“Would that all those who aid the cause of Troy And combat with the mailèd Greeks were thus! Would that they were as hardy and as brave As Venus here, who ventured to the help Of Mars, and met the force of my right arm! Then had the stately Ilium been o’erthrown Long since, and we had rested from the war.”

She spake: the white-armed Juno gently smiled. And then King Neptune to Apollo said:⁠—