You make me miserable, for fear you should fall and hurt yourself on these stones, and I should be the cause. […] Why should he alone escape? […] “Why should you wish to behold me?” […] The oracle informed him that he should find a cow in the field, and should follow her wherever she might wander, and where she stopped, should build a city and call it Thebes. […] I would rather die than you should have me!”