§11.709πανσυδίῃ·
with all speed.
μετὰ δέ σφι Μολίονε θωρήσσοντο §11.710παῖδʼ ἔτʼ ἐόντʼ, οὔ πω μάλα εἰδότε θούριδος ἀλκῆς.
And among them the two Moliones were arming themselves, being still children, not yet well skilled in furious valor.
§11.711ἔστι δέ τις Θρυόεσσα πόλις αἰπεῖα κολώνη §11.712τηλοῦ ἐπʼ Ἀλφειῷ, νεάτη Πύλου ἠμαθόεντος· §11.713τὴν ἀμφεστρατόωντο διαρραῖσαι μεμαῶτες.
There is a certain city, Thryoessa, a steep hill, far off on the Alpheius, the uttermost town of sandy Pylos; around this they set their army, eager to destroy it.
§11.714ἀλλʼ ὅτε πᾶν πεδίον μετεκίαθον, ἄμμι δʼ Ἀθήνη §11.715ἄγγελος ἦλθε θέουσʼ ἀπʼ Ὀλύμπου θωρήσσεσθαι §11.716ἔννυχος, οὐδʼ ἀέκοντα Πύλον κάτα λαὸν ἄγειρεν §11.717ἀλλὰ μάλʼ ἐσσυμένους πολεμίζειν.
But when they had traversed the whole plain, to us Athena came running as a messenger from Olympus to arm ourselves, by night, nor did she gather an unwilling host throughout Pylos, but those right eager to battle.
οὐδέ με Νηλεὺς §11.718εἴα θωρήσσεσθαι, ἀπέκρυψεν δέ μοι ἵππους· §11.719οὐ γάρ πώ τί μʼ ἔφη ἴδμεν πολεμήϊα ἔργα.
Yet Neleus would not suffer me to arm, but hid my horses; for he said I knew not yet aught of the deeds of war.
§11.720ἀλλὰ καὶ ὧς ἱππεῦσι μετέπρεπον ἡμετέροισι §11.721καὶ πεζός περ ἐών, ἐπεὶ ὧς ἄγε νεῖκος Ἀθήνη.
But even so I was preeminent among our horsemen, though being on foot, since thus did Athena lead the strife.
§11.722ἔστι δέ τις ποταμὸς Μινυήϊος εἰς ἅλα βάλλων §11.723ἐγγύθεν Ἀρήνης, ὅθι μείναμεν Ἠῶ δῖαν §11.724ἱππῆες Πυλίων, τὰ δʼ ἐπέρρεον ἔθνεα πεζῶν.
There is a certain river Minyeius, falling into the sea near Arene, where we waited for the divine Dawn, we the horsemen of the Pylians, and the hosts of foot-soldiers flowed in.
Thence with all speed, clad in our armor, at noon we came to the sacred stream of Alpheius.
§11.727ἔνθα Διὶ ῥέξαντες ὑπερμενεῖ ἱερὰ καλά, §11.728ταῦρον δʼ Ἀλφειῷ, ταῦρον δὲ Ποσειδάωνι, §11.729αὐτὰρ Ἀθηναίη γλαυκώπιδι βοῦν ἀγελαίην, §11.730δόρπον ἔπειθʼ ἑλόμεσθα κατὰ στρατὸν ἐν τελέεσσι, §11.731καὶ κατεκοιμήθημεν ἐν ἔντεσιν οἷσιν ἕκαστος §11.732ἀμφὶ ῥοὰς ποταμοῖο.
There having offered goodly sacrifices to almighty Zeus, and a bull to Alpheius, and a bull to Poseidon, but to flashing-eyed Athena a cow of the herd, we then took supper throughout the host by ranks, and we slept each in his armor around the streams of the river.
ἀτὰρ μεγάθυμοι Ἐπειοὶ §11.733ἀμφέσταν δὴ ἄστυ διαρραῖσαι μεμαῶτες· §11.734ἀλλά σφι προπάροιθε φάνη μέγα ἔργον Ἄρηος·
But the great-hearted Epeians were standing around the city, eager to destroy it; but before them there appeared a great work of Ares.
