Ha, diverse the wounds were they tore in the quivering flesh of foes, these twain, + 

When under the onset of storming spears men reeled in the battle-strain + 

Now o’er the fresh-stricken corse of Achilles, anon in the conflict-travail + 

Of days wide-ruining! Ay, for of old the hate of malignant cavil + 

Consorted with cunning speech, and imagined deceit and the venomous sneer. Ah yes, + 

The bright names still it assails, and exalts the abjects’ fame which is rottenness. + 