Iliad 3: 243-244

From the Venetus A MS

ὡς φάτο: τοὺσδ' ἤδη κάτεχεν φυσίζοος αῖα

ἐν Λακεδαίμονι αῦθι φίλῃ ἐν πατρίδι γαίῃ:

So said she; but they ere now were fast holden of the life-giving earth there in Lacedaemon, in their dear native land.

A. T. Murray (1924)