη
ὑψόθεν ἐξεριποῦσα, βάρυνε δὲ καρτερὸν ἄνδρα"
606
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XIV
Purposed to smite him dead, despite her wrath,
Ere he had drained the cup of travail and pain
Down to the dregs; so in the deep long time
Affliction wore him down, tormented sore
On every side. Grim Fates stood round the man
Unnumbered ; yet despair still kindled strength.
He cried: “Though all the Olympians banded
come
In wrath, and rouse against me all the sea,
I will escape them!’ But no whit did he
Elude the Gods’ wrath; for the Shaker of Earth
In fierceness of his indignation marked
Where his hands clung to the Gyraean Rock,
And in stern anger with an earthquake shook
Both sea and land. Around on all sides crashed
Caphereus’ cliffs : beneath the Sea-king’s wrath
The surf-tormented beaches shrieked and roared.
The broad crag rifted reeled into the sea,
The rock whereto his desperate hands had clung ;
Yet did he writhe up round its jutting spurs,
While flayed his hands were, and from ‘neath his
nails
The blood ran. Wrestling with him roared the
waves,
And the foam whitened all his hair and beard.
Yet had he ’scaped perchance his evil doom,
Had not Poseidor, wroth with his hardihood,
Cleaving the earth, hurled down the chasm the rock,
As in the old time Pallas heaved on high
Sicily, and on huge Enceladus
Dashed down the isle, which burns with the burning
et
Of that immortal giant, as he breathes
Fire underground ; so did the mountain-crag,
Hurled from on high, bury the Locrian king,
Pinning the strong man down, a wretch crushed flat.
607
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
ἀμφὶ δέ μιν θανάτοιο μέλας ἐκιχήσατ᾽ ὄλεθρος
γαίῃ ὁμῶς δμηθέντα καὶ ἀτρυγέτῳ ἐνὶ πόντῳ.
“Os δὲ καὶ ἄλλοι ᾿Αχαιοὶ ὑπὲρ μέγα λαῖτμα
φέροντο, ὅ90
οἱ μὲν ap ἐν νήεσσι τεθηπότες, οἱ δὲ πεσόντες
ἔκτοσθεν νηῶν: ὀλοὴ δ᾽ ἔχε πάντας ὀϊξζύς:
αἱ μὲν γὰρ φορέοντ᾽ ἐπικάρσιαι εἰν ἁλὶ νῆες,
ἄλλαι δ᾽ ἀνστρέψασαι ἄνω τρόπιν: ὧν δέ που
ἱστοὶ
ἐκ δοράτων } ἐάγησαν ἐπισπέρχοντος ἀήτεω" 595
τῶν δὲ διὰ ξύλα πάντα θοαὶ σκεδάσαντο θύελλαι"
αἱ δὲ καὶ ἐς μέγα βένθος ὑποβρύχιαι κατέδυσαν
ὄμβρου ἐπιβρίσαντος ἀπείρονος, οὐδ᾽ ὑπέμειναν
λάβρον ὁμῶς ἀνέμοισι θαλάσσης καὶ Διὸς ὕδωρ
μισγόμενον. ποταμῷ γὰρ ἀλίγκιος ἔρρεεν αἰθὴρ 600
συνεχές" ἡ δ᾽ ὑπένερθεν ἐ ἐμαίνετο δῖα θάλασσα"
καί τις ἔφη: “τάχα τοῖον ἐπέχραεν ἀνδράσι
χεῖμα,
ὁππότε Δευκαλίωνος ἀθέσφατος ὑ ὑετὸς ἦλθε,
ποντώθη δ᾽ ἄρα γαῖα, βυθὸς δ᾽ ἐπεχεύατο πάντῃ."
SOx AEC ame. fast Lar A a 2 N \ εἰ Σ
ς ap εφὴ Δαναῶν τις ἐνὶ φρεσὶ χεῖμα τε
θηπὼς 605
λευγαλέον' πολλοὶ δὲ κατέφθιθεν' ἀμφὶ δὲ νεκρῶν
πλήθεθ' ἁλὸς μέγα χεῦμα, περιστείνοντο δὲ πᾶσαι
ἠιόνες" πολέας γὰρ ἀπέπτυσε Kop ἐπὶ χέρσον'
ἀμφὶ δὲ νήια δοῦρα βαρύβρομον ᾿Αμφιτρίτην͵
πᾶσαν ἄδην ἐκάλυψε' μέσον δ᾽ ἀνεφαίνετο κῦμα. 610
ἄλλοι δ᾽ ἄλλην κῆρα κακὴν λάχον' οἱ μὲν ἀν᾽
εὐρὺν
πόντον ὀρινομένης ἁλὸς ἄσχετον, οἱ δ᾽ ἐνὶ πέτρῃς
ἄξαντες περὶ νῆας ὀϊξυρῶς ἀπόλοντο
Ναυπλίου ἐννεσίησιν: ὁ γὰρ κοτέων μάλα παιδὸς
1 Zimmermann, for κεράτων of v.
608
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XIV
And so on him death’s black destruction came
Whom land and sea alike were leagued to slay.
Still over the great deep were swept the rest
Of those Achaeans, crouching terror-dazed
Down in the ships, save those that mid the waves
Had fallen. Misery encompassed all ;
For some with heavily-plunging prows drave on,
With keels upturned some drifted. Here were
masts
Snapped from the hull by rushing gusts, and there
Were tempest-rifted wrecks of scattered beams ;
And some had sunk, whelmed in the mighty deep,
Swamped by the torrent downpour from the clouds:
For these endured not madness of wind-tossed sea
Leagued with heaven’s waterspout; for streamed
the sky
Ceaselessly like a river, while the deep
Raved round them. And one cried: “ Such floods
on men
Fell only when Deucalion’s deluge came,
When earth was drowned, and all was fathomless
sea!”
So cried a Danaan, seeing soul-appalled
That wild storm. Thousands perished; corpses
thronged
The great sea-highways : all the beaches were
Too.strait for them: the surf belched multitudes
Forth on the land. The heavy-booming sea
With weltering beams of ships was wholly paved,
And here and there the grey waves gleamed
between.
So found they each his several evil fate,
Some whelmed beneath broad-rushing billows, some
Wretchedly perishing with their shattered ships
By Nauplius’ devising on the rocks.
Wroth for that son whom they had done to death,
609
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
χείματος ὀρνυμένοιο Kal ὀλλυμένων ᾿Αργείων 615
καίπερ ἀκηχέμενος μέγ᾽ ἐγήθεεν, οὕνεκ᾽ ἄρ᾽ αὐτῷ
δῶκε τίσιν θεὸς αἶψα καὶ ἔδρακεν ἐχθρὸν ὅμιλον
τειρόμενον κατὰ βένθος, ἑῷ δ᾽ ἄρα πολλὰ τοκῆι
εὔχεθ᾽ ὁμῶς νήεσσιν ὑπόβρυχα πάντας ὀλέσθαι.
τοῦ δὲ Ποσειδάων μάλ᾽ ἐπέκλυεν, ἄγχι δὲ
πάντας 620
ἄμ μέλαν οἶδμα φέρεσκεν' ὁ δ᾽ οὐρεὺς ὡς ὃ χερὶ
πεύκην
αἰθομένην ἀνάειρε" δόλῳ δ᾽ ἐπέλασσεν ᾿Αχαιοὺς
ἐλπομένους εὔορμον ἕδος λιμένων ἀφικέσθαι:
αἰνῶς γὰρ πέτρῃσι περὶ στυφελῇσι δάμησαν
αὐτῇς σὺν νήεσσι" κακῷ δ᾽ ἔπι κύντερον “ἄλγος 625
τλῆσαν ἀνιηρῇσι οσαγνύμενοι περὶ πέτρῃς
νυκτὶ θοῇ: παῦροι "δὲ é φύγον μόρον, οὕς T ἐσάωσεν
ἢ θεὸς ἢ δαίμων τις “ἐπίρροθος" αὐτὰρ ᾿Αθήνη
ἄλλοτε μὲν θυμῷ μέγ᾽ ἐγήθεεν, ἄλλοτε δ᾽ αὖτε
ἄχνυτ' Ὀδυσσῆος πινυτόφρονος, οὕνεκ᾽ ἔμελλε 630
πάσχειν ἄλγεα πολλὰ Ποσειδάωνος ὁμοκλῇ,
ὅς pa τότ᾽ ἀκαμάτῃσι περὶ φρεσὶ πάγχυ μεγαίρων
τείχεσι καὶ πύργοισιν ἐὐσθενέων ᾿Αργείων,
obs ἔκαμον Τρώων στυγερῆς ἔμεν ἄλκαρ aris,
ἐσσυμένως μάλα πᾶσαν ἀνεπλήμμυρε θάλασσαν, 635
ὅσση ἀπ᾽ Εὐξείνοιο κατέρχεται Ἑλλήσποντον,
καί μιν ἐπ᾽ ἠιόνας Τροίης Barer ὗε δ᾽ ὕπερθε
Ζεὺς “ἐπίηρα φέρων ἐρικυδέϊ ᾿Εννοσυγαίῳφ'
οὐ μὴν οὐδ᾽ ‘Exdepyos a ἄτερ καμάτοιο τέτυκτο,
ἀλλ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἀπ᾽ ᾿Ιδαίων ὁ ὀρέων μάλα πάντα ῥέεθρα 640
εἰς ἕνα χῶρον ἄγεσκε, κατέκλυσε δ᾽ ἔ ἔργον ᾿Αχαιῶν"
ἐκλύσθη δὲ θάλασσα καὶ εἰσέτ᾽ ἴσαν ὁ κελάδοντες
1 Zimmermann’s reading. * Zimmermann, for &y of v.
3 Zimmermann, for ἁψάμενος of Koechly.
* Zimmermann, καὶ τόσση δ. 6. x. εἰσέτι of MSS.
