Megara I saw, daughter of Creon, high of heart, whom Amphitryon’s son, he whose strength never weakened, had to wife.

“And I saw the mother of Oedipodes, beautiful Epicaste, who did a monstrous thing in the ignorance of her mind, wedding her own son; and he, when he had slain his own father, wedded her; and soon the gods made these things known among men. Nevertheless, in lovely Thebes, suffering woes, he ruled over the Cadmeans by the dire designs of the gods; but she went down to the house of Hades, the strong warder, making fast a deadly noose from the high ceiling, caught by her own grief; but for him she left behind countless woes, all that a mother’s Furies bring to pass.

“And I saw beauteous Chloris, whom once Neleus wedded because of her beauty, when he had brought countless gifts of wooing. Youngest daughter was she of Amphion, son of Iasus, who once ruled mightily in Orchomenus of the Minyae. And she was queen of Pylos, and bore to her husband glorious children, Nestor, and Chromius, and lordly Periclymenus, and besides these she bore noble Pero, a wonder to men. Her all who dwelt about sought in marriage, but Neleus would give her to no one except to him who should drive from Phylace the cattle of mighty Iphicles, spiral-horned and broad of brow, and hard they were to drive. These the flawless seer¹ alone undertook to drive off; but a harsh fate of the gods ensnared him, hard bonds and the country herdsmen. Nevertheless, when at length the months and the days were being brought to fulfillment, as the year rolled round, and the seasons came