POSEIDON
It’s greatly to the credit of you dolphins, that you’ve always been kind to men. Long ago you caught up Ino’s son Melicertes, son of Athamas, who became the sea-god Palaemon, while his mother became Leucothea. Cf. following dialogue. after his fall with his mother from the Scironian cliffs, and carried him to the Isthmus. And now one of you has picked up this harper from Methymna, Arion. and swum away with him to Taenarum, robes and harp and all, stopping those seamen from murdering him.
DOLPHIN
Don’t be surprised, Poseidon, that we’re kind to men. We were men ourselves, before we became fishes. It wasn’t very nice of Dionysus to change our shape after he’d beaten us in that sea-battle; he ought merely to have reduced us to submission as he did to all the others.
