Tiresias: The Ancient Mediterranean Religions Source Database

^23.315 μήτι τοι δρυτόμος μέγʼ ἀμείνων ἠὲ βίηφι·, ^23.316 μήτι δʼ αὖτε κυβερνήτης ἐνὶ οἴνοπι πόντῳ, ^23.317 νῆα θοὴν ἰθύνει ἐρεχθομένην ἀνέμοισι·, ^23.318 μήτι δʼ ἡνίοχος περιγίγνεται ἡνιόχοιο. ^23.573 ἀλλʼ ἄγετʼ Ἀργείων ἡγήτορες ἠδὲ μέδοντες, ^23.574 ἐς μέσον ἀμφοτέροισι δικάσσατε, μὴ δʼ ἐπʼ ἀρωγῇ, ^23.579 εἰ δʼ ἄγʼ ἐγὼν αὐτὸς δικάσω, καί μʼ οὔ τινά φημι, ^23.580 ἄλλον ἐπιπλήξειν Δαναῶν· ἰθεῖα γὰρ ἔσται. ^23.581 Ἀντίλοχʼ εἰ δʼ ἄγε δεῦρο διοτρεφές, ἣ θέμις ἐστί, ^23.582 στὰς ἵππων προπάροιθε καὶ ἅρματος, αὐτὰρ ἱμάσθλην, ^23.583 χερσὶν ἔχε ῥαδινήν, ᾗ περ τὸ πρόσθεν ἔλαυνες, ^23.584 ἵππων ἁψάμενος γαιήοχον ἐννοσίγαιον, ^23.585 ὄμνυθι μὴ μὲν ἑκὼν τὸ ἐμὸν δόλῳ ἅρμα πεδῆσαι. ^23.586 τὸν δʼ αὖτʼ Ἀντίλοχος πεπνυμένος ἀντίον ηὔδα·, ^23.587 ἄνσχεο νῦν· πολλὸν γὰρ ἔγωγε νεώτερός εἰμι, ^23.588 σεῖο ἄναξ Μενέλαε, σὺ δὲ πρότερος καὶ ἀρείων. ^23.589 οἶσθʼ οἷαι νέου ἀνδρὸς ὑπερβασίαι τελέθουσι·, ^23.590 κραιπνότερος μὲν γάρ τε νόος, λεπτὴ δέ τε μῆτις. ^23.591 τώ τοι ἐπιτλήτω κραδίη· ἵππον δέ τοι αὐτὸς, ^23.592 δώσω, τὴν ἀρόμην. εἰ καί νύ κεν οἴκοθεν ἄλλο, ^23.593 μεῖζον ἐπαιτήσειας, ἄφαρ κέ τοι αὐτίκα δοῦναι, ^23.594 βουλοίμην ἢ σοί γε διοτρεφὲς ἤματα πάντα, ^23.595 ἐκ θυμοῦ πεσέειν καὶ δαίμοσιν εἶναι ἀλιτρός. ἀλλʼ ἄγε δὴ σὺ φίλος μῆτιν ἐμβάλλεο θυμῷ, παντοίην, ἵνα μή σε παρεκπροφύγῃσιν ἄεθλα.

^23.315 By cunning, thou knowest, is a woodman far better than by might; by cunning too doth a helmsman on the wine-dark deep guide aright a swift ship that is buffeted by winds; and by cunning doth charioteer prove better than charioteer. ^23.318 By cunning, thou knowest, is a woodman far better than by might; by cunning too doth a helmsman on the wine-dark deep guide aright a swift ship that is buffeted by winds; and by cunning doth charioteer prove better than charioteer.
^23.573 Antilochus, thou that aforetime wast wise, what a thing hast thou wrought! Thou hast put my skill to shame and hast thwarted my horses, thrusting to the front thine own that were worser far. Come now, ye leaders and rulers of the Argives, judge ye aright betwixt us twain, neither have regard unto either, ^23.574 Antilochus, thou that aforetime wast wise, what a thing hast thou wrought! Thou hast put my skill to shame and hast thwarted my horses, thrusting to the front thine own that were worser far. Come now, ye leaders and rulers of the Argives, judge ye aright betwixt us twain, neither have regard unto either,
^23.579 lest in aftertime some one of the brazen-coated Achaeans shall say: ‘Over Antilochus did Menelaus prevail by lies, and depart with the mare, for that his horses were worser far, but himself the mightier in worth and in power.’ Nay, but I will myself declare the right, and I deem that, ^23.580 none other of the Danaans shall reproach me, for my judgement shall be just. Antilochus, fostered of Zeus, up, come thou hither and, as is the appointed way, stand thou before thy horses and chariot, and take in hand the slender lash with which aforetimethou wast wont to drive, and laying thy hand on thy horses swear by him that holdeth and shaketh the earth, ^23.584 none other of the Danaans shall reproach me, for my judgement shall be just. Antilochus, fostered of Zeus, up, come thou hither and, as is the appointed way, stand thou before thy horses and chariot, and take in hand the slender lash with which aforetimethou wast wont to drive, and laying thy hand on thy horses swear by him that holdeth and shaketh the earth, ^23.585 /that not of thine own will didst thou hinder my chariot by guile. ^23.588 /that not of thine own will didst thou hinder my chariot by guile. ^23.589 that not of thine own will didst thou hinder my chariot by guile. Then in turn wise Antilochus answered him:Bear with me, now, for far younger am I than thou, king Menelaus, and thou art the elder and the better man. Thou knowest of what sort are the transgressions of a man that he is young, ^23.590 for hasty is he of purpose and but slender is his wit. Wherefore let thy heart be patient; the mare that I have won will I give thee of my self. Aye, and if thou shouldst ask some other goodlier thing from out my house, forthwith were I fain to give it thee out of hand, rather than all my days be cast out of thy heart, thou nurtured of Zeus, ^23.594 for hasty is he of purpose and but slender is his wit. Wherefore let thy heart be patient; the mare that I have won will I give thee of my self. Aye, and if thou shouldst ask some other goodlier thing from out my house, forthwith were I fain to give it thee out of hand, rather than all my days be cast out of thy heart, thou nurtured of Zeus, ^23.595 and be a sinner in the eyes of the gods. So spake the son of great-souled Nestor, and led up the mare, and gave her into the hands of Menelaus. And his heart was gladdened even as the corn when with the dew upon the ears it waxeth ripe, what time the fields are bristling.

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