【正文】 her foot stuck fast in the ground, as a root。 and, sped by Cupid, gained upon her in the race. It was like a hound pursuing a hare, with open jaws ready to seize, while the feebler animal darts forward, slipping from the very grasp. So flew the god and the virgin — he on the wings of love and she on those of fear. The pursuer is the more rapid, however, and gains upon her, and his panting breath blows upon her hair. Her strength begins to fail, and, ready to sink, she calls upon her father, the river god: “Help me, Peneus! Open the earth to enclose me, or change my form, which has brought me into this danger!” Scarcely had she spoken, when a stiffness seized all her limbs。 he saw her lips, and was not satisfied with only seeing them. He admired her hands and arms, naked to the shoulder, and whatever was hidden from view he imagined more beautiful still. He followed her。 she saw no other object, her face turned constantly on him. At last, they say, her limbs rooted in the ground, her face became a flower, which turns on its stem so as always to face the sun throughout its daily course。 and strange to say, the stones which Deucalion threw sprang up as fullgrown men, strong, and handsome, and brave。 and the sea was filled to the brim, and the water ran over the land and covered first the plains and then the forests and then the hills. But men kept on fighting and robbing, even while the rain was pouring down and the sea was ing up over the land.No one but Deucalion, the son of Prometheus, was ready for such a storm. He had never joined in any of the wrong doings of those around him, and had often told them that unless they left off their evil ways there would be a day of reckoning in the end. Once every year he had gone to the land of the Caucasus to talk with his father, who was hanging chained to the mountain peak.“The day is ing,” said Prometheus, “when Zeus will send a flood to destroy mankind from the earth. Be sure that you are ready for it, my son.”And so when the rain began to fall, Deucalion drew from its shelter a boat which he had built for just such a time. He called fair Pyrrha, his wife, and the two sat in the boat and were floated safely on the rising waters.Day and night, day and night, I cannot tell how long, the boat drifted hither and thither. The tops of the trees were hidden by the flood, and then the hills and then the mountains。 and her face was so full of wrath that, as soon as he saw her, he turned and fled, and left poor Io to her fate.Hera was so much grieved when she saw Argus stretched dead in the grass on the hilltop, that she took his hundred eyes and set them in the tail of a peacock。 and when the sun had set, and it was dark, she lay down on the cold ground and wept, and cried, “Moo! Moo!” till she fell asleep.2. Argus and PeacockBut no kind friend heard her, and no one came to help her。 and by and by he stayed in Argos all the time so that he might be near her. She did not know who he was. But thought that he was a prince from some faroff land。 and now, because of the tyrant Zeus and his jealous queen, you are doomed to wander from land to land in that unhuman form. But do not lose hope. Go on to the southward and then to the west。 for up to that time mankind had not had any kind of sickness, nor felt any troubles of mind, nor worried about what the morrow might bring forth.These creatures flew into every house, and, without any one seeing them, nestled down in the bosoms of men and women and children, and put an end to all their joy.And ever since that day they have been flitting and creeping, unseen and unheard, over all the land, bringing pain and sorrow and death into every household.If Pandora had not shut down the lid so quickly, things would have gone much worse. But she closed it just in time to keep the last of the evil creatures from getting out. The name of this creature was foreboding, and although he was almost half out of the casket, Pandora pushed him back and shut the lid so tight that he could never escape.If he had gone out into the world, men would have known from childhood just what troubles were going to e to them every day of their lives, and they would never have had any joy or hope so long as they lived.And this was the way in which Zeus sought to make mankind more miserable than they had been before Prometheus had befriended them.4. How Prometheus Was PunishedThe next thing that Zeus did was to punish Prometheus for stealing fire from the sun. He bade two of his servants, whose names were Strength and Force, to seize the bold Titan and carry him to the topmost peak of the Caucasus Mountains. Then he sent the blacksmith Hephaestus to bind him with iron chains and fetter him to the rocks so that he could not move hand or foot.Hephaestus did not like to do this, for he was a friend of Prometheus, and yet he did not dare to disobey. And so the great friend of men, who had given them fire and lifted them out of their wretchedness and shown them how to live, was chained to the mountain peak.And there he hung, with the stormwinds whistling always around him, and the pitiless hail beating in his face, and fierce eagles shrieking in his ears and tearing his body with their cruel claws. Yet he bore all his sufferings without a groan, and never would he beg for mercy or say that he was sorry for what he had done.Year after year, and age after age, Prometheus hung there. Now and then old Helios, the driver of the sun car, would look down upon him and smile。 and even Prometheus, when he saw her, was pleased with her loveliness. She had brought with her a golden casket, which Zeus had given her at parting, and which he had told her held many precious things。 and another skill in many arts。 and he thought of a plan for doing it in a very strange, roundabout way.In the first place, he ordered his blacksmith Hephaestus, whose forge was in the crater of a burning mountain, to take a lump of clay which h