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cunning workman Vulcan
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lame Vulcan
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Crook-foot
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Vulcan recalls landing on Lemnos and lying there until the Sintians tended him.
“All day long from morn till eve, was I falling, till at sunset I came to ground in the island of Lemnos, and there I lay, with very little life left in me, till the Sintians came and tended me”
Vulcan served nectar and bustled about the heavenly mansion.
“Then Vulcan drew sweet nectar from the mixing-bowl, and served it round among the gods, going from left to right; and the blessed gods laughed out a loud applause as they saw him bustling about the heavenly mansion”
Thetis finds Vulcan working in his house.
“Meanwhile Thetis came to the house of Vulcan, imperishable, star-bespangled, fairest of the abodes in heaven, a house of bronze wrought by the lame god’s own hands. She found him busy with his bellows”
Vulcan moves through his house to Thetis and draws near.
“On this the mighty monster hobbled off from his anvil, his thin legs plying lustily under him. He set the bellows away from the fire, and gathered his tools into a silver chest. Then he took a sponge and washed his face and hands, his shaggy chest and brawny neck; he donned his shirt, grasped his strong staff, and limped towards the door. There were golden handmaids also who worked for him, and were like real young women, with sense and reason, voice also and strength, and all the learning of the immortals; these busied themselves as the king bade them, while he drew near to Thetis, seated her upon a goodly seat, and took her hand in his own, saying, ‘Why have you come to our house, Thetis honoured and ever welcome”
Vulcan takes the completed armour and sets it before Thetis in his house.
“when the famed lame god had made all the armour, he took it and set it before the mother of Achilles; whereon she darted like a falcon from the snowy summits of Olympus and bore away the gleaming armour from the house of Vulcan”
Vulcan made the arcades of polished marble.
“the arcades of polished marble which Vulcan with his consummate skill had made”
Vulcan takes his seat with Neptune’s allied gods at the high earth-barrow of Hercules.
“Here Neptune and those that were with him took their seats”
Vulcan, the cunning workman and Juno’s son, tries to pacify his mother and preserve the divine banquet by urging conciliatory words toward stronger Jove.
“the cunning workman Vulcan began to try and pacify his mother Juno. ‘It will be intolerable,’ said he, ‘if you two fall to wrangling and setting heaven in an uproar about a pack of mortals. If such ill counsels are to prevail, we shall have no pleasure at our banquet. Let me then advise my mother—and she must herself know that it will be better—to make friends with my dear father Jove, lest he again scold her and disturb our feast. If the Olympian Thunderer wants to hurl us all from our seats, he can do so, for he is far the strongest, so give him fair words, and he will then soon be in a good humour with us.’”
Vulcan places a double cup of nectar in his mother’s hand, lovingly urges endurance, and remembers being flung from heaven while trying to help her, falling all day to Lemnos and lying nearly lifeless.
“he took a double cup of nectar, and placed it in his mother’s hand. ‘Cheer up, my dear mother,’ said he, ‘and make the best of it. I love you dearly, and should be very sorry to see you get a thrashing; however grieved I might be, I could not help, for there is no standing against Jove. Once before when I was trying to help you, he caught me by the foot and flung me from the heavenly threshold. All day long from morn till eve, was I falling, till at sunset I came to ground in the island of Lemnos, and there I lay, with very little life left in me, till the Sintians came and tended me.’”
Vulcan draws sweet nectar from the mixing bowl and serves the gods from left to right, bustling until they laugh in loud applause.
“Then Vulcan drew sweet nectar from the mixing-bowl, and served it round among the gods, going from left to right; and the blessed gods laughed out a loud applause as they saw him bustling about the heavenly mansion.”
Lame Vulcan has fashioned each god’s own dwelling with consummate skill.
“each in his own abode, which lame Vulcan with his consummate skill had fashioned for them”
Vulcan saves Idaeus by wrapping him in darkness to spare his aged father further grief.
“whereon Vulcan saved him by wrapping him in a cloud of darkness, that his old father might not be utterly overwhelmed with grief;”
Vulcan made Juno’s private room and cunningly secured its doors with a secret key no other god could use.
“the room which her son Vulcan had made her, and the doors of which he had cunningly fastened by means of a secret key so that no other god could open them.”
