But you, my foster-parents, if you feel for me, and see with displeasure this unworthy treatment of me, show it, I beseech you, by forbidding this guilty couple from coming into your waters.” […] Ye blessed gods, I pray you, prosper the fulfilment of the dream!” […] What favor have you to ask of us?” […] “Why do you refuse me water?” […] Yet I ask it of you as a favor.