She sent a gadfly to torment Io, who, in her flight, swam through the sea, named after her, Ionian. […] Wishing to offer a sacrifice to his protecting deity, Minerva, he sent his servants to seek pure water for a libation. […] One day they played a game of quoits; Apollo, heaving aloft the discus, with strength mingled with skill, sent it high and far. […] She sent him to Phœbus to ask for himself whether he had not been truly informed concerning his parentage. […] Nor until Agamemnon had sent back his winsome captive to her father did Apollo remove from the Danaans the loathsome pestilence.