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Tiryns (Greece) (search for this): card 477
s of this land of Pherae, do I find Admetus at home? Chorus-Leader Yes, Pheres' son is at home, Heracles. But tell us what need brings you to Thessaly and to this city of Pherae. Heracles I am performing a certain labor for Eurystheus, king of Tiryns. Chorus-Leader Where are you bound? What is the wandering you are constrained to make? Heracles I go in quest of the four-horse chariot of Thracian Diomedes. Chorus-Leader How can you do that? Do you not know what kind of host he is? Heracleshen you will either kill him and return or end your days there. Heracles This is not the first such race I shall have run. Chorus-Leader If you defeat their master, what will it profit you? Heracles I will bring the horses back to the lord of Tiryns. Chorus-Leader You will not find it easy to put a bit in their mouths. Heracles Surely so, unless they breathe fire from their nostrils. Chorus-Leader No, but they tear men apart with their nimble jaws. Heracles This is fodder for mountain b
Thessaly (Greece) (search for this): card 477
Enter by Eisodos A Heracles with his characteristic lion-skin and club. A servant goes in to tell Admetus of the arrival. Heracles Strangers, citizens of this land of Pherae, do I find Admetus at home? Chorus-Leader Yes, Pheres' son is at home, Heracles. But tell us what need brings you to Thessaly and to this city of Pherae. Heracles I am performing a certain labor for Eurystheus, king of Tiryns. Chorus-Leader Where are you bound? What is the wandering you are constrained to make? Heracles I go in quest of the four-horse chariot of Thracian Diomedes. Chorus-Leader How can you do that? Do you not know what kind of host he is? Heracles I do not. I have never yet been to Bistonia. Chorus-Leader You cannot possess those horses without a fight. Heracles But all the same, I cannot decline these labors. Chorus-Leader Then you will either kill him and return or end your days there. Heracles This is not the first such race I shall have run. Chorus-Leader If you defeat their m
Thrace (Greece) (search for this): card 477
s there. Heracles This is not the first such race I shall have run. Chorus-Leader If you defeat their master, what will it profit you? Heracles I will bring the horses back to the lord of Tiryns. Chorus-Leader You will not find it easy to put a bit in their mouths. Heracles Surely so, unless they breathe fire from their nostrils. Chorus-Leader No, but they tear men apart with their nimble jaws. Heracles This is fodder for mountain beasts, not horses. Chorus-Leader You will see their feeding-troughs drenched with blood. Heracles Whose son does their master claim to be? Chorus-Leader Ares' son, and shield-bearing lord of Thrace rich in gold. Heracles Like the others this labor you name befits my destiny （which is always hard and steep） since I am fated to do battle with all the sons of Ares: first Lycaon, then Cycnus, and now this is the third contest I enter, going off to fight horses and master alike. But no one shall ever see Alcmene's son quake at the hand of an en