《伊利亚特·第15卷》第11节
Then the great Aias son of Telamon answered him saying: “Yea, friend, but let the bow and the many arrows lie, even so, since the god has confounded them, being jealous of the Danaans, but take in thy hands a long spear, and a shield on thy shoulder, and war with the Trojans, and arouse the rest of the host. Verily not without labour, for all their victory, let them take the well-timbered ships, nay, let us be mindful of the delight of battle.” So spake he, and Teukros set the bow within the huts again, but round his shoulder he set a fourfold shield, and on his mighty head a well-wrought helmet, [with a horse-hair plume, and terribly the crest nodded above.] And he seized a strong spear, shod with sharp bronze, and started on his way, and started and running right speedily stood beside Aias. But when Hector saw the artillery of Teukros harmed, he cried, with a mighty shout, to the Trojans and Lykians: “Trojans, and Lykians, and Dardanians that love close fight, play the man, my friends, and be mindful of impetuous valour, here by the hollow ships, for I have seen with mine eyes, how the artillery of the bravest warrior was harmed by Zeus. And most easily discerned is the aid of Zeus to men both to whomso he gives the meed of the greater honour and whom he would minish and hath no will to aid, as even now he minisheth the strength of the Argives, but us he aideth. But fight in your firm companies at the ships, and whosoever of you be smitten by dart or blow and meeteth death and fate, so let him die. Lo, it is no dishonourable thing for him to fall fighting for his country, but his wife and his children after him are safe, and his house unharmed, and his lot of land, if but the Achaians fare with their ships to their dear native land.” So spake he and aroused the might and the spirit of every man. But Aias again, on the other side, called unto his comrades: “Shame on you, Argives: now is one thing sure, either that we must perish utterly, or be saved and drive the peril from the ships. Think ye that if Hector of the glancing helm take the ships, ye will come by dry land each to his own country? Hear ye not Hector exhorting all the host, so eager, verily, is he to burn the ships? Truly he bids not men to the dance but to battle. And for us there is no better counsel nor device, but to put forth our hands and all our might in close combat. Better it were to risk life or death, once for all, than long to be straitened in the dread stress of battle, thus vainly by the ships, at the hands of worse men than we be.”
注释摘要
大埃阿斯见自己的异母兄弟透克洛斯的弓弦被宙斯弄断，便劝他放下弓箭，拿起长矛和盾牌，转身投入近战。他说的“神明嫉妒达那奥斯人”一句，指的就是宙斯偏袒特洛伊一方、削弱阿开亚人武力的现场判断。他一面承认特洛伊人此刻占据上风，一面用“让他们也不是不费力气就能夺走这些造得好的船”来稳住军心，最后那句“让我们记起战斗的喜悦”，是把苦战重新说成一场值得投入的较量。透克洛…