“Great father Zeus, remember long ago, 500 in Greece, amid the fertile fields of wheat, if any one of us made prayers to you, and burned fat thighs of cattle or of sheep, and asked you for a safe return from war, and you agreed, and promised with your nod, remember those things now, Olympian, and save us from the day of devastation, and do not let the Trojans beat the Greeks as they are doing now!”
