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When the twelfth day was come, Thetis rose out of the sea, and went / to high Olympus. There she found Zeus sitting apart on the topmost / peak of Olympus, and she knelt down before him; with her left hand / she clasped his knees, and with her right she took his beard, and she / made her prayer unto him.
"O Father Zeus, if ever I have aided thee by word or deed, fulfil now / my prayer. Give honour, I beseech thee, to Achilles my son, who hath / so short a space of life; for now Agamemnon hath put dishonour upon / him, taking away the gift that the Greeks gave him. Grant, / therefore, that the men of Troy may for a while gain the victory so / that the Greeks may do honour to my son."