Seba.Health
The Iliad 6.382–389
fair-tressed Trojan women are seeking to propitiate the dread goddess; but she went to the great wall of Ilios, for that she heard the Trojans were sorely pressed, and great victory rested with the Achaeans. So is she gone in haste to the wall, like one beside herself; and with her the nurse beareth the child.
Ἕκτορ ἐπεὶ μάλʼ ἄνωγας ἀληθέα μυθήσασθαι,
οὔτέ πῃ ἐς γαλόων οὔτʼ εἰνατέρων ἐϋπέπλων
οὔτʼ ἐς Ἀθηναίης ἐξοίχεται, ἔνθά περ ἄλλαι
Τρῳαὶ ἐϋπλόκαμοι δεινὴν θεὸν ἱλάσκονται,
ἀλλʼ ἐπὶ πύργον ἔβη μέγαν Ἰλίου, οὕνεκʼ ἄκουσε
τείρεσθαι Τρῶας, μέγα δὲ κράτος εἶναι Ἀχαιῶν.
ἣ μὲν δὴ πρὸς τεῖχος ἐπειγομένη ἀφικάνει
μαινομένῃ ἐϊκυῖα· φέρει δʼ ἅμα παῖδα τιθήνη.