Where are gone our boastings, when forsooth we declared that we were bravest, the boasts that when you were in Lemnos you uttered vaingloriously as you ate abundant flesh of straight-horned cattle and drank bowls brim full of wine, saying that each man would stand to face in battle an hundred, aye, two hundred Trojans!
πῇ ἔβαν εὐχωλαί , ὅτε δὴ φάμεν εἶναι ἄριστοι , ἃς ὁπότ' ἐν Λήμνῳ κενεαυχέες ἠγοράασθε , ἔσθοντες κρέα πολλὰ βοῶν ὀρθοκραιράων πίνοντες κρητῆρας ἐπιστεφέας οἴνοιο , Τρώων ἄνθ' ἑκατόν τε διηκοσίων τε ἕκαστος στήσεσθ' ἐν πολέμῳ · [0]
πῆ βαίνω εὐχωλή , ὅτε δή φημί εἰμί ἄριστος , ὅς ὁπότε ἐν Λῆμνος κενεαυχής ἀγοράομαι , ἔσθω κρέας πολύς βοῦς ὀρθόκραιρος πίνω κρατήρ ἐπιστεφής οἶνος , Τρώς ἄντα ἑκατόν τε διακόσιοι τε ἕκαστος ἵστημι ἐν πόλεμος ·