610
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XIV
He, when the storm rose and the Argives died,
Rejoiced amid his sorrow, seeing a God
Gave to his hands revenge, which now he wreaked
Upon the host he hated, as o’er the deep
They tossed sore-harassed. To his sea-god sire
He prayed that all might perish, ships and men
Whelmed in the deep. Poseidon heard his prayer,
And on the dark surge swept them nigh his land.
He, like a harbour-warder, lifted high
A blazing torch, and so by guile he trapped
The Achaean men, who deemed that they had won
A sheltering haven: but sharp reefs and crags
Gave awful welcome unto ships and men,
Who, dashed to pieces on the cruel rocks
In the black night, crowned ills with direr ills.
Some few escaped, by a God or Power unseen
Plucked from death’s hand. Athena now rejoiced
Her heart within, and now was racked with fears
For prudent-souled Odysseus; for his weird
Was through Poseidon’s wrath to suffer woes
Full many.
But Earth-shaker’s jealousy now
Burned against those long walls and towers uppiled
By the strong Argives for a fence against
The Trojans’ battle-onset. Swiftly then
He swelled to overbrimming all the sea
That rolls from Euxine down to Hellespont,
And hurled it on the shore of Troy: and Zeus,
For a grace unto the glorious Shaker of Earth,
Poured rain from heaven: withal Far-darter bare
In that great work his part ; from Ida’s heights
Into one channel led he all her streams,
And flooded the Achaeans’ work. The sea
Dashed o’er it, and the roaring torrents still
612
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS
χείμαρροι ἀλεγεινὸν ἀεξόμενοι Διὸς ὄμβρῳ,
τοὺς μέλαν οἷδμ᾽ ἀνέεργε πολυστόνου ᾿Αμφιτρίτης
πόντον ἐπελθέμεναι, πρὶν τείχεα πάντ᾽ ἀμαθῦναι 645
ἀργαλέως Δαναῶν" αὐτὸς δ᾽ ἄρα γαῖαν ἔνερθε
ῥῆξε Ποσειδάων, ἀνὰ δ᾽ ἔβλυσεν ἄσπετον ὕδωρ
ἰλύν τε ψάμαθόν τε: βίῃ δ᾽ ἐλέλιξε κραταιῇ
Σίγεον" ἠιόνες δὲ μέγ᾽ ἔβραχον ἠδὲ θέμεθλα
Δαρδανίης,"' καὶ ἄϊστον ὑποβρύχιόν τ᾽ ἐκαλύφθη 650
ἕρκος ἀπειρέσιον, κατεδύσατο δ᾽ ἔνδοθι γαίης
μακρὰ διισταμένης" ψάμαθος δ᾽ ἔτι φαίνετο μούνη
χασσαμένου πόντου, καὶ ἀπ᾽ ἀκτάων " ἐριδούπων
νόσφιν ἀπ᾽ αἰγιαλοῖο κατεκτάθη. adda τὰ μέν
που
ἀθανάτων ἐτέλεσσε κακὸς νόος" οἱ δ᾽ ἐνὶ νηυσὶν 655
᾿Αργεῖοι πλώεσκον, ὅσους διὰ χεῖμα κέδασσεν'
ἄχλῃ δ᾽ ἄχλος ἵκανεν, ὅπῃ θεὸς ἦγεν ἕκαστον,
ὅσσοι ὑπὲρ πόντοιο AVYpas ὑπάλυξαν ἀέλλας.
1 Zimmermann, for ἐκ δὲ θέμεθλα Δαρδανίη of v.
2 Zimmermann, for πόντοιο καὶ éx δαναῶν of MSS:
612
THE FALL OF TROY, BOOK XIV
Rushed on it, swollen by the rains of Zeus ;
And the dark surge of the wide-moaning sea
Still hurled them back from mingling with the deep,
Till all the Danaan walls were blotted out
Beneath their desolating flood. Then earth
Was by Poseidon chasm-cleft: up rushed
Deluge of water, slime and sand, while quaked
Sigeum with the mighty shock, and roared
The beach and the foundations of the land
Dardanian. So vanished, whelmed from sight,
That mighty rampart. Earth asunder yawned,
And all sank down, and only sand was seen,
When back the sea rolled, o’er the beach outspread
Far down the heavy-booming shore. All this
The Immortals’ anger wrought. But in their ships
The Argives storm- dispersed went sailing on.
So came they home, as heaven guided each,
Even all that ’scaped the fell sea-tempest blasts,
612
INDICES
INDEX
In the case of the most prominent divine and human characters,
references are given only to the principal scenes in which they are actors,
others, and mere allusions, are generally indicated by the letters A. P.
(allusions passim).
ABAS, (1) a Trojan, XI, 81: (2)
another Trojan, XIII, 209
Abydos, III, 299
Acamas, (1) a Trojan, VI, 574; x,
168 : (2) a Greek, son of Theseus,
IV, 332 84.; XII, 326; XIII, 496
Sq.
Acastus, Iv, 308
Achaeans, A . P. from 1, 401 to XIv,
622
χα πὶ (Peleides, Aeacides), son
of Peleus, grandson of Aeacus.
At Patroclus’ grave, 1. 577 .8ῆ.:
meets ἃἂπά slays Penthesileia,
508-674: kills Thersites, 722 sq.:
meets and slays Memnon, II,
388-548: killed before Scaean
Gate, II, 21-185: funeral games
for, IV, 62- 595: description of
his arms, V, 6-120: his ghost
appears "i Neoptolemus, XIV,
179-225,
Adrastus, King of Arges, IV, 572
Aegean Sea, VII, 241; Ix, 337
Aegeus, husband of Aethra, ΧΙΠ,
511
Aeneas, Trojan chief, fights for
Achilles’ body, III, 249 sq7.: rescues
his father from burning Troy,
XI, 317 s7.: in battle, VI, VII,
ΧΟ ΧΙΑ. -P-
Aenus, ἃ Ceteian, ΧΙ, 79
Aeolia, XIV, 474
Aesepus, river in Phrygia, I1, 587 sq.
Aeson, father of Jason, XII, 267
Aethalus’ son, a Greek, XI, 202
Aethicus, a Paphlagonian, vI, 318,
511
Aethiopia, II, 32
Aethiopians, in battle, 11, 101 sq.:
changed into birds, II, 570 sq.
setton, chariot-horse of Ares, VIII,
4
Aethra, mother of Theseus, found
by her grandsons, XIII, 498 sq.
Agamemnon (Atreides), in battle,
VI, 337 sq.3 VIII, 99; IX, 203 sq.:
at Tenedos, ΧΙ, 339 85. : presides
at games, IV: wins horse-race,
Iv, 580sq.:_ relations with
Achilles, I, 828sq.: Aias, Υ,
135 52.: Tecmessa, Υ͂, 559 Sq.
Neoptolemus, Vil, 687 sq. : Cas-
sandra, XIV, 20, A.P.
Agamestor, father of Cleitus, VI,
4
Aganippus, a Trojan, III, 230
ASRDENCE, a Greek, IV, 466; XII,
25
Agelaus, (1) a Greek, Iv, 334: (2)
a Erode, IjI, 229 : (3) a Milesian,
I,
Ageleia, i. g. Athena, XII, 416
Agenor, ἃ Trojan, VI, 624; VILL,
310 sg.; XI, 86, 188, 349: fights
for Achilles’ body, Ill, 214:
killed by Neoptolemus, XIII, 217
Agestratus, a Trojan, III, 230
Ageia ymph, mother of Nireus,
Agrius, father of Thersites, 1, 770
Aias, (1) son of Telamon, confronts
Penthesileia, I, 538 sq.: defends
Achilles’ corpse, ΠῚ, 217 sq.:
kills Glaucus, lI, 279: wounds
Aeneas, III, 287; wrestles with
Diomedes, IV, 215 8η.: victor
with discus, IV, 439sqg.: in
pancratium, Iv, 496: claims
Achilles’ arms, v, 130 sq.: seized
with madness, v, 390 54. : kills
himself, V, 456 s7., A. P.
(2) Son of Oileus, victor in
footrace, IV, 186 : vanquished in
archery, Iv, 410: in battle, I,
258; VI, 502, 521; x, 148; XI,
617
INDEX
440, XI, 211: outrages Cas-
sandra, XIII,422: ‘shipwrecked and
destroyed, XIV, 502-589, A. P.
Aidoneus, v. Hades.
