Asterius came, and Amphion, the sons that a fair queen bore,
When Pellênê’s king Hyperasius dwelt in the city of yore
By Pelles their grandsire built ’neath the cliffs of Achaia’s shore.
Euphêmus from Tainarus came to be joined to their company,
Europê’s child; and the swiftest of all men on Earth was he: {180}
For the daughter of Tityos the giant couched in Poseidon’s embrace;
And this their son would run o’er the grey sea’s weltering face,
Neither sank in the surge his fast-flying steps, but, with footsole alone
Bedewed with the spray, on his watery path was he wafted on.
Sons of Poseidon beside him withal two other came,