1. In my father''s stables there are eleven excellent chariots, fresh from the builder, quite new, with cloths spread over them; and by each of them there stand a pair of horses, champing barley and rye; my old father Lycaon urged me again and again when I was at home and on the point of starting, to take chariots and horses with me that I might lead the Trojans in battle, but I would not listen to him; it would have been much better if I had done so, but I was thinking about the horses, which had been used to eat their fill, and I was afraid that in such a great gathering of men they might be ill-fed, so I left them at home and came on foot to Ilius armed only with my bow and arrows.
然而，我却没有把他放倒；此乃神的干扰，出于内心的震怒。现在，我手头既无驭马，又没有可供登驾的战车，虽说在鲁卡昂的房院里，停放着十一辆漂亮的马车，甫出工房，簇新的成品，覆顶着驭马，咀嚼着雪白的大麦和燕麦。离开精工建造的府居前，年迈的枪手鲁卡昂曾三番五次地嘱告，让我带上驭马，登上战车，领着特洛伊兵勇，奔赴激战的沙场。但是，我却没有听从他的嘱告——否则，该有多好！使它们不致困挤在人群簇拥的营地，忍饥挨饿。就这样，我把它们留在家里，徒步来到特洛伊，寄望于手中的兵器，使我一无所获的弓弩。我曾放箭敌酋，他们中两位最好的战勇，图丢斯之子和阿特柔斯之子，两箭都未曾虚发