§731ἰὼ ἰώ,
Ah, ah!
§732συμφορὰ βαρεῖα Θρῃκῶν.
A heavy misfortune for the Thracians!
§732bσυμμάχων τις ὁ στένων.
It is one of the allies who groans.
§733ἰὼ ἰώ,
Ah, ah!
§733aδύστηνος ἐγώ· σύ τʼ, ἄναξ Θρῃκῶν, §734ὦ στυγνοτάτην Τροίαν ἐσιδών, §735οἷόν σε βίου τέλος εἷλεν.
Wretched am I, and you too, king of the Thracians, who looked upon most hateful Troy, what an end of life has seized you!
§736τίς εἶ ποτʼ ἀνδρῶν συμμάχων;
Who on earth of the ally men are you?
κατʼ εὐφρόνην §737ἀμβλῶπες αὐγαὶ κοὔ σε γιγνώσκω τορῶς.
In the night my eyes are dim and I do not recognize you clearly.
§738ποῦ τινʼ ἀνάκτων Τρωικῶν εὕρω;
Where shall I find one of the Trojan lords?
Where indeed does Hector sleep his shield-sheltered sleep?
§741τίνι σημήνω διόπων στρατιᾶς §742οἷα πεπόνθαμεν, οἷά τις ἡμᾶς §743δράσας ἀφανῆ φροῦδος, φανερὸν §744Θρῃξὶν πένθος τολυπεύσας;
To whom of the leaders of the army shall I signal what things we have suffered, and what things someone, having done to us, has vanished unseen, having spun conspicuous grief for the Thracians?
Some evil seems to have befallen the Thracian army, to judge by what I hear from this man.
The army is ruined, the king has fallen by a treacherous blow.
§749ἆ ἆ ἆ ἆ,
Ah, ah, ah, ah!
What pain wears me out from the murderous wound within!
πῶς ἂν ὀλοίμην;
How I wish I could perish!
For was it fated for me and Rhesus to die ingloriously, having come to Troy as an ally?
He signals these evils not in riddles; for clearly he speaks of allies destroyed.
Things have gone badly, and on top of these evils, most shamefully; and yet this is twice as great an evil.
§758θανεῖν γὰρ εὐκλεῶς μέν, εἰ θανεῖν χρεών, §759λυπρὸν μὲν οἶμαι τῷ θανόντι — πῶς γὰρ οὔ; — §760τοῖς ζῶσι δʼ ὄγκος καὶ δόμων εὐδοξία.
For to die gloriously, if one must die, is painful, I think, for the one who dies—how could it not be? — but for the living it is pride and glory for their houses.
§761ἡμεῖς δʼ ἀβούλως κἀκλεῶς ὀλώλαμεν.
But we have perished thoughtlessly and ingloriously.
§762ἐπεὶ γὰρ ἡμᾶς ηὔνασʼ Ἑκτόρεια χείρ, §763ξύνθημα λέξας, ηὕδομεν πεδοστιβεῖ §764κόπῳ δαμέντες, οὐδʼ ἐφρουρεῖτο στρατὸς §765φυλακαῖσι νυκτέροισιν, οὐδʼ ἐν τάξεσιν §766ἔκειτο τεύχη, πλῆκτρά τʼ οὐκ ἐπὶ ζυγοῖς §767ἵππων καθήρμοσθʼ, ὡς ἄναξ ἐπεύθετο §768κρατοῦντας ὑμᾶς κἀφεδρεύοντας νεῶν §769πρύμναισι· φαύλως δʼ ηὕδομεν πεπτωκότες.
For when Hector's hand had laid us to rest, having told us the watchword, we slept, by earth-treading fatigue overcome, nor was the army guarded by night watches, nor in the ranks did weapons lie, and the whips were not fastened on the yokes of the horses, because our king was informed that you were victorious and lying in wait for the ships' sterns; so we slept, carelessly fallen.
§770κἀγὼ μελούσῃ καρδίᾳ λήξας ὕπνου §771πώλοισι χόρτον, προσδοκῶν ἑωθινὴν §772ζεύξειν ἐς ἀλκήν, ἀφθόνῳ μετρῶ χερί.
And I, having ceased from sleep with an anxious heart, to the fillies fodder, expecting the morning yoking for battle, was measuring out with a generous hand.
§773λεύσσω δὲ φῶτε περιπολοῦνθʼ ἡμῶν στρατὸν §774πυκνῆς διʼ ὄρφνης· ὡς δʼ ἐκινήθην ἐγώ, §775ἐπτηξάτην τε κἀνεχωρείτην πάλιν·
And I saw two men prowling about our army through the thick darkness; and when I moved, they crouched and retreated back.
And I shouted to them not to approach the army, thinking some thieves from the allies were drawing near.
§778οἳ δʼ οὐδέν· οὐ μὴν οὐδʼ ἐγὼ τὰ πλείονα.
