§433σωτηρίαν αὐτοῖς ἐπαρκέσαι τολμήσεις.
will you dare to afford salvation for them?
πόθεν ὦ πρὸς θεῶν ἐκτήσω τὴν κόρην, ἵνα τἄλλʼ ἀφῶμεν;
From where, by the gods, did you acquire the girl, to leave other things aside?
ἀφʼ ὧν εὐηργέτεις ἡμᾶς.
From those things in which you were doing us service.
οὕτω γοῦν καὶ τὴν Λυρνησὸν εἷλες ἐν τῷ πλήθει τῶν ἄλλων χωρίων.
In this way indeed you also captured Lyrnessus among the multitude of other places.
οὐκοῦν οὐ τὸ στράτευμα τῆς παιδὸς εἰκὸς εἶναι προσθήκην, ἀλλὰ τὴν παῖδα τοῦ στρατοπέδου καὶ τῶν ἄλλων πραγμάτων.
Therefore, it is not reasonable for the army to be an addition to the girl, but the girl to the camp and other matters.
ἁπάντων δὲ ἀτοπώτατον, εἰ ὁ μὲν Χρύσης τὴν θυγατέρα ἀπολαμβάνων οὐ προήχθη περαιτέρω εὔξασθαι ὡς πολεμίοις, ἀλλʼ ἐπέπαυτο τῆς ὀργῆς, ἄνθρωπος βάρβαρος καὶ φύσει πολέμιος καὶ συγκινδυνεύσας καὶ περὶ τῆς σωτηρίας αὐτῆς, σὺ δʼ αὐτήν τε ἀπολαμβάνων τὴν ἄνθρωπον καὶ πρὸς ἐκείνῃ τοσαύτας λαμβάνων, καὶ πρὸς ταῖς γυναιξὶ χρήματα, πόλεις, χώραν, συγγένειαν, ἃ θαυμάζειν δέον οὐκ ἐῶ, μέμψασθαι δʼ οὐκ ἔχεις, εἰσαεὶ μενεῖς ἐπὶ τοῦ παροξυσμοῦ;
But of all things the most monstrous is, if Chryses, on receiving back his daughter, was not led further to pray against us as enemies, but ceased from his anger—a barbarian man and an enemy by nature, and one who shared danger even concerning her salvation—while you, receiving back the woman herself, and in addition to her receiving so many things, and besides the women, money, cities, land, alliance by marriage—which, though it is necessary to wonder at, I do not forbid, and you cannot complain of—will you remain forever in your provocation?
κἀκεῖνος μὲν συνεύξατο τῷ θεῷ παῦσαι τὴν νόσον ἡμῖν, σὺ δʼ οὐ βουλήσει παῦσαι τὰ τοῦ πολέμου δύσκολα;
And while he joined in praying to the god to stop the disease for us, will you not wish to stop the troubles of the war?
ἀλλʼ ὁ μὲν ἐξ ἀμφοῖν ἐνεδείξατο τὴν δύναμιν τοῖς Ἀχαιοῖς, ἔκ τε ὧν καταρασάμενος πολλοὺς διέφθειρε καὶ ὧν εὐξάμενος ἅπαντας ἔσωσε, σὺ δʼ ἀξιώσεις ἀπὸ θατέρου μόνου μιμήσασθαι τὸν ἱερέα, καὶ ταῦτα ἀπὸ τῶν ἀπολλυμένων;
But while he from both demonstrated his power to the Achaeans, both from those whom he destroyed by cursing and those whom he saved by praying, will you deem it worthy to imitate the priest from only one of the two, and that from those who are perishing?
ἀλλὰ πολλῷ βέλτιον ἦν τῷ σώζειν πάντας ἐνδείκνυσθαι τὴν ῥώμην ἢ θάτερον πράξαντα τὸ λοιπὸν φυγεῖν, καὶ προδοῦναι μὲν τὸ στρατόπεδον ἐπὶ τῷ κομίσασθαι τὴν σαυτοῦ δεινὸν ἂν ἡγήσω, σῶσαι δὲ οὐ δέξει τὸ στρατόπεδον μετὰ τοῦ τὴν σεαυτοῦ κομίζεσθαι, ἀλλʼ ὁ μὲν Ἕκτωρ πυρὶ καὶ σιδήρῳ πάντα ἐπέρχεται, καὶ σμικρόν ἐστιν αὐτῷ σῶσαι Τροίαν, σὺ δʼ ἐν τῇ σκηνῇ μενεῖς ᾁδων πρὸς λύραν;
But it was much better to demonstrate your strength by saving all, rather than doing the other and fleeing for the future; and while you would have deemed it a terrible thing to betray the camp for the sake of recovering your own girl, will you not accept to save the camp along with recovering your own? But while Hector attacks everything with fire and iron, and it is a small thing for him to save Troy, will you remain in your tent singing to the lyre?
πότερον τὰ ἑτέρων ᾁδων μενεῖς;
Will you remain singing the deeds of others?
ἀλλʼ ἄμεινον ἑτέροις τὰ σαυτοῦ παρασχεῖν ᾁδειν ἐπὶ χρηστῷ τινι.
But it is better to provide one's own deeds for others to sing upon some good success.
ἀλλὰ τὴν μῆνιν νὴ Δίʼ ἣν μηνίεις ταύτην ὑμνήσεις ὥσπερ θεόν;
Or indeed, by Zeus, will you hymn this wrath of yours which you are angry with, as if it were a god?
δέδοικα μὴ τῶν Ἀχαιῶν ᾁδης ἐπιταφίους, οὕτως ἀωρὶ τοῦ παντὸς χρόνου §434μελῳδῶν.
