While they were stripping the armour from these, meanwhile the Achaeans were flinging themselves into the digged trench and against the palisade, fleeing this way and that, and were getting them within their wall of necessity.
ὄφρ' οἳ τοὺς ἐνάριζον ἀπ' ἔντεα , τόφρα δ' Ἀχαιοὶ τάφρῳ καὶ σκολόπεσσιν ἐνιπλήξαντες ὀρυκτῇ ἔνθα καὶ ἔνθα φέβοντο , δύοντο δὲ τεῖχος ἀνάγκῃ .
ὄφρα ὁ ὁ ἐναρίζω ἀπό ἔντεα , τόφρα δέ Ἀχαιός τάφρος καί σκόλοψ ἐμπλήσσω ὀρυκτός ἔνθα καί ἔνθα φέβομαι , δύω δέ τεῖχος ἀνάγκη .