...fore when I was trying to help you, he caught me by the foot and flung me from the heavenly threshold. All day long from morn till eve, was I falling, till at sunset I came to ground in the island of Lemnos , and there I lay, with very little life left in me, till the Sintians came and tended me." Hera smiled at this, and as she smiled she took the cup from her son's hands. Then Hephaistos drew sweet ...