Excerpt: ...baked the poor fishes and eels, made me boil over, and very nearly dried me up altogether. You see what a state I am in with the burns. Sea. Indeed you are thick and hot, Xanthus, and no wonder; the dead men's blood accounts for one, and the fire for the other, according to your story. Well, and serve you right; assaulting my grandson, indeed! paying no more respect to the son of a Nereid than that! Xan. Was I not to take compassion on the Phrygians? they are my neighbours. Sea. And was Hephaestus not to take ...
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Excerpt: ...baked the poor fishes and eels, made me boil over, and very nearly dried me up altogether. You see what a state I am in with the burns. Sea. Indeed you are thick and hot, Xanthus, and no wonder; the dead men's blood accounts for one, and the fire for the other, according to your story. Well, and serve you right; assaulting my grandson, indeed! paying no more respect to the son of a Nereid than that! Xan. Was I not to take compassion on the Phrygians? they are my neighbours. Sea. And was Hephaestus not to take compassion on Achilles? He is the son of Thetis. H. XII Doris. Thetis Dor. Crying, dear? The. Oh, Doris, I have just seen a lovely girl thrown into a chest by her father, and her little baby with her; and he gave the chest to some sailors, and told them, as soon as they were far enough from the shore, to drop it into the water; he meant them to be drowned, poor things. Dor. Oh, sister, but why? What was it all about? Did you hear? The. Her father, Acrisius, wanted to keep her from marrying. And, as she was so pretty, he shut her up in an iron room. And-I don't know whether it's true-but they say that Zeus turned himself into gold, and came showering down through the roof, and she caught the gold in her lap, -and it was Zeus all the time. And then her father found out about it-he is a horrid, jealous old man-and he was furious, and thought she had been receiving a lover; and he put her into the chest, the moment the child was born. Dor. And what did she do then? The. She never said a word against her own sentence; she was ready to submit: but she pleaded hard for the child's life, and cried, and held him up for his grandfather to see; and there was the sweet babe, that thought no harm, smiling at the waves. I am beginning again, at the mere remembrance of it. Dor. You make me cry, too. And is it all over? The. No; the chest has carried them safely so far; it is by Seriphus. Dor. Then why should we not save them? We can put the chest into...
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