and came speedily to his well-built house. But he did not find white-armed Andromache in his halls; she with her child and a fair-robed handmaiden had taken her stand upon the wall, weeping and wailing.
αἶψα δ' ἔπειθ' ἵκανε δόμους εὖ ναιετάοντας , οὐ δ' εὗρ' Ἀνδρομάχην λευκώλενον ἐν μεγάροισιν , ἀλλ' ἥ γε ξὺν παιδὶ καὶ ἀμφιπόλῳ ἐϋπέπλῳ πύργῳ ἐφεστήκει γοόωσά τε μυρομένη τε .
αἶψα δέ ἔπειτα ἱκάνω δόμος εὖ ναιετάω , οὐ δέ εὑρίσκω Ἀνδρομάχη λευκώλενος ἐν μέγαρον , ἀλλά ὅς γε σύν παῖς καί ἀμφίπιλος εὔπεπλος πύργος ἐφίστημι γοάω τε μύρω τε .