HERMES Let us make straight for Phrygia; I will lead the way, and you follow me without delaying. Be of good courage; I know Paris. He is young and handsome and in every way susceptible to love; just the sort to decide such questions. He would not judge amiss, not he.

APHRODITE What you say is all to the good and in my favour, that our judge is just. Is he unmarried, or does some woman live with him?

HERMES Not quite unmarried, Aphrodite.

APHRODITE What do you mean by that?

HERMES Apparently someone is living with him, a woman from Mount Ida, well enough, but countrified and terribly unsophisticated; however, he does not seem . to think much of her.

The reference is to Oenone.

But why do you ask? APHRODITE It was just a casual question.