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The Iliad 10.341–348
a little way, and thereafter let us rush forth upon him and seize him speedily; and if so be he outrun us twain by speed of foot ever do thou hem him in toward the ships away from the host, darting after him with thy spear, lest in any wise he escape toward the city.
οὗτός τις Διόμηδες ἀπὸ στρατοῦ ἔρχεται ἀνήρ,
οὐκ οἶδʼ ἢ νήεσσιν ἐπίσκοπος ἡμετέρῃσιν,
ἦ τινα συλήσων νεκύων κατατεθνηώτων.
ἀλλʼ ἐῶμέν μιν πρῶτα παρεξελθεῖν πεδίοιο
τυτθόν· ἔπειτα δέ κʼ αὐτὸν ἐπαΐξαντες ἕλοιμεν
καρπαλίμως· εἰ δʼ ἄμμε παραφθαίησι πόδεσσιν,
αἰεί μιν ἐπὶ νῆας ἀπὸ στρατόφι προτιειλεῖν
ἔγχει ἐπαΐσσων, μή πως προτὶ ἄστυ ἀλύξῃ.