Then when the king of men Agamemnon heard this word, he forthwith dispersed the people among the shapely ships, but they that were neareat and dearest to the dead abode there, and heaped up the wood, and made a pyre of an hundred feet this way and that, and on the topmost part thereof they set the dead man, their hearts sorrow-laden.
αὐτὰρ ἐπεὶ τό γ' ἄκουσεν ἄναξ ἀνδρῶν Ἀγαμέμνων , αὐτίκα λαὸν μὲν σκέδασεν κατὰ νῆας ἐΐσας , κηδεμόνες δὲ παρ' αὖθι μένον καὶ νήεον ὕλην , ποίησαν δὲ πυρὴν ἑκατόμπεδον ἔνθα καὶ ἔνθα , ἐν δὲ πυρῇ ὑπάτῃ νεκρὸν θέσαν ἀχνύμενοι κῆρ .
ἀτάρ ἐπεί ὁ γε ἀκούω ἄναξ ἀνήρ Ἀγαμέμνων , αὐτίκα λαός μέν σκεδάννυμι κατά ναῦς ἴσος , κηδεμών δέ παρά αὖθι μένω καί νηέω ὕλη , ποιέω δέ πυρή ἑκατόμπεδος ἔνθα καί ἔνθα , ἐν δέ πυρή ὕπατος νεκρός τίθημι ἀχεύω κῆρ .