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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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Hephaestus, from Ida speeding forth his brilliant blaze. Beacon passed beacon on to us by courier-flame: Ida, to the Hermaean crag in Lemnos; to the mighty blaze upon the island succeeded, third,the summit of Athos sacred to Zeus; and, soaring high aloft so as to leap across the sea, the flame, travelling joyously onward in its strength
the pinewood torch, its golden-beamed light, as another sun, passing the message on to the watchtowers of Macistus.He, delaying not nor carelessly overcome by sleep, did not neglect his part as messenger. Far over Euripus' stream came the beacon-light and signalled to the watchmen on Messapion. They, kindling a heap ofwithered heather, lit up their answering blaze and sped the message on. The flame, now gathering strength and in no way dimmed, like a radiant moon overleaped the plain of Asopus to Cithaeron's ridges, and roused another relay of missive fire.Nor did the warders there disdain the far-flung light, but made a blaze higher