So from her womb in painless birth outleaping + 

Iamus came. Grief-stricken on the ground + 

She left him. Came two bright-eyed serpents creeping + 

By the Gods’ counsel; softly coiling round + 

They fed him with the sweet dews of the bee. + 

But when the king from rocky Pytho riding + 

Came, he asked all his household eagerly: + 

“Where is the babe Evadne bare in hiding? + 

For fathered of Apollo’s self is he; + 