Thompson built this address from one Greek page, and the page serves the label clause for clause. Creon prices his war-help at a pest: Amphitryon must first rid the Cadmea of the vixen, "for a brute of a vixen was ravaging the Cadmea" [The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK II, ch. IV]. Devastating: "it was fated that nobody should catch her". Monthly human sacrifice: "the Thebans every month exposed a son of one of the citizens" to the beast, which would otherwise have carried off many [ibid.]. The solution is a collision of fates: Cephalus's hound "was destined to catch whatever it pursued"; uncatchable meets unfailing, and the gods void the contradiction the only way open — "Zeus turned both of them into stone" [ibid.]. Frazer's note names what the text calls only a vixen — "The animal had its lair at Teumessus" — and preserves antiquity's own debunking: Palaephatus converted the beast into "a gentleman (καλὸς κἀγαθὸς) named Fox", a truculent bandit knocked on the head by Cephalus [ibid., editor's note]. A single Thompson row, a single served chapter, and nothing missing: label, tribute, paradox, and the two statues left standing where the logic gave out.