By Ovid, the Roman poet from AD 8
"The terrified goddess cried out for her mother..."
" 'Cyane, lamenting not just the goddess abducted,
but also the disrespect shown for her rights as a fountain,
tacitly nursed in her heart an inconsolable sorrow;
and she who had once been its presiding spirit,
reduced to tears, dissolved right into its substance."
"Her abductor rushd off in his chariot,urging his horses,calling each one by its name and flicking the somber,rust coloured reins over their backs as they galloped...through the ruptured earth..."
" 'Meanwhile, the terrified mother was pointlessly seeking
her daughter all over the earth and deep in the ocean.
Neither Aurora, appearing with dew-dampened tresses,
nor Hesperus knew her to quit; igniting two torches
of pine from the fires of Etna, the care-ridden goddess
used them to illumine the wintery shadows of nighttime;
and when the dear day had once more dimmed out the bright stars,
she searched again for her daughter from sunrise to sunset.
-Metamorphoses,Book V
These are from the site:
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19858
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