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ans daughter Thetis has been talking you over, for she was with you and had hold of your knees this self-same morning. I believe, therefore, that you have been promising her to give glory to Achilles, and to kill much people at the ships of the Achaeans.˝ ˝Wife,˝ said Jove, ˝I can do nothing but you suspect me and find it out. You will take nothing by it, for I shall only dislike you the more, and it will go harder with you. Granted that it is as you say; I mean to have it so; sit down and hold your tongue as I bid you for if I once begin to lay my hands about you, though all heaven were on your side it would profit you nothing.˝ On this Juno was frightened, so she curbed her stubborn will and sat down in silence. But the heavenly beings were disquieted throughout the house of Jove, till the cunning workman Vulcan began to try and pacify his mother Juno. ˝It will be intolerable,˝ said he, ˝if you two fall to wrangling and setting heaven in an uproar about a pack of mortals. If such ill counsels are to prevail, we shall have no pleasure at our banquet. Let me then advise my mother-and she must herself know that it will be better-to make friends with my dear father Jove, lest he again scold her and disturb our feast. If the Olympian Thunderer wants to hurl us all from our seats, he can do so, for he is far the strongest, so give him fair words, and he will then soon be in a good humour with us.˝ As he spoke, he took a double cup of nectar, and placed it in his mothers hand. ˝Cheer up, my dear mother,˝ said he, ˝and make the best of it. I love you dearly, and should be very sorry to see you get a thrashing; however grieved I might be, I could not help, for there is no standing against Jove. Once before when I was trying to help you, he caught me by the foot and flung me from the heavenly threshold. All day long from morn till eve, was I falling, till at sunset I came to ground in the island of Lemnos, and there I lay, with very little life left in me, till the Sintians came and tended me.˝ Juno smiled at this, and as she smiled she took the cup from her sons hands. Then Vulcan drew sweet nectar from the mixing-bowl, and served it round among the gods, going from left to right; and the blessed gods laughed out a loud applause as they saw him bustling about the heavenly mansion. Thus through the livelong day to the going down of the sun they feasted, and every one had his full share, so that all were satisfied. Apollo struck his lyre, and the Muses lifted up their sweet voices, calling and answering one another. But when the suns glorious light had faded, they went home to bed, each in his own abode, which lame Vulcan with his consummate skill had fashioned for them. So Jove, the Olympian Lord of Thunder, hied him to the bed in which he always slept; and when he had got on to it he went to sleep, with Juno of the golden throne by his side. Book II Jove sends a lying dream to Agamemnon, who thereon calls the chiefs in assembly, and proposes to sound the mind of his army-In the end they march to fight-Catalogue of the Achaean and Trojan forces. Now the other gods and the armed warriors on the plain slept soundly, but Jove was wakeful, for he was thinking how to do honour to Achilles, and destroyed much people at the ships of the Achaeans. In the end he deemed it would be best to send a lying dream to King Agamemnon; so he called one to him and said to it, ˝Lying Dream, go to the ships of the Achaeans, into the tent of Agamemnon, and say to him word for word as I now bid you. Tell him to get the Achaeans instantly under arms, for he shall take Troy. There are no longer divided counsels among the gods; Juno has brought them to her own mind, and woe betides the Trojans.˝ Hom?re Iliade traduction par Leconte de Lisle Rhapsodie I. La peste et la querelle Chante, Déesse, du P?l?iade Akhilleus la col?re désastreuse, qui de maux infinis accabla les Akhaiens, et précipita chez Aid?s tant de fortes âmes de héros, livrés eux-m?mes en pâture aux chiens et ? tous les oiseaux carnassiers. Et le dessein de Zeus saccomplissait ainsi, depuis quune querelle avait divisé lAtréide, roi des hommes, et le divin Akhilleus. Qui dentre les Dieux les jeta dans cette dissension ? Le fils de Zeus et de L?tô. Irrité contre le Roi, il suscita dans larmée un mal mortel, et les peuples périssaient, parce que lAtréide avait couvert dopprobre Khrys?s le sacrificateur. Et celui-ci était venu vers les nefs rapides des Akhaiens pour racheter sa fille ; et, portant le prix infini de laffranchissement, et, dans ses mains, les bandelettes de lArcher Apollôn, suspendues au sceptre dor, il conjura tous les Akhaiens, et surtout les deux Atréides, princes des peuples: - Atréides, et vous, Akhaiens aux belles kn?mides, que les Dieux qui habitent les demeures olympiennes vous donnent de détruire la ville de Priamos et de vous en retourner heureusement ; mais rendez-moi ma fille bien aimée et recevez le prix de