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"Heracles unslung his curved bow from his shoulders."

"This man is the son of a brave father and a weakling—"

"Mother; for war is too stern for any woman."

"But for you your father and lady mother lay in love—"

"When they begot you by the aid of golden Aphrodite."

"But when she had been made subject in love, Artemis, who delights in arrows—"

"Slew Callisto with a shot of her silver bow."

"So they feasted all day long, taking nothing—"

"From their own houses; for Agamemnon, king of men, supplied them."

"When they had feasted, they gathered among the glowing ashes the bones of the dead Zeus-"

"Born Sarpedon, that bold and godlike man."

"Now we have lingered thus about the plain of Simoïs, forth from the ships let us go our way, upon our shoulders—" 577 P P