Iliad 23: 442-445

From the Venetus A MS

ὡς εἰπὼν ἵπποισιν ἐκέκλετο φώνησέν τε:

μή μοι ἐρύκεσθον μὴ δ' ἕστατον  χνυμένω κῆρ.

φθήσονται τούτοισι πόδες καὶ γοῦνα καμόντα

ἢ ὑμῖν: ἄμφω γὰρ  τέμβονται νεότητος.

So said he, and called to his horses, saying: "Hold not back, I bid you, neither stand ye still with grief at heart. Their feet and knees will grow weary before yours, for they both are lacking in youth."

A. T. Murray (1924)