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She wrought a gadfly with a goading sting.

Thus drave she Io hence, to roam afar?

Yea—this thy word coheres exact with mine.

Then to Canopus and to Memphis came she?

And by Zeus' hand was touched, and bare a child.

Who vaunts him the Zeus-mated heifer's son?

Epaphus, named rightly from the saving touch.

And whom in turn did Epaphus beget?

Libya, with name of a wide land endowed.