All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.

All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.

I will give you three days to seek your shadow. Return to me in the course of that time with a well-fitted shadow, and you shall receive a hearty welcome; otherwise, on the fourth day - remember, on the fourth day - my daughter becomes the wife of another.

Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?

In pain a new time is born.

A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan.

What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters? They would only drive him to even greater despair.