Apollo and Daphne Python with countless arrows, the Python who was pressing down so many acres with his disease-bearing stomach! You will be content to provoke some loves by your fire, not to claim my honors.” The insulted Eros then prepared two arrows: one of gold and one of lead. He shot Apollo with the gold arrow, instilling in the god a passionate love for the river nymph Daphne. He shot Daphne with the lead arrow, instilling in her a hatred for Apollo. Having taken after Apollo’s sister, Artemis (Diana), Daphne had spurned her many potential lovers, preferring instead woodland sports and exploring
History of the Greek alphabet writing engraved on certain tripods in the temple of Apollo at Thebes. He estimated that those tripods dated back to the time of Laius, the great-grandson of Cadmus. On one of the tripods there was this inscription in Cadmean writing, which as he attested, resembled Ionian letters: (""Amphitryon dedicated me from the spoils of [the battle of] Teleboae.""). A second tripod bears the inscription in hexameter verse: . (""Scaeus the boxer, victorious in the contest, dedicated me to Apollo, the archer god, a lovely offering""). Herodotus estimated that if Scaeus, the son of Hippocoon was the dedicator and not another