ἦμος δ' οὐτ άρ πω ἠὼς. ἔτι δ`' ἀμφιλύκη νὺξ:
τῆμος ὰρ ἀμφὶ πυρὴν κριτὸς ἔγρετο λαὸς Ἀχαιῶν:
τύμβον δ' ἀμφ' αὐτὴν ἕνα ποίεον. ἐξαγαγόντες
ἄκριτον ἐκ πεδίου περὶ δ' αὐτὸν τεῖχος ἔδειμαν
πύργους ὑψηλοὺς. εῖλαρ νηῶν τὲ καὶ αὐτῶν,
ἐν δ' αὐτοῖσι πύλας ἐνεποίεον εὖ ἀραρυίας,
ὄφρα δι' αὐτάων ἱ̈ππηλασίη ὁδὸς εἴη:
ἔκτοσθεν δὲ βαθεῖαν ἐπ' αυτῷ τάφρον όρυξαν:
εὐρεῖαν, μεγάλην. ἐν δε σκόλοπας κατέπηξαν:
Now when dawn was not yet, but night was still 'twixt light and dark, then was there gathered about the pyre the chosen host of the Achaeans, and they made about it a single barrow, rearing it from the plain for all alike; and thereby they built a wall and a lofty rampart, a defence for their ships and for themselves. And therein they made gates, close-fastening, that through them might be a way for the driving of chariots. And without they dug a deep ditch hard by, wide and great, and therein they planted stakes.
