You now I laud, O Daphne!—by conquering the incontinence of Apollo, you disproved his power of vaticination; for, not foreseeing what would occur to you,24 he derived no advantage from his art. Let the far-shooting god tell me how Zephyrus slew Hyacinthus. Zephyrus conquered him; and in accordance with the saying of the tragic poet,— “A breeze is the most honourable chariot of the gods,”25— conquered by a slight breeze, Apollo lost his beloved. 24 On fleeing from Apollo, she became a bay-tree. 25 It is uncertain from whom this line is quoted. 130 Chapter VIII. The Demons Sin Among Mankind.