to take compassion on the town now that it is burnt to ashes?AthenaFirst go back to the former point; will you make common cause with me in the scheme I purpose?PoseidonYes, surely; but I want to learn your wishes, whether you have come to help Achaeans or Phrygians.AthenaI wish to give my former foes, the Trojans, joy, and on the Achaean army impose a bitter return.PoseidonWhy do you leap thus from mood to mood? Your love and hate both go too far, on whomever centred.AthenaDo you not know the insult done to me and to the shrine I love?PoseidonI do: when Aias dragged away Cassandra by force.AthenaYes, and the Achaeans did nothing, said nothing to him.