Bid him leave off fighting, and either join the company of the gods, or go down into the sea.

If he takes no heed and disobeys me, let him consider well whether he is strong enough to hold his own against me if I attack him.

I am older and much stronger than he is; yet he is not afraid to set himself up as on a level with myself, of whom all the other gods stand in awe." Iris, fleet as the wind, obeyed him, and as the cold hail or snowflakes that fly from out the clouds before the blast of Boreas, even so did she wing her way till she came close up to the great shaker of the earth.

Then she said, "I have come, O dark-haired king that holds the world in his embrace, to bring you a message from Jove.

He bids you leave off fighting, and either join the company of the gods or go down into the sea; if, however, you take no heed and disobey him, he says he will come down here and fight you.