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POSEIDON
That would be wrong, Amphitrite, and it’s not quite the thing either to leave her lying here under the sand; no, she’ll be buried, as I said, in the Troad or the Chersonese. She’ll find it no small consolation that, before long, the same thing will happen to Ino; she’ll be pursued by Athamas, and plunge into the sea with her child Melicertes. Cf. p. 197. in her arms from the heights of Cithaeron where a ridge runs down into the sea. But we must save Ino to please Dionysus; for she was his nurse and his nanny.
AMPHITRITE
You shouldn’t save a bad woman like that!
POSEIDON
But, Amphitrite, we mustn’t offend Dionysus.
NEREIDS
But what came over her that she fell from the ram, while Phrixus, her brother, is having a safe ride?
POSEIDON
That’s natural; he’s a young man and can withstand the speed; but she has no experience, and when she got on that strange mount, and looked down into the gaping depths beneath her, she was terrified, and, overcome at the same time by the heat, and growing dizzy at the speed of the flight, lost hold of the ram’s horns, to which she’d been clinging, and fell into the sea.
NEREIDS
But shouldn’t Nephele, her mother, have helped her when she was falling?
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POSEIDON
Yes, indeed, but Fate is far stronger than Nephele.
PANOPE
Did you see, Galene, what Discord did yesterday at the banquet in Thessaly, because she wasn’t invited?
GALENE
I wasn’t with you people in person at the banquet. For Poseidon had told me, my dear Panope, to keep the sea calm while it lasted. But what did the absent Discord do?