Alcathous, (1) a Trojan, ΠΙ, 158:
(2) another Trojan, x, 352
Alcibie, an Amazon, I, 45, 260
Alcides v. Hercules.
Alcimedes, a Greek, VI, 557
Alcimedon, a Greek, XI, 448
Alcimus, a Greek, XI, 86
Alcon, a Trojan, I, 308; Iv, 594
Alcyoneus, an Aethiop, 11, 594
Alexander »v. Paris.
Alexinomus, sons of, VIII, 78
Alexippus, an Aethiop, II, 365
Aloeus, I, 516
Alpheius, river in Peloponnesus,
I, 241; VI, 234
Amarynceus, Iv, 316
Amides, a Trojan, Ix, 186
Amphiale, x, 332
Amphiaraus, a prophet, XIV, 366
Amphilochus, a Greek, XIV, 366
Amphimachus, (1) a Greek, XII,
325: (2) a Trojan, 1, 281
Amphimedon, a Trojan, XIII, 211
Amphinome, Boeotian woman, X, 75
Amphinomus, a Trojan, x, 88
Amphinous, a Trojan, x, 118
Amphion, a Greek, X, 111
Amphitrite, VII, 374; VII, 63;
XIV, 535, 609, 644
Ancaeus, IV, 312
Anchises, rescued by Aeneas from
sack of Troy, XIII, 317 sq7., A. P.
Andromache, I, 99; XIV, 21
Andromachus, a Greek, ΧΙ, 41
Antaeus, IV, 445; VI, 286
Antandre, an Amazon, I, 143, 531
ἈΠΙΘΒΟΣ, a Trojan, ΙΧ, 8; ΧΙΥ͂, 321,
Antibrote, an Amazon, J, 45, 532
Anticlus, a Greek, XII, 317
Antilochus, son of Nestor, killed ky
Memnon, Il, 244 sq. ; Ill, 2, 10,
ICES Ah 605°
Antimachus, (1) a Cretan, VI, 622:
(2) a Greek, XII, 323 : (3) a
Trojan, I, 405; XIII, 433
Antiphonus, a Trojan, XIII, 215
Antiphus, (1) of Mycenae, VI, 616:
nr of Odysseus, VIII, 116,
1
Antitheus, a Greek, I, 228
Aphidnae, town in Attica, XIII, 519
Aphrodite, XI, 343: saves Aeneas,
618
XI, 289: reconciles Menelaus to
Helen, Xl, 389, A. P.
Apollo, slays. Achilles, Ill, 30 sq.
takes Glaucus’ corpse from pyre,
ΗΝ 4 sq.: rescues Deiphobus, ΙΧ,
Arcesilaus, a Greek, VIII, 304
Archilochus, a Trojan, ΧΙ, 91
Arcturus, XII, 482
Ares, father οὗ Penthesileia, 1,
55 sq. : seeks to kill Neoptolemus,
VIII, 340: attacks Athena, XII,
172 8η.,
Arethusa, x, 82
eS ‘A. P. from I, 205 to XIv,
Argos, in Greece, ΠΙ, 570; Iv, 563;
VI, 625; VII, 187
Argus, warder of Io, x, 190
Arion, Adrastus’ horse, Iv, 569
Aristolochus, a Greek, VIII, 93
Arizelus, a Boeotian, X, 75
Artemis, I, 644; xu, 312
Ascanius, ἃ . Trojan, Ix, 192
Asclepius, Ix, 466
Asiades, an Aethiop, II, 364
Assaracus, ancient King of Troy,
VI, 145
Asteropaeus, a Trojan, III, 609; Iv,
155, 587; VI, 552
Astraeus, a Trojan, VIII, 307
Astyanax, infant son of Hector,
XII, 251
Astyoche, sister of Priam, mother
of Eurypylus, VI, 136
Ate, I, 753
Atlas, XI, 419
Atreides, see
Menelaus.
Atreus, father of Agamemnon and
Menelaus, IV, 38; VI, 41, 502,
516: xi, 122
Atrytone, epithet of Athena, I, 514;
XIV, 326, 530
Atymnius, a Trojan, π, 300
Auge, mother of Telephus, ΥἹ, 138
Aulis, harbour in Boeotia, VIII, 304;
XIV, 126
Automedon, charioteer of Achilles,
Vl, 38; IX, 213, 225
Bellerophon, x, 162
Boeotia, X, 76
Boreas, I, 167, 625, 684; II, 703;
Iv, 552; v, 409; VI, 485; VIII,
50, 91, 205, 243; XI, 228; XIII,
Agamemnon and
INDEX
Se mountain in Caria, I,
Bremon, a Cretan, XI, 41
Bremusa, an Amazon, I, 43, 247
Briseis, ΠΙ, 552, 687; IV, 276; VU,
G20 ee XDVAT ZIG
Bucolion, a Greek, VI, 615
Cabeirus, a Sestian, I, 267
Caicus, river in Mysia, Iv, 1743 VI,
122 VAT, ee
Calchas, a prophet, VI, 70; VIII,
475 EX 8295
Calliope, a Muse, mother of
Orpheus, III, 632, 655
Calydnae, islands off Caria, VII, 407
Calvanese: island near Tenedos, XIV,
45
Capaneus, one of the Seven against
Thebes, Χ, 81: father of
Sthenelus, IV, 566; XI, 338
Caphareus, cape of ’Buboea, XIV,
469, 487, 572: rocks of, VI, 524,
XIV, 362
Caria, I, 285; VII, 83
Cassandra, daughter of Priam,
prophesies. XI, 526 sq. Aias
offers vioience to, XIII, 422:
captive of Agamemnon, ΧΙΥ, 20,
Cassandrug, Carian, ΥἹΠΗ, 81
Caucasus, VI, 269; X, 200
Caunus, city in Caria, vill, 79
Cebrus, a Trojan, x, 86
Celtus, a Phrygian, VI, 611
Centaurs, VI, 273; vil, 109
Cephallenians, Vv, 429
Cerberus, VI, 254, 261
Ceteians, VI, 168; VII, 149, 533,
541; XI, 80
Chaos, III, "756; XIV, 2
Cheiron, a centaur, I, 593; Iv, 143
aa ττ tae Lycian headland, I,
4
Chimaera, VIII, 107
Chlemus, a Lycian, ΥἹΠ, 101
oe a Lacedaemonian, YI,
61
Chrysa, island in Aegean, VI, 402;
XIV, 412
Cilicians, ΠΙ, 545; XIv, 369
Cilla, VII, 295; XIv, 413
Cleite, a Mysian woman, VIII, 121
Cleito, a Greek woman, XI, 69
Cleitus, a Paphlagonian, VI, 465
Cleodorus, 2 Rhodian, x, 213
Cleolaus, a Greek, VI, 550
oe: a Paeonian woman, VI,
5
Cleon, a Greek, ΧΙ, 60
Clonie, an Amazon, I, 42, 230, 235
Clydon, an Aethiop, 11, 365
Cnossus, in Crete, XI, 42
Coroebus, a Trojan, XIII, 169
Corycia or Corycus, hill in Ionia,
XI, 92
Crete, V, 351; VI, 623; x, 83
Creusa, Trojan woman, VIII, 82
Cronos’ son, Zeus, A. P. from 1,
578 to XIV, 98
Cyclops, VIII, 126; xIv, 446
Cycnus, a son of Poseidon, slain
Le Achilles, Iv, 153, 468; XIV,
Cymothoe, a Nereid, v, 341, 345
Cypris, Aphrodite, g.v., A. P., from
I, 667 to XIV, 152
Cytherea, Aphrodite, VIII, 98; x,
318; XI, 241, 479; xIV, 69
Damastor’s son, a Trojan, XIII, 211
Danek, ASPs, from I, 280 to XIV,
Dardania, XII, 98; XIV, 407, 650
Dardanian Gate, IV, 3; IX, 44
Dardanus, (1) son of Zeus, ancient
king of Troy, I, 96; 11, 141; Ix
19; XIII, 558: Trojans called
sons of D. Ill, 167; xX, 93; ΧΗ,
520 : (2) city in Troad, VIII, 97
Deidameia,mother of Neoptolemus,
VII, 184, 228, 242, 249, 254, 336,
349, 385
Deileon, a Greek, X, 111
Deiochus, a Trojan, I, 529
Deioneus, a Trojan, X, 167
Deiophontes, a Trojan, VIII, 317
Deiopites, (1) a Greek, VI, 580:
(2) a Trojan, XIII, 212
Deiphobus, son of Priam, in battle,
VI, VIM, IX, XI, passim: marries
Helen, xX, 346: killed by
Menelaus, xm, 355
Demoleon, a Greek, x, 119
Demophoon, son of Theseus, XII,
325 : meets Aethra, XIII, 496 sq.
