ὣς τώ γε κλαίοντε προσαυδήτην βασιλῆα
μειλιχίοις ἐπέεσσιν: ἀμείλικτον δ' ὄπ' ἄκουσαν:
εἰ μὲν δὴ Ἀντιμάχοιο δαΐφρονος υἱέες ἐστὸν.
ὅς ποτ' ἐνὶ Τρώων ἀγορῇ Μενέλαον ἄνωγεν
ἀγγελίην ἐλθόντα. σὺν ἀντιθέω Ὀδυσῆϊ
αὖθι κατακτεῖναι: μὴδ' ἐξ ἕμεν ὰψ' ἐς Ἀχαιοὺς.
νῦν μεν δὴ τοῦ πρσ [πατρὸς] ἀεικέα τίσετε λώβην:
So with weeping the twain spake unto the king with gentle words, but all ungentle was the voice they heard: "If ye are verily the sons of wise-hearted Antimachus, who on a time in the gathering of the Trojans, when Menelaus had come on an embassage with godlike Odysseus, bade slay him then and there, neither suffer him to return to the Achaeans, now of a surety shall ye pay the price of your father's foul outrage."
