Moreover let the heralds tell it about the city that the growing youths and grey-bearded men are to camp upon its heaven-built walls.

Let the women each of them light a great fire in her house, and let watch be safely kept lest the town be entered by surprise while the host is outside.

See to it, brave Trojans, as I have said, and let this suffice for the moment; at daybreak I will instruct you further.

I pray in hope to Jove and to the gods that we may then drive those fate-sped hounds from our land, for 'tis the fates that have borne them and their ships hither.

This night, therefore, let us keep watch, but with early morning let us put on our armour and rouse fierce war at the ships of the Achaeans; I shall then know whether brave Diomed the son of Tydeus will drive me back from the ships to the wall, or whether I shall myself slay him and carry off his bloodstained spoils.