§463πῶς δʼ Αἴας ὑπομεῖναι; §464εἰ γὰρ ἐγὼ τόδʼ ἦμαρ εἰσίδοιμʼ, ἄναξ, §465ὅτῳ πολυφόνου §466χειρὸς ἀποινάσαιο λόγχᾳ. §467τοιαῦτα μέν σοι τῆς μακρᾶς ἀπουσίας §468πρᾶξαι παρέξω — σὺν δʼ Ἀδραστείᾳ λέγω — §469ἐπειδἂν ἐχθρῶν τήνδʼ ἐλευθέραν πόλιν §470θῶμεν θεοῖσί τʼ ἀκροθίνιʼ ἐξέλῃς, §471ξὺν σοὶ στρατεύειν γῆν ἐπʼ Ἀργείων θέλω §472καὶ πᾶσαν ἐλθὼν Ἑλλάδʼ ἐκπέρσαι δορί, §473ὡς ἂν μάθωσιν ἐν μέρει πάσχειν κακῶς. §474εἰ τοῦ παρόντος τοῦδʼ ἀπαλλαχθεὶς κακοῦ §475πόλιν νεμοίμην ὡς τὸ πρίν ποτʼ ἀσφαλῆ, §476ἦ κάρτα πολλὴν θεοῖς ἂν εἰδείην χάριν. §477τὰ δʼ ἀμφί τʼ Ἄργος καὶ νομὸν τὸν Ἑλλάδος §478οὐχ ὧδε πορθεῖν ῥᾴδιʼ, ὡς λέγεις, δορί. §479οὐ τούσδʼ ἀριστέας φασὶν Ἑλλήνων μολεῖν; §480κοὐ μεμφόμεσθά γʼ, ἀλλʼ ἄδην ἐλαύνομεν. §481οὐκ οὖν κτανόντες τούσδε πᾶν εἰργάσμεθα; §482μή νυν τὰ πόρρω τἀγγύθεν μεθεὶς σκόπει. §483ἀρκεῖν ἔοικέ σοι παθεῖν, δρᾶσαι δὲ μή. §484πολλῆς γὰρ ἄρχω κἀνθάδʼ ὢν τυραννίδος. §485ἀλλʼ εἴτε λαιὸν εἴτε δεξιὸν κέρας §486εἴτʼ ἐν μέσοισι συμμάχοις πάρεστί σοι §487πέλτην ἐρεῖσαι καὶ καταστῆσαι στρατόν. §488μόνος μάχεσθαι πολεμίοις, Ἕκτορ, θέλω. §489εἰ δʼ αἰσχρὸν ἡγῇ μὴ συνεμπρῆσαι νεῶν §490πρύμνας, πονήσας τὸν πάρος πολὺν χρόνον, §491τάξον μʼ Ἀχιλλέως καὶ στρατοῦ κατὰ στόμα. §492οὐκ ἔστʼ ἐκείνῳ θοῦρον ἐντάξαι δόρυ. §493καὶ μὴν λόγος γʼ ἦν ὡς ἔπλευσʼ ἐπʼ Ἴλιον. §494ἔπλευσε καὶ πάρεστιν· ἀλλὰ μηνίων §495στρατηλάταισιν οὐ συναίρεται δόρυ. §496τίς δὴ μετʼ αὐτὸν ἄλλος εὐδοξεῖ στρατοῦ; §497Αἴας ἐμοὶ μὲν οὐδὲν ἡσσᾶσθαι δοκεῖ §498χὡ Τυδέως παῖς· ἔστι δʼ αἱμυλώτατον §499κρότημʼ Ὀδυσσεύς, λῆμά τʼ ἀρκούντως θρασὺς §500καὶ πλεῖστα χώραν τήνδʼ ἀνὴρ καθυβρίσας· §501ὃς εἰς Ἀθάνας σηκὸν ἔννυχος μολὼν §502κλέψας ἄγαλμα ναῦς ἐπʼ Ἀργείων φέρει. §503ἤδη δʼ ἀγύρτης πτωχικὴν ἔχων στολὴν §504ἐσῆλθε πύργους, πολλὰ δʼ Ἀργείοις κακὰ §505ἠρᾶτο, πεμφθεὶς Ἰλίου κατάσκοπος· §506κτανὼν δὲ φρουροὺς καὶ παραστάτας πυλῶν §507ἐξῆλθεν· αἰεὶ δʼ ἐν λόχοις εὑρίσκεται §508Θυμβραῖον ἀμφὶ βωμὸν ἄστεως πέλας §509θάσσων· κακῷ δὲ μερμέρῳ παλαίομεν. §510οὐδεὶς ἀνὴρ εὔψυχος ἀξιοῖ λάθρᾳ §511κτεῖναι τὸν ἐχθρόν, ἀλλʼ ἰὼν κατὰ στόμα. §512τοῦτον δʼ ὃν ἵζειν φὴς σὺ κλωπικὰς ἕδρας §513καὶ μηχανᾶσθαι, ζῶντα συλλαβὼν ἐγὼ §514πυλῶν ἐπʼ ἐξόδοισιν ἀμπείρας ῥάχιν §515στήσω πετεινοῖς γυψὶ θοινατήριον. §516λῃστὴν γὰρ ὄντα καὶ θεῶν ἀνάκτορα §517συλῶντα δεῖ νιν τῷδε κατθανεῖν μόρῳ. §518νῦν μὲν καταυλίσθητε· καὶ γὰρ εὐφρόνη. §519δείξω δʼ ἐγώ σοι χῶρον, ἔνθα χρὴ στρατὸν §520τὸν σὸν νυχεῦσαι τοῦ τεταγμένου δίχα. §521ξύνθημα δʼ ἡμῖν Φοῖβος, ἤν τι καὶ δέῃ· §522μέμνησʼ ἀκούσας, Θρῃκί τʼ ἄγγειλον στρατῷ. §523ὑμᾶς δὲ βάντας χρὴ προταινὶ τάξεων §524φρουρεῖν ἐγερτὶ καὶ νεῶν κατάσκοπον §525δέχθαι Δόλωνα· καὶ γάρ, εἴπερ ἐστὶ σῶς, §526ἤδη πελάζει στρατοπέδοισι Τρωικοῖς.
