[The Iliad by Homer]@TWC D-Link bookThe Iliad BOOK XIV 11/21
And now you are again asking me to do something on which I cannot venture." And Juno said, "Sleep, why do you take such notions as those into your head? Do you think Jove will be as anxious to help the Trojans, as he was about his own son? Come, I will marry you to one of the youngest of the Graces, and she shall be your own--Pasithea, whom you have always wanted to marry." Sleep was pleased when he heard this, and answered, "Then swear it to me by the dread waters of the river Styx; lay one hand on the bounteous earth, and the other on the sheen of the sea, so that all the gods who dwell down below with Saturn may be our witnesses, and see that you really do give me one of the youngest of the Graces--Pasithea, whom I have always wanted to marry." Juno did as he had said.
She swore, and invoked all the gods of the nether world, who are called Titans, to witness.
When she had completed her oath, the two enshrouded themselves in a thick mist and sped lightly forward, leaving Lemnos and Imbrus behind them.
Presently they reached many-fountained Ida, mother of wild beasts, and Lectum where they left the sea to go on by land, and the tops of the trees of the forest soughed under the going of their feet.
Here Sleep halted, and ere Jove caught sight of him he climbed a lofty pine-tree--the tallest that reared its head towards heaven on all Ida.
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