I will shrivel the fair skin on your supple limbs, and destroy the flaxen hair from off your head, and clothe you in a ragged garment, such that one would shudder to see a man clad therein. And I will dim your two eyes that were before so beautiful, that you may appear mean in the sight of all the suitors, and of your wife, and of your son, whom you left in your halls.
κάρψω μὲν χρόα καλὸν ἐνὶ γναμπτοῖσι μέλεσσι , ξανθὰς δ' ἐκ κεφαλῆς ὀλέσω τρίχας , ἀμφὶ δὲ λαῖφος ἕσσω ὅ κε στυγέῃσιν ἰδὼν ἄνθρωπον ἔχοντα , κνυζώσω δέ τοι ὄσσε πάρος περικαλλέ' ἐόντε , ὡς ἂν ἀεικέλιος πᾶσι μνηστῆρσι φανήῃς σῇ τ' ἀλόχῳ καὶ παιδί , τὸν ἐν μεγάροισιν ἔλειπες .
κάρφω μέν χρώς καλός ἐν γναμπτός μέλος , ξανθός δέ ἐκ κεφαλή ὄλλυμι θρίξ , ἀμφί δέ λαῖφος ἕννυμι ὁ ἄν στυγέω εἶδον ἄνθρωπος ἔχω , κνυζόω δέ σύ ὄσσα πάρος περικαλλής εἰμί , ὡς ἄν ἀεικής πᾶς μνηστήρ φαίνω σός τε ἄλοχος καί παῖς , ὁ ἐν μέγαρον λείπω .