Verse
Iliad
Book 8, Line 385 by Samuel Butler (English)
flung her richly vesture, made with her own hands, on to the threshold of her father, and donned the shirt of Zeus, arming herself for battle. Then she stepped into her flaming chariot, and grasped the spear so stout and sturdy and strong with which she quells the ranks of heroes who have displeased her. Hera lashed her horses, and the gates of heaven bellowed as they flew open of their own accord- gates over which the Hours preside, in whose hands are heaven and Olympus , either to open the dense cloud that hides them or to close it. Through these the goddesses drove their obedient steeds.
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