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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
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P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Arthur Golding), Book 1, line 567 (search)
er, Untill the hotest of the day and Noone be overpast. And if for feare of savage beastes perchaunce thou be agast To wander in the Woods alone, thou shalt not neede to feare, A God shall bee thy guide to save thee harmelesse every where. And not a God of meaner sort, but even the same that hath The heavenly scepter in his hande, who in my dreadfull wrath, Do dart downe thunder wandringly: and therefore make no hast To runne away. She ranne apace, and had alreadie past The Fen of Lerna and the field of Lincey set with trees: When Jove intending now in vaine no lenger tyme to leese, Upon the Countrie all about did bring a foggie mist, And caught the Mayden whome poore foole he used as he list. Queene Juno looking downe that while upon the open field, When in so fayre a day such mistes and darkenesse she behelde, Dyd marvell much, for well she knewe those mistes ascended not From any Ryver, moorishe ground, or other dankishe plot. She lookt about hir for hir Jove as one th
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Arthur Golding), Book 9, line 98 (search)
h wavering thoughts ryght violently her mynd was tossed long. At last shee did preferre before all others, for to send The shirt bestayned with the blood of Nessus to the end To quicken up the quayling love. And so not knowing what She gave, she gave her owne remorse and greef to Lychas that Did know as little as herself: and wretched woman, shee Desyrd him gently to her Lord presented it to see. The noble Prince receyving it without mistrust therein, Did weare the poyson of the Snake of Lerna next his skin. To offer incense and to pray to Jove he did begin, And on the Marble Altar he full boawles of wyne did shed, When as the poyson with the heate resolving, largely spred Through all the limbes of Hercules. As long as ere he could, The stoutnesse of his hart was such, that sygh no whit he would. But when the mischeef grew so great all pacience to surmount, He thrust the altar from him streight, and filled all the mount Of Oeta with his roring out. He went about to teare Th