I fear lest you sing funeral songs for the Achaeans, so untimely of all seasonable time singing.
εἶτα φῂς εἶναι φιλόψυχος καὶ καταψεύδει σαυτοῦ.
Then do you say you are a lover of life and lie against yourself?
καὶ τίς ὦ πρὸς θεῶν οὕτω παῖς ἐστιν ὥστε πεισθῆναι ὡς Ἀχιλλεὺς ἀγαπᾷ ζῶν καὶ διὰ ταῦτα ἔξω βελῶν ἐστιν, ὅτι οὐχ οἷόν τε ἀποθανόντα ἀναστῆναι;
And who, by the gods, is so much a child as to be persuaded that Achilles loves living and for this reason is out of reach of missiles, because it is not possible for one who has died to rise again?
εἰ δʼ Ἐπειοῦ τοῦ Φωκέως ἠκούομεν, ποίους ἄν τινας ἄλλους ἢ τούτους ἠκούομεν τοὺς λόγους;
If we were listening to Epeius the Phocian, what other words than these would we have listened to?
καίτοι τί λέγω;
Yet what am I saying?
ἐκεῖνος πυκτεύων ἥδιον ἂν τεθναίη, πρὶν ἐκστῆναί τινι.
He, while boxing, would more gladly die before yielding to anyone.
ταῦτα μὲν οὖν εἰς Θερσίτην τρέποιτο καὶ ὅστις ἐκείνῳ παραπλήσιος· σὺ δὲ ὦ τᾶν μὴ σκῶπτε, μηδʼ ἀντιποιοῦ κακίας, ἧς οὐδέν σοι προσήκει· οὔτε γὰρ ἡμᾶς πείσεις οὔθʼ, ὡς ἐγᾦμαι, σαυτόν.
Let these things indeed be turned upon Thersites and whoever is similar to him; but you, my good friend, do not mock yourself, nor lay claim to a baseness which in no way belongs to you; for you will neither persuade us nor, as I think, yourself.
ἀλλὰ καθελκύσας τὰς ναῦς ἀποπλέων οἰχήσει;
But having launched your ships, will you go sailing away?
εἶτʼ οὐκ αἰσχύνει τὰς Νηρηίδας τὰς πρὸς μητρὸς συγγενεῖς οὕτως ἀνομοίως πλέων τὴν θάλατταν νῦν καὶ πρὸ τοῦ·
Then are you not ashamed before the Nereids, your relatives on your mother's side, sailing the sea so unlike now and before?
τότε μὲν δόξης ἀφορμὰς δύναμιν συλλέγων τῷ στρατοπέδῳ, νυνὶ δʼ ἅπασι λελυμασμένος.
At that time gathering resources of glory and power for the camp, but now having ruined everyone.
πρὸς ποτέρων δέ σοι ταῦτα ἄξια τῶν συγγενῶν, πότερον τῶν θαλαττίων ἢ τῶν κατʼ ἤπειρον, οἵ ποτʼ ἐλθόντες δεῦρο οὐ πρότερον ἀπῆραν πρὶν συνεξεῖλον τῷ πολεμάρχῳ.
To which of your relatives are these things worthy, whether those of the sea or those on land, who once having come here did not set sail before they joined in destroying the enemy with the commander?
τί δὲ καὶ θήσει πρὸς θεῶν ὄνομα τῇ θυσίᾳ, ἣν αὔριον θύσειν φῄς;
And what name, by the gods, will you give to the sacrifice which you say you will offer tomorrow?
πότερον χαριστήρια, ἢ τί καλεῖς αὐτήν;
Will it be thanksgiving, or what do you call it?
εἶτʼ οὐκ αἰσχύνει τοὺς θεοὺς αὐτοὺς μάρτυρας τοσαύτης κακίας ποιούμενος, θύων καὶ σπένδων καὶ παιανίζων ἐπὶ ταῖς τῶν Ἑλλήνων συμφοραῖς, φάσκων ἀπέχειν ἅπαντα παρʼ αὐτῶν, ὁρῶν εἰς τὸ πεδίον, μεστὸν νεκρῶν τῶν ὑπὸ σοὶ ταττομένων, ἡμέραν οὐκ οἶδα πόστην ἄνω.
Then are you not ashamed to make the gods themselves witnesses of so great baseness, sacrificing and pouring libations and singing the paean over the misfortunes of the Greeks, claiming to receive everything from them, looking upon the plain full of the dead of those marshaled under you, for I know not how many days past?
τί δʼ ἔσται σοι τοῦ πλοῦ τὸ σχῆμα;
And what will be the fashion of your voyage?
ἢ τίς λόγος τῶν ἰδόντων ἢ τῶν ἀκουσάντων;
Or what will be the talk of those who see or those who hear?
Ἀχιλλεὺς ἐπαναπλεῖ; ποῖα λάφυρα κομίζων, ἢ ποίας ἀπαρχὰς ἄγων, ἢ τί τῶν οἴκοι στεφανώσων, ἢ τῶν ἰδίων ἢ τῶν δημοσίων;
'Is Achilles sailing back?' Carrying what spoils, or bringing what first-fruits, or crowning what things at home, whether of private or of public affairs?
καλὸν δὲ τῇ Σκύρῳ νῦν προσχεῖν.
But it is a fine thing now to put in at Scyros.
καὶ τί φήσεις πρὸς τὸν παῖδα τὸν σαυτοῦ;
And what will you say to your own child?
τί τῇ γυναικὶ δόξεις εἶναι βελτίων εἰπών;
What will you seem to be better to your wife by saying?
καὶ τί λέγω Σκῦρον ἢ γυναῖκα;
And why do I speak of Scyros or a wife?