Those who have written on Theban history have given full accounts of the Teumes[s]ian fox; Aristodemus, for instance.[1] For [sc. he says that] this beast was sent by the gods to to punish Cadmus' people, which was why they used to exclude those descended from Cadmus from the kingship. But they say that Cephalus the son of Deion, an Athenian who owned a dog that no beast could escape ([Cephalus was the man] who had accidentally killed his own wife Prokris,[2] but the Cadmeans had absolved him by purification), pursued the fox with his dog; and when they had caught up with it near Teumes[s]os,[3] both the dog and the fox became stones. These [writers] took the myth from the epic cycle.