And now at the last he would by chance have strung it in his might, as for the fourth time he sought to draw up the string, but Odysseus nodded in dissent, and checked him in his eagerness.
καί νύ κε δή ῥ' ἐτάνυσσε βίῃ τὸ τέταρτον ἀνέλκων , ἀλλ' Ὀδυσεὺς ἀνένευε καὶ ἔσχεθεν ἱέμενόν περ .
καί νῦν ἄν δή ἆρα τανύω βία ὁ τέταρτος ἀνέλκω , ἀλλά Ὀδυσσεύς ἀνανεύω καί ἔχω ἵημι πέρ .