Derimacheia, an Amazon, I, 45, 260
ee an Amazon, I, 42, 230,
Dia, the island Naxos, Iv, 389
Diomedes, (1) a Greek chief, son of
Tydeus, in battle, I, M1, ΥΠ--ΧΙ,
XIII, passim: quarrels with
Achilles, 1, 767 8g.: wrestles
619
INDEX
with Aias, Iv, 217 84. : mission
to Scyros with Odysseus, VI, 64 54.3
ΥΠ, 169 sg.: Mission to Lemnos
with Odysseus, IX, 335 sg., A. P.:
(2) a king of Thrace, VI, 246
Dionysus, Bacchus, 1, 438; ΠΙ, 737,
772; IV, 386
Dolopians, 11, 469
Dresaeus, a Trojan, I, 291
Dryas, 8 Greek, XI, 86
Dulichium, one of ‘Echinades Is., I,
275
Dymas, (1) a Phrygian, vil, 607:
(2) a Greek, VIU, 303
Echemmon, a Greek, VI, 580
Echidna, a monster, mother of
Cerberus, VI, 261
Eetion, King of Thebe, father of
Andromache, I, 98,115; I, 546;
IV, 152, 543; XI, 266, 268;
XIV, 130: (2) a Greek, VI, 639
Eilissus, a Greek, I, 228
Elasippus, a Greek, I, 229
Electra, a Pleiad, x11, 552
Elephenor, a Greek, VII, 112
Eleus, in the Troad, vu, 408
Elis, in Peloponnesus, IV, 526
Elysian Plain, 11, 651; Wl, 761;
XIV, 224
Emathion, a Trojan, HI, 301
Sans, @ giant, V, 642; XIV,
4
Endymion, X, 128, 455
Ennomus, a Trojan, x, 88
Enyeus, a Trojan, I, 530
Enyo, Goddess of War, A. P., from
I, 365 to XII, 85
Eos, the Dawn-goddess, mourns
over Memnon, II, 549-666, A. P.
from 1, 49 to xIv, 228
Epeius, a Greek, boxes with Aeamas,
Iv, 329-404: fashions the Wooden
Horse, ΧΗ, 81-154, A. P.
Ereuthos, a Greek, I, 239
Erichthonius, ancient King of Troy,
II, 141, 142
Eridanus, river, Υ, 628; x, 192
Erinnyes, I, 29; IW, 169; v, 31,
454, 471; XI, 547; XIU, 382
Erinnys, VU, 243; x, 303
Eris, Goddess of Strife, A.P., from
I, 159 to XIII, 563
Erylaus, a Mysian, VII, 121
Erymas, a Lycian, II, 231
Eubius, a Trojan, vu, 611
Euboea, XIV, 422
620
Eumaeus, a Trojan, VIII, 96
Euneus, son of Jason, IV, 383
Eurotas, river of Sparta, x, 121
Euryalus, a Greek, IV, 473 8η.;
Vill, 306; XI, 108 8g.; XI, 324
Eurycoon, a Trojan, XIII, 210
Eurydamas, a Trojan, XIU, 178
Eurymachus, (1) a Trojan, ΧΙ, 130,
137, 1685 183491598; 9137511323":
(2) a Greek, XI, 6: (3) another
Greek, XII, 321
Eurymenes, a Trojan, x, 98
Eurynomus, a Trojan, 1, 530
Eurypylus, (1) son of Telephus
grandson of Hercules, comes to
Troy, VI, 120: victorious over
Greeks, VI, 368 to VIM, 133:
fights with, and slain by Neopto-
lemus, VIII, 134-209. His shield,
VI, 198-293, A.P. (2) A Greek,
Iv, 502 sg.; XI, 67, 353; ἘΠῚ. 319
Eurysaces, infant son of Aias, Υ,
Eurystheus, king of Tiryns, ΥἹ, 222
Eurytion, herdman of the giant
Geryon, VI, 255
Eurytus, a Greek, vil, 111
Galenus, a Trojan, x, 89
Ganymede, cupbearer of Zeus,
intercedes for Troy, VII, 429,
443; XIV, 325
Gargarus, town in Troad, x, 90
Geryon, a giant, VI, 249
Giants, the, I, 179; τί; 518; Wl,
125; ἃ 416; XIV, 584
Glaucus, (1) King of Lycia, Ill, 214,
232, 245s 1 VET 102 2 se E47;
XIV, 136: (2) a river of Lycia,
Iv, 11
Gorgons, V, 38
Graces, IV, 140; V, 72; VI, 152
Granicus, river in Mysia, 1Π, 302
Gygaea, lake in Lydia, XI, 68
"τ Rock, in Aegean Sea, ΧΙΥ͂,
aoe will not keep Achilles, ΠῚ,
GAGA EP.
Haemon’s son, a Greek, I, 229
Harmon, a Trojan, K, 86
Harmothoe, an Amazon, I, 44,
533
Harpalion, a Boeotian, x, 74
Harpalus, friend of Odysseus, VIII,
113
Harpasus, a river in Caria, X, 144
INDEX
Harpy, I, 169; Iv, 518, 570; VIII,
155; X, 395
Hector, A. P., from I, 1, to xIv, 133
Hecuba, wife of -Priam, Iv, 420;
XIV, 22, 273, 288: her lament for
Paris, X, 389 sg.: changed into
a dog, XIV, 347 sg.
Helen, hostess of Eurypylus, VI,
her lament for Paris,
.: Menelaus tries to
kill her, ΧΙΠ, 385: triumph of
her beauty, XIV, 39-70 and
149-178, A.P.
Helenus, son of Priam, VIII, 254;
X, 346; XI, 349
Helios, the sun, A. P., from I, 118
to XIII, 229
Hellas, A. P. from 1, 371 to xIv, 419
Hellespont, A. P., from II, 353 to
XIV, 636
Hellus, a Lydian, ΧΙ, 67
Hephaestus, A. P., from I, 550 to
XIV, 53
Hera, Ill, 1387; Iv, 48; Vv, 397; xX,
334; ΧΙΠ, 417: upbraids Apollo,
Im, 129 sg.: Strengthens Sinon,
XII, 373
Heraclea; in Paphlagonia, VI, 474
Hercules, his labours portrayed on
shield, VI, 198-293, A. P., from
1, 505 to x, 204
Hermione, daughter of Menelaus,
VI, 90
Hermus, river of Lydia, I, 296;
x, $l
Hesperides, 0, 419; VI, 257
Hesperus, V, 182
Hippalmus, a Greek, I, 229
Hippasus, (1) a Trojan, father of
Agelaus, I, 279: (2) another
Trojan, father of Pammon’s
charioteer, VI, 562 : (3) a Greek,
father of moleon, X, 120: (4)
a Greek, father of (? Nestor’s)
charioteer, Ix, 150: (5) a Thes-
salian, XI, 87
Hippodameia, daughter of Oeno-
maus, IV, 529
Hippolochus, a Lycian, father of
laucus, III, 237, 278; Iv, 1
Hippolyte, (1) Amazon Queen, VI,
242: (2) sister of Penthesileia,
I, 24
Hippomedon, (1) a Trojan, XI, 99:
(2) another Trojan, VU, 86: (8) 8
Phrygian, XI, 36
Hippomenes, a Greek, VUI, 311
Hipponous, a Trojan, ΠΙ, 155
Hippotas, father of Aeolus, XIV, 477
Hippothoe, an Amazon, I, 44, 532
Hours, I, 50; 11, 658; Iv, 135
Hyllus, (1) a Trojan, I, 529: (2) a
Cretan, x, 81
Hymenaeus, Marriage-god, XIV, 297
Hyperion, the Sun, Π, 596
Hypsipyle, daughter of Thoas, Iv,
91
Hysminus, 8 Trojan, X, 87
Talmenus, 8 Greek, XII, 322
Iapetus, father of Prometheus, 3%,
199
Tearian Sea, Iv, 78
Ida, mountain in Troad, A. P. from
I, 10 to xIv, 640
Idomeneus, King of Crete, in
battle , 1, 247 sg.; VI, 539 sz.; X,
83: at Achilles’ funeral games,
EY: (284) το ALP.
