And now both were fixing their eyes on the ground abashed, and again were throwing glances at each other, smiling with the light of love beneath their radiant brows.

And at last and scarcely then did the maiden greet him: (ll.

1026-1062) "Take heed now, that I may devise help for thee.

When at thy coming my father has given thee the deadly teeth from the dragon's jaws for sowing, then watch for the time when the night is parted in twain, then bathe in the stream of the tireless river, and alone, apart from others, clad in dusky raiment, dig a rounded pit; and therein slay a ewe, and sacrifice it whole, heaping high the pyre on the very edge of the pit.

And propitiate only-begotten Hecate, daughter of Perses, pouring from a goblet the hive-stored labour of bees.