In vain the bereaved mother besought the life of one little one: the selfish, hardhearted father would not relent. […] Her daughters fell one by one, never to rise again. […] No one was in sight as far as she could see. […] Upon one occasion she incurred Jupiter’s wrath by relating to Juno a conversation she had overheard between him and one of his numerous mistresses. […] The cave was divided into chambers, each one darker and more silent than the one which preceded it.