She stooped and gathered some poppies. […] He did not know what to make of this, whether some god had done it or some secret power in the herbage. […] The sons of Niobe were there with the rest, — some mounted on spirited horses richly caparisoned, some driving gay chariots. […] In spite of this hard condition some would try. […] The apples are supposed by some to be the oranges of Spain, of which the Greeks had heard some obscure accounts.