οἱ δ' εἶχον κοίλην Λακεδαίμονα κητώεσσαν:
Φᾶρίν τε Σπάρτην τε: πολυτρήρωνά τε Μέσσην.
Βρυσειάς τ' ἐνέμοντο, καὶ Αὐγειὰς ἐρατεινάς:
οἵ τ' ὰρ' Ἀμύκλας εἶχον: Έλος τ' ἔφἁλον πτολίεθρον
οἵ τε, Λάαν εἶχον, ἠδ' Οίτυλον ἀμφενέμοντο.
τῶν οἱ ἀδελφεὸς ἦρχε βοὴν ἀγαθὸς Μενέλαος
ἑξήκοντα νεῶν. ἀπάτερθε δὲ θωρήσσοντο:
ἐν δ' αὐτὸς κίεν, ᾗσι προθυμίῃσι πεποιθὼς:
ὀτρύνων πόλεμον δὲ, μάλιστα δὲ ἵ̈ετο θυμῷ
τίσασθαι Ἑλένης ὁρμήματά τε στοναχάς τε:
And they that held the hollow land of Lacedaemon with its many ravines, and Pharis and Sparta and Messe, the haunt of doves, and that dwelt in Bryseiae and lovely Augeiae, and that held Amyclae and Helus, a citadel hard by the sea, and that held Laas, and dwelt about Oetylus,—these were led by Agamemnon's brother, even Menelaus, good at the war-cry, with sixty ships; and they were marshalled apart. And himself he moved among them, confident in his zeal, urging his men to battle; and above all others was his heart fain to get him requital for his strivings and groanings for Helen's sake.
