A people thus favoured could not fail to be happy, and many were the songs in praise of their sunny land. […] To be thus outstripped, after all her proud boasts, was humiliating indeed. […] Time passed thus. […] He travelled thus, it is said, throughout Greece and Asia Minor, and even ventured as far as India and Ethiopia. […] This animal Hercules, with his usual strength and skill, caught and bound fast, thus finishing the sixth task.