Basileia lost her senses through grief, and went roaming in madness through the country with dishevelled locks, beating drums and cymbals. […] On ordinary occasions the gods moved by the aid of their golden shoes : when at home in their houses, they, like the men of those ages, went barefoot. […] When Perseus went on his expedition against the Gorgons, the helm of invisibility covered his brows487. […] When Apollo resolved to choose the site of his first temple, he came down from Olympos into Pieria : he sought throughout all Thessaly ; thence went to Eubœa, Attica, and Bœotia, but could find no place to his mind. […] Being laughed at by Hera and Aphrodite, on account of her green eyes and her swollen cheeks, she went to a fountain on Mount Ida, and played before the liquid mirror.