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 through his power of running he could race the winds and could move along upon the ears of corn ...The tale is in Hesiod:

"He would run over the fruit of the asphodel and not break it; nay, he would run with his feet upon wheaten ears and not hurt the fruit."

"And she bare a son Thoas."

Maro, whose father, it is said, Hesiod relates to have been Euanthes the son of Oenopion, the son of Dionysus.

"Such gifts as Dionysus gave to men, a joy and a sorrow both. Who ever drinks to fullness, in him wine becomes violent and binds together his hands and feet, his tongue also and his wits with fetters unspeakable: and soft sleep embraces him."

"Or like her (Coronis) who lived by the holy Twin Hills in the plain of Dotium over against Amyrus rich in grapes, and washed her feet in the Boebian lake, a maid unwed."

"To him, then, there came a messenger from the sacred feast to goodly Pytho, a crow, and he told

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