The Orkhomenos Contingent (2.511-16)

οἳ δ' Ἀσπληδόνα ναῖον ἰδ' Ὀρχομενὸν Μινύειον,
τῶν ἦρχ' Ἀσκάλαφος καὶ Ἰάλμενος υἷες Ἄρηος
οὓς τέκεν Ἀστυόχη δόμῳ Ἄκτορος Ἀζεΐδαο,
παρθένος αἰδοίη ὑπερώϊον εἰσαναβᾶσα
Ἄρηϊ κρατερῷ: ὃ δέ οἱ παρελέξατο λάθρῃ: [515]
τοῖς δὲ τριήκοντα γλαφυραὶ νέες ἐστιχόωντο.

Translation
As for the men who dwelt
in Aspledon and Minuan Orkhomenos,
their leaders were Askalaphos and Ialmenos—
twin sons of Ares borne by Astuokhe
in the halls of Aktor, son of Azeus:
the modest girl ascended to
the women’s rooms, but secretly
the mighty Ares bedded down with her.
With these men there sailed forth thirty hollow ships.

Comment
I like how the narrator lets himself get distracted by the salacious detail of Astuokhe’s seduction by Ares even though he has set himself the more pedestrian task of listing ships, men, leaders, and the geographical regions from which they come. In the last line of the entry he then recovers himself and resumes his task a little awkwardly. Accordingly, in the translation I avoided smoothing over the transition and went instead with the jarring repetition of the preposition “with.” Similarly, I used an M-dash after the leaders names to indicate that we are entering the realm of a digression, and then used a colon to mark a further step away from the realm of the strictly relevant.