About the inevitable sorrow here,

Nor changed nor cheeked the kindly nature,—no!

So long as men were merely weak, not bad,

He loved men: were they Gods he used to help?

"Yea, Pheres' son is in-doors, Herakles.

But say, what sends thee to Thessalian soil,

Brought by what business to this Pherai town?"

"A certain labor that I have to do

Eurustheus the Tirunthian," laughed the God.

"And whither wendest—on what wandering