Ἕκτορα δ' ἐγγύθεν ἱ̈στάμενος ὤτρυνεν Ἀπόλλων.
Φαίνοπι Ἀσιάδῃ ἐναλίγκιος: ὅ, ς οἱ, ἁπάντων
ξείνων φίλτατος έσκεν, Ἀβυδόθι οἰκίᾳ ναίων:
Ἑ̋κτορ, τίς κέ σ' ἔτ' ἄλλος Ἀχαιῶν ταρβήσειεν.
οῖον δὴ Μενέλαον ὑπέτρεσας. ὃς τὸ πάρος γε
μαλθακὸς αἰχμητής. νῦν δ' οἴχεται οἶος ἀείρας
νεκρὸν ὑπ' ἐκ Τρώων. σὸν δ' ἔκτανε πιστὸν ἑταῖρον.
ἐσθλὸν ἐνι προμάχοισι. Ποδῆν. υἱὸν Ἠετίωνος:
Then unto Hector did Apollo draw nigh, and urged him on, in the likeness of Asius' son Phaenops, that of all his guest-friends was dearest to him, and had his house at Abydus. In his likeness Apollo that worketh afar spake unto Hector: "Hector, what man beside of the Achaeans will fear thee any more, seeing thou hast thus quailed before Menelaus, who aforetime was a weakling warrior? Now with none to aid him hath he taken the dead from out the ranks of the Trojans and is gone—aye, he hath slain thy trusty comrade, a good man among the foremost fighters, even Podes, son of Eetion."
