Tzetzes' Allegories of the Iliad and Psellos' Allegories

was absent from this wedding because she was not invited.
She, boiling with rage and cast down by grief,
fashioned a golden apple, and wrote on the apple:
"Take, beautiful one among the goddesses, take, beautiful one, the apple;
145 "To you, the beautiful one among the goddesses, let the apple be a gift."
Thus Eris, as they say, having made the apple,
threw it from the roof into the middle of the wedding.
And immediately Hera, Athena, along with Aphrodite,
leaving the wedding table and the drinking,
150 were clashing in battle especially over the apple,
each of them saying that she surpassed the others in beauty.
Finally, Zeus, having taken Hermes, commands these
to lead them away to Alexander original: "Alexandron" (Paris) himself on Mount Ida;
and whichever of them Alexander deems most beautiful,
155 that one is to take the apple as the prize of beauty.
As they quickly arrived at Ida itself,
Hera says these things to Alexander secretly:
"If you judge me the superior and give me the apple,
"I will make you rule over the West and the East."
160 And Athena, to the one beginning the strategy of the Phrygians referring to Paris,
was saying she would make all of Greece his slave.
And Aphrodite, having said to Alexander himself,
"If you judge me superior to these, I will give you Helen,"
she takes the victory prize and the apple as the reward.

...of Eris the most contentious. Burgess: "most contentious," violating the law of accentuation.
(142) A, she. B, C, Burgess, she.
(145) A, "to you the... shall be." B, "to you the... shall be." C, "to you... let it be." Burgess, "and to you... let it be."
(146) Burgess, "thus Eris."
(147) Burgess, "roof... this." A, "the apple in the middle below."

(158) A, B, "If you judge... and give." C, "If you judge... and give." Burgess, "If you judge... and give." Having written "If you judge... you give," it seemed that the tenses fit together not badly, since the aorist "you give" can have the significance of a future.
(160) The manuscripts have "the one beginning." I have written "the one beginning" dative case to refer to "him."
(163) C, "you judge," from a correction.