nt[475] desire entirely shadowed around his august mind, just as
when they first were united in love, retiring to the bed, without the
knowledge of their dear parents. And he stood before her, and spoke, and
addressed her:

"Wherefore hastening from Olympus, Juno, comest thou hither, but thy
horses and chariot are not near, which thou mayest ascend."

[Footnote 475: Cf. Theocrit. ii. 82: [Greek: Os idon, os emanen,
os meu peri Thymos iaphthe]. iii. 42: [Greek: Os idon, os emane].
Ovid, Epist. xii. 33: "Ut vidi, ut perii, nec notis ignibus
arsi."]

But him the venerable Juno, meditating guiles, addressed; "I go to visit
the limits of the fertile earth, and Oceanus, the parent of the gods,
and mother Tethys, who nurtured and trained me with care in their
palaces. Them I go to see, and will take away their bitter quarrels. For
already they abstain a long while from the couch and embrace of each
other; since anger has invaded their minds. But my steeds, which will
bear me over dry and wet, stand near the base of Ida with many rills.
Now, however, on thy account have I come hither from Olympus, lest
perchance thou shouldst afterwards be angry with me, were I to depart in
secret to the abode of deep-flowing Oceanus?"

But her cloud-collecting Jove answering, addressed: "Juno, thither thou
canst go even by-and-by, but come [now], let us, reclining, be delighted
with love; for never at any time did the love of a goddess or a woman,
poured around the heart within my breast, so subdue me: neither when I
loved the wife of Ixion, who bore Pirithous, a counsellor equal to the
gods; nor when [I loved] fair-ankled Danae, the daughter of Acrisius,
who bore Perseus, most illustrious of all men; nor when with that of the
celebrated daughter of Phoenix,[476] who bore to me Minos and godlike
Rhadamanthus:[477] nor yet when [I loved] Semele, nor Alcmena in Thebes,
who brought forth my valiant son Hercules: but Semele bore [me] Bacchus,
a joy to mortals: nor when [I loved] Ceres, the fair-haired queen: nor
when glorious Latona nor thyself; as I now love thee, and sweet desire
seizes me."

[Footnote 476: But Europa is generally considered to be the
daughter of Agenor. See Grote, vol. i. p. 350.]

[Footnote 477: On the career of Rhadamanthus, who is "after death
promoted to an abode of undisturbed bliss in the Elysian plain at
the extremity of the earth," see Grote, vol. i. p. 300.]

But him venerable Juno, m