but as he stood fixed, even as a pillar or a tree, high and leafy, the warrior Idomeneus struck him with a thrust of his spear full upon the breast, and clave his coat of bronze round about him, that in the past ever warded death from his body,
οὔ τε γὰρ ἐξοπίσω φυγέειν δύνατ' οὔ τ' ἀλέασθαι , ἀλλ' ὥς τε στήλην ἢ δένδρεον ὑψιπέτηλον ἀτρέμας ἑσταότα στῆθος μέσον οὔτασε δουρὶ ἥρως Ἰδομενεύς , ῥῆξεν δέ οἱ ἀμφὶ χιτῶνα χάλκεον , ὅς οἱ πρόσθεν ἀπὸ χροὸς ἤρκει ὄλεθρον · [0]
οὐ τε γάρ ἐξοπίσω φεύγω δύναμαι οὐ τε ἀλέομαι , ἀλλά ὡς τε στήλη ἤ δένδρεον ὑψιπέτηλος ἀτρέμας ἵστημι στῆθος μέσος οὐτάζω δόρυ ἥρως Ἰδομενεύς , ῥήγνυμι δέ ἕ ἀμφί χιτών χάλκεος , ὅς ἕ πρόσθεν ἀπό χρώς ἀρκέω ὄλεθρος ·