Bring, therefore, your spear to bear upon him, and let him not scare you with his taunts and menaces." As he spoke he put courage into the heart of the shepherd of his people, and he strode in full armour among the ranks of the foremost fighters.

Nor did the son of Anchises escape the notice of white-armed Juno, as he went forth into the throng to meet Achilles.

She called the gods about her, and said, "Look to it, you two, Neptune and Minerva, and consider how this shall be; Phoebus Apollo has been sending Aeneas clad in full armour to fight Achilles.

Shall we turn him back at once, or shall one of us stand by Achilles and endow him with strength so that his heart fail not, and he may learn that the chiefs of the immortals are on his side, while the others who have all along been defending the Trojans are but vain helpers?
Let us all come down from Olympus and join in the fight, that this day he may take no hurt at the hands of the Trojans.

Hereafter let him suffer whatever fate may have spun out for him when he was begotten and his mother bore him.