ABSTRACT
So he spoke, and left her there, and went to his bellows. He turned these toward the fire and gave them their orders for working. And the bellows, all twenty o f them, blew on the crucibles, wherever Hephaistos might wish them to blow, and the work went forward. First o f all he forged a shield that was huge and heavy... when the renowned smith o f the strong arms had finished the armour he lifted it and laid it before the mother o f Achilleus. The Iliad o f Homer, 18.468-614: Trans. R. Lattimore.
