τὸν δ' ὀλιγοδρανέων, προσέφη κορυθαίολος Ἕκτωρ
τίς δὲ σύ ἐσσι φέριστε θεῶν. ὅς μ' εἴρεαι άντην:
οὐκ ἀΐεις, ὅ με, νηυσὶν ἐπὶ πρύμνῃσιν Ἀχαιῶν.
οὓς ἑτάρους ὀλέκοντα βοὴν ἀγαθὸς βάλεν Αἴας
χερμαδίῳ πρὸς στῆθος, ἔπαυσε δὲ θούριδος ἀλκῆς:
καὶ δὴ ἔγωγ' ἐφάμην νέκυας καὶ δῶμ' Ἀΐδαο
ἤματι τῷδ' ὄψεσθαι. ἐπεὶ φίλον ἄϊον ῆτορ:
Then, his strength all spent, spake to him Hector of the flashing helm: "Who of the gods art thou, mightiest one, that dost make question of me face to face? Knowest thou not that at the sterns of the Achaeans' ships as I made havoc of his comrades, Aias, good at the war-cry, smote me on the breast with a stone, and made me cease from my furious might? Aye, and I deemed that on this day I should behold the dead and the house of Hades, when I had gasped forth my life."
