counsels, and he said to Tyro, "Thy
children must die, and thou must wed Kretheus, the son of the mighty
Aiolos."

Then Tyro hastened in bitter sorrow to the banks of the stream, and
her babes slept in her arms, and she stretched out her hands with a
loud cry for aid, but Enipeus heard her not, for he lay in his green
dwelling far down beneath the happy waters. So she placed the babes
amidst the thick rushes which grew along the banks, and she said, "O
Enipeus, my father says that I may no more see thy face; but to thee I
give our children; guard them from the anger of Salmoneus, and it may
be that in time to come they will avenge my wrongs."

There, nestled amid the tall reeds, the children slept, till a
herdsman saw them as he followed his cattle along the shore. And Tyro
went back in anguish of heart to the house of Salmoneus, but she would
not have the love of Kretheus or listen to his words. Then Sidero
whispered again her evil counsels into the ear of Salmoneus, and he
shut up Tyro, so that she might not see the light of the sun or hear
the voice of man. He cut off the golden locks that clustered on her
fair cheeks, he clothed her in rough raiment, and bound her in fetters
which gave her no rest by night or by day. So in her misery she pined
away, and her body was wasted by hunger and thirst, because she would
not become the wife of Kretheus. Then more and more she thought of the
days when she listened to the words of Enipeus as she wandered with
him by the side of the sounding waters, and she said within herself,
"He heard me not when I called to him for help, but I gave him my
children, and it may be that he has saved them from death; and if ever
they see my face again, they shall know that I never loved any save
Enipeus, who dwells beneath the stream."

So the years passed on, and Pelias and Neleus dwelt with the herdsman,
and they grew up strong in body and brave of soul. But Enipeus had not
forgotten the wrongs of Tyro, and he put it into the heart of her
children to punish Sidero for her evil counsels. So Sidero died, and
they brought out their mother from her dreary dungeon, and led her to
the banks of the stream where she had heard the words of Enipeus in
the former days. But her eyes were dim with long weeping, and the
words of her children sounded strangely in her ears, and she said, "O
my children, let me sink to sleep while I hear your voices, which
sound to me like the voice of Enipeus." So she fel