Saturnius spake, and moved the hosts to join In desperate conflict. All the gods went forth To mingle with the war on different sides. Juno and Pallas hastened to the fleet With Neptune, he who makes the earth to shake, And Hermes, god of useful arts, and shrewd In forecast. Vulcan also went with them, Strong and stern-eyed, yet lame, his feeble legs Moving with labor. To the Trojan side Went crested Mars, Apollo with his locks Unshorn, Diana mighty with the bow, Latona, Xanthus, and the queen of smiles, Venus; for while the gods remained apart From men, the Achaian host was high in hope Because Achilles, who so long had left The war, now reappeared upon the field, And terror shook the limbs of every son Of Troy when he beheld the swift of foot, Pelides, terrible as Mars⁠—that curse Of human-kind⁠—in glittering arms again. But when the dwellers of Olympus joined The crowd of mortals, Discord, who makes mad The nations, rose and raged; Minerva raised Her war-cry from the trench without the wall,