Iliad 8: 425-431

From the Venetus A MS

ἣ μὲν ὰρ ὡς εἰποῦσ' ἀπέβη. πόδας ὠκέα ῖ̈ρις.

αὐτὰρ Ἀθηναίην Ἥρη προς μῦθον έειπεν:

ὦ πόποι αἰγιόχοιο Διὸς τέκος: οὐκέτ' ἔγωγε

νῶϊ, εῶ Διὸς ἄντα βροτῶν ἕνεκα πτολεμίζειν:

τῶν, ἄλλος μὲν ἀποφθείσθω. ἄλλος δὲ βιώτω

ὅς κε τύχῃ: κεῖνος δὲ τὰ ἁ φρονέων ἐνὶ θυμῷ

Τρωσί τε καὶ Δαναοῖσι δικαζέτω ὡς ἐπιεικές:

When she had thus spoken swift-footed Iris departed; but Hera spake to Athene, saying: "Out upon it, thou child of Zeus that beareth the aegis! I verily will no more suffer that we twain seek to wage war against Zeus for mortals' sake. Of them let one perish and another live, even as it may befall; and for him, let him take his own counsel in his heart and judge between Trojans and Danaans, as is meet."

A. T. Murray (1924)