ὡς ἄρα φωνήσας ἡγήσατο κυανοχαίτης
τεῖχος ἐς ἀμφίχυτον Ἡρακλῆος θείοιο.
ὑψηλὸν, τό ῥά οι Τρῶες καὶ Παλλὰς Ἀθήνη
ποίεον. ὄφρα τὸ κῆτος ὑπεκπροφυγὼν ἀλέαιτο.
ὁππότε μιν σεύαιτο ἀπ' ἠϊόνος πεδίον δέ.
ἔνθα Ποσιδάων κατ' ὰρ έζετο καὶ θεοὶ ἄλλοι,
ἀμφι δ' ὰρ, ἄρρηκτον νεφέλην ὤμοισιν έσαντο:
οἱ δ' ἑτέρωσε. κάθιζον. ἐπ ὀφρύσι. Καλλικολώνης.
ἀμφι σὲ ἤϊε Φοῖβε καὶ Ἄρηα πτολίπορθον
ως οἰ μέν ῥ ἑκάτερθε καθείατο. μητιόωντες
βουλὰς. ἀρχέμεναι δὲ δυσηλεγέος πολέμοιο
ὤκνεον ἀμφότεροι: Ζεὺς δ' ἥμενος ὕψι κέλευε
So saying, the dark-haired god led the way to the heaped-up wall of godlike Heracles, the high wall that the Trojans and Pallas Athene had builded for him, to the end that he might flee thither and escape from the monster of the deep, whenso the monster drave him from the seashore to the plain. There Poseidon and the other gods sate them down, and clothed their shoulders round about with a cloud that might not be rent; and they of the other part sat over against them on the brows of Callicolone, round about thee, O archer Phoebus, and Ares, sacker of cities. So sat they on either side devising counsels, but to make beginning of grievous war both sides were loath, albeit Zeus, that sitteth on high, had bidden them.