Chorus: "How could Ajax withstand you?" O king, may I behold that day when you avenge yourself on him with the spear of your murderous hand." Rhesus: "In return for my long absence, I will grant you to accomplish such things—I speak with Adrasteia's leave— when we have made this city free from enemies and you have chosen first-fruits for the gods, I wish to campaign with you against the land of the Argives and, going through all Greece, to lay it waste with the spear, so that they in turn may learn to suffer evil." Hector: "If, being rid of this present evil, I could rule my city secure as it once was, I would indeed feel great gratitude to the gods." "But the regions around Argos and the territory of Greece are not so easy to ravage with the spear as you say." Rhesus: "Is it not said that these best of the Greeks have come?" Hector: "Indeed we do not underestimate them, but we drive them back sufficiently." Rhesus: "Then, by killing these men, have we not accomplished everything?" Hector: "Do not now look at distant things, abandoning what is near." Rhesus: "You seem content to suffer, but not to act." Hector: "For I rule a great dominion even while remaining here." "But whether on the left wing, or on the right wing, or among the allies in the center, you may plant your shield and array your army." Rhesus: "Hector, I wish to fight the enemy alone." "But if you think it shameful not to join in burning the sterns of the ships, having toiled for so long a time before, post me face to face with Achilles and his army." Hector: "It is not possible to pit a furious spear against him." Rhesus: "And yet there was a report that he sailed to Ilium." Hector: "He sailed and is present; but, being angry with the commanders, he does not join in the fight." Rhesus: "Who then after him is held in high repute in the army?" Hector: "Ajax seems to me to be in no way inferior, and the son of Tydeus; and there is that most cunning piece of work, Odysseus, bold enough in spirit and a man who has greatly insulted this land;" "who, coming by night to the shrine of Athena, stole the image and carried it to the ships of the Argives." "And once as a vagrant in beggar's attire, he entered the towers, and cursed the Argives with many evils, having been sent as a spy to Ilium;" "and having slain the guards and the sentries of the gates, he escaped; and he is always found in ambush, sitting around the Thymbraean altar near the city; we struggle against a troublesome plague." Rhesus: "No brave man deigns to kill his enemy in secret, but goes face to face." "This man, whom you say sits in thievish ambushes and contrives plots, I will capture alive, and impale his spine at the outlets of the gates, setting him up as a feast for the winged vultures." "For, being a robber and despoiling the temples of the gods, he must die by this fate." Hector: "Now go to your quarters; for it is night." "I will show you the place where your army must spend the night, separate from the main force." "Our watchword is 'Phoebus', if there should be any need; remember it upon hearing, and announce it to the Thracian army." "You must go in front of the lines to keep watch alertly, and receive Dolon, the spy sent to the ships; for, if he is safe, he is already approaching the Trojan camp." "Whose watch is it?
