Accompanied by their mother, Telephassa, they immediately set out on their journey, inquiring of all they met if they had seen their sister. […] It always seemed to her then as if Nature, so beautiful during the day, borrowed additional charms from the witching hours of the night. […] Both nations agreed, however, in saying that it was an almost impossible feat to get out again if one were rash enough to venture in. […] If the good outweighed the evil, the spirit was led to the Elysian Fields; but if, on the contrary, the evil prevailed, the spirit was condemned to suffer in the fires of Tartarus. […] In a fit of deluded frenzy, he pursued his wife and children as if they were wild beasts.