§21.404κείμενον ἐν πεδίῳ μέλανα τρηχύν τε μέγαν τε, §21.405τόν ῥʼ ἄνδρες πρότεροι θέσαν ἔμμεναι οὖρον ἀρούρης·
lying on the plain, black and rugged and great, which men of former days had set to be the boundary of a field.
§21.406τῷ βάλε θοῦρον Ἄρηα κατʼ αὐχένα, λῦσε δὲ γυῖα.
Therewith she smote impetuous Ares on the neck, and loosed his limbs.
Seven plethra he covered in his fall, and his hair was soiled with dust, and his armour clashed about him.
γέλασσε δὲ Παλλὰς Ἀθήνη, §21.409καί οἱ ἐπευχομένη ἔπεα πτερόεντα προσηύδα· §21.410νηπύτιʼ οὐδέ νύ πώ περ ἐπεφράσω ὅσσον ἀρείων
And Pallas Athena laughed, and boasting over him she spoke winged words: "Fool, not even yet have you learned how much better I claim to be, that you match your strength against mine?
§21.411εὔχομʼ ἐγὼν ἔμεναι, ὅτι μοι μένος ἰσοφαρίζεις. §21.412οὕτω κεν τῆς μητρὸς ἐρινύας ἐξαποτίνοις, §21.413ἥ τοι χωομένη κακὰ μήδεται οὕνεκʼ Ἀχαιοὺς §21.414κάλλιπες, αὐτὰρ Τρωσὶν ὑπερφιάλοισιν ἀμύνεις. §21.415ὣς ἄρα φωνήσασα πάλιν τρέπεν ὄσσε φαεινώ· §21.416τὸν δʼ ἄγε χειρὸς ἑλοῦσα Διὸς θυγάτηρ Ἀφροδίτη §21.417πυκνὰ μάλα στενάχοντα· μόγις δʼ ἐσαγείρετο θυμόν.
Thus indeed may you pay the full measure of your mother's wrath, who in her wrath devises evil against you because you left the Achaeans and are helping the overweening Trojans." So saying, she turned away her bright eyes; and the daughter of Zeus, Aphrodite, took him by the hand and led him away, as he groaned heavily, and with difficulty was he gathering his spirit.
§21.418τὴν δʼ ὡς οὖν ἐνόησε θεὰ λευκώλενος Ἥρη, §21.419αὐτίκʼ Ἀθηναίην ἔπεα πτερόεντα προσηύδα· §21.420ὢ πόποι αἰγιόχοιο Διὸς τέκος Ἀτρυτώνη §21.421καὶ δʼ αὖθʼ ἡ κυνάμυια ἄγει βροτολοιγὸν Ἄρηα §21.422δηΐου ἐκ πολέμοιο κατὰ κλόνον· ἀλλὰ μέτελθε. §21.423ὣς φάτʼ, Ἀθηναίη δὲ μετέσσυτο, χαῖρε δὲ θυμῷ, §21.424καί ῥʼ ἐπιεισαμένη πρὸς στήθεα χειρὶ παχείῃ §21.425ἤλασε· τῆς δʼ αὐτοῦ λύτο γούνατα καὶ φίλον ἦτορ.
But when the white-armed goddess Hera noticed her, straightway she spoke winged words to Athena: "Ah, look you, child of Zeus who bears the aegis, Unwearied one, lo, once again that dog-fly is leading man-destroying Ares out of the hostile war through the tumult; but go after her." So she spoke, and Athena rushed after her, and was glad in her heart; and rushing upon her she smote her on the breast with her stout hand; and her knees were loosed where she stood, and her heart.
§21.426τὼ μὲν ἄρʼ ἄμφω κεῖντο ἐπὶ χθονὶ πουλυβοτείρῃ, §21.427ἣ δʼ ἄρʼ ἐπευχομένη ἔπεα πτερόεντʼ ἀγόρευε· §21.428τοιοῦτοι νῦν πάντες ὅσοι Τρώεσσιν ἀρωγοὶ §21.429εἶεν, ὅτʼ Ἀργείοισι μαχοίατο θωρηκτῇσιν, §21.430ὧδέ τε θαρσαλέοι καὶ τλήμονες, ὡς Ἀφροδίτη §21.431ἦλθεν Ἄρῃ ἐπίκουρος ἐμῷ μένει ἀντιόωσα· §21.432τώ κεν δὴ πάλαι ἄμμες ἐπαυσάμεθα πτολέμοιο §21.433Ἰλίου ἐκπέρσαντες ἐϋκτίμενον πτολίεθρον. §21.434ὣς φάτο, μείδησεν δὲ θεὰ λευκώλενος Ἥρη.
So the two lay upon the bounteous earth, and boasting over them she spoke winged words: "Such may all those be who are helpers to the Trojans, when they fight against the mail-clad Argives, and as brave and enduring as Aphrodite came to helper Ares to face my might; then would we long ago have ceased from war, having sacked the well-built city of Ilios." So she spoke, and the white-armed goddess Hera smiled.
But the lord, the Earth-shaker, spoke to Apollo: "Phoebus, why do we two stand apart?
οὐδὲ ἔοικεν §21.437ἀρξάντων ἑτέρων· τὸ μὲν αἴσχιον αἴ κʼ ἀμαχητὶ §21.438ἴομεν Οὔλυμπον δὲ Διὸς ποτὶ χαλκοβατὲς δῶ.
It is not seemly, when others have begun; the shame would be greater if without fighting we should go to Olympus, to the bronze-floored house of Zeus.
