λισσόμενος. χρειὼ γὰρ ϊκάνεται οὐκέτ' ἀνεκτός.
Τὸν δ' αῦτε προσέειπεν ἄναξ ἀνδρῶν Ἀγαμέμνων:
ὦ γέρον: ἄλλοτε μέν σε καὶ αἰτιάασθαι ἄνωγα:
πολλάκι γὰρ μεθίει τε καὶ οὐκ ἐθέλει πονέεσθαι.
οὔτ' ὄκνῳ εἴκων, οὔτ' ἀφραδίῃσι, νόοιο:
ἀλλ`' ἐμέ τ' εἰσορόων: καὶ ἐμὴν ποτιδέγμενος ὁρμήν:
νῦν δ' ἐμέο πρότερος μάλ' ἐπέγρετο: καί μοι ἐπέστη:
τὸν μὲν ἐγὼ προέηκα καλήμεναι οὓς, σὺ, μεταλλᾷς:
ἀλλ`' ΐομεν: κείνους δὲ κιχησόμεθα προ πυλάων
ἐν φυλάκεσσ'. ἵνα γάρ σφιν ἐπέφραδον ἠγερέεσθαι:
And to him did the king of men, Agamemnon, make answer, saying: "Old sir, at another time shalt thou chide him even at mine own bidding, seeing he is often slack and not minded to labour, neither yielding to sloth nor to heedlessness of mind, but ever looking to me and awaiting my leading. But now he awoke even before myself, and came to me, and myself I sent him forth to summon those of whom thou inquirest. But let us go; we shall find them before the gates amid the sentinels, for there I bade them gather."
