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Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) 14 0 Browse Search
Pausanias, Description of Greece 12 0 Browse Search
Sophocles, Trachiniae (ed. Sir Richard Jebb) 6 0 Browse Search
Euripides, Hippolytus (ed. David Kovacs) 4 0 Browse Search
Homer, The Iliad (ed. Samuel Butler) 4 0 Browse Search
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Euripides, Heracles (ed. E. P. Coleridge), line 451 (search)
your dead father was for giving Argos; and you were to dwell in the halls of Eurystheus, lording it over the fair fruitful land of Argolis; and over your head would he throw that lion's skin with which he himself was armed. And you were to be king of Thebes, famed for its chariots, receiving as your heritage my broad lands, for so you coaxed your dear father; and to your hand he used to resign the carved club, his sure defence, pretending to give it to you. And to you he promised to give Oechalia, which once his archery had wasted. Thus with three principalities would your father exalt you, his three sons, proud of your manliness; while I was choosing the best brides for you, scheming to link you by marriage to Athens, Thebes, and Sparta, that you might live a happy life with a fast sheet-anchor to hold by. And now that is all vanished; fortune's breeze has veered and given to you for brides the maidens of death in their stead, and my tears will be the marriage bath; woe is me for