Αἴας δὲ πρῶτος Τελαμώνιος: έρκος Ἀχαιῶν.
Τρώων ῥῆξε φάλαγγα. φόως δ' ἑτάροισιν ἔθηκεν
ἄνδρα βαλὼν: ὃς, ἄριστος ἐνὶ Θρῄκεσσι τέτυκτο.
υἱὸν Ἐϋσσώρου Ἀκάμαντ' ἠΰν τε μέγαν τε:
τόν ρ' ἔβαλε πρῶτος κόρυθος φάλον ἱπποδασείης.
ἐν δὲ μετώπῳ πῆξε. πέρησε δ' ὰρ ὀστέον εἴσω
αἰχμὴ χαλκείη. τὸν δὲ σκότος ὄσσε κάλυψεν:
Aias, son of Telamon, bulwark of the Achaeans was first to break a battalion of the Trojans, and to bring a light of deliverance to his comrades, for he smote a man that was chiefest among the Thracians, even Eüssorus' son Acamas, a valiant man and tall. Him he was first to smite upon the horn of his helmet with thick crest of horse-hair, and drave the spear into his forehead so that the point of bronze pierced within the bone; and darkness enfolded his eyes.
