All thou would'st know: for of no churlish blood

Thou earnest, nor wert nurtured as a churl:

That read I in thy stateliness of form;

The sons of heaven move thus among mankind."

Then answered him the warrior son of Zeus.

"Yea, veteran, I would see the Epéan King

Augéas; surely for this end I came.

If he bides there amongst his citizens,

Ruling the folk, determining the laws,

Look, father; bid some serf to be my guide,