Conceived the goddess. Then arose to life

The azure-robed Latona: ever mild:

Gracious to man and to immortal gods:

Mild from the first beginning of the world:

Gentlest of all within th’ Olympian courts.

Anon she bare [189]Asteria, blest in fame:

Whom Perses to his spacious palace led,

That he might call her spouse: and [190]she conceived

With Hecaté. Her o’er all others Jove

Hath honour’d, and endow’d with splendid gifts: