to him in sacrifice.
In his honor, Glaucus established the Isthmian games, which were
celebrated for many ages at Corinth; and, being interrupted for a
time, were revived by Theseus, in honor of Neptune. Leucothoe was also
worshipped at Rome, and the Roman women used to offer up their vows to
her for their brothers' children, not daring to supplicate the Goddess
for their own, because she had been unfortunate in hers. This Ovid
tells us in the Sixth Book of the Fasti. The Romans gave the name of
Matuta to Ino, and Melicerta, or Palaemon, was called Portunus.

The circumstance mentioned by Ovid, that some of Ino's attendants were
changed into birds, and others into rocks, is, perhaps, only a
poetical method of saying that some of her attendants escaped, while
others perished with her.

FABLE VIII. [IV.563-603]

The misfortunes of his family oblige Cadmus to leave Thebes, and to
retire with his wife Hermione to Illyria, where they are changed into
serpents.

The son of Agenor knows not that his daughter and his little grandson
are {now} Deities of the sea. Forced by sorrow, and a succession of
calamities, and the prodigies which, many in number, he had beheld, the
founder flies from his city, as though the {ill}-luck of the spot, and
not his own, pressed {hard} upon him, and driven, in a long series of
wandering, he reaches the coast of Illyria, with his exiled wife. And
now, loaded with woes and with years, while they are reflecting on the
first disasters of their house, and in their discourse are recounting
their misfortunes, Cadmus says, "Was that dragon a sacred one, that was
pierced by my spear, at the time when, setting out from Sidon, I sowed
the teeth of the dragon in the ground, a seed {till then} unknown? If
the care of the Gods avenges this with resentment so unerring, I pray
that I myself, as a serpent, may be lengthened out into an extended
belly." {Thus} he says; and, as a serpent, he is lengthened out into an
extended belly, and perceives scales growing on his hardened skin, and
his black body become speckled with azure spots; and he falls flat on
his breast, and his legs, joined into one, taper out by degrees into a
thin round point. His arms are still remaining; those arms which remain
he stretches out; and, as the tears are flowing down his face, still
that of a man, he says, "Come hither, wife, come hither, most unhappy
one, and, while something of me yet remains, to