§2.427αὐτὰρ ἐπεὶ κατὰ μῆρε κάη καὶ σπλάγχνα πάσαντο, §2.428μίστυλλόν τʼ ἄρα τἆλλα καὶ ἀμφʼ ὀβελοῖσιν ἔπειραν, §2.429ὤπτησάν τε περιφραδέως, ἐρύσαντό τε πάντα.
But when the thigh-pieces were burned quite away and they had tasted the inner parts, they sliced the rest and spitted it, and roasted it carefully, and drew it all off the spits.
§2.430αὐτὰρ ἐπεὶ παύσαντο πόνου τετύκοντό τε δαῖτα §2.431δαίνυντʼ, οὐδέ τι θυμὸς ἐδεύετο δαιτὸς ἐΐσης.
But when they had ceased from their labor and had made ready the feast, they feasted, nor did their hearts lack anything of the equal feast.
§2.432αὐτὰρ ἐπεὶ πόσιος καὶ ἐδητύος ἐξ ἔρον ἕντο, §2.433τοῖς ἄρα μύθων ἦρχε Γερήνιος ἱππότα Νέστωρ· §2.434Ἀτρεΐδη κύδιστε ἄναξ ἀνδρῶν Ἀγάμεμνον, §2.435μηκέτι νῦν δήθʼ αὖθι λεγώμεθα, μηδʼ ἔτι δηρὸν §2.436ἀμβαλλώμεθα ἔργον ὃ δὴ θεὸς ἐγγυαλίζει.
But when they had put away from them the desire for drink and food, among them Gerenian horseman Nestor was the first to speak: "Son of Atreus, most glorious, lord of men Agamemnon, let us no longer talk together here, nor let us any longer delay the work that the god puts into our hands.
§2.437ἀλλʼ ἄγε κήρυκες μὲν Ἀχαιῶν χαλκοχιτώνων §2.438λαὸν κηρύσσοντες ἀγειρόντων κατὰ νῆας, §2.439ἡμεῖς δʼ ἀθρόοι ὧδε κατὰ στρατὸν εὐρὺν Ἀχαιῶν §2.440ἴομεν ὄφρα κε θᾶσσον ἐγείρομεν ὀξὺν Ἄρηα. §2.441ὣς ἔφατʼ, οὐδʼ ἀπίθησεν ἄναξ ἀνδρῶν Ἀγαμέμνων.
Come, let the heralds of the bronze-clad Achaeans summon the people with their cry and gather them at the ships, and let us go in a body, just as we are, through the wide camp of the Achaeans, so that we may the more quickly rouse sharp war." So he spoke, and lord of men Agamemnon did not disobey.
§2.442αὐτίκα κηρύκεσσι λιγυφθόγγοισι κέλευσε §2.443κηρύσσειν πόλεμον δὲ κάρη κομόωντας Ἀχαιούς· §2.444οἳ μὲν ἐκήρυσσον, τοὶ δʼ ἠγείροντο μάλʼ ὦκα.
Straightway he commanded the clear-voiced heralds to summon to battle the long-haired Achaeans; and they summoned them, and the men gathered full quickly.
§2.445οἳ δʼ ἀμφʼ Ἀτρεΐωνα διοτρεφέες βασιλῆες §2.446θῦνον κρίνοντες, μετὰ δὲ γλαυκῶπις Ἀθήνη §2.447αἰγίδʼ ἔχουσʼ ἐρίτιμον ἀγήρων ἀθανάτην τε, §2.448τῆς ἑκατὸν θύσανοι παγχρύσεοι ἠερέθονται, §2.449πάντες ἐϋπλεκέες, ἑκατόμβοιος δὲ ἕκαστος·
And the kings, nurtured by Zeus, who were about the son of Atreus, busied themselves in marshalling the men, and with them went flashing-eyed Athena, holding the priceless aegis, that knows no age nor death, from which wave a hundred tassels of pure gold, all well-woven, and each worth a hundred oxen.
