Ἦ καὶ ἀκόντισε δουρὶ θοῶς: βάλε δέ πρόμον ἄνδρα:
Αἰνείεω ἑτάρον μεγαθύμου Δηικόοντα:
Περγασίδην: ὃν Τρῶες ὁμῶς Πριάμοιο τεκέσσι
τῖον: ἐπεί θοὸς ἔσκε μετὰ πρώτοισι μάχεσθαι:
τόν ῥα κατ' ἀσπίδα βάλε κρείων Ἀγαμὲμνων:
ἥδ' οὐκ ἔγχος ἔρυτο: δια πρό δὲ εἴσατο χαλκός:
νειαίρῃ δ' ἐν γαστρὶ διά ζωστῆρος ἔλασσε
δούπησεν δὲ πεσὼν: ἀράβησε δὲ τεύχε' ἐπ' αὐτῷ
He spake, and hurled his spear swiftly and smote a foremost warrior, a comrade of great-souled Aeneas, Deïcoön, son of Pergasus, whom the Trojans honoured even as the sons of Priam, for that he was swift to fight amid the foremost. Him did lord Agamemnon smite with his spear upon the shield, and this stayed not the spear, but clean through it passed the bronze, and into the lower belly he drave it through the belt; and he fell with a thud, and upon him his armour clanged.