Tlioneus, a Trojan, XI, 181
Tiium, A. P. from I, 85 to xXIv, 383
Ilus, ancient King of Troy, I, 784;
il, 142
Imbrasius, a Trojan, X, 87
Imbros, citadel of Caunus in Caria,
vu, 80
Inachus, a river of Argos, x, 190
Tolaus, friend of Hercules, VI, 216
Iphianassa, a Mysian woman, VIII,
295
Iphiclus, father of Podarces, I, 234
Iphition, a Trojan, XI, 36
Iris, the Rainbow-goddess, I, 64;
XII, 193; XIV, 467
Ithaca, VII, 187, 442
Itymoneus, a Milesian, I, 279
J τ leader of the Argonauts, Iv,
Laomedon, (1) father of Priam, I,
83, 183, 505, 788, 802; Ii, 26,
143, 144; m1, 110: (2) a Trojan,
II, 293
Laophooén, a Paeonian, YI, 549
Lassus, a Paphlagonian, VI, 469
Latmus, a mountain in Caria, I, 282
Lecton, headand in Troad, ΧΤΥ͂, 415
Lemnos, island in Aegean Sea, III,
545; IV, 385; V, 196; Ix, 334, 338,
353, 434, 492
Leonteus, a Greek, VII, 484; XII, 323
Lesbos, island off Mysia, IV, 277;
XIy, 414
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INDEX
Lethaeus, river in Crete, x, 82
Leto, inother of Apollo, III, 392,
398 ; TX, 2932x1655 ΧΙ, 23, and
of Artemis, L 366
Limyrus, a river of Lycia, VIII, 103
Lindus, ἃ river in Caria, VII, 83
Locrians, IV, 187, 208; XI, 447, 469;
XIV, 424, 485
Lycaon, son of Priam, XIv, 158,
, 39
Lycia, II, 232; Iv, 6; VII, 84;
154; ΧΙ, ile ori ” king of, IV, oe
men of, 1m, 270
Lycomedes, father of Deidameia,
VII, 292
Lycon, (1) a Greek, vil, 300: (2)
a Trojan, XI, 91
Lyctius, town in Crete, ΧΙ, 42
Lycurgus, king of Thracian Edones,
II, 489
Lyncus, a Trojan, ΧΙ, 90
Lyrnessus, ἃ town in Mysia, Iv, 478
Machaon, son of Asclepius, killed
by Huy Dy lus, VE, 391 50. Vi,
Maeander, river in Asia Minor, I,
284; X, "145
Maenalus, (1) a Phrygian, ΧΙ, 37:
(2) a Trojan, In, 299
Maeon, father of Agelaus (2), Ill, 229
Maeonia, Lydia, x, 35
Margasus, a Carian, X, 143
Massicylus, mountain in Lycia, ΠΙ,
234; VIII, 107
Medon, (1) a Mysian, VIII, 296: (2)
a) -Erojan. ΧΟ L252 (3) another
Troe. ΧΙ, 481
Medusa, a Gorgon, Χ, 195; xIv, 450
Megacles, a Trojan, I, 209
Meges, (1) a Greek, son of Phyleus,
ΤΟ ΒΤ ΝΠ O34 τ χ, 4085: 155: ΧΠ
326; XIII, 212 : (2) a Trojan, 1,
2902 : (8) a Phrygian, VII, 606
Meilanion, a Mysian, VIII, 119
Melaneus, a Carian, VIII, 77
Melanippion, town in Lycia, II, 233
Melanthius, a Greek, Ix, 154
Meles, a Trojan, XI, 119
Melius, a Trojan, XI, 85
Memnon, son of the Dawn-goddess,
comes to Troy, I, 100: in battle,
ll, 235 sg.: fights with Achilles,
Il, 453-542 : his burial, 11, 586 54. :
his armour, IV, 458: birds of, U,
643 sq.
622
Menalcas, a Mysian, VIII, 294
Meneclus, an Aethiop, II, 365, 368
Menelaus (Atreides), in chariot-
race, IV, 502 sq.: in Council, VI,
6 sq.: in battle, VI, 508 57.: slays
Deiphobus, XII, 354: reconciled
to Helen, XIv, 149-178, A. P
Meneptolemus, a Trojan, I, 405
Menes, a Carian, VII, 81
Menestheus, a Greek, XII, 317
Menippus, a Greek, Ϊ, 230
Menoetes, (1) a Trojan herald, Ix,
34: (2) another Trojan, XI, 99
Menoetius, (1) father of Patroclus, I,
378 : (2) a Greek, VIII, 111
Menon, a Trojan, x, 118
Mentes, a Trojan, II, 228
Meriones, a Cretan chief, I, 254; VI,
540 sq.; VIll, 101, 402; xI, 91;
XII, 320
Miletus, city in Caria, I, 280
Mimas, a Trojan, XI, 212
Minos, King of Crete, IV, 388
Mnesaeus, a Trojan, X, 88
Molion, a Greek, I, 227
Molus, (1) a Cretan, VIII, 409: (2)
an Argive, VI, 624
Morys, a Phrygian, VII, 35
Mosynus, a Greek, VI, 631
Muses, IT, 594, 662; Iv, 141; ΧΙ, 306
Mycale, mountain in Ionia, I, 282
Mycenae, in Q.S. Mycene, VI, 616
Mygdon, a Trojan, XIII, 169
Mynes, a Lyrnessian, IV, 477
Myrmidons, followers of Achilles,
I, 689; Π, 547; 1Π, 422, 686, 742;
Vil, 605, 661; VIII, 13; Ix, 64;
XI, 224
Nastes, a Milesian, I, 281
Nauplius, king of Euboea, father of
Palamedes, XIv, 614
Neaera, a Nymph, I, 292
Nemean lion, VI, 206
Neoptolemus, son of Achilles and
Deidameia, brought from Scyros to
Troy, VII, 160 sg.: defends ships,
Vil, 452-621: slays Eurypylus,
VIII, 184-216: in battle, VIII, x,
XI, passim: sacrifices Polyxena,
XIV, 304 sqg., A. P.
Nereids, daughters of Nereus, III,
662, 768, 786; IV, 191; Vv, 336;
Vil, 353
Nereus, sea-god, father of Thetis,
ΗΠ, wane 498; III, 583, 669, 734;
Υ,
INDEX
Nessus, a Centaur, V, 645; VI, 283
Nestor, son of Neleus, king of Pylos,
his son slain, II, 244 sq.: in
Council, ἘΠ᾿ 515 sqg.; Vv, 139 sq.;
600 sq.; XII, 260 sq.: sings praise
of Thetis and Achilles, Iv, 118--
ORAS
Nesus, a Mycenaean, VI,- 616
Night as a goddess, II, 625
Niobe, I, 294
Nireus, handsomest of Greeks, VI,
372 sq.; 440 sq.; VU, 7 sq.; XI, 61
Nirus, a Trojan, XI, 27
Nissus, a Trojan, ΠΙ, 231
Notus, S. Wind, Iv, 520, 533; VI,
486; XII, 192; XIII, 484-6
Nychius, an Aethiop, 1, 364
Nymphaeus, a river in Asia Minor,
VI, 47
Nome be A. P. from 11, 300 to xIv,
7
Ocean, A. P. from I, 119 to xIv, 1
Ocyroe, a Nymph, ΧΙ, 37
Ocythous, a Lycian, III, 230
Odysseus, son of Laertes, king of
Ithaca, defends Achilles’ corpse,
III, 296 84. : claimant of arms of
Achilles, Vv, 129 s7.:
Scyros, VII, 169 sg.: mission to
Lemnos, IX, 333 sg.: advises
building the "Wooden Horse, xi,
OUST Ace be
Oeneus, father of Tydeus, I, 771;
Υ, 253
mission to
Oenomaus, Iv, 527
Oenone, Nymph forsaken by Paris,
rejects his prayer, x, 259-331:
repents and throws ‘herself. on
his pyre, X, 411—489
Oenops, a Greek, Ix, 192
Oeta, mountain in N. Greece, V, 646
Oly mous A.P. from I, 48 to xIv,
Oreithyia, wife of Boreas, I, 168
Oresbius, a Trojan, Il, 303
Orion, V, 368, 404; vil, 304
Orpheus, III, 638
Orthrus, dog of Geryon, VI, 253
Orythaon a Trojan, II, 150
Ossa, mountain in N. Greece, I, 618
Palamedes, son of Nauplius, v, 198
Pammon, a son of Priam, VI, 317,
562, 568 ; XIII, 214
Pamphylia, in Asia Minor, ΧΙΥ͂, 369
Panaceia, a Nymph, I, 305
keegan father of Epeius, Iv, 324,
Panormus, haven in Caria, I, 283
Paphlagoneion, river from Mem-
non’s blood, 1, 560
Paphlagonians, VI, 319, 473
Paris, a son of Priam, opposes
peace, II,67 sq.: fights for Achilles’
corpse, III, 186 sg.: wounded by
Philoctetes, X, 253 87. : suppliant
to Oenone, X, 259-331: burnt
with Oenone, X, 459-489, A. P.
Parthenius, river in Paphlagonia,
VI, 466
Pasithea, daughter of Hera, v, 403
Pasitheus, a Trojan, Χ, 86
Patroclus, I, 721; 115 447; D1, 538;
Iv, 209; Υ, 315: vu, 697
Pegasis, a Nymph, ΠΙ, 301
Peisander, ἃ man of Abydos, Im,
Peisenor, a Lycian, VIII, 101
Peleus, father of Achilles, marriage
with Thetis, Iv, 131-143, A. P.
from I, 574 to XIII, 275
re , King of Iolcos, Iv, 307; xi,
Pelion, mountain in Thessaly, I,
518; Iv, 52, 133; Vv, 76; vil, 161
Peneius, river of Thessaly, ΧΙ, 88
Peneleos, Boeotian chjef, vil, 104,
125, 159
Penthesileia, Amazon queen, ae
to Troy, I, 19 sg.: in battle, 1
227 sq.: meets and is slain by
Achilles, I, 638-629: beautiful
in death, 659-674, A. P.
Pergamus, citadel of Troy, XI,
482; XIII, 434
Periboea, a Phrygian woman, VI,
Periclymenus, brother of Nestor,
Π, 273
Perilaus, a Trojan, VIII, 294
Perimedes, a Trojan, VIII, 29!
Perimnestus, a Trojan, x10, 210
Perseus, X, 195
Persinous, a Greek, I, 227
Phaethon, V, 627; X, 192
Phalerus, a Trojan, VIII, 293
Phasis, a Trojan, x, 89
Pheres, a Cretan, VI, 622
Ehereua, a Pylian, Π, 279, 293, 298,
4
Pheron, a Messenian, II, 238
Philoctetes, a Greek chief, in
Scyros, Ix, 354 3q.: brought to
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INDEX
Troy, IX, 426 sg.: healed by
Podaleirius, ΙΧ, 459 s7.: in battle.
