The Odyssey 8.306–320

because he is comely and strong of limb, whereas I was born misshapen. Yet for this is none other to blame but my two parents—would they had never begotten me! But ye shall see where these two have gone up into my bed and sleep together in love; and I am troubled at the sight. Yet, methinks, they will not wish to lie longer thus, no, not for a moment, how loving soever they are. Soon shall both lose their desire to sleep; but the snare and the bonds shall hold them until her father pays back to me all the gifts of wooing that I gave him for the sake of his shameless girl; for his daughter is fair but bridles not her passion.”2 So he spoke and the gods gathered to the house of the brazen floor.3 Poseidon came, the earth-enfolder, and the helper Hermes came, and the lord Apollo, the archer god.4 Now the goddesses abode for shame each in her own house,