Anxious to ascertain its exact nature, he watched it closely, and before long discovered the theft. […] Cadmus, the founder of Thebes, is supposed to have invented the alphabet, and introduced its use into Greece. […] The sun is captivated by its beauty, and longs to view it more closely; the dew, afraid of its ardent lover, flies, and, when its fiery breath touches it, vanishes, leaving nothing but verdure in the self-same spot where but a moment before it sparkled in all its purity. […] She brought him as dowry a hunting dog, Lelaps, and a javelin warranted never to miss its mark. […] Clymene immediately gave him all necessary information, and bade him make haste if he would reach his father’s palace in the Far East before the sun chariot passed out of its portals to accomplish its daily round.