Iliad 18: 478-482

From the Venetus A MS

ποίει δὲ πρώτιστα σάκος μέγα τε στιβαρόν τε,

πάντοσε δαιδάλλων: περὶ δ' ἄντυγα βάλλε φαεινὴν.

τρίπλακα: μαρμαρέην. ἐκ δ' ἀργύρεον τελαμῶνα:

πέντε δ' ἂρ αὐτοῦ ἔσαν σάκεος πτύχες: αὐτὰρ ἐν αυτῷ

ποίει δαίδαλα πολλὰ ἰδυίῃσι πραπίδεσσιν:

τερπόμενοι: δοιὼ δὲ κυβιστητῆρε κατ' αὐτοὺς

First fashioned he a shield, great and sturdy, adorning it cunningly in every part, and round about it set a bright rim, threefold and glittering, and therefrom made fast a silver baldric. Five were the layers of the shield itself; and on it he wrought many curious devices with cunning skill.

A. T. Murray (1924)