§527— τίνος ἁ φυλακά; τίς ἀμείβει
Who relieves mine?
§528τὰν ἐμάν; πρῶτα §529δύεται σημεῖα καὶ ἑπτάποροι §530Πλειάδες αἰθέριαι· μέσα δʼ αἰετὸς οὐρανοῦ ποτᾶται.
The first stars are setting, and the seven-pathed etherial Pleiades; and the Eagle flies in mid-heaven." "Wake up, why do you delay?
§532— ἔγρεσθε, τί μέλλετε; κοιτᾶν §533ἔγρεσθε πρὸς φυλακάν. §534οὐ λεύσσετε μηνάδος αἴγλαν; §535— ἀὼς δὴ πέλας, ἀὼς §536γίγνεται, καί τις προδρόμων §537ὅδε γʼ ἐστὶν ἀστήρ. §538— τίς ἐκηρύχθη πρώτην φυλακήν; §539— Μυγδόνος υἱόν φασι Κόροιβον. §540— τίς γὰρ ἐπʼ αὐτῷ; — Κίλικας Παίων §541στρατὸς ἤγειρεν, Μυσοὶ δʼ ἡμᾶς. §543— οὐκ οὖν Λυκίους πέμπτην φυλακὴν §544βάντας ἐγείρειν §545καιρὸς κλήρου κατὰ μοῖραν; §547— καὶ μὴν ἀΐω· Σιμόεντος §548ἡμένα κοίτας §549φοινίας ὑμνεῖ πολυχορδοτάτᾳ §550γήρυϊ παιδολέτωρ μελοποιὸν ἀηδονὶς μέριμναν. §551— ἤδη δὲ νέμουσι κατʼ Ἴδαν §552ποίμνια· νυκτιβρόμου §553σύριγγος ἰὰν κατακούω. §554— θέλγει δʼ ὄμματος ἕδραν §555ὕπνος· ἅδιστος γὰρ ἔβα §556βλεφάροις πρὸς ἀοῦς. §557— τί ποτʼ οὐ πλάθει σκοπός, ὃν ναῶν
Wake up from your beds for the watch." "Do you not see the gleam of the moon?" "Dawn is indeed near, dawn is coming, and here is one of the warning stars." "Who was proclaimed for the first watch?" "They say Coroebus, the son of Mygdon." "And who after him?"—"The Paeonian host roused the Cilicians, and the Mysians roused us." "Is it not then time to go and wake the Lycians for the fifth watch according to the turn of the lot?" "Indeed, I hear: sitting near her bloody nesting-place by Simois, the child-slaying nightingale sings her song-making sorrow with her many-chorded voice." "And already flocks are grazing along Ida; I hear the sound of the night-sounding shepherd's pipe." "Sleep charms the seat of the eyes; for it comes sweetest to the eyelids toward dawn." "Why does the scout not approach, whom to the ships..."