Lines 93 - 118 (478 - 502)

Question 1

ὧδε βίην τ ̓ ἀγαθόν καὶ Ἰλίου ἶφι ἀνάσσειν:

Answer 1

in this way notable for his strength, and may rule with might over Troy;

Question 2

καί ποτέ τις εἴποι ‘πατρός γ ̓ ὅδε πολλὸν ἀμείνων’

Answer 2

and that someone might say “He is far better than his father”

Question 3

ἐκ πολέμου ἀνιόντα: φέροι δ ̓ ἔναρα βροτόεντα

Answer 3

as he returns from war; and may he bring the bloody spoils

Question 4

κτείνας δήϊον ἄνδρα, χαρείη δὲ φρένα μήτηρ.

Answer 4

having killed a hostile man, and may his mother delight in her heart.’

Question 5

”ὣς εἰπὼν ἀλόχοιο φίλης ἐν χερσὶν ἔθηκεν

Answer 5

Having spoken thus, he placed his child in his beloved wife’s arms;

Question 6

παῖδ ̓ ἑόν: ἣ δ ̓ ἄρα μιν κηώδεϊ δέξατο κόλπῳ

Answer 6

and she received him in her fragrant bosom

Question 7

δακρυόεν γελάσασα: πόσις δ ̓ ἐλέησε νοήσας,

Answer 7

smiling through her tears; and her husband saw and took pity

Question 8

χειρί τέ μιν κατέρεξεν, ἔπος τ ̓ ἔφατ ̓ ἔκ τ ̓ ὀνόμαζεν:

Answer 8

and stroked her with his hand, and called her by name and spoke to her:

Question 9

“ δαιμονίη, μή μοί τι λίην ἀκαχίζεο θυμῷ:

Answer 9

‘Dearest lady, don’t grieve too much for me in your heart;

Question 10

οὐ γάρ τίς μ ̓ ὑπὲρ αἶσαν ἀνὴρ Ἄϊδι προϊάψει:

Answer 10

for no man will send me to Hades beyond fate before my time;

Question 11

μοῖραν δ ̓ οὔ τινά φημι πεφυγμένον ἔμμεναι ἀνδρῶν,

Answer 11

but I claim that there is no man who has escaped fate,

Question 12

οὐ κακὸν, οὐδὲ μὲν ἐσθλόν, ἐπὴν τὰ πρῶτα γένηται.

Answer 12

neither cowardly nor brave, from the first moment he is born.

Question 13

ἀλλ ̓ εἰς οἶκον ἰοῦσα τὰ σ ̓ αὐτῆς ἔργα κόμιζε,

Answer 13

but go home and attend to your own work,

Question 14

ἱστόν τ ̓ ἠλακάτην τε, καὶ ἀμφιπόλοισι κέλευε

Answer 14

The loom and the distaff, and order your servants

Question 15

ἔργον ἐποίχεσθαι: πόλεμος δ ̓ ἄνδρεσσι μελήσει

Answer 15

to go about their work; war will be the concern of all men –

Question 16

πᾶσιn, ἐμοι δὲ μάλιστα, τοὶ Ἰλίῳ ἐγγεγάασιν. ”

Answer 16

and mine above all – who are born in Ilion.’

Question 17

ὣς ἄρα φωνήσας κόρυθ ̓ εἵλετο φαίδιμος Ἕκτωρ

Answer 17

Having spoken thus, then, glorious Hector took his helmet

Question 18

ἵππουριν: ἄλοχος δὲ φίλη οἶκονδὲ βεβήκειν

Answer 18

decked with a horse-tail; but his dear wife had gone home

Question 19

ἐντροπαλιζομένη θαλερὸν κατὰ δάκρυ χέουσα.

Answer 19

turning around often, pouring down rich tears.

Question 20

αἶψα δ ̓ ἔπειθ ̓ ἵκανε δόμους εὖ ναιετάοντας

Answer 20

and quickly, then, she came to the well-built house of

Question 21

Ἕκτορος ἀνδροφόνοιο, κιχήσατο δ ̓ ἔνδοθι πολλὰς

Answer 21

man-slaying Hector, and she met with her many

Question 22

ἀμφιπόλους, τῇσιν δὲ γόον πάσῃσιν ἐνῶρσεν.

Answer 22

maidservants, and aroused tears in all of them.

Question 23

αἳ μὲν ἔτι ζωὸν γόον Ἕκτορα ᾧ ἐνὶ οἴκῳ:

Answer 23

They already mourned Hector in his house while he was still alive

Question 24

οὐ γάρ μιν ἔτ ̓ ἔφαντο ὑπότροπον ἐκ πολέμοιο

Answer 24

for they no longer imagined that he would come returning from the war

Question 25

ἵξεσθαι προφυγόντα μένος καὶ χεῖρας Ἀχαιῶν.

Answer 25

having escaped the force and hands/troops of the Achaeans.