XANTHUS Take me to you, Sea, for I’ve suffered terribly. Please put a stop to my burning wounds. SEA What’s this, Xanthus? Who has burnt you? XANTHUS Hephaestus. See how I’ve been charred to cinders all over, poor thing that I am, and am at boiling point. SEA Whatever made him attack you with his fire? XANTHUS It’s all because of the son of Thetis Achilles. here. He was butchering the Phrygians, and I begged him to relent from his anger, but he wouldn’t; he only blocked up my stream with their bodies. Out of pity for the poor wretches, I attacked him, hoping to swallow him in a flood, and frighten him away from them.