Like a Chalcidian, our wife has borne

Explanation

Polyzelus mentions it in his Births of the Muses, of one bearing many daughters; since Chalcis, the city of Euboea, they say, once flourished in spears and in the multitude of four-horsed chariots. But others say not the city, but the heroine Chalcis is meant. For Combe, called Chalcis (because she was a maker of bronze weapons), being the first to live with a man, became mother of a hundred children, as those who wrote on Euboean affairs and Aristus of Salamis relate.