Literal translation

 detail from Archilochos monument - gives link to home page 
             
  Vase in museum on Paros island, Greece.

With my shield then a Saian of some sort is exalting,

which beside a bush, inside, not my fault, I left, not willingly.

Let him keep it, what to me is it an object of care? The shield, that one, let it go.

A new one I shall procure and not a worse one.