To free himself from this inconvenience, the worsted fiend plunged into the lake and dashed through the side of the mountain Sactá, thus forming the passage through which the waters flowed off and left the plain dry13. […] Basileia lost her senses through grief, and went roaming in madness through the country with dishevelled locks, beating drums and cymbals. […] The celestial luminaries seem rather, according to Homer and Hesiod, to have careered through void air, ‘bringing light to men and gods.’ […] They were gradually but slowly spread through Greece. […] She now goes through the world in search of Cupid : she arrives at the kingdom of her sisters ; and, by a false tale of Cupid’s love for them, causes them to cast themselves from the rock on which she had been exposed, and through their credulity they perish.