BOOK III

came near the land; then Zeus over a wa the Trojan channel of water-ranging Helle,” NT ae of the Samian torch, and furled t Paeet Seethpemines. ine, hex up under of harbour. A hole drilled through a claw received the hawsers of the ships, and held em immovable, and the curving teeth of the ship's tight into the wet sand deep the time that the sun went down. bird of morning was cutting the air with ernie” were Besting on their shickds in the dance, and leaping with rhythmic and the oxhides thudded under the blows of the they whirled them about in rivalry, while the music, and quickened the dancers its g tune in time to the bounding steps. rees whiepered, the rocks boomed, ubllee with their intelligent moving» and the Dryads did sing. Packs of dance, skipping and wheeling face face; lions with « roar from emulous throats mimicked the triumphant ery of the priests of the Cabeiroi, sane in their madness ; the revelling pipes ako in Samothrece, and the two names Corybants and Cabeirot were confued later.

they deck the bean Cag a ae a pereneng water in the bath before the marriage. with dawing for She flapt her wings and rallied Se So Cadence bso baby, or only a novice in love! "ae . y Athena Genetyllis; in any case, no a an identification of Athena with some Astanie ther iy Gatlin 5 : iit a4; not like Aphrodite's myrtle i knew his A.B C; since his pattern was read as his yearning never satisfied; if he saw the plant beaten by the breezes, he remembered the quoit, and for fear the wind, so jealous once about the boy, might hate him even in a leaf : if it is on the iris, and so the tears of Phoibos. aes: Saks edaaleougs destied of tke teak of 4 boys of stoxd on to give them light for their desert in the Before the gates rows of dogs’ stood on os neha armed intelligent, all modelled sien atone works of sass net with gaping throats ; a man came by knew, golden d oar bark bar age swelling throat a So as Cadmos passed, Echo sent eyes to survey the royal n, and scelptures an ll th be Seana hall with with arching neck. He was lord of Samothe of Ares, having inherited the royal house of Electra his mother. At that time he was of rain had flooded the world’s foundations with as he cut the air through the 2 on when all the earth was hidden the flood, when the tops of the Thessalian rocks were covered, when the sumunit of the Pythian rock near the clouds on high was bathed in the snow-cooled ¢ flood. There was deluge, when tempestuous waters covered the circuit of the round earth in a furious flood, when OdpBeev dvdpos ldos, drei vi of are many conjectures.

golid earth and covered the hills, and even the unwe of Sithonia with Mount Athos itself, wp flood, landed on the ancient mountain of Ida Tt was his brother Emathion, ruler of the Sithonian land, who left the noisy market-place, and amazed at the hero's looks; for the youthful manliness and beauty match prince was amazed at be desired: for it was a ante, and hardly touched the banquet. He sat opposite As they feasted, the breathing reeds of Coryteot pipe, and the fingers beat out their tune in cadence, dancing and prewing the sound’; the with leaping hands out the tune”: the Dactylol being iy HE aig etl ravpoduns dre ord eee GpeBopdvow spooumou we els aydAny dypaviov é atvero ovvvopos “led, a é rrouxidov, dadardcon xexaopévor : mals, ‘a Sips uat-on Ua icles Sat was driven to pasture along with the herd of kine; when. Hera made sleepless Argos herdsman to that He was to the horned bride of Zeus, p Ionian sea with travelling hoof. She by name, because year by watery consort covers Earth with new its muddy flood —she came as far as crops; when the fruit starts up, Egyptian Demeter my stronghorned lo, emad hands touched the inviolate There the girl received the denizen of the deep, now went ; with them grew up flitted from city to city and belonged to each in turn, a man of unstable life, my father— he travelled to Thebes after Memphis, to Assyria after Thebes. Then there was the wise A m, who lived on Hgyptian sail, ti-fated father of many t all those flocks of short-lived this bridal crime. hrust away her father's commands that bad goodfather! she let the winds carry away, and kept her hand clean from blood not know how to believe it if bulls desire with a woman. And Agenor sent me along with brothers to track our sister and the girl's wild robber, that bull the bastard voyager over a waveless sea. That is why my random journeying brings me here.” Such was the tale of Cadmos in the cloistered ome i the words from his eloquent lips, as told the «t a father's threat when he would urge on his n, and the counterfeit bull travelling the Tyrian surf, the ravisher of the Sidonian of Danacs, of whom all but one killed her husband on the silence! For this is the way men’s life trouble upon trouble ; since all ilty to F aaieioee eee tls Aion TMM AT Ritad Over born’ mye? one of those Pie 4 a eae rete pew ara heart in labour, seven times having called EFileithyia at her to lighten the pangs of birth after birth—I am witness! for my house is far from my father's; no is near me, no Maia my com- Lhavenot dandied up and downsister Taygete's Laceomy arm; I do not sce me s house hard by, or hear Merope herself some hearton his check, my Dardanos has gone abroad to the bosom of the Idaian land; he has given the firstling old Atlas with fing » upholding the seven-soned vault of the sky 7 Taygete the Pieied is the nymph of Mount Taygetos near Sparta, and her the cponym of Lacedaimon, district ia which Sparta ties. .

Elrev "A xarevvrdlovea peplurag. — Leds b¢€ warnp mpodnxe chy it, fa Mays and lo. He was founder of a handel hitting! ih be Hite ce feet trl Has ai! Hit eli Hal eixedos TOdq » bbls 8d of While Cadmos sat near the prudent queen, into house came Hermes in the shape of a young man, unforeseen, uncaught, cluding the doorkeeper with of ruddy down ran about the edge of his round Seeeeeeouees am eee young her nowty grown a herald, he held his rod as usual. Wrapt in i spake Inthe language of men E Scllew of Zeus! Most blessed of all women that shall for children, and stock talon of the earth 1° is the dower of your own god-fearing guest. Then do you alo obey your Cronion, and let your daughter Harmonia go along with her yearemate Cadmos as his bride, without for bridal gifts. Grant this grace to Zeus and the ed ones; for when the immortals Ht fle ile if