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.