(it is right to)

dishonour those who committed injustices

and [punish] them by stoning, after throwing

a thick rope around their [necks]:

[in fact,] it would have been much better for the Achaeans

to put the sacrilegious man to death:

[thus], sailing along Aegae,

they would have found a [calmer] sea;

[but] Priam’s daughter, in the temple,

[seized the statue] of Athena, provider

of great spoils, touching her chin,

while the enemies roamed the city.

They [killed] … and Deiphobus at the same

time; a lament rose

from the wall and the cries of children

filled the [Dardanian] plain.

[Ajax], seized with murderous fury, came

[to the temple] of venerable Pallas, who among all

the blessed gods is the most [terrible]

to sacrilegious men.

After seizing with both [hands] the young girl

who stood near the statue … ,

the Locrian [snatched] her, without fearing

the daughter of Zeus, dispenser of war

…; she, terribly beneath her eyebrows …

turned pale, rushed onto the [se]a

colour of wine, and suddenly raised

hidden hurricanes

…

sacred …

Ajax … Achaeans (?)

man …

…

…

went

lasting all night …

first …

terrible …

rushed [onto] the sea …

raised the power …

…

everywhere …

…

of one man …

not even so for us …

he is alive …

…

O son of Hyrras

ship …