ὡς ἔφαν εὐχόμενοι. τῶν δ' ἔκλυε Παλλὰς Ἀθήνη:
οἱ δ' ἐπεὶ ἠρήσαντο Διὸς κούρῃ μεγάλοιο:
βάν ῥ' ΐμεν ὥς τε λέοντε δύω διὰ νύκτα μέλαιναν.
ἀμ φόνον. ἀν νέκυας. διά τ' ἔντεα καὶ μέλαν αἷμα:
So they spake in prayer and Pallas Athene heard them. But when they had prayed to the daughter of great Zeus, they went their way like two lions through the black night, amid the slaughter, amid the corpses, through the arms and the black blood.
