Apsu plans to destroy his children as he sees them as a threat to his rule over the younger gods. He believes they are too loud and disruptive, and he seeks to maintain his dominance and control over the cosmos.
The Seman river is located in Western Albania. It was known as the Apsus River in ancient times. The river flows through Fier-Shegan and Mbrostar. The Seman river flows into the Adriatic Sea.
Everybody bathed before the Lion and, indeed, everybody bathed in the Apsus River, always for the sacrificial feasts is the English equivalent of 'Quisque ante leonem tinxidunt et nullam at enim in Apsum dapibus semper'. In the word by word translation, the indefinite pronoun 'quisque' means 'each, every, everybody'. The preposition 'ante' means 'before'. The noun 'leonem' means 'lion'. The verb 'tinxidunt' means '[they] have moistened'. The conjunction 'et' means 'and'. The adjective 'nullam' means 'not any'. The conjunction 'at' means 'but'. The conjunction 'enim' means 'certainly, indeed, truly'. The conjunction 'in' means 'in'. The noun 'Apsum' means 'Apsus River'. The noun 'dapibus' means 'the sacrificial feasts'. The adverb 'semper' means 'always'.