Metamorphoses - Book 13:375

so I must rank above you. In the make-up of human

beings,

intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is

our true strength.

'Princes of Greece, I call on you now to reward your

watchman.

Reward me for all those years of anxious and careful

devotion.

I ask you to give me the prize which I'm owed for my

dutiful service.

My work is complete: by removing the obstacle fate had

imposed,

by enabling the capture of Ilium's towers, I achieved their

capture.

By all the hopes that we share, by the toppling defences of

Troy,

in the name of the gods whose aid I recently stole from the

foe,

by anything yet to be done where intelligent action is

needed,

remember Ulysses! Or else, if it cannot be mine, let this

armour

be hers! -- and he pointed towards the fateful image of

Pallas.