デモフォンは少数の船でトラキアのビサルタイ人の地に寄せた。そこで王の娘フュリスが彼に恋し、父は王国を持参にして娘を彼に嫁がせた。だがデモフォンは故国へ帰りたがり、幾度も乞われたすえ、必ず戻ると誓って去っていった。フュリスは「九つの道」と呼ばれる場所まで彼を送り、小箱を渡して、その中には母なるレアの聖物が入っているから、彼女のもとへ帰る望みをすべて捨てるまでは開けてはならないと告げた。
英文
Demophon with a few ships put in to the land of the Thracian Bisaltians, and there Phyllis, the king's daughter, falling in love with him, was given him in marriage by her father with the kingdom for her dower. But he wished to depart to his own country, and after many entreaties and swearing to return, he did depart. And Phyllis accompanied him as far as what are called the Nine Roads, and she gave him a casket, telling him that it contained a sacrament of Mother Rhea, and that he was not to open it until he should have abandoned all hope of returning to her.