Lines 45 - 93 (421 - 477)

Question 1

Ἕκτορ ἀτὰρ σύ μοί ἐσσι πατὴρ καὶ πότνια μήτηρ

Answer 1

But, Hector, you are to me father and queenly mother,

Question 2

ἠδὲ κασίγνητος σὺ δέ μοι θαλερὸς παρακοίτης

Answer 2

and a brother, and you are my strong husband.

Question 3

ἀλλ᾽ ἄγε νῦν ἐλέαιρε καὶ αὐτοῦ μίμν᾽ ἐπὶ πύργῳ,

Answer 3

Come now, have pity, and remain here on the wall,

Question 4

μὴ παῖδ᾽ ὀρφανικὸν θήῃς χήρην τε γυναῖκα:

Answer 4

so that you won’t make your child an orphan and your wife a widow.

Question 5

λαὸν δὲ στῆσον παρ᾽ ἐρινεόν, ἔνθα μάλιστα

Answer 5

station/place your people by the fig tree, precisely where

Question 6

ἀμβατός ἐστι πόλις καὶ ἐπίδρομον ἔπλετο τεῖχος:

Answer 6

the city is most easily scaled and the wall is most assailable:

Question 7

τρὶς γὰρ τῇ γ᾽ ἐλθόντες ἐπειρήσανθ᾽ οἱ ἄριστοι

Answer 7

for three times at this point did the best come and try (it)

Question 8

ἀμφ᾽ Αἴαντε δύω καὶ ἀγακλυτὸν Ἰδομενῆα

Answer 8

and around/among the two Ajaxes and renowned Idomeneus

Question 9

ἠδ᾽ ἀμφ᾽ Ἀτρεΐδας καὶ Τυδέος ἄλκιμον υἱόν:

Answer 9

and among/around the sons of Atreus and the brave son of Tydeus [Diomedes]

Question 10

ἤ πού τίς σφιν ἔνισπε θεοπροπίων ἐῢ εἰδώς,

Answer 10

Either someone no doubt with a good knowledge of oracles told them,

Question 11

ἤ νυ καὶ αὐτῶν θυμὸς ἐποτρύνει καὶ ἀνώγει.”

Answer 11

or then even their own heart urged and ordered them.”

Question 12

τὴν δ᾽ αὖτε προσέειπε μέγας κορυθαίολος Ἕκτωρ:

Answer 12

Then great Hector of the shining helmet addressed her in turn:

Question 13

“ ἦ καὶ ἐμοὶ τάδε πάντα μέλει, γύναι: ἀλλὰ μάλ᾽ αἰνῶς

Answer 13

“All these things concern me also, (my) wife; but I am very terribly

Question 14

αἰδέομαι Τρῶας καὶ Τρῳάδας ἑλκεσιπέπλους,

Answer 14

ashamed for the Trojans and the Trojan women of the trailing robes,

Question 15

αἴ κε κακὸς ὣς νόσφιν ἀλυσκάζω πολέμοιο:

Answer 15

if, like a coward, I would stay away from the war;

Question 16

οὐδέ με θυμὸς ἄνωγεν, ἐπεὶ μάθον ἔμμεναι ἐσθλὸς

Answer 16

Nor did my heart urge me, since I learnt how to be brave

Question 17

αἰεὶ καὶ πρώτοισι μετὰ Τρώεσσι μάχεσθαι,

Answer 17

and always to fight among the first [ranks of] Trojans

Question 18

ἀρνύμενος πατρός τε μέγα κλέος ἠδ᾽ ἐμὸν αὐτοῦ.

Answer 18

winning great glory for my father and my own self.

Question 19

εὖ γὰρ ἐγὼ τόδε οἶδα κατὰ φρένα καὶ κατὰ θυμόν:

Answer 19

For I know this well in my mind and heart:

Question 20

ἔσσεται ἦμαρ, ὅτ᾽ ἄν ποτ᾽ ὀλώλῃ Ἴλιος ἱρὴ

Answer 20

There will be a day when holy Troy shall perish

Question 21

καὶ Πρίαμος καὶ λαὸς ἐϋμμελίω Πριάμοιο.

Answer 21

and Priam and the people of Priam, armed with ashen spear.

Question 22

κἀλλ᾽ οὔ μοι Τρώων τόσσον μέλει ἄλγος ὀπίσσω,

Answer 22

But it is not so much the pain of the Trojans that concerns me hereafter,

Question 23

οὔτ᾽ αὐτῆς Ἑκάβης οὔτε Πριάμοιο ἄνακτος

Answer 23

nor of Hecabe herself nor of Priam the king

Question 24

οὔτε κασιγνήτων, οἵ κεν πολέες τε καὶ ἐσθλοὶ

Answer 24

nor of my brothers, who, many and brave as they are,

Question 25

ἐν κονίῃσι πέσοιεν ὑπ᾽ ἀνδράσι δυσμενέεσσιν,

Answer 25

shall fall in the dust under hostile men

Question 26

ὅσσον σεῦ, ὅτε κέν τις Ἀχαιῶν χαλκοχιτώνων

Answer 26

as yours [your pain], when one of the bronze-clad Achaeans

Question 27

δακρυόεσσαν ἄγηται, ἐλεύθερον ἦμαρ ἀπούρας.

