_I. e_. Paris. The construction is an instance of
the [Greek: schema kath' olon kai meros]. See Jelf, Gk. Gr. Sec.478,
and my note on AEsch. Prom. p. 8, ed. Bohn.]

[Footnote 254: Apollonius, Lex. p. 734. seems to regard the
[Greek: stephane] as a distinct kind of helmet, or cap. So, also,
the Schol. and Hesych. t. ii. p. 186, and p. 1266. Others
understand the rim of the helmet. Paschal, de Coronis, i. 2: "Eam
galeae partem quam Hesychius dicit habere [Greek: exochas], id
quod in galea eminentissimum est. Et vero apud Plutarchum
distinguitur [Greek: to kranos] galea [Greek: apo tes stephanes],
ab ejus parte quae est in ipsius summitate."]

But he fell from his mares on the ground, and his limbs were relaxed.

But when the azure-eyed goddess Minerva saw them destroying the Greeks,
in fierce engagement, she descended straightway, rushing down from the
tops of Olympus to sacred Ilium. Then Apollo hastened to meet her,
having perceived her from Pergamus, for he wished victory to the
Trojans. And they met each other at the beech-tree. Her first king
Apollo, the son of Jove, addressed:

"Why again dost thou, O daughter of mighty Jove, come ardently from
Olympus, and why has thy mighty soul impelled thee? It is that thou
mightst give to the Greeks the doubtful victory of battle, for thou dost
not pity the Trojans perishing. But if thou obeyest me in aught, which
indeed would be much better, let us now make the war and conflict to
cease this day, afterwards shall they fight until they find an end of
Ilium; since it is pleasing to the mind of you goddesses to overthrow
this city." [255]

[Footnote 255: On the partisan deities for and against Troy, cf.
Dionys. 817.

[Greek: "Ilion, en epolisse Poseidaon kai Apollon,
Ilion, en alapaken alapazan Athenaie te kai Ere".]

See Grote's Hist, of Greece, vol. i. p. 68.]

But him in turn the azure-eyed goddess Minerva thus addressed: "Be it
so, Far-darter; for I myself, meditating the same things, came down from
Olympus to the Trojans and the Greeks. But come, how dost thou intend to
make the battle of men to cease?"

Her then in turn king Apollo, the son of Jove, addressed: "Let us arouse
the valiant spirit of horse-breaking Hector, if perchance he will
challenge some one of the Greeks to fight against him singly opposed in
grievous combat. And the well-greaved Greeks enraged will urge on some
single man to fight with n