Farewell, O city once prosperous! farewell, you ramparts of polished stone! if Pallas, daughter of Zeus, had not decreed your ruin, you would be standing firmly still.AthenaMay I address the mighty god whom the gods revere and who to my own father is very near in blood, laying aside our former enmity?PoseidonYou may; for over the soul the ties of kin exert no feeble spell, great queen Athena.AthenaFor your forgiving mood my thanks! I have messages to impart affecting both yourself and me, lord.PoseidonDo you bring fresh tidings from some god, from Zeus, or from some lesser power?AthenaFrom none of these; but on behalf of Troy, whose soil we tread, I have come to seek your mighty aid, to make it one with mine.PoseidonWhat! have you laid your former hate aside