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ἔοικε καὶ περὶ τῆς Ἡρακλέους ἀφίξεως εἰς Ἰταλίαν μετ᾽ ἐπιστάσεως πλείονος διελθεῖν καὶ εἴ τι λόγου ἄξιον ἔδρασεν αὐτόθι μὴ παραλιπεῖν.
ἔστι δὲ τῶν ὑπὲρ τοῦ δαίμονος τοῦδε λεγομένων τὰ μὲν μυθικώτερα, τὰ δ᾽ ἀληθέστερα. ὁ μὲν οὖν μυθικὸς περὶ τῆς παρουσίας αὐτοῦ λόγος ὧδ᾽ ἔχει: ὡς δὴ κελευσθεὶς ὑπ᾽ Εὐρυσθέως Ἡρακλῆς σὺν τοῖς ἄλλοις ἄθλοις καὶ τὰς Γηρυόνου βοῦς ἐξ Ἐρυθείας εἰς Ἄργος ἀπελάσαι, τελέσας τὸν ἆθλον καὶ τὴν οἴκαδε πορείαν ποιούμενος ἄλλῃ τε πολλαχῇ τῆς Ἰταλίας ἀφίκετο καὶ τῆς Ἀβοριγίνων γῆς εἰς τὸ προσεχὲς τῷ Παλλαντίῳ χωρίον. [2] εὑρὼν δὲ πόαν ἐν αὐτῷ βουκολίδα πολλὴν καὶ καλήν, τὰς μὲν βοῦς: ἀνῆκεν εἰς νομὴν, αὐτὸς δὲ βαρυνόμενος ὑπο κόπου κατακλιθεὶς ἔδωκεν αὑτὸν ὕπνῳ. ἐν δὲ τούτῳ λῃστής τις ἐπιχώριος ὄνομα Κάκος περιτυγχάνει ταῖς βουσὶν ἀφυλάκτοις νεμομέναις καὶ αὐτῶν ἔρωτα ἴσχει. ως δὲ τὸν Ἡρακλέα κοιμώμενον αὐτοῦ κατέμαθεν, ἁπάσας μὲν οὐκ ἂν ᾤετο δύνασθαι λαθεῖν ἀπελάσας, καὶ
Dionysii Halicarnasei Antiquitatum Romanarum quae supersunt, Vol I-IV. Dionysius of Halicarnassus. Karl Jacoby. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1885. Keyboarding.
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