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Juno did as he had said. She lashed her horses, and they
flew forward nothing loth midway betwixt earth and sky.
As far as a man can see when he looks out upon the sea from
some high beacon, so far can the loud-neighing horses of
the gods spring at a single bound. When they reached Troy
and the place where its two flowing streams Simois and Sca-
mander meet, there Juno stayed them and took them from
the chariot. She hid them in a thick cloud, and Simois made
ambrosia spring up for them to eat; the two goddesses then
went on, flying like turtledoves in their eagerness to help
the Argives. When they came to the part where the bravest
and most in number were gathered about mighty Diomed,
fighting like lions or wild boars of great strength and en-
durance, there Juno stood still and raised a shout like that
of brazen-voiced Stentor, whose cry was as loud as that of
fifty men together. ‘Argives,’ she cried; ‘shame on cowardly
creatures, brave in semblance only; as long as Achilles was
fighting, if his spear was so deadly that the Trojans dared
not show themselves outside the Dardanian gates, but now
they sally far from the city and fight even at your ships.’
With these words she put heart and soul into them all,
while Minerva sprang to the side of the son of Tydeus,
whom she found near his chariot and horses, cooling the
wound that Pandarus had given him. For the sweat caused
by the hand that bore the weight of his shield irritated the
hurt: his arm was weary with pain, and he was lifting up
the strap to wipe away the blood. The goddess laid her hand
on the yoke of his horses and said, ‘The son of Tydeus is not
such another as his father. Tydeus was a little man, but he

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