《伊利亚特·第22卷》第10节
Thus spake she wailing. But Hector’s wife knew not as yet, for no true messenger had come to tell her how her husband abode without the gates, but in an inner chamber of the lofty house she was weaving a double purple web, and broidering therein manifold flowers. Then she called to her goodly-haired handmaids through the house to set a great tripod on the fire, that Hector might have warm washing when he came home out of the battle fond heart, and was unaware how, far from all washings, bright-eyed Athene had slain him by the hand of Achilles. But she heard shrieks and groans from the battlements, and her limbs reeled, and the shuttle fell from her hands to earth. Then again among her goodly-haired maids she spake: “Come two of ye this way with me that I may see what deeds are done. It was the voice of my husband’s noble mother that I heard, and in my own breast my heart leapeth to my mouth and my knees are numbed beneath me: surely some evil thing is at hand against the children of Priam. Would that such word might never reach my ear! yet terribly I dread lest noble Achilles have cut off bold Hector from the city by himself and chased him to the plain and ere this ended his perilous pride that possessed him, for never would he tarry among the throng of men but ran out before them far, yielding place to no man in his hardihood.”
注释摘要
赫克托耳之妻安德洛玛刻此时尚不知情。这个段落的全部力量都建立在一条简单的叙事原则之上：城头已是一片哀号，而深宅之内的她还在做着丈夫归来的日常安排。没有信使来报，因为赫克托耳根本未入城——他一直被阿喀琉斯追在城外，最终死在那里，消息尚无渠道传入。她此时身处“高屋的内室”，正在织一匹双层的紫色布，并在其中绣上各式花样。这个细节不是闲笔：织布在荷马世界里是贵族妇…