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Aphrodite

Wait. Do not fall in love yet. You have first to secure my interest with the bride, by your award. The union must be graced with my victorious presence: your marriagefeast shall be my feast of victory. Love, beauty, wedlock; all these you may purchase at the price of yonder apple.

Paris

But perhaps after the award you will forget all about me?

Aphrodite

Shall I swear?

Paris

No; but promise once more.

Aphrodite

I promise that you shall have Helen to wife; that she shall follow you, and make Troy her home; and I will be present with you, and help you in all. 5

Paris

And bring Love, and Desire, and the Graces?

Aphrodite

Assuredly; and Passion and Hymen as well.

Paris

Take the apple: it is yours.

XXI

Ares. Hermes

Ares

Did you hear Zeus’s threat, Hermes? most complimentary, wasn’t it, and most practicable? ‘If I choose,’ says he, ‘I could let down a cord from Heaven, and all of you might hang on to it and do your very best to pull me down; it would be waste labour; you would never move me. On the other hand, if I chose to haul up, I should have you all dangling in mid air, with earth and sea into the bargain’—and so on; you heard? Well, I dare say he is too much for any of us individually, but I will never believe he outweighs the whole of us in a body, or that, even with the makeweight of earth and sea, we should not get the better of him.

Hermes

Mind what you say, Ares; it is not safe to talk like that; we might get paid out for chattering.