Lines 21 - 44 (390 - 413)

Question 1

ἦ ῥα γυνὴ ταμίη ὃ δ ἀπέσσυτο δώματος Ἕκτωρ

Answer 1

So spoke the housemaid, and Hector hastened from the house

Question 2

τὴν αὐτὴν ὁδὸν αὖτις ἐϋκτιμένας κατ’ ἀγυιάς.

Answer 2

again/back over the same way along the well­-built streets.

Question 3

εὖτε πύλας ἵκανε διερχόμενος μέγα ἄστυ

Answer 3

When now he had come to the gate, as he passed through the
great city,

Question 4

Σκαιάς τῇ ἄρ ἔμελλε διεξίμεναι πεδίον δέ,

Answer 4

the Scaean gate, along which he intended to go through to the plain,

Question 5

ἔνθ ἄλοχος πολύδωρος ἐναντίη ἦλθε θέουσα

Answer 5

there came running/rushing to meet him his well-dowered wife,

Question 6

Ἀνδρομάχη θυγάτηρ μεγαλήτορος Ἠετίωνος

Answer 6

Andromache, daughter of great­-hearted Eëtion,

Question 7

Ἠετίων ὃς ἔναιεν ὑπὸ Πλάκῳ ὑληέσσῃ

Answer 7

Eëtion who dwelt at the foot of wooded Placus (mountain),

Question 8

Θήβῃ Ὑποπλακίῃ Κιλίκεσσ ἄνδρεσσιν ἀνάσσων ‘ :

Answer 8

in ‘Thebe-under-Placus’, and ruled over the Cilician men;

Question 9

τοῦ περ δὴ θυγάτηρ ἔχεθ Ἕκτορι χαλκοκορυστῇ.

Answer 9

for it was his daughter who was married to bronze-harnessed Hector.

Question 10

ἥ οἱ ἔπειτ ἤντησ ἅ μα δ ἀμφίπολος κίεν αὐτῇ

Answer 10

She now met him, and with her came a handmaid

Question 11

παῖδ’ ἐπὶ κόλπῳ ἔχουσ ἀταλάφρονα νήπιον αὔτως

Answer 11

holding in her bosom herself the tender boy, a mere baby,

Question 12

Ἑκτορίδην ἀγαπητὸν ἀλίγκιον ἀστέρι καλῷ,

Answer 12

the well-loved son of Hector, like a fair star,

Question 13

τόν ῥ Ἕκτωρ καλέεσκε Σκαμάνδριον αὐτὰρ οἱ ἄλλοι,

Answer 13

Hector used to call Scamandrius, but others (called him)

Question 14

Ἀστυάνακτ᾽ οἶος γὰρ ἐρύετο Ἴλιον Ἕκτωρ ‘:

Answer 14

Astyanax; for only Hector guarded Ilios.

Question 15

ἤτοι ὃ μὲν μείδησεν ἰδὼν ἐς παῖδα σιωπῇ

Answer 15

Τhen Hector smiled, as he glanced at the boy in silence,

Question 16

Ἀνδρομάχη δέ οἱ ἄγχι παρίστατο δάκρυ χέουσα,

Answer 16

but Andromache stood near him weeping,

Question 17

ἔν τ ἄρα οἱ φῦ χειρὶ ἔπος τ ἔφατ ἔκ τ ὀνόμαζε:

Answer 17

and clasped his hand and spoke to him, and addressed him (by name)

Question 18

δαιμόνιε, φθίσει σε τὸ σὸν μένος, οὐδ ἐλεαίρεις παῖδά τε νηπίαχον καὶ ἔμ᾽ ἄμμορον, ἣ τάχα χήρη

Answer 18

“Ah, my husband, this prowess of yours will be your doom, and you do not pity your infant child nor me, doomed, who soon will be your widow;

Question 19

σεῦ ἔσομαι τάχα, γάρ σε κατακτανέουσιν Ἀχαιοὶ: πάντες ἐφορμηθέντες: ἐμοὶ δέ κε κέρδιον εἴη

Answer 19

for soon the Achaeans will kill you after they have all set upon you; but for me it would be better

Question 20

σεῦ ἀφαμαρτούσῃ χθόνα δύμεναι: οὐ γὰρ ἔτ᾽ ἄλληἔσται θαλπωρὴ ἐπεὶ ἂν σύ γε πότμον ἐπίσπῃς

Answer 20

to be covered in the earth, having lost you, for no more shall there be other comfort, when you have met your fate,

Question 21

ἀλλ᾽ ἄχε᾽: οὐδέ μοι ἔστι πατὴρ καὶ πότνια μήτηρ.

Answer 21

but only pain; for I have neither father nor queenly mother. ”