These little insects fluttered about, alighting, some upon Epimetheus, who had just entered, and some upon Pandora, pricking and stinging them most unmercifully. […] Eurydice was touched by his courtship, and ere long requited the love lavished upon her by conferring her hand upon Orpheus. […] In her haste she accidentally trod upon a venomous serpent lurking in the long grass, which immediately turned upon her, and bit her heel. […] In vain Niobe sought to protect them, and called upon all the gods of Olympus. […] There each night the goddess paused to gaze enraptured upon his beloved countenance, and to press a soft kiss upon his unconscious lips.