Now these twin brethren with lives interchanging pass with their father Zeus one day; + 

Through the next in the crypts of the underworld where the gorge of Therapnae yawns must they stay; + 

And so fulfil they an equal lot, for, when the choice was given, + 

Thus Polydeukes willed to live, and not to abide in Heaven + 

Alway and wholly a brotherless God, when Kastor his brother perished in fight: + 

For him did Idas, wroth for the raided kine, with the point of his bronze spear smite. + 