Seated among the damp lush water-weeds,

His tresses crowned with crow’s-foot,—“Mark my words,

Thou dalliest with my daughter; what thine aim,

I ask, and crave an answer—great thy line,

The lineage of renowned Laomedon.

Thy sires have wedded goddesses ere now.

But wealthy though the House of Troy may be.

Thy father has a monstrous family,

Daughters and sons as countless as the rills

That Ida sends to be my tributaries.