We other gods must all do as you bid us, but her you neither scold nor punish; you encourage her because the pestilent creature is your daughter.

See how she has been inciting proud Diomed to vent his rage on the immortal gods.

First he went up to the Cyprian and wounded her in the hand near her wrist, and then he sprang upon me too as though he were a god.

Had I not run for it I must either have lain there for long enough in torments among the ghastly corpses, or have been eaten alive with spears till I had no more strength left in me." Jove looked angrily at him and said, "Do not come whining here, Sir Facing-both-ways.

I hate you worst of all the gods in Olympus, for you are ever fighting and making mischief.