ὤ μοι ἐγὼ
πανάποτμος, ἐπεὶ τέκον υἷας ἀρίστους
Τροίῃ ἐν εὐρείῃ,
τῶν δ᾽ οὔ τινά φημι λελεῖφθαι,
Μήστορά τ᾽ ἀντίθεον
καὶ Τρωΐλον ἱππιοχάρμην
Ἕκτορά θ᾽, ὃς
θεὸς ἔσκε μετ᾽ ἀνδράσιν, οὐδὲ ἐῴκει
ἀνδρός γε
θνητοῦ πάϊς ἔμμεναι ἀλλὰ θεοῖο.
Woe is me, who
am completely ill-fated, since I begot sons the best in the broad land of Troy,
yet of them I say that not one is left, not god-like Mestor, not Troilus the
warrior charioteer, not Hector who was a god among men, nor did he seem the son
of a mortal man, but of a god.
特洛伊國王悲痛自己的小孩的離世，這裡提到其中的三位: Mestor，Troilus, 和Hector。Mestor被形容成: “not god-like” (ἀντίθεον)，和Hector是對比的，顯然Hector卓越非凡，彷彿神降世人間。
我思考，一個人散發「神」的氣質，是史詩中的美學觀，那種生命的特質與光芒是神聖的、超凡的。
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