Do righteous penance for a reckless deed,

Accepting the slaves' table thankfully!"

Then told how Zeus had been the cause of all,

Raising the wrath in him which took revenge

And slew those forgers of the thunderbolt

Wherewith Zeus blazed the life from out the breast

Of Phoibos' son Asklepios (I surmise,

Because he brought the dead to life again),

And so, for punishment, must needs go slave,

God as he was, with a mere mortal lord: