§14.148ὅσσόν τʼ ἐννεάχιλοι ἐπίαχον ἢ δεκάχιλοι §14.149ἀνέρες ἐν πολέμῳ ἔριδα ξυνάγοντες Ἄρηος, §14.150τόσσην ἐκ στήθεσφιν ὄπα κρείων ἐνοσίχθων §14.151ἧκεν· Ἀχαιοῖσιν δὲ μέγα σθένος ἔμβαλʼ ἑκάστῳ §14.152καρδίῃ, ἄληκτον πολεμίζειν ἠδὲ μάχεσθαι.
As loud as the shout of nine thousand or ten thousand men in battle when they join the strife of Ares, so great a voice did the mighty Shaker of Earth send from his breast; and in the heart of each of the Achaeans he cast great strength, to war and fight unceasingly.
§14.153Ἥρη δʼ εἰσεῖδε χρυσόθρονος ὀφθαλμοῖσι §14.154στᾶσʼ ἐξ Οὐλύμποιο ἀπὸ ῥίου· αὐτίκα δʼ ἔγνω §14.155τὸν μὲν ποιπνύοντα μάχην ἀνὰ κυδιάνειραν §14.156αὐτοκασίγνητον καὶ δαέρα, χαῖρε δὲ θυμῷ·
And Hera of the golden throne looked with her eyes as she stood on a peak of Olympus; and straightway she recognized him who was busying himself in the battle that brings glory to men, her own brother and her brother-in-law, and she rejoiced in her heart.
§14.157Ζῆνα δʼ ἐπʼ ἀκροτάτης κορυφῆς πολυπίδακος Ἴδης §14.158ἥμενον εἰσεῖδε, στυγερὸς δέ οἱ ἔπλετο θυμῷ.
But Zeus she saw sitting on the topmost peak of many-fountained Ida, and he became hateful to her heart.
Then the ox-eyed queenly Hera planned how she might beguile the mind of aegis-bearing Zeus.
§14.161ἥδε δέ οἱ κατὰ θυμὸν ἀρίστη φαίνετο βουλὴ §14.162ἐλθεῖν εἰς Ἴδην εὖ ἐντύνασαν ἓ αὐτήν, §14.163εἴ πως ἱμείραιτο παραδραθέειν φιλότητι §14.164ᾗ χροιῇ, τῷ δʼ ὕπνον ἀπήμονά τε λιαρόν τε §14.165χεύῃ ἐπὶ βλεφάροισιν ἰδὲ φρεσὶ πευκαλίμῃσι.
And this seemed to her in her heart to be the best counsel: to go to Ida when she had well adorned herself, if perchance he might desire to lie by her side in love for her body, and she might pour upon his eyelids and his wise heart a sleep harmless and warm.
§14.166βῆ δʼ ἴμεν ἐς θάλαμον, τόν οἱ φίλος υἱὸς ἔτευξεν §14.167Ἥφαιστος, πυκινὰς δὲ θύρας σταθμοῖσιν ἐπῆρσε §14.168κληῗδι κρυπτῇ, τὴν δʼ οὐ θεὸς ἄλλος ἀνῷγεν·
She went to her chamber, which her dear son Hephaestus had made for her, and had fitted strong doors to the posts with a secret bolt, which no other god could open.
§14.169ἔνθʼ ἥ γʼ εἰσελθοῦσα θύρας ἐπέθηκε φαεινάς.
There she entered and closed the shining doors.
§14.170ἀμβροσίῃ μὲν πρῶτον ἀπὸ χροὸς ἱμερόεντος §14.171λύματα πάντα κάθηρεν, ἀλείψατο δὲ λίπʼ ἐλαίῳ §14.172ἀμβροσίῳ ἑδανῷ, τό ῥά οἱ τεθυωμένον ἦεν· §14.173τοῦ καὶ κινυμένοιο Διὸς κατὰ χαλκοβατὲς δῶ §14.174ἔμπης ἐς γαῖάν τε καὶ οὐρανὸν ἵκετʼ ἀϋτμή.