§21.439ἄρχε· σὺ γὰρ γενεῆφι νεώτερος· οὐ γὰρ ἔμοιγε §21.440καλόν, ἐπεὶ πρότερος γενόμην καὶ πλείονα οἶδα.
Begin, for you are the younger in birth; for me it is not seemly, since I am the elder-born and know more.
§21.441νηπύτιʼ ὡς ἄνοον κραδίην ἔχες·
Fool, how thoughtless is the heart you have!
οὐδέ νυ τῶν περ §21.442μέμνηαι ὅσα δὴ πάθομεν κακὰ Ἴλιον ἀμφὶ §21.443μοῦνοι νῶϊ θεῶν, ὅτʼ ἀγήνορι Λαομέδοντι §21.444πὰρ Διὸς ἐλθόντες θητεύσαμεν εἰς ἐνιαυτὸν §21.445μισθῷ ἔπι ῥητῷ· ὃ δὲ σημαίνων ἐπέτελλεν.
No longer do you remember all the evils we two alone of the gods endured about Ilios, when we came from Zeus and served proud Laomedon for a year at a fixed wage, and he gave us orders and commanded us?
§21.446ἤτοι ἐγὼ Τρώεσσι πόλιν πέρι τεῖχος ἔδειμα §21.447εὐρύ τε καὶ μάλα καλόν, ἵνʼ ἄρρηκτος πόλις εἴη· §21.448Φοῖβε σὺ δʼ εἰλίποδας ἕλικας βοῦς βουκολέεσκες §21.449Ἴδης ἐν κνημοῖσι πολυπτύχου ὑληέσσης.
I indeed built a wall for the Trojans about their city, wide and very beautiful, that the city might be unbreakable; and you, Phoebus, did herd their shambling, crumple-horned cattle in the glens of many-valleyed, wooded Ida.
§21.450ἀλλʼ ὅτε δὴ μισθοῖο τέλος πολυγηθέες ὧραι §21.451ἐξέφερον, τότε νῶϊ βιήσατο μισθὸν ἅπαντα §21.452Λαομέδων ἔκπαγλος, ἀπειλήσας δʼ ἀπέπεμπε.
But when at length the glad Seasons were bringing to an end the term of our wage, then did terrible Laomedon rob us of all our wage, and sent us away with threats.
§21.453σὺν μὲν ὅ γʼ ἠπείλησε πόδας καὶ χεῖρας ὕπερθε §21.454δήσειν, καὶ περάαν νήσων ἔπι τηλεδαπάων· §21.455στεῦτο δʼ ὅ γʼ ἀμφοτέρων ἀπολεψέμεν οὔατα χαλκῷ.
He threatened to bind your feet and hands beneath you, and to sell you into far-off islands; and he stood pledged to lop off the ears of both of us with the bronze.
So we two went back with angry hearts, wroth for the wage he had promised but did not pay.
§21.458τοῦ δὴ νῦν λαοῖσι φέρεις χάριν, οὐδὲ μεθʼ ἡμέων §21.459πειρᾷ ὥς κε Τρῶες ὑπερφίαλοι ἀπόλωνται §21.460πρόχνυ κακῶς σὺν παισὶ καὶ αἰδοίῃς ἀλόχοισι §21.461τὸν δʼ αὖτε προσέειπεν ἄναξ ἑκάεργος Ἀπόλλων· §21.462ἐννοσίγαιʼ οὐκ ἄν με σαόφρονα μυθήσαιο §21.463ἔμμεναι, εἰ δὴ σοί γε βροτῶν ἕνεκα πτολεμίξω §21.464δειλῶν, οἳ φύλλοισιν ἐοικότες ἄλλοτε μέν τε §21.465ζαφλεγέες τελέθουσιν ἀρούρης καρπὸν ἔδοντες, §21.466ἄλλοτε δὲ φθινύθουσιν ἀκήριοι.
It is to his people now that you show favour, and you do not try with us to bring it about that the overweening Trojans may perish utterly and miserably, with their children and their respected wives." Then the lord Apollo who works from afar spoke to him: "Earth-shaker, you would not say that I am sane if I fight with you for the sake of wretched mortals, who like leaves are at one time full of flaming life, eating the fruit of the field, and at another fade away and are lifeless.
ἀλλὰ τάχιστα §21.467παυώμεσθα μάχης· οἳ δʼ αὐτοὶ δηριαάσθων. §21.468ὣς ἄρα φωνήσας πάλιν ἐτράπετʼ· αἴδετο γάρ ῥα §21.469πατροκασιγνήτοιο μιγήμεναι ἐν παλάμῃσι.
But straightway let us cease from battle, and let them fight by themselves." So saying, he turned away, for he felt shame to do battle with his father's brother.
§21.470τὸν δὲ κασιγνήτη μάλα νείκεσε πότνια θηρῶν §21.471Ἄρτεμις ἀγροτέρη, καὶ ὀνείδειον φάτο μῦθον· §21.472φεύγεις δὴ ἑκάεργε, Ποσειδάωνι δὲ νίκην §21.473πᾶσαν ἐπέτρεψας, μέλεον δέ οἱ εὖχος ἔδωκας·
But his sister, the mistress of wild beasts, huntress Artemis, chid him sharply, and spoke words of reviling: "Are you fleeing then, worker from afar, and to Poseidon have you yielded victory entire, and given him boast for nothing?
§21.474νηπύτιε τί νυ τόξον ἔχεις ἀνεμώλιον αὔτως;
Fool, why then have you a bow that is wind-swift, yet of no avail?"