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Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) | 32 | 0 | Browse | Search |
P. Terentius Afer (Terence), Phormio, or The Scheming Parasite (ed. Henry Thomas Riley) | 26 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) | 26 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) | 24 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Homer, The Iliad (ed. Samuel Butler) | 22 | 0 | Browse | Search |
T. Maccius Plautus, Cistellaria, or The Casket (ed. Henry Thomas Riley) | 16 | 0 | Browse | Search |
P. Terentius Afer (Terence), Phormio (ed. Edward St. John Parry, Edward St. John Parry, M.A.) | 16 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War | 10 | 0 | Browse | Search |
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More) | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Demosthenes, Speeches 1-10 | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Browsing named entities in Homeric Hymns (ed. Hugh G. Evelyn-White). You can also browse the collection for Lemnos (Greece) or search for Lemnos (Greece) in all documents.
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Hymn 3 to Apollo (ed. Hugh G. Evelyn-White), line 1 (search)
Hymn 7 to Dionysus (ed. Hugh G. Evelyn-White), line 1 (search)
I will tell of Dionysus, the son of glorious Semele, how he appeared on a jutting headland by the shore of the fruitless sea, seeming like a stripling in the first flush of manhood: his rich, dark hair was waving about him, and on his strong shoulders he wore a purple robe. Presently there came swiftly over the sparkling sea TyrsenianProbably not Etruscans, but the non-Hellenic peoples of Thrace and (according to Thucydides) of Lemnos and Athens. Cp. Herodotus i. 57; Thucydides iv. 109. pirates on a well-decked ship —a miserable doom led them on. When they saw him they made signs to one another and sprang out quickly, and seizing him straightway put him on board their ship exultingly; for they thought him the son of heaven-nurtured kings. They sought to bind him with rude bonds, but the bonds would not hold him, and the withes fell far away from his hands and feet: and he sat with a smile in his dark eyes. Then the helmsman understood all and cried out at once to his fellows and said:<