Eros, the first to perceive these deficiencies, seized his life-giving arrows and pierced the cold bosom of the Earth. […] This version was far less popular with the Greeks, although it betrays still more plainly the common source whence all these myths are derived. […] As these sandals did not seem quite sufficient, however, the gods added the winged cap, Petasus, to the winged shoes. […] During one of these excursions he carried off Orithyia, who always fled at his approach. […] The Amazons yielded implicit belief to these rumours, flew to arms, and surrounded their queen.