Now for my part I wept and wailed, in a dream though it was, and round me thronged the fair-tressed Achaean women, as I grieved piteously because the eagle had slain my geese.
αὐτὰρ ἐγὼ κλαῖον καὶ ἐκώκυον ἔν περ ὀνείρῳ , ἀμφὶ δ' ἔμ' ἠγερέθοντο ἐϋπλοκαμῖδες Ἀχαιαί , οἴκτρ' ὀλοφυρομένην ὅ μοι αἰετὸς ἔκτανε χῆνας .
ἀτάρ ἐγώ κλαίω καί κωκύω ἐν πέρ ὄνειρος , ἀμφί δέ ἐγώ ἠγερέθομαι ἐυπλοκαμίς Ἀχαιός , οἰκτρός ὀλοφύρομαι ὅς ἐγώ ἀετός κτείνω χήν .