in the day he came to Ida’s glen, guiding that fair young trio of goddesses, all girded for the fray in bitter rivalry about their beauty, to the shepherd’s fold, where dwelt the youthful herdsman all alone by the hearth of his lonely hut.

ChorusSoon as they reached the wooded glen, in gushing mountain springs they bathedνίψαν. So Hermann. αἰγλᾶντα, Musgrave. ἐν ῥοαῖς, Aldus. their dazzling skin, then sought the son of Priam, comparing their rival charms in more than rancorous phrase.Reading ὑπερβολαῖς λόγων δθσφρόνων. Hermann places a stop after Πριαμίδαν, and then reads ὑπερβολαῖς λόγων δ’ εὐφρόνων. But Cypris won the day by her deceitful promises,sweet-sounding words, but fraught with ruthless overthrow to Phrygia’s hapless town and Ilium’s towers.