πρῶτον γάρ μιν ἰόντα βάλε στῆθος παρὰ μαζὸν
δεξιόν· ἀντικρὺ δὲ δι᾽ ὤμου χάλκεον ἔγχος
ἦλθεν· ὁ δ᾽ ἐν κονίηισι χαμαὶ πέσεν αἴγειρος ὣς
ἥ ῥά τ᾽ ἐν εἱαμενῆι ἕλεος μεγάλοιο πεφύκει
λείη, ἀτάρ τέ οἱ ὄζοι ἐπ᾽ ἀκροτάτηι πεφύασι·
τὴν μέν θ᾽ ἁρματοπηγὸς ἀνὴρ αἴθωνι σιδήρωι
ἐξέταμ᾽, ὄφρα ἴτυν κάμψηι περικαλλέϊ δίφρωι·
ἣ μέν τ᾽ ἀζομένη κεῖται ποταμοῖο παρ᾽ ὄχθας.


"For as he strode among the foremost he was struck on the right of his chest behind the nipple; and clean through his shoulder went the spear of bronze, and he fell to the ground in the dust like a poplar tree that has grown up in the bottom land of a great marsh, smooth, but from its top grow branches: this a chariot-maker has felled with the gleaming iron so that he may bend a wheel rim for a beautiful chariot, and it lies drying by a river's banks."

[Homer, Ilias, Buch D, Übersetzung der Verse 480ff., in: Homer. Iliad. Books 1-12. With an English Translation by A.T. Murray. Revised by William F. Wyatt. Harvard University Press: 2001, p.199ff. (= Loeb Classical Library 170)]
[Griechischer Text aus der Online-Version der Bibliotheca Augustana]