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Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) 20 0 Browse Search
Pausanias, Description of Greece 20 0 Browse Search
P. Vergilius Maro, Aeneid (ed. Theodore C. Williams) 6 0 Browse Search
Euripides, Phoenissae (ed. E. P. Coleridge) 6 0 Browse Search
Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound (ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D.) 4 0 Browse Search
P. Vergilius Maro, Aeneid (ed. John Dryden) 4 0 Browse Search
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Arthur Golding) 4 0 Browse Search
Sophocles, Trachiniae (ed. Sir Richard Jebb) 2 0 Browse Search
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More) 2 0 Browse Search
T. Maccius Plautus, Persa, or The Persian (ed. Henry Thomas Riley) 2 0 Browse Search
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Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound (ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D.), line 640 (search)
rtune, why linger in your maidenhood so long when it is within your power to win a union of the highest? Zeus is inflamed by passion's dartfor you and is eager to unite with you in love. Do not, my child, spurn the bed of Zeus, but go forth to Lerna's meadow land of pastures deep and to your father's flocks and where his cattle feed, so that the eye of Zeus may find respite from its longing.” By such dreams was I, to my distress, beset night after night, until at last I gained courage to telmine; but the constraint of Zeus forced him to act by necessity. Immediately my form and mind were distorted, and with horns, as you see, upon my forehead,stung by a sharp-fanged gadfly I rushed with frantic bounds to Cerchnea's sweet stream and Lerna's spring. But Argus, the earth-born herdsman, untempered in his rage, pursued me, peering with his many eyes upon my steps.A sudden death robbed him of life unexpectedly; while I, still tormented by the gadfly, am driven on from land to land bef