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That is actually the second half of Line 274 of Iliad 1:
ἐπεὶ πείθεσθαι ἄμεινον (epeì peíthesthai ámeinon),
an expression very commonly rendered into English as "to obey is better", such as in Augustus Taber Murray's 1924 translation (Harvard University Press).
Samuel Butler's 1898 rendition (Cambridge University Press) has "for this is the more ...
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One More Wife
To complicate the issue yet a little bit further, if we take Plato's dialogue Kritias into account, Poseidon actually has three wives, not just two. According to the description of the foundation of Atlantis in Kritias, Poseidon was married to a certain Kleïto [Cleïto] who bore him five sets of twin sons who ruled the land, which was named ...
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