King Cepheus: "Beneath your very eyes, you saw her chained; you were her uncle and her promised mate, yet you did nothing then; you brought no aid."
Now Athis' close, inseparable friend was the Assyrian Lycabas, a man whose love was true - a love he did not hide.
And dying, Lycabas, with eyes that swam in darkness, turned to search for Athis and, beside the body of the boy, collapsed but bore this comfort even as he left to join the Shades: he shared death with his friend.
Two modern semi-taboos visited in these verses.
Perseus: "If you want proof, then I will give it to you. let the others hide their eyes." - and with Medusa's head held high, he left that skeptic bloodless, petrified.
And Minerva looked at length at where the waters had sprung up beneath the horse's hoof when it struck hard. And then her eyes took in the ancient forests, the inmost groves, the grottoes, and the flowers - those countless points of color on the meadows. She said the daughters of Mnemosyne, in what they did and where they lived, were blessed.
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