When she had carried him off, she besought Zeus to bestow on him immortality. […] Sometimes she is winged, at other times not. […] The river-god rose : she fled away naked as she was ; Alpheios pursued her. […] At night she retires to bed ; an unseen youth addresses her in the softest accents, and she becomes his wife. […] As she is returning, she thinks she may venture to open the box and take a portion for herself, that she may be the more pleasing to her husband.