X, 167 sg.: shoots Paris, x, 223-
240, Aa Pe.
Phleges, a Trojan, X, 87
Phoebus, Apollo, ΠΙ, 30, 46, 56, 98;
VIII, 399; Xe; 1785 Xi, 103, 517:
DANG 413°
Phoenice, town in Lycia, VII, 106
Phoenix, aged friend of Achilles,
Ill, 460; IV, 293; VII, 630; Ix, 64
Pholoe, a mountain in Elis, ὙΠ, 108
Pholus, a Centaur, VI, 274
Phoreys, a Salamonian, VI, 631
Phrygia, I, 285; VIII, 85; Χ, 126
ἘΣ το a town in Thessaly, 1,291,
ἘΞΈΣΤΗ father of Meges, I, 276;
X, 138; XII, 326
Phyllis, a Carian woman, X, 143
Phylodamas, a Trojan, VII, 403
Pierides, the Muses, III, 647, 786;
VI, 76
Pittheus, king of Troezen, ΧΠῚ, 509
Pleiades, II, 605, 665; V, 367; vil,
308; XII, 554
Podaleirius, brother of Machaon,
XH, 321: heals wounded men,
IV, 397, 539 ; 1x, 463: his brother’s
death, VI, 456; VH, 22 sq.
Podarces, a Greek, I, 233, 538, 815
Podarge, a Marpy, ΠῚ, τοῦ
Poeas, father of Philoctetes, q.v.
Polemusa, an Amazon, I, 42, 531
Polites, a son of Priam, Vill, 403,
411; ΧΙ, 340; ΧΠΙ, 214
Polybus, a Trojan, VII, 86
Polydamas, a ‘Trojan chief, in
Council, 0, 41 sq.; X, 9 sqg.: in
battle, Wi; SL7,. 505, X, 247 5~X¥
Polydeuces, brother of Castor, Iv,
309
Polydorus, a Trojan, IV, 154, 586
Polyidus, a Ceteian, XI, 79
Polymnius, a Trojan, ll, 292
Polypoetes, a Greek, I, 291; Iv, 503;
x, 318
Polyxeina, a daughter of Priam,
XIV, 214, 241: sacrificed on
Achilles’ tomb, XIV, 315 sg.
Poseidon, ἘΠῚ 758; IV, 154; XIv,
250, 507, 620, 631, 647
Priam, King of Troy, slain by
Neoptolemus, ΧΠῚ, 220-250; A.P.
from I, 3 to XIV, 348
Prometheus, V, 338; VI, 269
624
Pronde, Paphlagonian woman, VI,
4
Protesilaus, a Greek chief, τ, 231,
816, 818; IV, 469; VII, 408
Proteus, a Trojan, U1, 303
Prothoenor, a Boeotian Chief, x, 76
Pylos, men of, Ill, 3
Pyrrhasus’ son, Π, 247
Pytho, ancient name of Delphian
Oracle, ΠΙ, 393
Rhodians’ land, x, 222
Rhoeteium, a headland in the
Troad, V, 656
Salamis, V, 519, 548; vi, 632
Samos, XIII, 467
Sangarius, a river in Asia Minor,
Vib, 61: xr 95
Sarpedon, Iv, 290
Scaean gate of Troy, MI, 82; Ix
268; XI, 338
Scamander, river of Troy, I, 10;
EX, 210
Schedius, a Trojan, x, 87
Scylaceus, a Lycian, X, 147
Scyros, an island in Aegean Sea,
Ἐπ 120. 754 2.5V, 2102 VE, 16d,
87; VU, 169, 239
Selene, X, 129, 337, 454
Sestos, I, 268
Sicily, xIv, 583
Sigeum, headland in Troad, vu,
402, 562; xIv, 649
pero ts river of Troy, I, 488; III,
24; VI, 647; XI, 246; x, 460;
XIV, 33
Sinon, a Greek, XII, 243 sq., 360,
419; χει, 23; xIv, 107
Sipylus, mountain in Lydia, I, 293,
297, 304
᾽
Sleep, god οἵ, Υ, 396
Smintheus, Apollo, xiv, 413
Smyrna, XII, 310
Socus, a Trojan, VII, 444
Solymi, Lycian highlanders, Π, 122
Sparta, I, 55; m1, 570; x, 15
Stratus, a Thracian, VIII, 99
Stymphalian birds, VI, 227
Styx, V, 453; VI, 266
sr a mountain in Caria, VIII,
Tecmessa, V, 521 sg
Telamon, father of Aias (1), I,
534; Ill, ΠΣ ἐν. yL00, 2273, Vs
INDEX
129, 363, 482, 580, 663, and of
Teucer, Iv, 186
Telephus, son of Hercules, father
of Eurypylus, Iv, 152, 174; VI,
13... 8} 1925 (404 γῆς 147 =
Viti, 190: χεν, 199
Tenedos, island W. of Troad, Vu,
407; ΧΗ 30, 235, 278, 345; ΧΗ
29, 467; XIV, 412
Tethys, the sea personified, Π, 117;
Ill, 748; V, 14, 398; ΧΙ, 418; x1,
160
Teucer, brother of Aias (1), V,
435, 500, 561; vil, 311, 314:
competes in foot-race, EV; 186 8.:
and in archery, 405 $7.2 in
battle, Vv, 539 87.: Χ, 125; 5.8
99, 357
Thalius, a Trojan, Π, 228
Thalpius, a Greek, x, 323
Theano, a Trojan woman, I, 449
Thebe, city of Mysia, WI, 546; Iv,
153, 544; X, 33; XIII, 276
Theiodamas, a Trojan, I, 292
Themis, I, 753; Iv, 136; Vu, 73;
XII, 202; x1, 299, 369
Thermodon, river in Pontus, I, 18
Thermodosa, an Amazon, I, 46, 254
Thersander, a Cretan, x, 80
Thersites,rails at Achilles, I, 722 sq.:
killed by him, I, 768 sg.: buried
ignominiously, I,
Theseus, king of Athens, Iv, 331,
358, 388, 394; XIII, 497, 511, 513
Thestor, a) father of Calchas, VI,
Bie (2) a Trojan, I, 229
ta mother of Achilles, bewails
his death, MI, 631: present at
funeral games, IV, 110 to V, 235:
A. P. from 0, 437 to XI, 62
ihe 6) a Lemnian king, IV,
: (2) an Aetolian, VI, 540,
Ἐς "587; XI, 90; ΧΗ, 318: com-
petes in ‘chariot-race, Iv, 503 ag.
Thrace I, 168; VII, 99, 355
Thrasymedes, son of Nestor, Π
267, 297, 342
Thrinacia, Sicily, v, 643
Thryon, a town in Peloponnesus,
It, 241
Thymoetes, a Trojan, U, 9
Tiber, XIN, 337
Tisiphone, a Trojan woman, I,
406 sq.
Pitan τ 114: τὸ 205. πάθον 105:
VI, 271; VI, 461; xu, 180; τιν.
550
Titenis, the Chimaera x, 163
Tithonus, husband of Eos, Π, 494;
ΜῈ ἊΣ XV. oo
Tityos, a giant, II, 392
Tlos, a town in Lycia, x, 163
Toxaechmes, a Greek, XI, 488
Tritogeneia, Tritonis, Athena, g.v.,
A.P. from I, 128 to XIV, 547
ee town in Peloponnesus, XIII,
Trojan, A. P. from I, 3 to XIV,
634
ancient King of Troy, Π,
2
Troy, A. P. from I, 17 to XTv, 637
Tydeus, father of Diomedes, A. P.
from I, 260 to XIII, 207
Tyndareus’ daughter, Helen, xX,
310, 345
Typhon or Typhoeus, a monster,
Υ͂, 485; VI, 261; xm, 452
Xanthus, (1) river of Troy, A. P.
from Π, 488 to XI, 337: (2)
god of the river, XI, 246; ΧΗ, 72,
459; xIv, 80: (3) a river in
Lycia, XI, 21
Tros,
14
Zechis, a Phrygian, x, 125
Zephyrus, W. wind, A.P. from
ἯΙ 703 to ΧΗ, 192
Zeus, A. P. from I, 66 to XIV, 643
Zorus, a Trojan, ti, 231
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SIMILES
I.—THE HEAVENS.
1. Heavenly bodies and natural phenomena :—Dawn, I. 48-51; sunrise,
ll. 208-210, VIIT. 28--31 ; moon, I. 37—40, crescent, 47-49 ; evening
star, V. 130-1 32; rainbow, I. 63-69
2. Clouds and mist :—Cloud-rack, VI. 49-52; storm-clouds, I. 194~
195, 583-534, ΧΙ. 377-378; thunder-clouds, Iv. 349-352; mist,
Iv. 519-521.
