Then through the door with halting step he pass’d;
... with halting gait,
Pass’d to a gorgeous chair by Thetis’ side,
And, as her hand he clasp’d, address’d her thus:
‘Say Thetis, of the flowing robe, belov’d
And honour’d, whence this visit to our house,
An unaccustom’d guest? say what thy will,
And, if within my pow’r esteem it done.’”
Iliad, Bk. XVIII., p. 420-80.
[527] British Museum, A Guide to the Antiquities of the Early Iron Age, p. 54.