ὡς ἔφαν: οὐδ' ἄρα πώ σφιν ἐπεκραίαινε Κρονίων:
τοῖσι δὲ Δαρδανίδης Πρίαμος μετα μῦθον ἔειπε:
κέκλυτέ μευ Τρῶες καὶ ἐϋκνήμιδες Ἀχαιοί:
ἤτοι ἐγὼν εῖμι προτι ΄Ϊλιον ἠνεμόεσσαν
ὰψ. ἐπεὶ οὔ πω τλήσομ' ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖσιν. ὁρᾶσθαι
μαρνάμενον φίλον υἱὸν ἀρηϊφίλῳ Μενελάῳ:
Ζεὺς μέν που τό γε οἶδε καὶ ἀθάνατοι θεοὶ ἄλλοι.
ὁπποτέρῳ θανάτοιο τέλος πεπρωμένον ἐστίν:
So spake they, but not yet was the son of Cronos to vouchsafe them fulfillment. Then in their midst spake Priam, Dardanus' son, saying: "Hearken to me, ye Trojans and well-greaved Achaeans. I verily will go my way back to windy Ilios, since I can in no wise bear to behold with mine eyes my dear son doing battle with Menelaus, dear to Ares. But this, I ween, Zeus knoweth, and the other immortal gods, for which of the twain the doom of death is ordained."
