ὣς φάτο. τὸν δ' ἄχεος νεφέλη ἐκάλυψε μέλαινα:
βῆ δὲ διαπρομάχων κεκορυθμένος αἴθοπι χαλκῷ.
καὶ τότ' ἄρα Κρονίδης ἕλετ' αἰγίδα θυσσανόεσσαν.
μαρμαρέην. Ἴ̈δην δὲ κατα νεφέεσσι κάλυψεν:
ἀστράψας δὲ μάλα μεγάλ' ἔκτυπε. τὴνδ' ἐτίναξε:
νίκην δὲ Τρώεσσι δίδου. ἐφόβησε δ' Ἀχαιούς:
So spake he, and a black cloud of grief enwrapped Hector, and he strode amid the foremost fighters, harnessed in flaming bronze. And then the son of Cronos took his tasselled aegis, all gleaming bright, and enfolded Ida with clouds, and lightened and thundered mightily, and shook the aegis, giving victory to the Trojans, but the Achaeans he drave in rout.
