Τὸν δ`' ἐπιθαρσύνων προσέφη ξανθὸς Μενέλαος:
θάρσει: μὴ δέ τι πω δειδίσσεο λαὸν Ἀχαιῶν:
οὐκ ἐν καιρίῳ ὀξὺ πάγη βέλος. ἀλλὰ πάροιθεν
εἰρύσατο ζωστήρ τε παναίολος: ἠδ`' ὑπένερθε
ζῶμά τε καὶ μίτρη: τὴν χαλκῆες κάμον ἄνδρες:
But fair-haired Menelaus spake and heartened him, saying: "Be thou of good cheer, neither affright in any wise the host of the Achaeans. Not in a fatal spot hath the shaft been fixed; ere that my flashing belt stayed it, and the kilt beneath, and the taslet that the coppersmiths fashioned."