Juno promises that clubfooted Vulcan will make Sleep an indestructible golden seat and provide it with a footstool for Sleep’s fair feet.
“my clubfooted son Vulcan shall make it for you, and he shall give it a footstool for you to rest your fair feet upon when you are at table.”
In her lying answer, Juno says Vulcan made her room and gave it strong doors.
“a room which your son Vulcan has made me, and he has given it good strong doors”
Vulcan the smith gave Jove the terrible shaggy-fringed aegis for striking terror into human hearts.
“which Vulcan the smith had given Jove to strike terror into the hearts of men”
Vulcan sweats at hard work with his bellows, fitting cunning ears and hammering rivets onto his nearly finished tripods.
“She found him busy with his bellows, sweating and hard at work, for he was making twenty tripods that were to stand by the wall of his house, and he set wheels of gold under them all that they might go of their own selves to the assemblies of the gods, and come back again—marvels indeed to see. They were finished all but the ears of cunning workmanship which yet remained to be fixed to them: these he was now fixing, and he was hammering at the rivets”
Vulcan remembers suffering from a heavy fall through his mother’s anger, says she would have got rid of him because he was lame, and recalls Thetis and Eurynome taking him in.
“she it was that took care of me when I was suffering from the heavy fall which I had through my cruel mother’s anger—for she would have got rid of me because I was lame. It would have gone hardly with me had not Eurynome, daughter of the ever-encircling waters of Oceanus, and Thetis, taken me to their bosom”
Vulcan hobbles from the anvil on thin but vigorously moving legs, moves the bellows from the fire, stores his tools in a silver chest, washes his face, hands, shaggy chest, and brawny neck, dons a shirt, takes a strong staff, and limps to the door.
“the mighty monster hobbled off from his anvil, his thin legs plying lustily under him. He set the bellows away from the fire, and gathered his tools into a silver chest. Then he took a sponge and washed his face and hands, his shaggy chest and brawny neck; he donned his shirt, grasped his strong staff, and limped towards the door”
Vulcan laments that he cannot hide Achilles from death but confidently promises armour that will amaze every beholder.
“would that I could hide him from death’s sight when his hour is come, so surely as I can find him armour that shall amaze the eyes of all who behold it”
Vulcan melts tough copper with tin, silver, and gold, sets his great anvil, and works with mighty hammer and tongs.
“He threw tough copper into the fire, and tin, with silver and gold; he set his great anvil on its block, and with one hand grasped his mighty hammer while he took the tongs in the other”
Vulcan completes all the armour and sets it before Achilles’s mother.
“the famed lame god had made all the armour, he took it and set it before the mother of Achilles”
Thetis says Vulcan gave her the armour she brings for Achilles.
“armour that the god had given her. She found her son fallen about the body of Patroclus and weeping bitterly. Many also of his followers were weeping round him, but when the goddess came among them she clasped his hand in her own, saying, ‘My son, grieve as we may we must let this man lie, for it is by heaven’s will that he has fallen; now, therefore, accept from Vulcan this rich and goodly armour”
The armour is identified as the god’s work, which Achilles says is handiwork fit for an immortal and beyond any living craftsman.
“the splendid present which the god had made him. Then, as soon as he had satisfied himself with looking at it, he said to his mother, ‘Mother, the god has given me armour, meet handiwork for an immortal and such as no-one living could have fashioned”
Vulcan made the polished-marble arcades for Jove with consummate skill.
“the arcades of polished marble which Vulcan with his consummate skill had made for father Jove”
Vulcan comes in glory, limping while his thin legs ply lustily beneath him.
“with them also came Vulcan in all his glory, limping, but yet with his thin legs plying lustily under him”
Vulcan is matched against the mighty eddying river called Scamander by men and Xanthus by gods.
“the mighty eddying river whom men can Scamander, but gods Xanthus, matched himself against Vulcan”
Evidence records not already represented by a claim.
“cunning workman Vulcan”
“work of Vulcan”
“the cuirass which Vulcan made him”
“her son Vulcan had made her”
“which Vulcan the smith had given Jove”
“accept from Vulcan this rich and goodly armour”
“Vulcan in all his glory”
“Vulcan kindled a fierce fire”
“The thick tresses of gold with which Vulcan had crested the helmet floated round it”
“the flames of Vulcan”