The Iliad 8.161–166 — Hector speaking to Diomedes | The Lexicon

The Iliad 8.161–166

shalt thou mount upon our walls, and carry away our women in thy ships; ere that will I deal thee thy doom.

Τυδεΐδη περὶ μέν σε τίον Δαναοὶ ταχύπωλοι ἕδρῃ τε κρέασίν τε ἰδὲ πλείοις δεπάεσσι· νῦν δέ σʼ ἀτιμήσουσι· γυναικὸς ἄρʼ ἀντὶ τέτυξο. ἔρρε κακὴ γλήνη, ἐπεὶ οὐκ εἴξαντος ἐμεῖο πύργων ἡμετέρων ἐπιβήσεαι, οὐδὲ γυναῖκας ἄξεις ἐν νήεσσι· πάρος τοι δαίμονα δώσω.

Lattimore commentary

The honors mentioned—privileged seating at banquets and so on—are further expanded in the discussion of heroic rights between Glaukos and Sarpedon (at 12.310). The implicit contract (wine and food in exchange for fighting) is the background for the nearly comic rhetoric of Hektor to his horses (185) urging them to repay their upkeep.

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