My virgin chambers, enticed me

With smooth words: "O greatly happy virgin,

Why be a virgin long? is permitted to obtain

The greatest marriage. For Zeus with love's dart

Has been warmed by thee, and wishes to unite

In love; but do thou, O child, spurn not the couch

Of Zeus, but go out to Lerna's deep

Morass, and stables of thy father's herds,

That the divine eye may cease from desire."

With such dreams every night