§2.450σὺν τῇ παιφάσσουσα διέσσυτο λαὸν Ἀχαιῶν §2.451ὀτρύνουσʼ ἰέναι· ἐν δὲ σθένος ὦρσεν ἑκάστῳ §2.452καρδίῃ ἄλληκτον πολεμίζειν ἠδὲ μάχεσθαι.
With this she sped dazzlingly through the host of the Achaeans, urging them to go forward; and in the heart of each man she roused strength to war and battle without ceasing.
§2.453τοῖσι δʼ ἄφαρ πόλεμος γλυκίων γένετʼ ἠὲ νέεσθαι §2.454ἐν νηυσὶ γλαφυρῇσι φίλην ἐς πατρίδα γαῖαν.
And to them straightway war became sweeter than to return in their hollow ships to their dear native land.
§2.455ἠΰτε πῦρ ἀΐδηλον ἐπιφλέγει ἄσπετον ὕλην §2.456οὔρεος ἐν κορυφῇς, ἕκαθεν δέ τε φαίνεται αὐγή, §2.457ὣς τῶν ἐρχομένων ἀπὸ χαλκοῦ θεσπεσίοιο §2.458αἴγλη παμφανόωσα διʼ αἰθέρος οὐρανὸν ἷκε.
Even as a ravaging fire lights up a boundless forest on the mountain peaks, and its glare is seen from afar, so from the bronze of those as they marched, the dazzling gleam went up through the upper air even to heaven.
§2.459τῶν δʼ ὥς τʼ ὀρνίθων πετεηνῶν ἔθνεα πολλὰ §2.460χηνῶν ἢ γεράνων ἢ κύκνων δουλιχοδείρων §2.461Ἀσίω ἐν λειμῶνι Καϋστρίου ἀμφὶ ῥέεθρα §2.462ἔνθα καὶ ἔνθα ποτῶνται ἀγαλλόμενα πτερύγεσσι §2.463κλαγγηδὸν προκαθιζόντων, σμαραγεῖ δέ τε λειμών, §2.464ὣς τῶν ἔθνεα πολλὰ νεῶν ἄπο καὶ κλισιάων §2.465ἐς πεδίον προχέοντο Σκαμάνδριον· αὐτὰρ ὑπὸ χθὼν §2.466σμερδαλέον κονάβιζε ποδῶν αὐτῶν τε καὶ ἵππων.
And as the many tribes of winged birds, of geese or cranes or long-necked swans, in the Asian meadow about the streams of Caystrius, fly here and there glorying in their wings, and settle screaming, and the meadow rings again; so their many tribes poured forth from ships and tents into the plain of Scamander, and the earth beneath echoed terribly under the feet of men and horses.
So they took their stand in the flowery meadow of Scamander, countless, as are the leaves and flowers in their season.
§2.469ἠΰτε μυιάων ἁδινάων ἔθνεα πολλὰ §2.470αἵ τε κατὰ σταθμὸν ποιμνήϊον ἠλάσκουσιν §2.471ὥρῃ ἐν εἰαρινῇ ὅτε τε γλάγος ἄγγεα δεύει, §2.472τόσσοι ἐπὶ Τρώεσσι κάρη κομόωντες Ἀχαιοὶ §2.473ἐν πεδίῳ ἵσταντο διαρραῖσαι μεμαῶτες.
Even as the many tribes of thick-clustering flies that hover about the herdsman's steading in the season of spring, when the milk drenches the pails; even so many long-haired Achaeans stood in the plain against the Trojans, eager to rend them.
§2.474τοὺς δʼ ὥς τʼ αἰπόλια πλατέʼ αἰγῶν αἰπόλοι ἄνδρες §2.475ῥεῖα διακρίνωσιν ἐπεί κε νομῷ μιγέωσιν, §2.476ὣς τοὺς ἡγεμόνες διεκόσμεον ἔνθα καὶ ἔνθα §2.477ὑσμίνην δʼ ἰέναι, μετὰ δὲ κρείων Ἀγαμέμνων §2.478ὄμματα καὶ κεφαλὴν ἴκελος Διὶ τερπικεραύνῳ, §2.479Ἄρεϊ δὲ ζώνην, στέρνον δὲ Ποσειδάωνι.
