Then the two, when they had girded themselves, stepped into the midst of the place of gathering, and laid hold each of the other in close grip with their mighty hands, even as the gable-rafters of a high house, which some famous craftsman joins together, that he may have shelter from the might of the winds.
ζωσαμένω δ' ἄρα τώ γε βάτην ἐς μέσσον ἀγῶνα , ἀγκὰς δ' ἀλλήλων λαβέτην χερσὶ στιβαρῇσιν ὡς ὅτ' ἀμείβοντες , τούς τε κλυτὸς ἤραρε τέκτων δώματος ὑψηλοῖο βίας ἀνέμων ἀλεείνων . [0]
ζώννυμι δέ ἄρα ὁ γε βαίνω εἰς μέσος ἀγών , ἀγκάς δέ ἀλλήλων λαμβάνω χείρ στιβαρός ὡς ὅτε ἀμείβω , ὁ τε κλυτός ἀραρίσκω τέκτων δῶμα ὑψηλός βία ἄνεμος ἀλεείνω .