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lord of the earthquake
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King Neptune
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earth-encircling Neptune
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shaker of earth
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Neptune is physically present on Olympus while unyoking Jove’s horses and placing his chariot on its stand.
“Presently father Jove drove his chariot to Olympus, and entered the assembly of gods. The mighty lord of the earthquake unyoked his horses for him, set the car upon its stand, and threw a cloth over it”
In the narrated future destruction, Neptune is physically present at the Achaean wall, surveying it and throwing its foundations into the sea.
“Neptune himself, trident in hand, surveyed the work and threw into the sea all the foundations of beams and stones which the Achaeans had laid with so much toil”
Neptune watches the battle from a seat on the topmost crests of wooded Samothrace.
“King Neptune had kept no blind look-out; he had been looking admiringly on the battle from his seat on the topmost crests of wooded Samothrace”
Neptune completes his journey to Aegae and equips himself there.
“with the fourth he reached his goal—Aegae, where is his glittering golden palace, imperishable, in the depths of the sea. When he got there, he yoked his fleet brazen-footed steeds with their manes of gold all flying in the wind; he clothed himself in raiment of gold, grasped his gold whip, and took his stand upon his chariot.”
Neptune stops at the undersea cavern between Tenedos and Imbrus.
“a certain huge cavern in the depths of the sea midway between Tenedos and rocky Imbrus; here Neptune lord of the earthquake stayed his horses”
Neptune comes to the gathering and sits in the house of Jove.
“Neptune also, lord of the earthquake, obeyed the call of the goddess, and came up out of the sea to join them. There, sitting in the midst of them”
Neptune takes his seat at the high earth-barrow of Hercules.
“the dark-haired god led the way to the high earth-barrow of Hercules, built round solid masonry, and made by the Trojans and Pallas Minerva for him fly to when the sea-monster was chasing him from the shore on to the plain. Here Neptune and those that were with him took their seats”
Neptune approaches Achilles at Xanthus in the likeness of a man.
“Neptune and Minerva came up to him in the likeness of two men, and took him by the hand”
Neptune recalls working around Ilius for Laomedon for a year.
“we two alone of all the gods fared hardly round about Ilius when we came from Jove’s house and worked for Laomedon a whole year”
Neptune recalls building the wall of Ilius.
“I built the Trojans the wall about their city, so wide and fair that it might be impregnable”
Achilles reports that Neptune joined a plot to bind Jove before Thetis intervened.
“when the others, with Juno, Neptune, and Pallas Minerva would have put him in bonds”
Neptune complains that the Achaeans built their wall and trench without sacrifices, argues that its fame will eclipse the wall he remembers building with Apollo for Laomedon, and emphasizes the labour of that earlier work.
“Neptune, lord of the earthquake, spoke, saying, ‘Father Jove, what mortal in the whole world will again take the gods into his counsel? See you not how the Achaeans have built a wall about their ships and driven a trench all round it, without offering hecatombs to the gods? The fame of this wall will reach as far as dawn itself, and men will no longer think anything of the one which Phoebus Apollo and myself built with so much labour for Laomedon”
Jove tells Neptune that a god less powerful than he might be alarmed by the Achaean work and that Neptune’s fame reaches as far as dawn.
“A god less powerful than yourself might be alarmed at what they are doing, but your fame reaches as far as dawn itself”
Neptune is troubled, rebukes Juno’s rash speech, and refuses to oppose Jove because Jove is far stronger.
“King Neptune was greatly troubled and answered, ‘Juno, rash of tongue, what are you talking about? We other gods must not set ourselves against Jove, for he is far stronger than we are”
Neptune unharnesses Jove’s horses, sets his chariot on its stand, and covers it with cloth.
“mighty lord of the earthquake unyoked his horses for him, set the car upon its stand, and threw a cloth over it”
The envoys pray earnestly to earth-encircling Neptune for Achilles’s high spirit to incline favourably toward them.
“prayed earnestly to earth-encircling Neptune that the high spirit of the son of Aeacus might incline favourably towards them”
Achilles says a fair passage from Neptune would bring him to Phthia in three days.
“If great Neptune vouchsafes me a fair passage, in three days I shall be in Phthia”
Nestor remembers Neptune hiding his sons the Moliones in mist and carrying them from battle.
“their real father, Neptune lord of the earthquake, had hidden them in a thick mist and borne them out of the fight”
Neptune, trident in hand, is foretold to cast the wall’s foundations into the sea, level its site, cover it with sand, and restore the rivers.
“Neptune himself, trident in hand, surveyed the work and threw into the sea all the foundations of beams and stones which the Achaeans had laid with so much toil; he made all level by the mighty stream of the Hellespont, and then when he had swept the wall away he spread a great beach of sand over the place where it had been. This done he turned the rivers back into their old courses”
Neptune comes from beneath the sea to Samothrace, pities the overmatched Achaeans, and is furiously angry with Jove.
