Thetis to Nereids · divine
The Iliad 18.140–144
Do ye now plunge beneath the broad bosom of the deep, to visit the old man of the sea, and the halls of our father, and tell him all. But I will get me to high Olympus to the house of Hephaestus, the famed craftsman, if so be he will give to my son glorious shining armour.
ὑμεῖς μὲν νῦν δῦτε θαλάσσης εὐρέα κόλπον
ὀψόμεναί τε γέρονθʼ ἅλιον καὶ δώματα πατρός,
καί οἱ πάντʼ ἀγορεύσατʼ· ἐγὼ δʼ ἐς μακρὸν Ὄλυμπον
εἶμι παρʼ Ἥφαιστον κλυτοτέχνην, αἴ κʼ ἐθέλῃσιν
υἱεῖ ἐμῷ δόμεναι κλυτὰ τεύχεα παμφανόωντα.