-¿Quién mejor que tú puede saberlo? -respondieron las Oréades- Nos despreciaba a nosotras, pero te cortejaba a ti, e inclinado sobre tus orillas, dejaba reposar sus ojos sobre ti, y contemplaba su belleza en el espejo de tus aguas.
'Who should know that better than you?' answered the Oreads. 'Us did he ever pass by, but you he sought for, and would lie on your banks and look down at you, and in the mirror of your waters he would mirror his own beauty.'