ATHENA 
I say, you are betraying your trust in talking to
her privately all this while.
 HERMES 
It was nothing alarming, Athena, or against you
and Hera; she asked me whether Paris is unmarried. ATHENA
Why was she inquisitive about that?
 HERMES 
I don’t know; she says, however, that she asked
because it came into her head casually, and not
because she had anything definite in view.
 ATHENA 
Well, what about it? Is he unmarried?
 HERMES 
Apparently not.
 ATHENA 
Tell me, does he covet success in war and is he
fond of glory, or nothing but a herdsman?.
 HERMES 
I can’t say for certain, but it is fair to suppose
that, being young, he yearns to acquire all that too,
and would like to be first in war.
 APHRODITE 
You see, I am not making any complaint or
reproaching you with talking confidentially to her;
that is the way of fault-finders, not of Aphrodite!

 

 HERMES 
She herself asked me _ractically the same
questions; so do not be ill-tempered or think you
are getting the worst of it if I answered her as I did
you, in a straightforward way.