ὡς ἄρα φωνήσασα: πάλιν τρέπεν, ὄσσε φαεινώ:
τὸν δ' ἄγε χειρὸς ἑλοῦσα Διὸς θυγάτηρ Ἀφροδίτη
πυκνὰ μάλα στενάχοντα, μόγις δ' ἐς ἀγείρετο θυμό [θυμόν]:
τὴν δ' ὡς οὖν ἐνόησε θεὰ λευκώλενος Ἥρη.
αὐτίκ' Ἀθηναίην ἔπεα πτερόεντα προσηύδᾱ:
ὦ πόποι, αἰγιόχοιο Διὸς τέκος, Ἀτρυτώνη:
καὶ δ' αῦθ' ἡ κυνάμυια, ἄγει βροτολοιγὸν Ἄρηα
δηΐου ἐκ πολέμοιο κατὰ κλόνον: ἀλλα μέτελθε:
When she had thus spoken, she turned from Ares her bright eyes. Him then the daughter of Zeus, Aphrodite, took by the hand, and sought to lead away, as he uttered many a moan, and hardly could he gather back to him his spirit. But when the goddess, white-armed Hera, was ware of her, forthwith she spake winged words to Athene: "Out upon it, thou child of Zeus that beareth the aegis, unwearied one, lo, there again the dog-fly is leading Ares, the bane of mortals, forth from the fury of war amid the throng; nay, have after her."