Answer 27

leads you away in tears, having taking away your day of freedom.

Question 28

καί κεν ἐν Ἄργει ἐοῦσα πρὸς ἄλλης ἱστὸν ὑφαίνοις,

Answer 28

And if, when you are in Argos, you weave at the loom of another (woman),

Question 29

καί κεν ὕδωρ φορέοις Μεσσηΐδος ἢ Ὑπερείης

Answer 29

and carry water from the spring Messeis or Hypereia

Question 30

πόλλ᾽ ἀεκαζομένη, κρατερὴ δ᾽ ἐπικείσετ᾽ ἀνάγκη:

Answer 30

protesting/resisting much, but strong necessity will lie on you;

Question 31

καί ποτέ τις εἴπῃσιν ἰδὼν κατὰ δάκρυ χέουσαν:

Answer 31

and some day, someone might say, when he saw you shed a tear:

Question 32

‘Ἕκτορος ἥδε γυνὴ, ὃς ἀριστεύεσκε μάχεσθαι

Answer 32

“This is the wife of Hector, who excelled in fighting

Question 33

Τρώων ἱπποδάμων ὅτε Ἴλιον ἀμφεμάχοντο.’

Answer 33

Among the Trojans, breakers of horses, in the days when they fought around Troy.”

Question 34

ὥς ποτέ τις ἐρέει, σοὶ δ ̓ αὖ νέον ἔσσεται ἄλγος

Answer 34

Thus will someone say some day, and for you there will be yet again a new grief

Question 35

χήτεϊ τοιοῦδ ̓ ἀνδρὸς, ἀμύνειν δούλιον ἦμαρ.

Answer 35

because of/due to your lack of such a man, to fend off your day of slavery.

Question 36

ἀλλά με τεθνηῶτα χυτὴ κατὰ γαῖα καλύπτοι,

Answer 36

But may the earth cover me, dead, heaped up high,

Question 37

πρίν γέ τι σῆς τε βοῆς σοῦ θ ̓ ἑλκηθμοῖο πυθέσθαι.”

Answer 37

before I hear anything of your cry and your being dragged away.’

Question 38

ὣς εἰπὼν οὗ παιδὸς ὀρέξατο φαίδιμος Ἕκτωρ:

Answer 38

Having spoken thus/in this way, glorious Hector reached out for his child;

Question 39

ἂψ δ ̓ ὃ πάϊς πρὸς κόλπον ἐϋζώνοιο τιθήνης

Answer 39

But the child immediately leant back to the bosom of his fair-girdled nurse

Question 40

ἐκλίνθη ἰάχων, πατρὸς φίλου ὄψιν ἀτυχθεὶς,

Answer 40

crying, dismayed at the sight of his beloved father,

Question 41

ταρβήσας χαλκόν τε ἰδὲ λόφον ἱππιοχαίτην,

Answer 41

fearing the bronze and the plume of horsehair,

Question 42

δεινὸν ἀπ ̓ ἀκροτάτης κόρυθος νεύοντα νοήσας.

Answer 42

Having found the helmet nodding from the top as scary

Question 43

ἐκ δ ̓ ἐγέλασσε πατήρ τε φίλος καὶ πότνια μήτηρ

Answer 43

and his dear father and lady mother laughed aloud.

Question 44

αὐτίκ ̓ ἀπὸ κρατὸς κόρυθ ̓ εἵλετο φαίδιμος Ἕκτωρ,

Answer 44

Then at once glorious Hector took the helmet from his head

Question 45

καὶ τὴν μὲν κατέθηκεν ἐπὶ χθονὶ παμφανόωσαν,

Answer 45

and he placed it, all-shining, on the ground,

Question 46

αὐτὰρ ὅ γ ̓ ὃν φίλον υἱὸν ἐπεὶ κύσε πῆλέ τε χερσὶν,

Answer 46

Then when he kissed his beloved son and tossed him in his arms,

Question 47

εἶπε δ ̓ ἐπευξάμενος Διί τ ̓ ἄλλοισίν τε θεοῖσιν:

Answer 47

he spoke in prayer to Zeus and the other gods:

Question 48

“ Ζεῦ ἄλλοι τε θεοὶ, δότε δὴ καὶ τόνδε γενέσθαι

Answer 48

‘Zeus and the other gods, grant that this

Question 49

παῖδ ̓ ἐμὸν, ὡς καὶ ἐγώ περ, ἀριπρεπέα Τρώεσσιν,

Answer 49

son of mine may be just as I am, very distinguished among the Trojans,