He saved them all from the flames. […] A name of Apollo, from Delphi. […] Their names were, Aglaia, so called from her beauty and goodness; Thalia, from her perpetual freshness; and Euphrosyne, from her cheerfulness. […] So named from thine own grove, Or from the light thou giv’st us from above.” […] A name of Venus, meaning sea-foam, from her having been formed from the froth of the sea.

It never rained there and it was never cold; the birds sang from morning till night, and the flowers bloomed from one year’s end to the other. […] Turn from the altar, women of Thebes, and cast away your wreaths. […] So it went on from day to day. […] The barber, full of fear, hastened from the palace. […] Why, then, do you fly from me?