ὡς φάτο. τοῖσι δὲ πᾶσιν ὑφ' ΐμερον ὦρσε γόοιο:
μυρομένοισι δὲ τοῖσι φάνη ῥοδοδάκτυλος ἨὼςἨὼς
ἀμφὶ νέκυν. ἐλεεινόν: ἀτὰρ κρείων Ἀγαμέμνων.
οὐρῆας τ' ὤτρυνε καὶ ἀνέρας ἀξέμεν ὕλην.
πάντοθεν ἐκ κλισέων. ἐπὶ δ' ἀνὴρ ἐσθλὸς ὀρώρει
᾿Μηριόνης θεράπων ἀγαπήνορος ᾿Ϊδομενῆος:
οἱ δ' ḯσαν ὑλοτόμους πελέκεας ἔν χερσὶν ἔχοντες.
σειράς τ' εὐπλέκτους. πρὸ δ' ἂρ, οὐρῆες κίον αὐτῶν:
πολλὰ δ' ἄναντα. κάταντα, πάραντά τε. δόχμιά τ' ἦλθον:
ἂλ'λ' ὅτε δὴ κνημοὺς προσέβαν πολυπιδάκος ῎Ϊδης:
αὐτίκ' ἄρα δρῦς ὑψικόμους ταναήκεϊ χαλκῷ
τάμνον ἐπειγόμενοι: ταὶ δὲ μεγάλα κτυπέουσαι
πῖπτον: τὰς μὲν ἔπειτα διαπλήσσοντες Ἀχαιοὶ
ἔκδεον ἡμιόνων: ταὶ δὲ χθόνα ποσσὶ δατεῦντο.
ἐλδόμεναι πεδίοιο. διὰ ῥωπήϊα πυκνά:
πάντες δ' ὑλοτόμοι φιτροὺς φέρον. ὡς γὰρ ἀνώγει
Μηριόνης θεράπων ἀγαπήνορος ᾿Ϊδομενῆος:
καδ δ' ὰρ ἐπ' ἀκτῆς βάλλον ἐπισχερὼ: ἔνθ' ὰρ ᾿Ἀχιλλεὺς
φράσσατο Πατρόκλῳ μέγα ἠρίον ἠδὲ οἱ αὐτῷ:
So spake he, and in them all aroused the desire of lament, and rosy-fingered Dawn shone forth upon them while yet they wailed around the piteous corpse. But the lord Agamemnon sent forth mules an men from all sides from out the huts to fetch wood and a man of valour watched thereover, even Meriones, squire of kindly Idomeneus. And they went forth bearing in their hands axes for the cutting of wood and well-woven ropes, and before them went the mules: and ever upward, downward, sideward, and aslant they fared. But when they were come to the spurs of many-fountained Ida, forthwith they set them to fill high-crested oaks with the long-edged bronze in busy haste and with a mighty crash the trees kept falling. Then the Achaeans split the trunks asunder and bound them behind the mules, and these tore up the earth with their feet as they hasted toward the plain through the thick underbrush. And all the woodcutters bare logs; for so were they bidden of Meriones, squire of kindly Idomeneus. Then down upon the shore they cast these, man after man, where Achilles planned a great barrow for Patroclus and for himself.
