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Ovid, The Rape of Europa

From Metamorphoses, Book II, contributed to the European Prospect pages by Laellius.
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When now the God his fury had allay'd,

And taken vengeance of the stubborn maid,

From where the bright Athenian turrets rise

He mounts aloft, and re-ascends the skies.

Jove saw him enter the sublime abodes,

And, as he mix'd among the crowd of Gods,

Beckon'd him out, and drew him from the rest,

And in soft whispers thus his will exprest.

"My trusty Hermes, by whose ready aid

Thy sire's commands are through the world convey'd.

Resume thy wings, exert their utmost force,

And to the walls of Sidon speed thy course;

There find a herd of heifers wand'ring o'er

The neighb'ring hill, and drive 'em to the shore."

    Cf. Horace, Wife of the Invincible , Virgil, Europe & Beyond,
Hippocrates, Europeans Have Courage (margin: Aristotle, Europeans, Asians, and Greeks)