then at length the son of Saturn sent forth a smouldering thunderbolt, and it fell before the blue-eyed [daughter] of an illustrious sire. And then blue-eyed Minerva addressed Ulysses:

"O noble son of Laertes, much-contriving Ulysses, refrain; and check the contest of equally destructive war, lest by chance far-sounding Jove, son of Saturn, be wrath with thee."

Thus spoke Minerva; and he obeyed, and rejoiced in his mind. Afterwards Pallas Minerva, daughter of Ægis-bearing Jove, propounded oaths to both sides, likened unto Mentor, both in person and in her voice.