Iliad 24.503–506

ἀλλʼ αἰδεῖο θεοὺς Ἀχιλεῦ, αὐτόν τʼ ἐλέησον

μνησάμενος σοῦ πατρός· ἐγὼ δʼ ἐλεεινότερός περ,

ἔτλην δʼ οἷʼ οὔ πώ τις ἐπιχθόνιος βροτὸς ἄλλος,

ἀνδρὸς παιδοφόνοιο ποτὶ στόμα χεῖρʼ ὀρέγεσθαι.

Revere the gods, Achilles, and take pity on me,

remembering your father. Yet I deserve more pity:

I have endured what no other mortal on earth has yet endured—

I raised to my lips the hand of the man who killed my son.