Would that in any way wrath and fury might command me carve your flesh and myself eat it raw, because of what you have wrought, as surely as there lives no man that shall ward off the dogs from your head; nay, not though they should bring here and weigh out ransom ten-fold, aye, twenty-fold, and should promise yet more; nay, not though Priam, son of Dardanus, should command pay your weight in gold;
αἲ γάρ πως αὐτόν με μένος καὶ θυμὸς ἀνήη ὤμ' ἀποταμνόμενον κρέα ἔδμεναι , οἷα ἔοργας , ὡς οὐκ ἔσθ' ὃς σῆς γε κύνας κεφαλῆς ἀπαλάλκοι , οὐ δ' εἴ κεν δεκάκις τε καὶ εἰκοσινήριτ' ἄποινα στήσωσ' ἐνθάδ' ἄγοντες , ὑπόσχωνται δὲ καὶ ἄλλα , οὐ δ' εἴ κέν σ' αὐτὸν χρυσῷ ἐρύσασθαι ἀνώγοι Δαρδανίδης Πρίαμος ·
εἰ γάρ πως αὐτός ἐγώ μένος καί θυμός ἀνίημι ὠμός ἀποτέμνω κρέας ἔδω , οἷος ἔρδω , ὡς οὐ εἰμί ὅς σός γε κύων κεφαλή ἀπάλαλκε , οὐδέ οὐδέ εἰ ἄν δεκάκις τε καί εἰκοσινήριτος ἄποινα ἵστημι ἐνθάδε ἄγω , ὑπισχνέομαι δέ καί ἄλλος , οὐδέ οὐδέ εἰ ἄν σύ αὐτός χρυσός ἐρύω1 ἄνωγα Δαρδανίδης Πρίαμος ·