οὐδ' ἀλαοσσκοπιὴν εἶχ' ἀργυρότοξος Ἀπόλλων
ὡς ἴ̈δ' Ἀθηναίην μετὰ Τυδέος υἱὸν ἕπουσαν.
τῇ κοτέων, Τρώων κατεδύσετο πουλὺν ὅμιλον:
ὦρσεν δὲ Θρῃκῶν βουληφόρον Ἱ̈πποκόωντα:
Ῥήσου ἀνεψιὸν ἐσθλόν: ὁ δ' ἐξ ύπνου ἀνορούσας.
ὡς ἴ̈δε χῶρον ἐρῆμον. ὅθ' έστασαν ὠκέες ἵπποι.
ἄνδράς τ', ἀσπαίροντας ἐν ἀργαλέῃσι φονῇσιν.
ᾤμωξέν τ' ὰρ ἔπειτα φίλον τ' ὀνόμηνεν ἑταῖρον:
Τρώων δὲ κλαγγή τε καὶ ἄσπετος ὦρτο κυδοιμὸς
θυνόντων ἄμυδις. θηεῦντο δὲ μέρμερα ἔργα:
ὅσσ' ἄνδρες ῥέξαντες, ἔβαν κοίλας ἐπὶ νῆας:
But no blind watch did Apollo of the silver bow keep when he saw Athene attending the son of Tydeus; in wrath against her he entered the great throng of the Trojans, and aroused a counsellor of the Thracians, Hippocoön, the noble kinsman of Rhesus. And he leapt up out of sleep, and when he saw the place empty where the swift horses had stood, and the men gasping amid gruesome streams of blood, then he uttered a groan, and called by name upon his dear comrade. And from the Trojans arose a clamour and confusion unspeakable as they hasted together; and they gazed upon the terrible deeds, even all that the warriors had wrought and thereafter gone to the hollow ships.
