Seba.Health
Athena to Diomedes · divine
The Iliad 5.826–834
and smite him in close fight, neither have thou awe of furious Ares that raveth here a full-wrought bane, a renegade, that but now spake with me and Hera, and made as though he would fight against the Trojans but give aid to the Argives; yet now he consorteth with the Trojans and hath forgotten these.
Τυδεΐδη Διόμηδες ἐμῷ κεχαρισμένε θυμῷ
μήτε σύ γʼ Ἄρηα τό γε δείδιθι μήτε τινʼ ἄλλον
ἀθανάτων, τοίη τοι ἐγὼν ἐπιτάρροθός εἰμι·
ἀλλʼ ἄγʼ ἐπʼ Ἄρηϊ πρώτῳ ἔχε μώνυχας ἵππους,
τύψον δὲ σχεδίην μηδʼ ἅζεο θοῦρον Ἄρηα
τοῦτον μαινόμενον, τυκτὸν κακόν, ἀλλοπρόσαλλον,
ὃς πρῴην μὲν ἐμοί τε καὶ Ἥρῃ στεῦτʼ ἀγορεύων
Τρωσὶ μαχήσεσθαι, ἀτὰρ Ἀργείοισιν ἀρήξειν,
νῦν δὲ μετὰ Τρώεσσιν ὁμιλεῖ, τῶν δὲ λέλασται.