§11.735εὖτε γὰρ ἠέλιος φαέθων ὑπερέσχεθε γαίης, §11.736συμφερόμεσθα μάχῃ Διί τʼ εὐχόμενοι καὶ Ἀθήνῃ.
For when the shining sun rose above the earth, we joined battle, praying to Zeus and Athena.
§11.737ἀλλʼ ὅτε δὴ Πυλίων καὶ Ἐπειῶν ἔπλετο νεῖκος, §11.738πρῶτος ἐγὼν ἕλον ἄνδρα, κόμισσα δὲ μώνυχας ἵππους, §11.739Μούλιον αἰχμητήν· γαμβρὸς δʼ ἦν Αὐγείαο, §11.740πρεσβυτάτην δὲ θύγατρʼ εἶχε ξανθὴν Ἀγαμήδην, §11.741ἣ τόσα φάρμακα ᾔδη ὅσα τρέφει εὐρεῖα χθών.
But when the strife of the Pylians and Epeians arose, I was the first to slay a man, and I took his single-hooved horses, namely Mulius the spearman; he was the son-in-law of Augeias, and had to wife his eldest daughter, golden-haired Agamede, who knew all the herbs that the wide earth nurtures.
§11.742τὸν μὲν ἐγὼ προσιόντα βάλον χαλκήρεϊ δουρί, §11.743ἤριπε δʼ ἐν κονίῃσιν· ἐγὼ δʼ ἐς δίφρον ὀρούσας §11.744στῆν ῥα μετὰ προμάχοισιν·
Him as he came against me I struck with my bronze-shod spear, and he fell in the dust; and I, leaping into his chariot, stood among the foremost fighters.
ἀτὰρ μεγάθυμοι Ἐπειοὶ §11.745ἔτρεσαν ἄλλυδις ἄλλος, ἐπεὶ ἴδον ἄνδρα πεσόντα §11.746ἡγεμόνʼ ἱππήων, ὃς ἀριστεύεσκε μάχεσθαι.
But the great-hearted Epeians fled this way and that when they saw the man fall, the leader of their horsemen, who was the best in battle.
§11.747αὐτὰρ ἐγὼν ἐπόρουσα κελαινῇ λαίλαπι ἶσος, §11.748πεντήκοντα δʼ ἕλον δίφρους, δύο δʼ ἀμφὶς ἕκαστον §11.749φῶτες ὀδὰξ ἕλον οὖδας ἐμῷ ὑπὸ δουρὶ δαμέντες.
But I rushed upon them like a dark whirlwind, and took fifty chariots, and around each one two men bit the ground with their teeth, vanquished by my spear.
§11.750καί νύ κεν Ἀκτορίωνε Μολίονε παῖδʼ ἀλάπαξα, §11.751εἰ μή σφωε πατὴρ εὐρὺ κρείων ἐνοσίχθων §11.752ἐκ πολέμου ἐσάωσε καλύψας ἠέρι πολλῇ.
And now indeed I should have slain the two Moliones, sons of Actor, had not their father, the wide-ruling Earth-shaker, saved them from the war, wrapping them in a thick mist.
§11.753ἔνθα Ζεὺς Πυλίοισι μέγα κράτος ἐγγυάλιξε· §11.754τόφρα γὰρ οὖν ἑπόμεσθα διὰ σπιδέος πεδίοιο §11.755κτείνοντές τʼ αὐτοὺς ἀνά τʼ ἔντεα καλὰ λέγοντες, §11.756ὄφρʼ ἐπὶ Βουπρασίου πολυπύρου βήσαμεν ἵππους §11.757πέτρης τʼ Ὠλενίης, καὶ Ἀλησίου ἔνθα κολώνη §11.758κέκληται· ὅθεν αὖτις ἀπέτραπε λαὸν Ἀθήνη.
