1.

Achillés, ubi Patroclus mortuus est, eum diū lūget (mourns);

2. Hectorem vidicāre (take vengeance on) cupit.

3. redit ad pugnam et comites in Trōiānōs dūcit.

4. illī, ubi Achillem vident, territī sunt;

5. in urbem fugiunt.

6. Hector sōlus extrā (outside) mūrōs manet.

7. pater Priamus, rēx Trōiae, et māter Hecuba eum vident ē mūrīs;

8. fīlium vocant;

9. Priamus clāmat: 'Hector, nōli Achillem in pugnam vocare;

10. nōn potes eum vincere.

11. urbem intrā;

12. festīnā.

13. ' māter clāmat: 'fīlī care (dear), nōlī extrā mūrōs manēre;

14. nōlī mortem obīre (go meet);

15. māter tua misera tē ōrat (to beg).

16. 'sed Hector eos nōn audit;

17. urbem intrāre nōn vult (refuses).

18. Trōiānōs vocat et 'portās claudite, Trōiānī,' inquit;

19. 'festīnāte.

20. ego sōlus maneō extrā mūrōs et Achillem ad pugnam voco.

21. 'Trōiānī invītī (unwillingly) portās claudunt.

22. Hector sōlus Achillem exspectat.

23. ille propius (nearer) accēdit.

24. tum (then) Hector subito timer (afraid).

25. tergum (back) vertit et fugit.

26. Achilēs celeriter currit sed eum capere nōn potest.

27. ter (three times) circum mūrōs fugit Hector, sed tandem resistit;
28. sē vertit (he turns around) et Achillem in pugnam vocat.

29. ille prōcēdit et hastam (spear) in Hectorem conicit (hurl).

30. sed Hector hastam vītat (avoids).

31. deinde (then) Hector hastam conicit et Achillis parmam percutit.

32. sed Achillēs incolumis (unharmed) est;

33. nam (for) parma eum servat (saves).

34. deinde Achillēs hastam summā vi (with all his might) conicit;

35. volat (flies) hasta per auram (through air) et Hectorem trānsfīgit (pierces).

36. ille ad terram cadit (falls) mortuus.

37. accurrit Acchillēs et dīrum facinus (a terrible deed acc.) facit.

38. Hectorem mortuum ad currum (chariot) alligat (ties) et circum mūrōs trahit (drags).

39. pater et māter ē mūrīs spectant.

40. Hecuba clāmat: 'ō Achillēs,' inquit, 'tandem ab īra dēsiste (cease from);

41. fīlium nōbīs (to us) redde.

42. ' sed Achillēs eam nōn audit;

43. Hectorem ad nāvēs trahit et eum relinquit (leave behind) in terrā iacentem (lying).