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Rh. Is there a spot there called Macræ?

. Why ask that? what memories thou recallest!

. Doth the Pythian god with his flashing fire do honour to the place?

. Honour, yes! Honour, indeed! would I had never seen the spot!

. How now? dost thou abhor that which the god holds dear?

. No, no; but I and that cave are witnesses of a deed of shame.

. Lady, who is the Athenian lord that calls thee wife?

. No citizen of Athens, but a stranger from another land.

. Who is he? he must have been one of noble birth.

. Xuthus, son of Æolus, sprung from Zeus.

. And how did he, a stranger, win thee a native born?

. Hard by Athens lies a neighbouring township, Eubœa.

. With a bounding line of waters in between, so I have heard.

. This did he sack, making common cause with Cecrops' sons.

. Coming as an ally, maybe; he won thy hand for this?

. Yes, this was his dower of battle, the prize of his prowess.

. Art thou come to the oracle alone, or with thy lord?

. With him. But he is now visiting the cavern of Trophonius.