ὡς φαμένη: Σθένελον μὲν ἀφ' ἵππων ὦσε χαμᾶζε:
χειρὶ πάλιν ἐρύσας': ὁ δ' ὰρ ἐμμαπέως ἀπόρουσεν:
ἡ δ' ἐς δίφρον ἔβαινε παραὶ Διομήδεα δῖον
ἐμμεμαυῖα θεὰ μέγα δ' ἔβραχε φήγινος ἄξων
βριθοσύνῃ: δεινὴν γὰρ ἄγεν θεὸν ἄνδρα τ' ἄριστον:
λάζετο δὲ μάστιγα καὶ ἡνία Παλλὰς Ἀθήνη:
αὐτίκ' ἐπ' Ἄρηϊ πρώτῳ ἔχε μώνυχας ἵππους.
ἤτοι ὁ μὲν Περίφαντα πελώριον ἐξενάριζεν
Αἰτωλῶν ὅχ' άριστον Ὀχησίου ἀγλαὸν υἱόν:
τὸν μὲν Ἄρης ἐνάριζε μιαιφόνος, αὐτὰρ Ἀθήνη
δῦν' Ἄϊδος κυνέην: μή μιν ἴδοι ὄβριμος Ἄρης:
So saying, with her hand she drew back Sthenelus, and thrust him from the car to earth, and he speedily leapt down; and she stepped upon the car beside goodly Diomedes, a goddess eager for battle. Loudly did the oaken axle creak beneath its burden, for it bare a dread goddess and a peerless warrior. Then Pallas Athene grasped the lash and the reins, and against Ares first she speedily drave the single-hooved horses. He was stripping of his armour huge Periphas that was far the best of the Aetolians, the glorious son of Ochesius. Him was blood-stained Ares stripping; but Athene put on the cap of Hades, to the end that mighty Ares should not see her.
