Then grief seized the heroes, and they leapt up and dragged him forth through the gateway, when they had shorn off his ears and his nostrils with the pitiless bronze,
ἥρωας δ' ἄχος εἷλε , διὲκ προθύρου δὲ θύραζε ἕλκον ἀναΐξαντες , ἀπ' οὔατα νηλέϊ χαλκῷ ῥῖνάς τ' ἀμήσαντες ·
ἥρως δέ ἄχος αἱρέω , διέκ πρόθυρον δέ θύραζε ἕλκω ἀναίσσω , ἀπό οὖς νηλής χαλκοῦς ῥίς τε ἀμάω ·