These then when they had fenced one another with their well-wrought shields of bull's-hide, made straight for the Danaans, full eagerly, nor thought they that they would any more be stayed, but would fall upon the black ships.
οἳ δ' ἐπεὶ ἀλλήλους ἄραρον τυκτῇσι βόεσσι βάν ῥ' ἰθὺς Δαναῶν λελιημένοι , οὐ δ' ἔτ' ἔφαντο σχήσεσθ' , ἀλλ' ἐν νηυσὶ μελαίνῃσιν πεσέεσθαι .
ὅς δέ ἐπεί ἀλλήλων ἀραρίσκω τυκτός βοῦς βαίνω ἆρα ἰθύς Δαναοί λελίημαι , οὐ δέ ἔτι φημί ἔχω , ἀλλά ἐν ναῦς μέλας πίπτω .