Iliad 13: 254-258

From the Venetus A MS

τὸν δ' αὖ Μηριόνης πεπνυμένος ἀντίον ηύδᾱ.

ἔρχομαι εἴ τί τοι ἔγχος ἐνι κλισίῃσι λέλειπται.

οἰσόμενος. τό νῦ γὰρ κατεάξαμεν ὃ. πρὶν. ἔχεσκον.

ἀσπίδα Δηϊφόβοιο βαλὼν ὑπερηνορέοντος:

To him again the wise Meriones made answer: "Idomeneus, counsellor of the brazen-coated Cretans, I am on my way to fetch a spear, if perchance thou hast one left in the huts; for the one that I bare of old have I shattered, as I cast at the shield of the overweening Deïphobus."

A. T. Murray (1924)