ὡς φάθ'. ὁ δ' ἐν χερσὶ σκῆπτρον λάβε. καί καὶ οἱ ὄμοσσεν:
ἴ̈στω νῦν Ζεὺς ἀυτὸς ἐρίγδουπος πόσις Ἥρης:
μὴ μὲν τοῖς ἵ̈πποισιν ἀνὴρ ἐποχήσεται ἄλλος
Τρώων: ἀλλὰ σὲ φημὶ διαμπερὲς ἀγλαϊεῖσθαι:
So spake he, and Hector took the staff in his hands, and sware to him, saying: "Now be my witness Zeus himself, the loud-thundering lord of Hera, that on those horses no other man of the Trojans shall mount, but it is thou, I declare, that shalt have glory in them continually."