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T-iliad-sarpedon-R08-v1 — Iliad XII.310–327, Sarpedon to Glaucus, under R08 (resistancy)

• Source: as T-iliad-sarpedon-R07-v1 — Homer, Iliad XII.310–327, Monro–Allen OCT via Perseus. Public domain.
• Regime: R08 v1.0 (frozen). The paired mirror of the R07 rendering, same locus, same session, same translator, written second.
• Translated by: the lead agent, as a labeled subject. Cost $0; not ledgered (charter §3, A4).
• Contamination: none — the same measured gate as the R07 artifact, reproduced there in full. The line-328 exposure is declared there and 328 is outside this locus too.
• Evaluation: none yet. The lead never judges its own translation (charter §5).

The translation

Glaukos, why is it that we two are honoured beyond all others, with the seat and with the meats and with the fuller cups, in Lykia, and all look upon us as upon gods, and we pasture a great temenos beside the banks of Xanthos, a fair one, of orchard-ground and of wheat-bearing tilth? Therefore now it is needful, being among the foremost Lykians, to stand, and to go against the burning battle, that one of the close-corsleted Lykians may say: "Not gloryless, these, our kings, who lord it down through Lykia; and they eat the fat sheep, and the wine picked out, honey-sweet; but their strength too is good, since among the foremost Lykians they fight." Soft one — for if indeed, this war once fled from, we two were going to be ageless and deathless always — I would not myself fight among the foremost, nor would I send you into the man-ennobling battle; but as it is, since anyhow the Keres of death stand over, ten thousand of them, which it is not for a mortal to flee nor to slip out from under

165 English words from 18 Greek lines — 19 fewer than the R07 rendering of the same lines.

Translator's log

Written as the draft was written, frozen by commit before any evaluation was designed. Coverage codes are R08 §5's strict test; INT marks a decision made by interpreting what the source means rather than by any rule (R08 §5a).

20 logged decisions, at the same 20 sites as the R07 log — the site list was written once, from the Greek, and both regimes were run down it. Tallies are computed by analysis/logparse.py.

What the two regimes did at the same sites

Recorded here as fact, not as a finding: the two logs diverge at 18 of 20 sites and converge at two — site 2 (both mark the dual, by different rules) and site 12 (R07 has no logged row for κοιρανέουσιν because nothing in F1–F10 named it, and R08 records two survivors there). The convergences are as informative as the divergences and are counted by the script rather than by eye.

One observation, flagged

internal-judgment-only. R10 (abusive fidelity) was never invoked, and R9 was consulted once. The rule that R08's own §Known limitations calls the one that "can absorb anything" did not absorb anything here, because on a source 2,700 years old the abuse the source performs on its own language is not available to be reproduced analogically — there is no contemporary register for it to be abusive against. That is a limit of R08 on ancient sources, and it is a statement about the rule set, not about the rendering.