Thursday, April 09, 2020
Prayers to Athena
Homer, Iliad 6.305-307 (tr. Peter Green):
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LadyVergil, Aeneid 11.483-485 (tr. Nicholas Horsfall):
Athēnē, our city's protector, queen among goddesses,
now break Diomēdēs' spear, now grant that he himself
fall prone in front of the Skaian Gates.
πότνι᾽ Ἀθηναίη ἐρυσίπτολι δῖα θεάων
ἆξον δὴ ἔγχος Διομήδεος, ἠδὲ καὶ αὐτὸν
πρηνέα δὸς πεσέειν Σκαιῶν προπάροιθε πυλάων.
Tritonian maiden, mistress of war and lady of weapons, with your hand break the Phrygian bandit's spear and lay him low on the ground, sprawled before the lofty gates.Both prayers are denied.
armipotens, praeses belli, Tritonia virgo,
frange manu telum Phrygii praedonis, et ipsum
pronum sterne solo portisque effunde sub altis.
