Four served shapes of the airborne dragon. The Greek one is harnessed: for Triptolemus Demeter "made a chariot of winged dragons" so that, "wafted through the sky, he sowed the whole inhabited earth" [The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK I, ch. V]; Frazer notes that "In Greek vase- paintings Triptolemus is often represented in his dragon-car" [ibid., editor's note]. The served Ovid keeps the harness: Ceres yoked "two dragons to her chariot", and her passenger tells a foreign king "the pervious sky made a way for me" [The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Book 5]. In Beowulf flight is menace: the "naked foe-dragon flying by night / folded in fire" rises only when robbed of a cup, and "burning flew / folded in flame" against a whole people [Beowulf, XXX]. In China flight is rank conferred by age: a horned dragon "in a thousand years changes to a flying dragon", and "Some are wingless, and rise into the air by their own inherent power" [Myths & Legends of China, Chapter VII]. Plough-team, arsonist, senior official of the rain — no one temperament, only one altitude. Two candidates dissolved on reading, one memorably: the Nihongi's hit is the dragon-fly, an insect. Thompson's own row glosses the Greek entry "(air-going chariot and dragons)" — the aim was true.