A gift, but mine for all that.IonAm I the first that thou didst meet?XuthusI have met no other, my son.IonWhence came this piece of luck?XuthusTo both of us alike it causes surprise.IonAh I but who was my mother?XuthusI cannot tell.IonDid not Phoebus tell thee that?XuthusI was so pleased with this, I did not ask him that.IonI must have sprung from mother earth.