Even when I would not suffer him to fight or make a show of prowess, when he came, and no Achaean with him, on an embassage to Thebes into the midst of the many Cadmeians—
καί ῥ' ὅτε πέρ μιν ἐγὼ πολεμίζειν οὐκ εἴασκον οὐ δ' ἐκπαιφάσσειν , ὅτε τ' ἤλυθε νόσφιν Ἀχαιῶν ἄγγελος ἐς Θήβας πολέας μετὰ Καδμείωνας · [1] [0]
καί ἄρα ὅτε πέρ μιν ἐγώ πολεμίζω οὐ ἐάω οὐ δέ ἐκπαιφάσσω , ὅτε τε ἔρχομαι νόσφι Ἀχαιός ἄγγελος εἰς Θῆβαι πολύς μετά Καδμεῖος ·