BOOK VIII.
Jove forbids the gods to interfere further--There is an even fight till midday, but then Jove inclines the scales of victory in favour of the Trojans, who eventually chase the Achaeans within their wall--Juno and Minerva set out to help the Trojans: Jove sends Iris to turn them back, but later on he promises Juno that she shall have her way in the end--Hector's triumph is stayed by nightfall--The Trojans bivouac on the plain.
NOW when Morning, clad in her robe of saffron, had begun to suffuse light over the earth, Jove called the gods in council on the topmost crest of serrated Olympus.

Then he spoke and all the other gods gave ear.

"Hear me," said he, "gods and goddesses, that I may speak even as I am minded.

Let none of you neither goddess nor god try to cross me, but obey me every one of you that I may bring this matter to an end.

If I see anyone acting apart and helping either Trojans or Danaans, he shall be beaten inordinately ere he come back again to Olympus; or I will hurl him down into dark Tartarus far into the deepest pit under the earth, where the gates are iron and the floor bronze, as far beneath Hades as heaven is high above the earth, that you may learn how much the mightiest I am among you.