First with ambrosia she cleansed from her lovely body all defilement, and anointed herself richly with olive oil, ambrosial and sweet, which was scented for her; and when this was stirred in the bronze-floored house of Zeus, the scent thereof went even to earth and to heaven.
§14.175τῷ ῥʼ ἥ γε χρόα καλὸν ἀλειψαμένη ἰδὲ χαίτας §14.176πεξαμένη χερσὶ πλοκάμους ἔπλεξε φαεινοὺς §14.177καλοὺς ἀμβροσίους ἐκ κράατος ἀθανάτοιο.
Therewith she anointed her fair body, and her hair she combed, and with her hands plaited the shining tresses, fair and ambrosial, from her immortal head.
§14.178ἀμφὶ δʼ ἄρʼ ἀμβρόσιον ἑανὸν ἕσαθʼ, ὅν οἱ Ἀθήνη §14.179ἔξυσʼ ἀσκήσασα, τίθει δʼ ἐνὶ δαίδαλα πολλά· §14.180χρυσείῃς δʼ ἐνετῇσι κατὰ στῆθος περονᾶτο.
Then she clad herself in an ambrosial robe, which Athena had smoothed and wrought for her, and had set therein many embroideries; and she pinned it at the breast with golden brooches.
§14.181ζώσατο δὲ ζώνῃ ἑκατὸν θυσάνοις ἀραρυίῃ, §14.182ἐν δʼ ἄρα ἕρματα ἧκεν ἐϋτρήτοισι λοβοῖσι §14.183τρίγληνα μορόεντα· χάρις δʼ ἀπελάμπετο πολλή.
And she girded herself with a girdle arrayed with a hundred tassels, and in her well-pierced ears she set earrings with three clusters, pooling with grace; and great charm shone therefrom.
And with a veil she covered herself, she, fair among goddesses, a veil lovely and new-woven; and white it was as the sun.
§14.186ποσσὶ δʼ ὑπὸ λιπαροῖσιν ἐδήσατο καλὰ πέδιλα.
And beneath her shining feet she bound her fair sandals.
§14.187αὐτὰρ ἐπεὶ δὴ πάντα περὶ χροῒ θήκατο κόσμον §14.188βῆ ῥʼ ἴμεν ἐκ θαλάμοιο, καλεσσαμένη δʼ Ἀφροδίτην §14.189τῶν ἄλλων ἀπάνευθε θεῶν πρὸς μῦθον ἔειπε· §14.190ἦ ῥά νύ μοί τι πίθοιο φίλον τέκος ὅττί κεν εἴπω, §14.191ἦέ κεν ἀρνήσαιο κοτεσσαμένη τό γε θυμῷ, §14.192οὕνεκʼ ἐγὼ Δαναοῖσι, σὺ δὲ Τρώεσσιν ἀρήγεις; §14.193τὴν δʼ ἠμείβετʼ ἔπειτα Διὸς θυγάτηρ Ἀφροδίτη· §14.194Ἥρη πρέσβα θεὰ θύγατερ μεγάλοιο Κρόνοιο §14.195αὔδα ὅ τι φρονέεις· τελέσαι δέ με θυμὸς ἄνωγεν, §14.196εἰ δύναμαι τελέσαι γε καὶ εἰ τετελεσμένον ἐστίν. §14.197τὴν δὲ δολοφρονέουσα προσηύδα πότνια Ἥρη· §14.198δὸς νῦν μοι φιλότητα καὶ ἵμερον, ᾧ τε σὺ πάντας §14.199δαμνᾷ ἀθανάτους ἠδὲ θνητοὺς ἀνθρώπους.
But when she had put all her adornment about her body, she went forth from her chamber, and calling Aphrodite apart from the other gods, she spoke to her, saying: "Wilt thou now hearken to me, dear child, in what I shall say, or wilt thou refuse me, being angry in thy heart because I give aid to the Danaans, and thou to the Trojans?" Then made answer to her Aphrodite, daughter of Zeus: "Hera, queenly goddess, daughter of great Cronos, speak what is in thy mind; my heart bids me fulfill it, if fulfill it I can, and if it is a thing that may be fulfilled." Then with guileful thought queenly Hera spoke to her: "Give me now love and desire, wherewith thou subduest all immortals and mortal men.
