αὐτὰρ ἐπει δὴ πάντες ἀολλίσθησαν Ἀχαιοὶ.
τοῖσι δ' ἀνιστάμενοσ μετέφη πόδας ὠκὺς Ἀχιλλεύς:
Ἀτρείδη ῆ ἄρ τι τόδ' ἀμφοτέροισιν ἄρειον
ἔπλετο. σοὶ καὶ ἐμοὶ: ὅ τε νῶΐ περ ἀχνυμένω κῆρ.
θυμοβόρῳ ἔριδι μενεήναμεν εἵνεκα κούρης.
τὴν ὄφελ' ἐν νήεσσι κατακτάμεν Ἄρτεμις ϊῷ
ἤματι τῷ: ὅτ' ἐγὼν ἑλόμην Λυρνησσὸν ὀλέσσας.
τώ κ' οὐ τόσσοι Ἀχαιοὶ ὀδὰξ ἕλον ἄσπετον οῦδας
δυσμενέων ὑπο χερσὶν. ἐμεῦ ἀπομηνίσαντος:
Ἕκτορι μὲν καὶ Τρωσὶ. τὸ. κέρδιον. αὐτὰρ Ἀχαιοὺς.
δηρὸν ἐμῆς καὶ σῆς ἔριδος μνήσεσθαι ὀΐω:
ἀλλὰ τὰ μὲν προτετύχθαι ἐάσομεν ἀχνύμενοί περ.
θυμὸν ἐνι στήθεσσι φίλον δαμάσαντες ἀνάγκῃ:
νῦν δ' ἤτοι μὲν ἐγὼ παύω χόλον: οὐδέ τι με χρὴ
ἀσκελέως αἰεὶ μενεαινέμεν: ἀλλ' άγε θᾶσσον
ὄτρυνον πόλεμον δὲ κάρη κομόωντας Ἀχαιούς.
ὄφρ' ἔτι καὶ Τρώων πειρήσομαι ἀντίον ἐλθὼν.
αί κ' ἐθέλωσ' ἐπι νηυσὶν ϊαύειν: ἀλλά τιν' οἴω
ἀσπασίως αὐτῶν γόνυ κάμψειν. ὅς κε φύγῃσι
φεύγων ἐκ πολέμοιο. ὑπ' έγχεος ἡμετέροιο:
But when all the Achaeans were gathered together, Achilles, swift of foot, arose among them and said: "Son of Atreus, was this then the better for us twain, for thee and for me, what time with grief at heart we raged in soul-devouring strife for the sake of a girl? Would that amid the ships Artemis had slain her with an arrow on the day when I took her from out the spoil after I had laid waste Lyrnessus! Then had not so many Achaeans bitten the vast earth with their teeth beneath the hands of the foemen, by reason of the fierceness of my wrath. For Hector and the Trojans was this the better, but long shall the Achaeans, methinks, remember the strife betwixt me and thee. Howbeit, these things will we let be as past and done, for all our pain, curbing the heart in our breasts because we must. Now verily make I my wrath to cease: it beseemeth me not to be wroth for ever unrelentingly; but come, rouse thou speedily to battle the long-haired Achaeans, to the end that I may go forth against the Trojans and make trial of them yet again, whether they be fain to spend the night hard by the ships. Nay, many a one of them, methinks, will be glad to bend his knees in rest, whosoever shall escape from the fury of war, and from my spear."
