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Pausanias, Description of Greece 10 0 Browse Search
Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) 8 0 Browse Search
Homer, The Iliad (ed. Samuel Butler) 6 0 Browse Search
Bacchylides, Odes (ed. Diane Arnson Svarlien) 2 0 Browse Search
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Sophocles, Trachiniae (ed. Sir Richard Jebb) 2 0 Browse Search
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P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More) 2 0 Browse Search
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Sophocles, Trachiniae (ed. Sir Richard Jebb), line 1 (search)
Deianeira There is a saying among men, put forth long ago, that you cannot judge a mortal's life and know whether it is good or bad until he dies. But well I know, even before I have passed away to Hades' domain, that my life is ill-fortuned and heavy.For I, while still dwelling in the house of my father Oeneus at Pleuron, had such fear of marriage as never any woman of Aetolia had. For my suitor was a river-god, Achelous,who in three shapes was always asking me from my father—coming now as a bull in visible form, now as a serpent, sheeny and coiled, now ox-faced with human trunk, while from his thick-shaded beard wellheads of fountain-water sprayed.In the expectation that such a suitor would get me, I was always praying in my misery that I might die, before I should ever approach that marriage-bed. But at last, to my joy, the glorious son of Zeus and Alcmena came andclosed with him in combat and delivered me. The manner of their fighting I cannot clearly recount. I know it not,