Μηριόνης δὲ Φέρεκλον ἐνῄρατο, Τέκτονος υἱὸν
Ἁρμονίδεω, ὃς χερσὶν ἐπίστατο δαίδαλα πάντα
τεύχειν, ἔξοχα γάρ μιν ἐφίλατο Παλλὰς Ἀθήνη:
ὃς καὶ Ἀλεξανδρῳ τεκτήνατο νῆας ἐΐσας
ἀρχεκάκους, αἳ πᾶσι κακὸν Τρώεσσι γένοντο
οἷ τ' αὐτῷ. ἐπεὶ οὔ τι θεῶν ἐκ θέσφατα ᾔδη.
τὸν μὲν Μηριόνης, ὅτε δὴ κατέμαρπτε διώκων,
βεβλήκει γλουτὸν κατὰ δεξιόν, ἡ δὲ διαπρὸ
ἀντικρὺ κατὰ κύστιν ὑπ' ὀστέον ἤλυθ' ἀκωκή.
γνὺξ δ' ἐριπ' οἰμώξας: θάνατος δέ μιν ἀμφ' ἐκάλυψε.
And Meriones slew Phereclus, son of Tecton, Harmon's son, whose hands were skilled to fashion all manner of curious work; for Pallas Athene loved him above all men. He it was that had also built for Alexander the shapely ships, source of ills, that were made the bane of all the Trojans and of his own self, seeing he knew not in any wise the oracles of the gods. After him Meriones pursued, and when he had come up with him, smote him in the right buttock, and the spear-point passed clean through even to the bladder beneath the bone;, and he fell to his knees with a groan, and death enfolded him.
