αὐτὰρ ὃ βῆ Λυκίην δὲ. θεῶν ὑπ' ἀμύμονι πομπῇ:
ἀλλ' ὅτε δὴ Λυκίην ΐξε, Ξάνθόν τε ῥέοντα:
προφρονέως μιν τῖεν ἄναξ Λυκίης εὐρείης:
ἐννῆμαρ ξείνισσε: καὶ ἐννέα βοῦς ἱ̈έρευσεν:
ἀλλ' ὅτε δὴ δεκάτη φάνη ῥοδοδάκτυλος Ἠὼς.
καὶ τότε μιν ἐρέεινε. καὶ ᾔτεε σῆμα ἰ̈δέσθαι
ὅττι ῥά οι γαμβροῖο παρὰ Προίτοιο φέροιτο:
αὐτὰρ ἐπειδὴ σῆμα κακὸν παρεδέξατο γαμβροῦ.
πρῶτον μέν ῥα Χί̆μαιραν ἀμαιμακέτην ἐκέλευσε
πεφνέμεν. ἡ δ`' ὰρ έην θεῖον γένος. οὐδ' ἀνθρώπων:
πρόσθε λέων. ὄπιθεν δὲ δράκων. μέσση δὲ Χίμαιρα
δεινὸν ἀποπνείουσα πυρὸς μένος αἰθομένοιο:
καὶ τὴν μὲν κατέπεφνε θεῶν τεράεσσι πιθήσας:
δεύτερον αὖ Σολύμοισι μαχέσατο κυδαλίμοισι:
καρτίστην δὴ τήν γε μάχην φάτο δύμεναι ἀνδρῶν:
τὸ τρίτον αὖ, κατέπεφνεν Ἀμαζόνας ἀντιανείρας:
τῷ δ' ὰρ ἀνερχομένῳ. πυκινὸν λόχον ἄλλον ὕφαινε:
κρίνας ἐκ Λυκίης εὐρείης φῶτας ἀρίστους
εἷσε λόχον. τοὶ δ' οὔ τι πάλιν οἶκον δὲ νέοντο:
πάντας γὰρ κατέπεφνεν ἀμύμων Βελλεροφόντης:
"So he went his way to Lycia under the blameless escort of the gods. And when he was come to Lycia and the stream of Xanthus, then with a ready heart did the king of wide Lycia do him honour: for nine days' space he shewed him entertainment, and slew nine oxen. Howbeit when the tenth rosy-fingered Dawn appeared, then at length he questioned him and asked to see whatever token he bare from his daughter's husband, Proetus. But when he had received from him the evil token of his daughter's husband, first he bade him slay the raging Chimaera. She was of divine stock, not of men, in the fore part a lion, in the hinder a serpent, and in the midst a goat, breathing forth in terrible wise the might of blazing fire. And Bellerophon slew her, trusting in the signs of the gods. Next fought he with the glorious Solymi, and this, said he was the mightest battle of warriors that ever he entered; and thirdly he slew the Amazons, women the peers of men. And against him, as he journeyed back therefrom, the king wove another cunning wile; he chose out of wide Lycia the bravest men and set an ambush; but these returned not home in any wise, for peerless Bellerophon slew them one and all.
