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THE SUPPLIANT MAIDENS.
Chorus.
She wrought a gadfly with a goading sting.
The King of Argos.
Thus drave she Io hence, to roam afar?
Chorus.
Yea—this thy word coheres exact with mine.
The King of Argos.
Then to Canopus and to Memphis came she?
Chorus.
And by Zeus' hand was touched, and bare a child.
The King of Argos.
Who vaunts him the Zeus-mated heifer's son?
Chorus.
Epaphus, named rightly from the saving touch.
The King of Argos.
And whom in turn did Epaphus beget?[1]
Chorus.
Libya, with name of a wide land endowed.
