ὡς εἰπὼν, τὴν μὲν λίπεν αὐτοῦ. βῆ δ' ἐπι φύσᾱς
τὰς δ' ἐς πῦρ ἔτρεψε. κέλευσέ τε ἐργάζεσθαι:
φῦσαι δ' ἐν χοάνοισιν ἐείκοσι πᾶσαι ἐφύσων.
παντοίην εὔπρηστον ἀϋτμὴν ἐξανιεῖσαι:
ἄλλοτε μὲν σπεύδοντι παρέμμεναι: ἄλλοτε δ' αὖτε
ὅππως Ἥφαιστός τ' ἐθέλοι καὶ ἔργον ἄνοιτο:
χαλκὸν δ' ἐν πυρὶ βάλλεν ἀτειρέα κασσίτερόν τε.
καὶ χρυσὸν τιμῆντα. καὶ ἀργύρον ἄργυρον: αὐτὰρ ἔπειτα
θῆκεν ἐνἐπ ἀκμοθέτῳ μέγαν ἄκμονα: γέντο δὲ χειρὶ
ῥαιστῆρα κρατερήνκρατερόν, ἑτέρηφι δὲ γέντο πυράγρην:
τερπόμενοι: δοιὼ δὲ κυβιστητῆρε κατ' αὐτοὺς
So saying he left her there and went unto his bellows, and he turned these toward the fire and bade them work. And the bellows, twenty in all, blew upon the melting-vats, sending forth a ready blast of every force, now to further him as he laboured hard, and again in whatsoever way Hephaestus might wish and his work go on. And on the fire he put stubborn bronze and tin and precious gold and silver; and thereafter he set on the anvil-block a great anvil, and took in one hand a massive hammer, and in the other took he the tongs.
