But the common people I could not tell nor name, nay, not though ten tongues were mine and ten mouths and a voice unwearying, and though the heart within me were of bronze, did not the Muses of Olympus, daughters of Zeus that bears the aegis, call to my mind all them that came beneath Ilios.
πληθὺν δ' οὐκ ἂν ἐγὼ μυθήσομαι οὐ δ' ὀνομήνω , οὐ δ' εἴ μοι δέκα μὲν γλῶσσαι , δέκα δὲ στόματ' εἶεν , φωνὴ δ' ἄρρηκτος , χάλκεον δέ μοι ἦτορ ἐνείη , εἰ μὴ Ὀλυμπιάδες Μοῦσαι Διὸς αἰγιόχοιο θυγατέρες μνησαίαθ' ὅσοι ὑπὸ Ἴλιον ἦλθον · [0] [1] [2]
πληθύς δέ οὐ ἄν ἐγώ μυθέομαι οὐ δέ ὀνομαίνω , οὐδέ οὐδέ εἰ ἐγώ δέκα μέν γλῶσσα , δέκα δέ στόμα εἰμί , φωνή δέ ἄρρηκτος , χάλκεος δέ ἐγώ ἦτορ ἔνειμι , εἰ μή Ὀλυμπιάς Μοῦσα Ζεύς αἰγίοχος θυγάτηρ μιμνήσκω ὅσος ὑπό Ἴλιος ἔρχομαι ·