There Zeus granted great victory to the Pylians; for so long did we follow through the wide plain, slaying them and gathering their goodly armor, until we drove our horses to Buprasium rich in wheat, and the Olenian rock, and where is the hill called Alesium; from thence Athena turned back the host.
§11.759ἔνθʼ ἄνδρα κτείνας πύματον λίπον· αὐτὰρ Ἀχαιοὶ §11.760ἂψ ἀπὸ Βουπρασίοιο Πύλονδʼ ἔχον ὠκέας ἵππους, §11.761πάντες δʼ εὐχετόωντο θεῶν Διὶ Νέστορί τʼ ἀνδρῶν.
There having slain the last man, I left him; and the Achaeans drove back their swift horses from Buprasium to Pylos, and all gave glory among the gods to Zeus, and of men to Nestor.
§11.762ὣς ἔον, εἴ ποτʼ ἔον γε, μετʼ ἀνδράσιν.
Such was I, if ever indeed I was, among men.
αὐτὰρ Ἀχιλλεὺς §11.763οἶος τῆς ἀρετῆς ἀπονήσεται· ἦ τέ μιν οἴω §11.764πολλὰ μετακλαύσεσθαι ἐπεί κʼ ἀπὸ λαὸς ὄληται.
But Achilles will have the joy of his valor alone; yet surely I think he will sorely lament when the host has perished.
§11.765ὦ πέπον ἦ μὲν σοί γε Μενοίτιος ὧδʼ ἐπέτελλεν §11.766ἤματι τῷ ὅτε σʼ ἐκ Φθίης Ἀγαμέμνονι πέμπε, §11.767νῶϊ δέ τʼ ἔνδον ἐόντες ἐγὼ καὶ δῖος Ὀδυσσεὺς §11.768πάντα μάλʼ ἐν μεγάροις ἠκούομεν ὡς ἐπέτελλε.
Ah, gentle friend, surely Menoetius thus charged you on that day when he sent you from Phthia to Agamemnon, and we two being within, I and noble Odysseus, heard all things in the halls, how he charged you.
For we had come to the well-built house of Peleus, gathering the host throughout rich Achaea.
§11.771ἔνθα δʼ ἔπειθʼ ἥρωα Μενοίτιον εὕρομεν ἔνδον §11.772ἠδὲ σέ, πὰρ δʼ Ἀχιλῆα· γέρων δʼ ἱππηλάτα Πηλεὺς §11.773πίονα μηρία καῖε βοὸς Διὶ τερπικεραύνῳ §11.774αὐλῆς ἐν χόρτῳ· ἔχε δὲ χρύσειον ἄλεισον §11.775σπένδων αἴθοπα οἶνον ἐπʼ αἰθομένοις ἱεροῖσι.
There then we found the hero Menoetius within, and you, and by you Achilles; and the old horseman Peleus was burning the fat thighs of an ox to Zeus who hurls the thunderbolt, in the enclosure of the court; and he held a golden cup, pouring flaming wine upon the burning offerings.
§11.776σφῶϊ μὲν ἀμφὶ βοὸς ἕπετον κρέα, νῶϊ δʼ ἔπειτα §11.777στῆμεν ἐνὶ προθύροισι· ταφὼν δʼ ἀνόρουσεν Ἀχιλλεύς, §11.778ἐς δʼ ἄγε χειρὸς ἑλών, κατὰ δʼ ἑδριάασθαι ἄνωγε, §11.779ξείνιά τʼ εὖ παρέθηκεν, ἅ τε ξείνοις θέμις ἐστίν.
You two were busy about the flesh of the ox, and we then stood in the doorway; and Achilles leaped up in wonder, and took us by the hand and led us in, and bade us be seated, and set before us abundant guest-gifts, such as are the right of guests.
§11.780αὐτὰρ ἐπεὶ τάρπημεν ἐδητύος ἠδὲ ποτῆτος,
But when we had satisfied ourselves with food and drink,