The Loss of Europa, Daugther of King Agenor
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One day, a young lady called Europa was playing in a meadow near the seashore.
She sat on the grass with her lap loaded with flowers, and was plaiting the flowers into wreaths for her three major brothers, Cadmus, Phoenix, and Cilix, who were not far away.
All of a sudden she turned upward and saw a snow-white bull, with lovely silvery horns, staying close to her.
At first she was apprehensive, however the bull appeared to be so delicate, and took a gander at her in such a friendly way, that she lost all dread of it.
Taking some clover blooms from her lap, she kept running up to it and held them to its mouth. It ate the flowers daintily from her fingers, and afterward started skipping around on the grass practically as softly as a bird.
Finally, going to the place where Europa was plaiting her flowers, it set around her side.
She tapped it and tossed a portion of the wreaths over its horns, at that point applauded to perceive how lovely they looked.
After this, she moved up to its back, when it got up and galloped around the meadow with her.
Europa, hanging on by one of its white horns, giggled, and delighted in the ride, and did not see that the bull was taking her more distant and more distant away from home, and nearer to the shore, till it all of a sudden bounced into the ocean and started to swim away with her.
At that point she was terrified and shouted for her brothers, who heard her, and kept running down to the shore.
Yet, they couldn't stop the white bull.
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Europa was stolen away, and was never observed nor gotten notification from again.
At the point when the three brothers told their father, King Agenor, what had happened, he was very down and out and exceptionally irate other than. He said that little Europa ought not have been allowed to sit unbothered, and he pointed the finger at Cadmus more than alternate brothers, since Cadmus was the eldest.
Finally he said to Cadmus,
"Go and discover Europa and bring her back and in the event that you can't discover her, never enter the entryways of your father's palace again."
Back then, one couldn't go a long way from a walled city without meeting with numerous threats, thus, in order that Cadmus won't not be totally alone, his father sent two slaves to hold up under him organization.
At the point when the considerable gates of the city shut behind them, the three began, walking toward the west, as that was the course that the bull had taken.
They went through lonely woodlands, they crossed mountainchains, they imagined to advance over the ocean to different lands, however they couldn't discover Europa nor hear any news of her.
Cadmus felt very beyond any doubt that the pursuit was pointless.
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