ἔσπετε νῦν μοι Μοῦσαι Ὀλύμπια δώματ' ἔχουσαι.
ὅς τις δὴ πρῶτος, βροτόεντ' ἀνδράγρι'. Ἀχαιῶν
ῄρατ'. ἐπεί ῥ' ἔκλινε μάχην κλυτὸς ἐννοσίγαιος:
Αἴας ῥα πρῶτος Τελαμώνιος Ὕρτιον οῦτα
Γυρτιάδην, Μυσῶν ἡγήτορα καρτεροθύμων:
Φάλκην δ' Ἀντίλοχος καὶ Μέρμερον ἐξενάριξε:
Μηριόνης δὲ Μόρυν τε καὶ Ἱ̈πποτίωνα κατέκτα:
Τεῦκρος δὲ Προθόωνά τ' ἐνῄρατο καὶ Περιφήτην:
Ἀτρείδης δ' ὰρ ἔπειθ' Ὑπερήνορα ποιμένα λαῶν
οὔτασε καλλα πάρην: δια δ' έντερα χαλκὸς ἄφυσσε
δῃώσας. ψυχὴ δὲ κατ' ουταμένην ὠτειλὴν
ἔσσυτ' ἐπειγομένη: τὸν δὲ σκότος. ὄσσ' ἐκάλυψε:
πλείστους δ' Αἴας εἷλεν Ὀϊλῆος ταχὺς υἱός:
οὐ γάρ οἵ τις ὁμοῖος ἐπισπέσθαι ποσὶν ῆεν
ἀνδρῶν τρεσσάντων. ὅτε τε Ζεὺς ἐν φόβον όρσεόρσῃ: ⁑
TeIl me now, ye Muses, that have dwellings on Olympus, who was first of the Achaeans to bear away the bloody spoils of warriors, when once the famed Shaker of Earth had turned the battle. Aias verily was first, the son of Telamon. He smote Hyrtius, the son of Gyrtius, leader of the Mysians stalwart of heart; and Antilochus stripped the spoils from Phalces and Mermerus, and Meriones slew Morys and Hippotion, and Teucer laid low Prothoön and Periphetes,; thereafter Atreus' son smote with a thrust in the flank Hyperenor, shepherd of the host, and the bronze let forth the bowels, as it clove through, and his soul sped hastening through the stricken wound, and darkness enfolded his eyes. But most men did Aias slay, the swift son of Oïleus; for there was none other like him to pursue with speed of foot amid the rout of men, when Zeus turned them to flight.
