The Iliad 23.199–204

They in the house of the fierce-blowing West Wind were feasting all together at the banquet and Iris halted from her running on the threshold of stone. Soon as their eyes beheld her, they all sprang up and called her each one to himself. But she refused to sit, and spake saying:

ἀράων ἀΐουσα μετάγγελος ἦλθʼ ἀνέμοισιν. οἳ μὲν ἄρα Ζεφύροιο δυσαέος ἀθρόοι ἔνδον εἰλαπίνην δαίνυντο· θέουσα δὲ Ἶρις ἐπέστη βηλῷ ἔπι λιθέῳ· τοὶ δʼ ὡς ἴδον ὀφθαλμοῖσι πάντες ἀνήϊξαν, κάλεόν τέ μιν εἰς ἓ ἕκαστος· ἣ δʼ αὖθʼ ἕζεσθαι μὲν ἀνήνατο, εἶπε δὲ μῦθον·

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