8. Wind and storm :—Whirlwind, 11. 230-232; stormy winds, Iv.
552-555, XI. 122-125, xm. 480-486; wind and forest-fire, v
336-339, VIII. 361-364; storm, I. 355-356; with mist, I. 471-
476; with fire, X. 66-71; thunder-storm, Il. 221- 224, VIII. 69-
9: *hurricane, Vv. 364-369 ; hail on corn, XIV. 75-79.
Snow :—1Ix. 71-2; with hail, x. 248-250; blood-stained, xiv.
317-319; thawing, I. 578-581, Vit. 229-230, X. 415-420.
5. Thunder and lightning :—Lightning, I. 153-156; thunder-bolts,
I. 677-680, VII. 222-226.
II.—THE EARTH.
1. Mountains and rocks τ Onn EAI see Vill. 167-169; peak, vm.
338-339; falling crag, I. 697-702, Ππ. 379-386, ΧΙ. 396-398;
fall of rocks, ΧΙ. 401-404.
2. Forests and trees :—Storm in forest, I. 488-491, Iv. 218-9; forest-
fire, 1. 209-210, 536—7, XIII. 488-489; tree uprooted, vill. 204--
206; sapling, VI. 378-81; overthrown, I. 625-627; felled, 1.
249-251, VII. 130-132; falling, 11. 280; tree-stock, xmI. 395-—
oon leaves falling, M1. 825-827, VIII. 230-231; fallen, m. 536—
537.
3. Plants :—Poppy, Iv. 423-9; corn, Iv. 78-80, Ix. 473-476; vine
and ivy, XIv. 175-177.
4. Rivers and streams :—River in flood, Π. 345-352, vil. 115-120,
X. 171-175; river and forest-fire, vu. 587-591; mountain-
torrents, VII. 545-550, xIv. 5-8.
III.—THE SEA.
1. Natural phenomena :—Stormy waves, I. 320-323, 0. 217-218,
ΠΙ. 508-511, vi. 330-334, Vill. 59-66, Ix. 270-272, ΧΙ 298. 932:
OE ae ae 78-80; cliff-caves, ΙΧ. 378-382 ; wreck-strewn beach,
XI
2. Fish :—tl. 271-272.
627
SIMILES
IV.—Gonps :—Ares, VII. 359-364, Ix. 218-221; Zeus hurling thunder-bolts,
xIv. 47-54; Aphrodite in the net, XIV. 47-54.
V.—GIANTS AND MONSTERS :—Enceladus, Vv. 641-649, XIV. 582-585;
Centaurs, Vil. 107-111.
VI— HUMAN BEINGS.
1. Bodily states :—Restored sight, I. 76-82; fever, X. 277-281.
2. Social relations :—Weicome to daughter, I. 86-87; orphan child,
vy. 502-506; children and thunder, VII. 530-532; father and
son, VI. 637-639; father and children, ΧΙΠ. 537-542; captured
city, I. 413-416.
8. Occupations :—Hunters, I. 615-618, I. 282-286; dead hunter
and hounds, Π. 575-579, and wild beasts, M1. 201-203; reapers,
I. 375-378, XI. 156-158, ΧΙΠ. 242-243; shepherds, vu. 371,
379-384; wood-cutter, Ix. 162-166; vine-dressers, VIII. 278--
281; gathering olives, Ix. 198-201; crushing olives, xIV. 263—
266; fishermen, VII. 569-575, Ix. 172-177; slinger, x. 110-116;
sailors, launching ship, XII. 428-432; on sea, 0. 102-105, xIv.
263-266; ship-wrecked, I. 633-639; weather-bound, vil. 455-
461; helmsman, Vill. 414-418, xm. 309-315. Cooking, I.
oe boiling caldron, Vv. 380-384; child killing flies, VI.
4. Buildings :—Falling tower, I. 63—65.
VIT.— ANIMALS.
1. Wild beasts :—Unspecified, 1. 207-208; fighting, Iv. 220—223,
vill. 175-180; robbed of whelps, V. 371-378; in amphitheatre,
VI. 532-536; maimed in trap, Ix. 365-369; lion, V. 406—407,
Vil. 464-467, VII. 238, and boar, 0. 248-250, VI. 396-398,
and jackals, I. 298-300, γι. 132, and hounds, M. 267-268,
and bull, vi. 410; wounded, MI. 142-146; old lion, m0. 330-334;
lion’s den, vil. 715-720; lions, 1. 524-527, vil. 486-492; lioness,
I. 315-317, xl. 580-533; leopard, I. 480—481, 540-544; leopar-
dess, XII. 580-583; wolf, XII. 44~48; wolves, VIL 504-509, xm.
72-75, and sheep, XI. 139-140: wild boar, Ix. 240-244; wild
goat, XI. 483-484; deer, π. 371-376; fawns, OI. 170-172;
wounded snake, ΧΙ. 74-76.
2. Domestic :—Kine, 1. 5-7; cow, Vil. 257-259, and calf, xIv. 258-
260; heifer, I. 396-400, x. 441-445, xml. 258-263; oxen, VI.
107-111, VI, 372; calves, VI. 341-347; slain, I. 262-264; bulls
fighting, IV. 238-246; sheep, I. 175-176, Im. 182-183, v. 493-
496, XI. 68-69; goats, VI. 133-139; horse, Vil. 317-324;
hounds, VI. 611-612, vi. 268-270, vim. 364-365; dog and lion,
X. 242-243; dogs chasing swine, XI. 170-177; bitch howling for
whelps, XIV. 282-287; swine, ΧΙΠ. 127-128, χιν. 33-36.
8. Birds :—Eagle, V. 298-299, and vultures, 11. 353-355, and hares,
Vv. 435-437, and cranes, ΧΙΠ. 104-107; vulture, vai. 405-406;
hawk and starlings, I. 359-361; daws, xIv. 89-91, and starlings,
Vu. 387-91; swallow, Vil. 330-335; nightingale, xm. 489-494;
geese, VI. 125-127.
4. Insects :—Bees, 1. 440-443, m1. 221-226, γι. 324-326, xI. 383;
wasps, VII. 41—44, x. 114-116, xI. 146-150, xml. 55-57; locusts,
Π. 196-199; gad-fly and oxen, xI. 207-214.
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ARISTOTLE: METEOROLOGICA. H. D. P. Lee.
ARISTOTLE: ΜΊΝΟΒ Works. W. S. Hett. On Colours, On
Things Heard, On Physiognomies, On Plants, On Marvellous
Things Heard, Mechanical Problems, On Indivisible Lines,
On Situations and Names of Winds, On Melissus, Xenophanes,
and Gorgias.
ARISTOTLE: NICOMACHEAN EtuHics. H. Rackham.
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ARISTOTLE: OECONOMICA and Maana Moratia. G. C. Arm-
strong (with Mrerapuysics, Vol. II).
ARISTOTLE: ON THE HEAVENS. W. Καὶ. C. Guthrie.
ARISTOTLE: ON THE SOUL, PaRvA NATURALIA, ON BREATH.
W.S. Hett.
ARISTOTLE: CATEGORIES, ON £INTERPRETATION, PRIOR
ANALYTICS. H. P. Cooke and H. Tredennick.
ARISTOTLE: POSTERIOR ANALYTICS, Topics. H. Tredennick
and E. S. Forster.
ARISTOTLE: ON SOPHISTICAL REFUTATIONS.
On Coming to be and Passing Away, On the Cosmos. Εἰ. S.
Forster and D. J. Furley.
ARISTOTLE: Parts oF AnimaAts. A. L. Peck; MoTION AND
PROGRESSION OF ANIMALS. Εἰ. S. Forster.
ARISTOTLE: Puysics. Rev. P. Wicksteed and F. M. Cornford.
2 Vols.
ARISTOTLE: Poetics and Loneinus. W. Hamilton Fyfe;
DEMETRIUS ON STYLE. W. Rhys Roberts.
ARISTOTLE: Pouitics. H. Rackham.
ARISTOTLE: ProBLEMS. W.S. Hett. 2 Vols.
ARISTOTLE: RHETORICA AD ALEXANDRUM (with PROBLEMs.
Vol. Il), H. Rackham.
ARRIAN: HistToRY OF ALEXANDER and INpDIcA. Rev. E. Iliffe
Robson. 2 Vols. New version P. Brunt.
ATHENAEUS: DEIPNOSOPHISTAE. (Οὐ. B. Gulick. 7 Vols.
BaBRIUS AND PHAEDRUS (Latin). Β. ἘΣ. Perry.
St. Basi: Letrtrers. R. J. Deferrari. 4 Vols.
CALLIMACHUS: FRAGMENTS. C.A.Trypanis. Musarus: HERO
AND LEANDER. T. Gelzer and C. Whitman.
CaLLImMacHus, Hymns and Epigrams, and LycopHron. A. W.
Mair; Aratus. G. R. Mair.
CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA. Kev. G. W. Butterworth.
CottutTHus. Cf. OPPIAN.
DaPHNIS AND CHLOE. Thornley’s Translation revised by
J. M. Edmonds: and PartTHENIvus. S. Gaselee.
DEMOSTHENES I.: OLYNTHIACS, PHILIPPICS and Minor OrRa-
ΤΙΟΝΒ I.-X VII. anp XX. J.H. Vince.
