But whenever he uttered his great voice from his chest, and words like snowflakes on a winter's day, then could no mortal man beside vie with Odysseus;
ἀλλ' ὅτε δὴ ὄπα τε μεγάλην ἐκ στήθεος εἵη καὶ ἔπεα νιφάδεσσιν ἐοικότα χειμερίῃσιν , οὐκ ἂν ἔπειτ' Ὀδυσῆΐ γ' ἐρίσσειε βροτὸς ἄλλος ·
ἀλλά ὅτε δή ὄψ τε μέγας ἐκ στῆθος ἵημι καί ἔπος νιφάς εἴκω1 χειμέριος , οὐ ἄν ἔπειτα Ὀδυσσεύς γε ἐρίζω βροτός ἄλλος ·