And near it they heaped an altar of small stones, and wreathed their brows with oak leaves and paid heed to sacrifice, invoking the mother of Dindymum, most venerable, dweller in Phrygia, and Titias and Cyllenus, who alone of many are called dispensers of doom and assessors of the Idaean mother,--the Idaean Dactyls of Crete, whom once the nymph Anchiale, as she grasped with both hands the land of Oaxus, bare in the Dictaean cave.

And with many prayers did Aeson's son beseech the goddess to turn aside the stormy blasts as he poured libations on the blazing sacrifice; and at the same time by command of Orpheus the youths trod a measure dancing in full armour, and clashed with their swords on their shields, so that the ill-omened cry might be lost in the air--the wail which the people were still sending up in grief for their king.

Hence from that time forward the Phrygians propitiate Rhea with the wheel and the drum.

And the gracious goddess, I ween, inclined her heart to pious sacrifices; and favourable signs appeared.

The trees shed abundant fruit, and round their feet the earth of its own accord put forth flowers from the tender grass.