Kitap 9
17.5
Both these cities hold this belief, and they do so because of the oracles of Bacis, in which are the lines:—But when a man of Tithorea to Amphion and to ZethusPours on the earth peace-offerings of libation and prayer,When Taurus is warmed by the might of the glorious sun,Beware then of no slight disaster threatening the city;For the harvest wastes away in it,When they take of the earth, and bring it to the tomb of Phocus.
17.6
Bacis calls it the tomb of Phocus for the following reason. The wife of Lycus worshipped Dionysus more than any other deity. When she had suffered what the story says she suffered, Dionysus was angry with Antiope. For some reason extravagant punishments always arouse the resentment of the gods. They say that Antiope went mad, and when out of her wits roamed all over Greece; but Phocus, son of Ornytion, son of Sisyphus, chanced to meet her, cured her madness, and then married her.
17.7
So Antiope and Phocus share the same grave. The roughly quarried stones, laid along the tomb of Amphion at its base, are said to be the very rocks that followed the singing of Amphion. A similar story is told of Orpheus, how wild creatures followed him as he played the harp.
