ὡς ἔφαθ'. οἳ δ' ὑπ' ἀμάξῃσιν βόας ἡμιόνους τε
ζεύγνυσαν. αἶψα δ' ἔπειτα προ άστεος ἠγερέθοντο
ἐννῆμαρ μὲν τοί γε ἀγίνεον ἄσπετον ὕλην:
ἀλλ' ὅτε δῆ δεκάτη ἐφάνη φαεσίμβροτος ἠὼς.
καὶ τότ' ἄρ' ἂρ' ἔξέφερον θρασὺν Ἕκτορα δάκρυ χέοντες
ἒν δὲ πυρῇ ὑπάτῃ νεκρὸν θέσαν: ἒν δ' ἔβαλον πυρ
So spake he, and they yoked oxen and mules to waggons, and speedily thereafter gathered together before the city. For nine days' space they brought in measureless store of wood, [785] but when the tenth Dawn arose, giving light unto mortals, then bare they forth bold Hector, shedding tears the while, and on the topmost pyre they laid the dead man, and cast fire thereon.
