ὡς ἔφαθ': Ἕκτωρ δ' αὖτ' ἐχάρη μέγα μῦθον ἀκούσας:
καί ῥ' ἐς μέσσον ϊὼν. Τρώων ἀνέεργε φάλαγγας:
τῷ δ' ἐπετοξάζοντο κάρη κομόωντες Ἀχαιοὶ
ἰ̈οῖσίν τε, τιτυσκόμενοι: λάεσσί τ' ἔβαλλον:
αὐτὰρ ὃ μακρὸν ἄϋσεν ἄναξ ἀνδρῶν Ἀγαμέμνων:
ἴ̈σχεσθ' Ἀργεῖοι: μὴ βάλλετε κοῦροι Ἀχαιῶν:
στεῦται γάρ τι ἔπος ἐρέειν κορυθαιόλος Ἕκτωρ:
So spake he, and Hector rejoiced greatly when he heard his words; and he went into the midst, and kept back the battalions of the Trojans with his spear grasped by the middle; and they all sate them down. But the long-haired Achaeans sought the while to aim their arrows at him, and to smite him, and to cast at him with stones. But aloud shouted Agamemnon, king of men: "Hold, ye Argives, shoot no more, ye youths of the Achaeans; for Hector of the flashing helm makes as though he would say somewhat."
