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Sophocles, Trachiniae (ed. Sir Richard Jebb), line 1 (search)
Deianeira
There is a saying among men, put forth long ago, that you cannot judge a mortal's life and know whether it is good or bad until he dies. But well I know, even before I have passed away to Hades' domain, that my life is ill-fortuned and heavy.For I, while still dwelling in the house of my father Oeneus at Pleuron, had such fear of marriage as never any woman of Aetolia had. For my suitor was a river-god, Achelous,who in three shapes was always asking me from my father—coming now as a bull in visible form, now as a serpent, sheeny and coiled, now ox-faced with human trunk, while from his thick-shaded beard wellheads of fountain-water sprayed.In the expectation that such a suitor would get me, I was always praying in my misery that I might die, before I should ever approach that marriage-bed.
But at last, to my joy, the glorious son of Zeus and Alcmena came andclosed with him in combat and delivered me. The manner of their fighting I cannot clearly recount. I know it not,
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 3, chapter 94 (search)
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 3, chapter 96 (search)
After bivouacking with the army in the
precinct of Nemean Zeus, in which the poet Hesiod is said to have been
killed by the people of the country, according to an oracle which had
foretold that he should die in Nemea, Demosthenes set out at daybreak to
invade Aetolia.
The first day he took Potidania, the next Krokyle, and the third Tichium,
where he halted and sent back the booty to Eupalium in Locris, having
determined to pursue his conquests as far as the Ophionians, and in the
event of their refusing to submit, to return to Naupactus and make them the
objects of a second expedition.
Meanwhile the Aetolians had been aware of his design from the moment of its
formation,
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 3, chapter 102 (search)