But now the gods have willed otherwise in their evil devising, seeing that they have caused him to pass from sight as they have no other man. For I should not so grieve for his death, if he had been slain among his comrades in the land of the Trojans, or had died in the arms of his friends, when he had wound up the skein of war.
νῦν δ' ἑτέρως ἐβόλοντο θεοὶ κακὰ μητιόωντες , οἳ κεῖνον μὲν ἄιστον ἐποίησαν περὶ πάντων ἀνθρώπων , ἐπεὶ οὔ κε θανόντι περ ὧδ' ἀκαχοίμην , εἰ μετὰ οἷς ἑτάροισι δάμη Τρώων ἐνὶ δήμῳ , ἠὲ φίλων ἐν χερσίν , ἐπεὶ πόλεμον τολύπευσεν . [0]
νῦν δέ ἑτέρως βούλομαι θεός κακός μητιάω , ὅς ἐκεῖνος μέν ἄιστος ποιέω περί πᾶς ἄνθρωπος , ἐπεί οὐ ἄν θνήσκω πέρ ὧδε ἀχεύω , εἰ μετά ὅς ἑταῖρος δαμάζω Τρώς ἐν δῆμος , ἤ φίλος ἐν χείρ , ἐπεί πόλεμος τολυπεύω .