Of Sown-ones burgeoned: Ares saved from these

A handful of their seed that stocks to-day

With children's children Thebai, Kadmos built.

Of these had Kreon birth, Menoikeus' child,

King of the country,—Kreon that became

The father of this woman, Megara,

Whom, when time was, Kadmeians one and all

Pealed praise to, marriage-songs with fluted help,

While to my dwelling that grand Herakles

Bore her, his bride. But, leaving Thebes—where I