ὡς ἄρα μιν εἰπόντα. τέλος θανάτοιο κάλυψε:
ψυχὴ δ' ἐκ ῥεθέων πταμένη Ἄϊδος δὲ βεβήκει.
ὃν πότμον γοόωσα. λιποῦσ' ἀνδροτῆτα καὶ ἥβην:
τὸν καὶ τεθνηῶτα προσηύδα φαίδιμος Ἕκτωρ:
Πατρόκλεις. τί νύ μοι μαντεύεαι αἰπὺν ὄλεθρον.
τίς δ' οἶδ'. εἴ κ' Ἀχιλεὺς Θέτιδος παῖς ἠϋκόμοιο
φθήῃ ἐμῷ ὑπὸ δουρὶ τυπεὶς. ἀπο θυμὸν ὀλέσσαι:
ὡσ ἄρα φωνήσας. δόρυ χάλκεον ἐξ ὠτειλῆς
Even as he thus spake the end of death enfolded him; and his soul fleeting from his limbs was gone to Hades, bewailing her fate, leaving manliness and youth. And to him even in his death spake glorious Hector: "Patroclus, wherefore dost thou prophesy for me sheer destruction? Who knows but that Achilles, the son of fair-tressed Thetis, may first be smitten by my spear, and lose his life?"
