And Diomedes immortal was made by a Goddess, the golden-haired, grey-eyed. + 

Stricken with thunderbolts of Zeus the earth at the gates of Thebes yawned wide, + 

And swallowed up Oikles’ son the seer, a storm-cloud battle-laden. + 

And peerless the land from of old is in beauty of fair-tressed matron and maiden: + 

Yea, this Zeus testified, thitherward coming for love of Alkmene and Danae. + 

In Adrastus’ father and Lynkeus the fruit of wisdom and justice blended she. + 