They sought the woods, and revolved the oracle in their minds. […] The earth is the great parent of all; the stones are her bones; these we may cast behind us; this, I think, the oracle means. […] The responses of the oracle were given by the rustling of the oak trees in the wind. […] Consequently her parents, afraid that they had unwittingly incurred the anger of the gods, consulted the oracle of Apollo. […] Probably her husband was a dreadful monster, such as the Pythian oracle had prophesied.