ὡς ἔφατ'. Ἀργείοισι δ' ἄχος γένετ' εὐξαμένοιο:
Πηνέλεῳ δὲ μάλιστα δαΐφρονι θυμὸν ὄρῑνεν.
ὡρμήθη δ' Ἀκάμαντος. ὁ δ`' οὐχ ὑπέμεινεν ἐρωὴν
Πηνελέοιο ἄνακτος. ὁ δ' ούτασεν Ϊλιονῆα:
υἱὸν Φόρβαντος πολυμήλου. τόν ῥα μάλιστα
Ἑρμείας Τρώων ἐφίλει. καὶ κτῆσιν ὄπασσε:
τῷ δ' ὰρ ὑπο μήτηρ μοῦνον τέκεν Ἰ̈λιονῆα:
τὸν τόθ' ὑπ' ὀφρύος οῦτα. κατ' ὀφθαλμοῖο θέμεθλα:
ἐκ δ' ῶσε γλήνην. δόρυ δ' ὀφθαλμοῖο διαπρὸ
καὶ διὰ, ϊνίου ἦλθεν. ὁ δ' ἕζετο χεῖρε πετάσσας
ἄμφω: Πηνέλεως δὲ ἐρυσσάμενος ξίφος ὀξὺ.
αὐχένα μέσσον ἔλασσεν, ἀπήραξεν δὲ χαμᾶζε
αὐτῇ σὺν πήληκι κάρη: ἔτι δ' όβριμον ἔγχος
ῆεν ἐν ὀφθαλμῷ: ὁ δὲ φῆ κώδειαν ἀνασχὼν,
πέφραδέ τε Τρώεσσι. καὶ εὐχόμενος. ἔπος ηῦδᾱ ηύδᾱ:
εἰπέμεναί μοι Τρῶες. ἀγαυοῦ Ἰ̈λιονῆος
πατρὶ φίλῳ καὶ μρι [μητρὶ]. γοήμεναι ἐν μεγάροισιν:
οὐδὲ γὰρ ἡ Προμάχοιο δάμαρ Ἀλεγηνορίδαο.
ἀνδρὶ φίλῳ ἐλθόντι γανύσσεται. ὁππότε κεν δὴ
ἐκ Τροίης συν νηυσὶ, νεώμεθα κοῦροι Ἀχαιῶν:
So spake he, and upon the Argives came sorrow by reason of his exuIting, and beyond all did he stir the soul of wise-hearted Peneleos. He rushed upon Acamas, but Acamas abode not the onset of the prince Peneleos. Howbeit Peneleos thrust and smote Ilioneus, son of Phorbas, rich in herds, whom Hermes loved above all the Trojans and gave him wealth; and to him the mother bare Ilioneus, an only child. Him then did Peneleos smite beneath the brow at the roots of the eyes, and drave out the eyeball, and the shaft went clean through the eye and through the nape ot the neck, and he sank down stretching out both his hands. But Peneleos drawing his sharp sword let drive full upon his neck, and smote off to the the ground the head with the helmet, and still the mighty spear stood in the eye; and holding it on high like a poppy-head he shewed it to the Trojans, and spake a word exultingly: "Tell, I pray you, ye Trojans, to the dear father and the mother of lordly Ilioneus to make wailing in their halls, for neither will the wife of Promachus, son of Alegenor, rejoice in the coming of her dear husband, when we youths of the Achdeans return with our ships from out of Troy-land."
