They lost themselves by their own insolence,
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Feeding, like fools, on the Sun’s sacred kine;
Which did the splendid deity incense
To their dire fate. Begin, O Muse divine.

Yet even so he saved not his comrades, though he desired it sore,
for through their own blind folly they perished —
fools, who devoured the kine of Helios Hyperion;
but he took from them the day of their returning.
[10] Of these things, goddess, daughter of Zeus, beginning where thou wilt, tell thou even unto us.