When Themis this with prescient voice had spoke, + 

Among the gods a various murmur broke; + 

Dissension rose in each immortal breast, + 

That one should grant what was denied the rest. + 

Aurora for her aged spouse complains, + 

And Ceres grieves for Jason’s freezing veins; + 

Vulcan would Erichthonius’ years renew; + 

Her future race the care of Venus drew, + 

She would Anchises’ blooming age restore; + 

A diff’rent care employ’d each heavenly power: + 

Thus various interests did their jars increase, + 

Till Jove arose: he spoke; their tumults cease. + 

“Is any rev’rence to our presence given, + 

Then why this discord ’mong the powers of heaven? + 

Who can the settled will of fate subdue? + 

’Twas by the Fates that Iolaus knew + 

A second youth. The Fates’ determined doom + 

Shall give Callirhoe’s race a youthful bloom. + 

Arms nor ambition can this power obtain; + 

Quell your desires; ev’n me the Fates restrain. + 

Could I their will control, no rolling years + 

Had Aeacus bent down with silver hairs; + 

Then Rhadamanthus still had youth possess’d, + 

And Minos with eternal bloom been bless’d.” + 

Jove’s words the synod moved; the powers give o’er, + 

And urge in vain unjust complaint no more. + 

Since Rhadamanthus’ veins now slowly flow’d, + 

And Aeacus and Minos bore the load; + 

Minos, who in the flower of youth and fame + 

Made mighty nations tremble at his name, + 

Infirm with age, the proud Miletus fears, + 

Vain of his birth, and in the strength of years; + 

And now regarding all his realms as lost, + 

He durst not force him from his native coast. + 

But you by choice, Miletus, fled his reign, + 

And thy swift vessel plough’d the Aegean main; + 

On Asiatic shores a town you frame, + 

Which still is honour’d with the founder’s name. + 

Here you Cyanee knew, the beauteous maid, + 

As on her father’s winding banks she stray’d: + 

Caunus and Byblis hence their lineage trace, + 

The double offspring of your warm embrace. + 