ὡς ἔφατ'. οὐδ' ἀπίθησε Γερήνιος ἱ̈ππότα Νέστωρ:
αὐτίκα δ' ὧν ὀχέων ἐπεβήσετο: πὰρ δὲ Μαχάων
βαῖν' Ἀσκληπιοῦ υἱὸς ἀμύμονος ἰ̈ητῆρος.
μάστιξεν δ' ἵ̈ππους. τὼ δ' οὐκ ἄκοντε πετέσθην
νῆας ἐπι γλαφυρὰς. τῇ γὰρ φίλον ἔπλετο θυμῷ:
So spake he, and the horseman, Nestor of Gerenia, failed not to hearken. Forthwith he got him upon his chariot, and beside him mounted Machaon, the son of Asclepius the peerless leech; and he touched the horses with the lash, and nothing loath the pair sped on to the hollow ships, for there were they fain to be.