“He had come from under the sea and taken his place here, for he pitied the Achaeans who were being overcome by the Trojans; and he was furiously angry with Jove.”
Neptune strides so powerfully that hills and forest quake, reaches Aegae in four strides, dresses in gold, and mounts his chariot with a gold whip.
“Presently he came down from his post on the mountain top, and as he strode swiftly onwards the high hills and the forest quaked beneath the tread of his immortal feet. Three strides he took, and with the fourth he reached his goal—Aegae, where is his glittering golden palace, imperishable, in the depths of the sea. When he got there, he yoked his fleet brazen-footed steeds with their manes of gold all flying in the wind; he clothed himself in raiment of gold, grasped his gold whip, and took his stand upon his chariot.”
Neptune cheers the Argives after assuming Calchas’s form and voice.
“Meanwhile earth-encircling Neptune lord of the earthquake cheered on the Argives, for he had come up out of the sea and had assumed the form and voice of Calchas.”
Neptune strikes both Ajaxes with his sceptre, gives them daring and agility, then flies away like a falcon.
“As he spoke the earth-encircling lord of the earthquake struck both of them with his sceptre and filled their hearts with daring. He made their legs light and active, as also their hands and their feet. Then, as the soaring falcon poises on the wing high above some sheer rock, and presently swoops down to chase some bird over the plain, even so did Neptune lord of the earthquake wing his flight into the air and leave them.”
Neptune moves lightly among the exhausted Achaeans, rousing them and urging their battalions forward.
“the earthencircler roused the Achaeans, who were resting in the rear by the ships overcome at once by hard fighting and by grief at seeing that the Trojans had got over the wall in force. Tears began falling from their eyes as they beheld them, for they made sure that they should not escape destruction; but the lord of the earthquake passed lightly about among them and urged their battalions to the front.”
Disguised Neptune exhorts selected warriors and rebukes them for failing to fight hard enough to save the ships.
“First he went up to Teucer and Leitus, the hero Peneleos, and Thoas and Deipyrus; Meriones also and Antilochus, valiant warriors; all did he exhort. ‘Shame on you young Argives,’ he cried, ‘it was on your prowess I relied for the saving of our ships; if you fight not with might and main, this very day will see us overcome by the Trojans.”
Angered by his grandson Amphimachus’s fall, Neptune approaches Idomeneus in Thoas’s likeness and voice.
“Neptune was exceedingly angry that his grandson Amphimachus should have fallen; he therefore went to the tents and ships of the Achaeans to urge the Danaans still further, and to devise evil for the Trojans. Idomeneus met him, as he was taking leave of a comrade, who had just come to him from the fight, wounded in the knee. His fellow-soldiers bore him off the field, and Idomeneus having given orders to the physicians went on to his tent, for he was still thirsting for battle. Neptune spoke in the likeness and with the voice of Thoas son of Andraemon”
In Thoas’s likeness, Neptune orders Idomeneus to arm quickly and says companionship gives courage and lets the pair face the bravest.
“Get your armour and go, we must make all haste together if we may be of any use, though we are only two. Even cowards gain courage from companionship, and we two can hold our own with the bravest.”
Neptune secretly encourages the Argives in a man’s likeness, grieving their defeat and fearing open opposition to older Jove.
“Neptune on the other hand went about among the Argives to incite them, having come up from the grey sea in secret, for he was grieved at seeing them vanquished by the Trojans, and was furiously angry with Jove. Both were of the same race and country, but Jove was elder born and knew more, therefore Neptune feared to defend the Argives openly, but in the likeness of man, he kept on encouraging them throughout their host.”
Neptune lays Alcathous low through Idomeneus by blinding his eyes and binding his limbs motionless.
“him did Neptune lay low by the hand of Idomeneus, blinding his bright eyes and binding his strong limbs in fetters so that he could neither go back nor to one side, but stood stock still like pillar or lofty tree”
Neptune guards Antilochus amid thick darts, preventing the surrounding Trojans from wounding him.
“The Trojans came about him on every side and struck his broad and gleaming shield, but could not wound his body, for Neptune stood guard over the son of Nestor, though the darts fell thickly round him.”
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“Neptune”
“the mighty god of Neptune”
“earth-encircling Neptune”
“Neptune lord of the earthquake, had hidden them in a thick mist”
“King Neptune had kept no blind look-out”
“earth-encircling Neptune lord of the earthquake”
“Neptune spoke in the likeness and with the voice of Thoas son of Andraemon”
“Neptune had kept no blind look-out, and came up to them in the semblance of an old man.”
“King Neptune in their midst”
“shaker of earth”
“Neptune and Minerva came up to him in the likeness of two men”
“King Neptune turned to Apollo”
“Neptune gave them to my father Peleus”
“save only Juno, Neptune, and Jove’s greyeyed daughter”