Supplices

Aeschylus

Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, translator. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.

  1. And now I invoke, as our champion from beyond the sea, the calf born of Zeus, the offspring of the flower-grazing cow, our ancestress,
  2. the caress of Zeus’ breath. The appointed period confirmed itself in a name suited to the event—Epaphus[*](Epaphus signifies touch, caress. See l. 315.), to whom she gave birth.