In Nonnus209, when the god arrives in the West, Phosphoros unyokes the sweating steeds, washes them in the waves of ocean, and then leads them to their stall ; and when they are rested the god drives them round the Ocean to the East. […] She now goes through the world in search of Cupid : she arrives at the kingdom of her sisters ; and, by a false tale of Cupid’s love for them, causes them to cast themselves from the rock on which she had been exposed, and through their credulity they perish. […] All, therefore, we should ever hope to arrive at is a view of the general sense and meaning.