DEMOSTHENES II.: DE Corona and Dr Fatsa LEGATIONE.
C. A. Vince and J. H. Vince.
DEMOSTHENES III.: ΜΈΙΡΙΑΒ, ANDROTION, ARISTOCRATES,
TIMOCRATES and ARISTOGEITON I. and II. J. H. Vince.
DEMOSTHENES IV.-VI: PRIVATE ORaTIONS and IN NEAERAM.
A. T. Murray.
DEMOSTHENES VII: FUNERAL SPEECH, Erotic Essay, Exorpia
and Letters. N. W. and N. J. DeWitt.
Dio Cassius: Roman History. E.Cary. 9 Vols.
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Dio Curysostom. J. W. Cohoon and H. Lamar Crosby. 5
Vols.
Dioporvus Sicutus. 12 Vols. Vols. I-VI. 6. H. Oldfather.
Vol. VII. C.L. Sherman. Vol. VIII. C. B. Welles. Vols.
IX. and X. R.M. Geer. Vol. XI. F. Walton. Vol. XII.
F. Walton. General Index. R. M. Geer.
DiIoGENES LAERTIUS. R. Ὁ. Hicks. 2 Vols. New Introduc-
tion by H. 5. Long.
Dionysius oF HaticarNnassus: ROMAN ANTIQUITIES. Spel-
man’s translation revised by Εἰ. Cary. 7 Vols.
Dionysius OF HALICARNASSUS: CRITICAL Essays. S. Usher.
2 Vols. Vol. I.
Epictetus. W.A. Oldfather. 2 Vols.
Euriripes. A.S. Way. 4 Vols. Verse trans.
Eusespius: EccuestasticaAL History. Kirsopp Lake and
J. E. L. Oulton. 2 Vols.
GALEN: ON THE NatTuRAL Facuttiss. A. J. Brock.
GREEK ANTHOLOGY. W.R. Paton. 5 Vols.
GREEK Buco.tic Ports (THEOCRITUS, Bion, Moscuus). J. M.
Edmonds.
GREEK ELEGY AND JAmBUsS with the ANACREONTEA. J. M.
Edmonds. 2 Vols.
GREEK Lyric. D.A.Campbell. 4 Vols. Vol. I.
GREEK MATHEMATICAL WorRKS. Ivor Thomas. 2 Vols.
Heropes. Cf. THEOPHRASTUS: CHARACTERS.
HeERopIAN. C. ΒΕ. Whittaker. 2 Vols.
Heropotus. A.D.Godley. 4 Vols.
HEsIop AND THE HomeERiIc Hymns. H. G. Evelyn White.
HIPPOCRATES and the FRAGMENTS OF HERACLEITUS. W.H.S.
Jones and E. T. Withington. 4 Vols.
Homer: Iniap. A. T. Murray. 2 Vols.
Homer: Opyssey. A.T. Murray. 2 Vols.
IsaEus. KE. W. Forster.
IsocraTEs. George Norlin and LaRue Van Hook. 3 Vols.
[St. JoHN DAMASCENE]: BARLAAM AND ToasapH. Rev. G. R.
Woodward, Harold Mattingly and D. M. Lang.
JosEPpHUs. 10 Vols. Vols. I-IV. H. Thackeray. Vol. V.
H. Thackeray and R. Marcus. Vols. VI.VII. R. Marcus.
Vol. VIII. R. Marcus and Allen Wikgren. Vols. IX.—X.
L. H. Feldman.
JULIAN. Wilmer Cave Wright. 3 Vols.
Lisanius. A. F. Norman. 3 Vols. Vols. 1.--11.
Luctan. 8 Vols. Vols. 1.-—V. A.M. Harmon. Vol. VI. K.
Kilburn. Vols. VII.-VIII. M.D. Macleod.
LycorpHrRon. Cf. CALLIMACHUS.
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Lyra Graeca, J. M. Edmonds. 2 Vols.
Lystas. W.R. M. Lamb.
ManeEetTHo. W. G. Waddell.
Marcus AurEtius. C. R. Haines.
MENANDER. W.G. Arnott. 3 Vols. Vol. 1.
Minor Artic Orators (ANTIPHON, ANDOCIDES, LycuURGUS,
DemapEs, DinarcHus, ΗΥΡΕΒΙΡΕΒ). K. J. Maidment and
J. O. Burtt. 2 Vols.
MusaEus: HERO AND LEANDER. Cf. CALLIMACHUS.
Nonnos: Dionysraca. W.H.D. Rouse. 3 Vols.
ΟΡΡΙΑΝ, CoLLUTHUS, TRYPHIODORUS. A. W. Mair.
Papyri. Non-LiTeERARY SELEcTIONS. A. §. Hunt and C. C.
Edgar. 2 Vols. LirEerary SELEcTIONS (Poetry). Ὁ. L.
Page.
PartHENIus. Cf. DAPHNIS and CHLOE.
PAUSANIAS: DESCRIPTION OF GREECE. W. H. S. Jones. 4
Vols. and Companion Vol. arranged by R. E. Wycherley.
Puito. 10 Vols. Vols. 1.-ν. F. H. Colson and Rev. G. H.
Whitaker. Vols. VI.-IX. F. H. Colson. Vol. X. F. H.
Colson and the Rev. J. W. Earp.
PuHiLo: two supplementary Vols. (Translation only.) Ralph
Marcus.
PHILOSTRATUS: THE LIFE OF APOLLONIUS OF ΤΎΑΝΑ. F. Ὁ.
Conybeare. 2 Vols.
PHILOSTRATUS: IMAGINES; CALLISTRATUS: DrEscRIPTIONS. A.
Fairbanks.
PHILOSTRATUS and Eunapius: LIivES OF THE SOPHIsts. Wilmer
Cave Wright.
Pinpar. Sir J. E. Sandys.
PLato: CHARMIDES, ALCIBIADES, HipparcHus, THE LOVERS,
THEAGES, Minos and Eprnomis. W. R. M. Lamb.
Prato: CRatTYLUS, PARMENIDES, GREATER Hippias, LESSER
Hiprias. H.N. Fowler.
Piato: EutrHypHro, ApoLtocy, Criro, PHAEDO, PHAEDRUS,
H. N. Fowler.
Pruato: LacHEs, Proracoras, MENO, EurHypEMus. W.R.M.
Lamb.
Prato: Laws. Rev. R.G. Bury. 2 Vols.
Prato: Lysis, Symposium, Goreras. W. R. M. Lamb.
Prato: Republic. Paul Shorey. 2 Vols.
Piato: STATESMAN, PHILEBUS. H.N.Fowler; Ion. W.R. M.
Lamb.
Piatro: THEAETETUS and Sopuist. H. N. Fowler.
Puato: Timarus, CriTi1as, CLITOPHO, MENEXENUS, EPISTULAE.
Rev. R. G. Bury.
Protinus: A. H. Armstrong. 7 Vols. Vols. I.—-V.
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PuurarcH: Moraria. 16 Vols. Vols I.-V. Ε΄. C. Babbitt.
Vol. VI. W.C.Helmbold. Vols. VII. and XIV. P.H.De
Lacy and B. Einarson. Vol. VIII. P. A. Clement and Η. Β.
Hoffleit. Vol. 1X. E. L. Minar, Jr., Εἰ. H. Sandbach, W. C.
Helmbold. Vol. X. H.N. Fowler. Vol. XI. L. Pearson
and F. H. Sandbach. Vol. XII. H. Cherniss and W. C.
Helmbold. Vol. XIII 1-2. H.Cherniss. Vol. XV. F.H.
Sandbach.
PLUTARCH: THE PARALLEL Lives. B. Perrin. 11 Vols.
Potysius. W.R. Paton. 6 Vols.
Procopius. H. B. Dewing. 7 Vols.
PTroLEMY: TETRABIBLOS. Εἰ. ΕΣ. Robbins.
QuiInTUs SMyRNAEUS. A.S. Way. Verse trans.
Sextus Emprricus. Rev. R.G. Bury. 4 Vols.
SopHocies. Εἰ, Storr. 2 Vols. Verse trans.
STRABO: GEOGRAPHY. Horace L. Jones. 8 Vols.
THEOcRITUS. Cf. GREEK BucoLic POETs.
THEOPHRASTUS: CHARACTERS. J. M. Edmonds. HERODEs,
etc. A. D. Knox.
THEOPHRASTUS: JIiNQuIRY INTO PuLants. Sir Arthur Hort,
Bart. 2 Vols.
THEOPHRASTUS: DE Causis PLANTARUM. G. K. K. Link and
B. Einarson. 3 Vols. Vol. I.
THuUcYDIDES. C.F.Smith. 4 Vols.
TRYPHIODORUS. Cf. OPPIAN.
XENOPHON: CYROPAEDIA. Walter Miller. 2 Vols.
XENOPHON: HELLENCIA. C. L. Brownson. 2 Vols.
XENOPHON: ANABASIS. C. L. Brownson.
XENOPHON: MEMORABILIA AND OEcONOMICUS. IE. C. Marchant.
SyMPOsIUM AND Apotoay. O. J. Todd.
XENOPHON: Scripta Minora. Εἰ. C. Marchant. CONSTITU-
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