ARGUMENT.
When Io, after many wanderings, had found refuge in Egypt,
and having been touched by Zeus, had given birth to Epaphos,
it came to pass that he and his descendants ruled over the
region of Canôpos, near one of the seven mouths of Neilos.
And in the fifth generation there were two brothers, Danaos
and Ægyptos, the sons of Belos, and the former had fifty
daughters and the latter fifty sons, and Ægyptos sought the
daughters of Danaos in marriage for his sons. And they,
looking on the marriage as unholy, and hating those who wooed
them, took flight and came to Argos, where Pelasgos then ruled
as king, as to the land whence Io, from whom they sprang,
had come. And thither the sons of Ægyptos followed them in
hot pursuit.