And as goatherds easily separate the wide-ranging flocks of goats when they have mingled in the pasture, so did their leaders marshal them on this side and on that to enter into the battle, and among them lord Agamemnon, with eyes and head like Zeus who hurls the thunderbolt, and his waist like Ares, and his breast like Poseidon.
§2.480ἠΰτε βοῦς ἀγέληφι μέγʼ ἔξοχος ἔπλετο πάντων §2.481ταῦρος· ὃ γάρ τε βόεσσι μεταπρέπει ἀγρομένῃσι· §2.482τοῖον ἄρʼ Ἀτρεΐδην θῆκε Ζεὺς ἤματι κείνῳ §2.483ἐκπρεπέʼ ἐν πολλοῖσι καὶ ἔξοχον ἡρώεσσιν.
Even as a bull in a herd is far the chiefest of all, for he stands out conspicuous among the gathering kine; even such did Zeus make the son of Atreus on that day, pre-eminent among many, and chiefest among heroes.
§2.484ἔσπετε νῦν μοι Μοῦσαι Ὀλύμπια δώματʼ ἔχουσαι· §2.485ὑμεῖς γὰρ θεαί ἐστε πάρεστέ τε ἴστέ τε πάντα, §2.486ἡμεῖς δὲ κλέος οἶον ἀκούομεν οὐδέ τι ἴδμεν· §2.487οἵ τινες ἡγεμόνες Δαναῶν καὶ κοίρανοι ἦσαν·
Tell me now, you Muses who have dwellings on Olympus— for you are goddesses, and are present, and know all things, while we hear only a rumor and know nothing— who were the leaders and lords of the Danaans.
§2.488πληθὺν δʼ οὐκ ἂν ἐγὼ μυθήσομαι οὐδʼ ὀνομήνω, §2.489οὐδʼ εἴ μοι δέκα μὲν γλῶσσαι, δέκα δὲ στόματʼ εἶεν, §2.490φωνὴ δʼ ἄρρηκτος, χάλκεον δέ μοι ἦτορ ἐνείη, §2.491εἰ μὴ Ὀλυμπιάδες Μοῦσαι Διὸς αἰγιόχοιο §2.492θυγατέρες μνησαίαθʼ ὅσοι ὑπὸ Ἴλιον ἦλθον·
But the multitude I could not tell or name, not even if I had ten tongues and ten mouths, and a voice untiring, and a bronze heart within me, unless the Muses of Olympus, daughters of aegis-bearing Zeus, should bring to my mind how many came beneath Ilium.
§2.493ἀρχοὺς αὖ νηῶν ἐρέω νῆάς τε προπάσας.
Now will I tell the captains of the ships and all the ships together.
§2.494Βοιωτῶν μὲν Πηνέλεως καὶ Λήϊτος ἦρχον §2.495Ἀρκεσίλαός τε Προθοήνωρ τε Κλονίος τε, §2.496οἵ θʼ Ὑρίην ἐνέμοντο καὶ Αὐλίδα πετρήεσσαν §2.497Σχοῖνόν τε Σκῶλόν τε πολύκνημόν τʼ Ἐτεωνόν, §2.498Θέσπειαν Γραῖάν τε καὶ εὐρύχορον Μυκαλησσόν, §2.499οἵ τʼ ἀμφʼ Ἅρμʼ ἐνέμοντο καὶ Εἰλέσιον καὶ Ἐρυθράς, §2.500οἵ τʼ Ἐλεῶνʼ εἶχον ἠδʼ Ὕλην καὶ Πετεῶνα, §2.501Ὠκαλέην Μεδεῶνά τʼ ἐϋκτίμενον πτολίεθρον,
Of the Boeotians, Peneleos and Leitus were captains, and Arcesilaus and Prothoenor and Clonius; these were they who dwelt in Hyria and rocky Aulis, and Schoenus and Scolus and mountain-walled Eteonus, Thespeia, and Graia, and spacious Mycalessus, and they who dwelt about Harma and Eilesium and Erythrae, and they who held Eleon and Hyle and Peteon, Ocalea and Medeon, the well-built city,