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ATHENA Well, what about it? Is he unmarried?
ATHENA Tell me, does he covet success in war and is he fond of glory, or nothing but a herdsman?.
HERMES I can’t say for certain, but it is fair to suppose that, being young, he yearns to acquire all that too, and would like to be first in war.
APHRODITE You see, I am not making any complaint or reproaching you with talking confidentially to her; that is the way of fault-finders, not of Aphrodite! HERMES She herself asked me _ractically the same questions; so do not be ill-tempered or think you are getting the worst of it if I answered her as I did you, in a straightforward way.
But in the course of our conversation we have already left the stars far behind as we pressed on, and we are almost over Phrygia. Indeed I can see Ida and the whole of Gargaron plainly, and unless I am mistaken, even Paris himself, your judge.
HERA Where is he? I do not see him.
HERMES Look in this direction, Hera, to the left; not near the mountain-top, but on the side, where the cavern is, near which you see the herd.
HERA But I do not see the herd.
HERMES What? Don’t you see tiny cattle over here in the direction of my finger, coming out from among the rocks, and someone running down from the cliff, holding a crook and trying to prevent the herd from scattering out ahead of him?
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HERA I see now—if that is really he.
