But you have no honor, among both the younger and the older gods. I will win.
 Chorus You did such things also in the house of Pheres, when you persuaded the Fates to make mortals free from death. In atonement for having shed blood (according to one legend, that of the dragon at Delphi , according to another, that of the Cyclopes), Apollo was compelled by Zeus to serve as a thrall in the house of Admetus, son of Pheres. An ancient story, adopted by Aeschylus, reported that, when the time came for Admetus to die, Apollo, in gratitude for the kindness shown him by the prince, plied the Fates with wine (l. 728) and thus secured their consent that Admetus should be released from death on condition that some one should voluntarily choose to die in his stead. Euripides, in his Alcestis , tells how, when both the father and the mother of Admetus refused to give up to him the remnant of their days, his wife Alcestis died for him. 
 
 Apollo Is it not right, then, to do good for a worshipper, especially when he is in need?