ὡς ἄρα φωνήσαντος. Ἐρινύες ἔσχεθον αὐδήν.
τὸν δὲ μέγ' ὀχθήσας προσέφη πόδας ὠκὺς Ἀχιλλεύς:
Ξάνθε, τί μοι θάνατον μαντεύεαι: οὐδέ τι σε χρή:
εῦ ναίνυ τοι οἶδα καὶ αὐτὸς. ὅ μοι μόρος ἐνθάδ' ὀλέσθαι
νόσφι φίλου πατρὸς καὶ μητέρος: ἀλλὰ καὶ ἔμπης
οὐ λήξω. πρὶν Τρῶας άδην ελάσαι πολεμοιο:
When he had thus spoken, the Erinyes checked his voice. Then, his heart mightily stirred, spake to him swift-footed Achilles: " Xanthus, why dost thou prophesy my death? Thou needest not at all. Well know I even of myself that it is my fate to perish here, far from my father dear, and my mother; howbeit even so will I not cease, until I have driven the Trojans to surfeit of war."
