Book IX, 619: On a Bath in Byzantium

Now I know, Cytherea, how thou didst conquer in the contest, stealing the vote of Alexander. It was here thou didst dip thy body, and so didst find means to overcome Hera who had bathed in the streams of Inachus. It was the bath that won, and I fancy Pallas cried out thus: “I was conquered by the water, not by the Paphian.”