He stood up and said among the Argives, "My friends, princes and counsellors of the Argives, can you see the running as well as I can?
There seems to be another pair in front now, and another driver; those that led off at the start must have been disabled out on the plain.

I saw them at first making their way round the doubling-post, but now, though I search the plain of Troy, I cannot find them.

Perhaps the reins fell from the driver's hand so that he lost command of his horses at the doubling-post, and could not turn it.

I suppose he must have been thrown out there, and broken his chariot, while his mares have left the course and gone off wildly in a panic.

Come up and see for yourselves, I cannot make out for certain, but the driver seems an Aetolian by descent, ruler over the Argives, brave Diomed the son of Tydeus." Ajax the son of Oileus took him up rudely and said, "Idomeneus, why should you be in such a hurry to tell us all about it, when the mares are still so far out upon the plain?
You are none of the youngest, nor your eyes none of the sharpest, but you are always laying down the law.
You have no right to do so, for there are better men here than you are.
Eumelus's horses are in front now, as they always have been, and he is on the chariot holding the reins." The captain of the Cretans was angry, and answered, "Ajax you are an excellent railer, but you have no judgement, and are wanting in much else as well, for you have a vile temper.