But they said nothing; indeed, nor did I say any more.
§779ηὗδον δʼ ἀπελθὼν αὖθις ἐς κοίτην πάλιν.
And going back, I slept again in my bed.
§780καί μοι καθʼ ὕπνον δόξα τις παρίσταται· §781ἵππους γὰρ ἃς ἔθρεψα κἀδιφρηλάτουν §782Ῥήσῳ παρεστώς, εἶδον, ὡς ὄναρ δοκῶν, §783λύκους ἐπεμβεβῶτας ἑδραίαν ῥάχιν· §784θείνοντε δʼ οὐρᾷ πωλικῆς ῥινοῦ τρίχα §785ἤλαυνον, αἳ δʼ ἔρρεγκον ἐξ ἀντηρίδων §786θυμὸν πνέουσαι κἀνεχαίτιζον φόβῳ.
And in my sleep a certain vision presented itself to me; for the horses which I had bred and used to drive, standing beside Rhesus, I saw, in a dream as it seemed, wolves mounted upon their seated backs; and striking with their tails the hair of the fillies' hide, they drove them, and they snorted from their nostrils, breathing out fury and rearing up in fear.
And I, warding off the beasts, awoke for the fillies; for a nightly terror was ruffling them.
§789κλύω δʼ ἐπάρας κρᾶτα μυχθισμὸν νεκρῶν.
And raising my head, I heard the snorting of dying men.
And a warm stream of fresh blood from the slaughter of my master who was dying hard, strikes me.
§792ὀρθὸς δʼ ἀνᾴσσω χειρὶ σὺν κενῇ δορός.
And I leap up erect, with my hand empty of a spear.
§793καί μʼ ἔγχος αὐγάζοντα καὶ θηρώμενον §794παίει παραστὰς νεῖραν ἐς πλευρὰν ξίφει §795ἀνὴρ ἀκμάζων· φασγάνου γὰρ ᾐσθόμην §796πληγῆς, βαθεῖαν ἄλοκα τραύματος λαβών.
And as I was looking for and seeking a spear, a man in his prime, standing by, strikes me in the lower flank with his sword; a man in his prime; for I felt the blow of the sword, having received a deep furrow of a wound.
And I fall prone; and they, having taken the chariot and horses, sent their feet in flight.
§798aἆ ἆ.
Ah, ah!
§799ὀδύνη με τείρει, κοὐκέτʼ ὀρθοῦμαι τάλας.
Pain wears me out, and no longer do I stand upright, wretched me.
§800καὶ ξυμφορὰν μὲν οἶδʼ ὁρῶν, τρόπῳ δʼ ὅτῳ §801τεθνᾶσιν οἱ θανόντες οὐκ ἔχω φράσαι, §802οὐδʼ ἐξ ὁποίας χειρός.
And indeed I know the disaster, seeing it, but in what way those who died have perished, I cannot tell, nor by whose hand.
εἰκάσαι δέ μοι §803πάρεστι λυπρὰ πρὸς φίλων πεπονθέναι.
But it is open to me to guess that we have suffered grievous things from friends.
§804ἡνίοχε Θρῃκὸς τοῦ κακῶς πεπραγότος, §805μηδὲν δυσοίζου· πολέμιοι ῎δρασαν τάδε. prodelision, accent and breathing left behind
O charioteer of the Thracian who has fared ill, suspect nothing; enemies have done these things.
And Hector himself, having learned of the disaster, is coming; and he grieves, as it seems, at your evils.
§808πῶς, ὦ μέγιστα πήματʼ ἐξειργασμένοι, §809μολόντες ὑμᾶς πολεμίων κατάσκοποι §810λήθουσιν αἰσχρῶς, καὶ κατεσφάγη στρατός, §811κοὔτʼ εἰσιόντας στρατόπεδʼ ἐξαπώσατε §812οὔτʼ ἐξιόντας;
How, O you who have wrought the greatest disasters, did the enemies' scouts, having come, escape your notice shamefully, and the army was slaughtered, and neither did you drive them away when they were entering the camp, nor when they were leaving?
τῶνδε τίς τείσει δίκην §813πλὴν σοῦ;
Who of these shall pay the penalty except you?
σὲ γὰρ δὴ φύλακά φημʼ εἶναι στρατοῦ.
For indeed I say that you are the guard of the army.
And they are gone unstruck, at the Phrygians' cowardice much mocking, and at me, the general.
§816εὖ νυν τόδʼ ἴστε — Ζεὺς ὀμώμοται πατήρ — §817ἤτοι μάραγνά γʼ ἢ καρανιστὴς μόρος §818μένει σε δρῶντα τοιάδʼ, ἢ τὸν Ἕκτορα §819τὸ μηδὲν εἶναι καὶ κακὸν νομίζετε.
Know this well now—Father Zeus has been sworn by— either the scourge or a beheading death awaits you who have done such things, or you must consider Hector to be a nobody and a coward.