“Go, nobly born Thoötes, and in haste Call Ajax⁠—call them both, for that were best⁠— Since terrible will be the slaughter here, So fiercely are the Lycians pressing on, Impetuous ever in assault. If there The fight be also urgent, then at least Let the brave Telamonian Ajax come, And Teucer, the great archer, follow him.

He spake. The herald listened and obeyed, And flew along the summit of the wall Built by the Greeks. He reached, and stood beside, The chieftains Ajax, and addressed them thus:⁠—

“Ajaces, leaders of the warlike Greeks, The honored son of noble Peteus asks That ye will come, though for a little space, To aid him and to share his warlike toils; For terrible will be the slaughter there, So fiercely are the Lycians pressing on, Impetuous ever in assault. If here The fight be also urgent, then at least Let the brave Telamonian Ajax come. And Teucer, the great archer, follow him.”