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Surely; and Zeus

By laying-on of hands raised up a son.

Who then is he that boasts himself the calf

Zeus gendered on this cow?

Even Epaphus,

True title given from that divine caress.

And Epaphus—had he issue?

He begat

Libya, the reaper of a third of earth,

Her amplest fields.

What scion sprang from her?

My father's father, Bel, who had two sons.

Tell me, I pray, thy sire's all-sapient name.

Danaus: he hath a brother who begot

Two score and ten sons.

Prithee, indulge me further;

And let me hear by what name he is called?