Then Argus spake, and they eagerly hearkened: (ll.

257-293) "We go to Orchomenus, whither that unerring seer, whom ye met aforetime, foretold your voyage.

For there is another course, signified by those priests of the immortal gods, who have sprung from Tritonian Thebes.

As yet all the stars that wheel in the heaven were not, nor yet, though one should inquire, could aught be heard of the sacred race of the Danai.

Apidanean Arcadians alone existed, Arcadians who lived even before the moon, it is said, eating acorns on the hills; nor at that time was the Pelasgian land ruled by the glorious sons of Deucalion, in the days when Egypt, mother of men of an older time, was called the fertile Morning-land, and the river fair-flowing Triton, by which all the Morning-land is watered; and never does the rain from Zeus moisten the earth; but from the flooding of the river abundant crops spring up.