§14.200εἶμι γὰρ ὀψομένη πολυφόρβου πείρατα γαίης, §14.201Ὠκεανόν τε θεῶν γένεσιν καὶ μητέρα Τηθύν, §14.202οἵ μʼ ἐν σφοῖσι δόμοισιν ἐῢ τρέφον ἠδʼ ἀτίταλλον §14.203δεξάμενοι Ῥείας, ὅτε τε Κρόνον εὐρύοπα Ζεὺς §14.204γαίης νέρθε καθεῖσε καὶ ἀτρυγέτοιο θαλάσσης·
For I am going to visit the limits of the all-nourishing earth, and Oceanus, from whom the gods are sprung, and mother Tethys, who reared me well and cherished me in their halls, taking me from Rhea, what time far-seeing Zeus cast Cronos down beneath the earth and the unresting sea.
§14.205τοὺς εἶμʼ ὀψομένη, καί σφʼ ἄκριτα νείκεα λύσω· §14.206ἤδη γὰρ δηρὸν χρόνον ἀλλήλων ἀπέχονται §14.207εὐνῆς καὶ φιλότητος, ἐπεὶ χόλος ἔμπεσε θυμῷ.
Them am I going to visit, and I will loose for them their endless strife; for already for a long time they hold aloof from one another, from the marriage-bed and from love, since wrath has fallen upon their hearts.
§14.208εἰ κείνω ἐπέεσσι παραιπεπιθοῦσα φίλον κῆρ §14.209εἰς εὐνὴν ἀνέσαιμι ὁμωθῆναι φιλότητι, §14.210αἰεί κέ σφι φίλη τε καὶ αἰδοίη καλεοίμην. §14.211τὴν δʼ αὖτε προσέειπε φιλομειδὴς Ἀφροδίτη· §14.212οὐκ ἔστʼ οὐδὲ ἔοικε τεὸν ἔπος ἀρνήσασθαι· §14.213Ζηνὸς γὰρ τοῦ ἀρίστου ἐν ἀγκοίνῃσιν ἰαύεις. §14.214ἦ, καὶ ἀπὸ στήθεσφιν ἐλύσατο κεστὸν ἱμάντα §14.215ποικίλον, ἔνθα δέ οἱ θελκτήρια πάντα τέτυκτο·
If by my words I might persuade their hearts and bring them back to their couch to be joined in love, ever should I be called dear by them and worthy of reverence." Then again spoke to her laughter-loving Aphrodite: "It may not be, nor is it seemly, to deny thy word; for thou sleepest in the arms of Zeus, the chief of gods." She spoke, and loosed from her breast the broidered girdle, fair-wrought, wherein all her enchantments were fashioned.
§14.216ἔνθʼ ἔνι μὲν φιλότης, ἐν δʼ ἵμερος, ἐν δʼ ὀαριστὺς §14.217πάρφασις, ἥ τʼ ἔκλεψε νόον πύκα περ φρονεόντων.
Therein was love, therein desire, therein companionable talk, and persuasion that steals away the mind of the very wise.
§14.218τόν ῥά οἱ ἔμβαλε χερσὶν ἔπος τʼ ἔφατʼ ἔκ τʼ ὀνόμαζε· §14.219τῆ νῦν τοῦτον ἱμάντα τεῷ ἐγκάτθεο κόλπῳ §14.220ποικίλον, ᾧ ἔνι πάντα τετεύχαται· οὐδέ σέ φημι §14.221ἄπρηκτόν γε νέεσθαι, ὅ τι φρεσὶ σῇσι μενοινᾷς. §14.222ὣς φάτο, μείδησεν δὲ βοῶπις πότνια Ἥρη, §14.223μειδήσασα δʼ ἔπειτα ἑῷ ἐγκάτθετο κόλπῳ.
This she laid in Hera's hands, and spoke and addressed her: "Take now this girdle and lay it in thy bosom, this broidered girdle, wherein all things are fashioned; and I deem thou wilt not return with thy purpose unfulfilled, whatsoever thy heart desires." So she spoke, and ox-eyed queenly Hera smiled, and smiling, she laid it in her bosom.