They saw around them various changes brought about by human agency, and hence they knew the power of intelligence to produce effects. […] A Samian named Elpis, having made a voyage to Africa, saw as he was one day on the seashore a huge lion approaching him with his mouth wide open. […] When she saw his hairs blanching, she abstained from his bed, but still kept him and treated him with due attention in her palace on the eastern margin of the Oceanstream, ‘giving him ambrosial food and fair garments’. […] She saw a pool, and knelt down at it to drink. […] She sped all through Arcadia, till with the approach of evening she felt her strength to fail, and saw that her pursuer was close upon her.