And may his portion from the Gods be shame! 170
  But as for thee, not yet the powers of heaven
  Thee hate implacable; the Chiefs of Troy
  Shall cover yet with cloudy dust the breadth
  Of all the plain, and backward from the camp
  To Ilium’s gates thyself shalt see them driven. 175
    He ceased, and shouting traversed swift the field. 
  Loud as nine thousand or ten thousand shout
  In furious battle mingled, Neptune sent
  His voice abroad, force irresistible
  Infusing into every Grecian heart, 180
  And thirst of battle not to be assuaged. 
    But Juno of the golden throne stood forth
  On the Olympian summit, viewing thence
  The field, where clear distinguishing the God
  Of ocean, her own brother, sole engaged 185
  Amid the glorious battle, glad was she. 
  Seeing Jove also on the topmost point
  Of spring-fed Ida seated, she conceived
  Hatred against him, and thenceforth began
  Deliberate how best she might deceive 190
  The Thunderer, and thus at last resolved;
  Attired with skill celestial to descend
  On Ida, with a hope to allure him first
  Won by her beauty to a fond embrace,
  Then closing fast in balmy sleep profound 195
  His eyes, to elude his vigilance, secure. 
  She sought her chamber; Vulcan her own son
  That chamber built.  He framed the solid doors,
  And to the posts fast closed them with a key
  Mysterious, which, herself except, in heaven 200
  None understood.  Entering she secured
  The splendid portal.  First, she laved all o’er
  Her beauteous body with ambrosial lymph,
  Then polish’d it with richest oil divine
  Of boundless fragrance;[2] oil that in the courts 205
  Eternal only shaken, through the skies
  Breathed odors, and through all the distant earth. 
  Her whole fair body with those sweets bedew’d,
  She passed the comb through her ambrosial hair,
  And braided her bright locks streaming profuse 210
  From her immortal brows; with golden studs
  She made her gorgeous mantle fast before,
  Ethereal texture, labor of the hands
  Of Pallas beautified with various art,
  And braced it with a zone fringed all around 215
  A hundred fold; her pendants triple-gemm’d
  Luminous, graceful, in her ears she hung,
  And covering all her glories with a veil
  Sun-bright, new-woven, bound to her fair feet
  Her sandals elegant.  Thus full attired, 220
  In all her ornaments, she issued forth,
  And beckoning Venus from the other powers
  Of heaven apart, the Goddess thus bespake. 
    Daughter beloved! shall I obtain my suit,
  Or wilt thou thwart me, angry that I aid 225