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The Iliad 21.415–419

The Iliad 21.415–419
When she had thus spoken, she turned from Ares her bright eyes. Him then the daughter of Zeus, Aphrodite, took by the hand, and sought to lead away, as he uttered many a moan, and hardly could he gather back to him his spirit. But when the goddess, white-armed Hera, was ware of her, forthwith she spake winged words to Athene:
ὣς ἄρα φωνήσασα πάλιν τρέπεν ὄσσε φαεινώ· τὸν δʼ ἄγε χειρὸς ἑλοῦσα Διὸς θυγάτηρ Ἀφροδίτη πυκνὰ μάλα στενάχοντα· μόγις δʼ ἐσαγείρετο θυμόν. τὴν δʼ ὡς οὖν ἐνόησε θεὰ λευκώλενος Ἥρη, αὐτίκʼ Ἀθηναίην ἔπεα πτερόεντα προσηύδα·
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