Iliad 3: 259-263

From the Venetus A MS

ὡς φάτο: ῥίγησεν δ' ὁ γέρων: ἐκέλευσε δ' ἑτέροις

ἵππους ζευγνύμεναι: τοὶ δ' ὀτραλέως ἐπίθοντο:

ἂν δ' ὰρ' ἔβη Πρίαμος. κατὰ δ' ἡνία τεῖνεν ὀπίσσω:

πὰρ δέ οἱ Ἀντήνωρ περικαλλέα βήσετοβήσατο δίφρον:

τὼ δὲ διὰ Σκαιῶν πεδίον δ' ἔχον ὠκέας ἵππους:

So spake he, and the old man shuddered, yet bade his companions yoke the horses; and they speedily obeyed. Then Priam mounted and drew back the reins, and by his side Antenor mounted the beauteous car; and the twain drave the swift horses through the Scaean gates to the plain.

A. T. Murray (1924)