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Rh to place it on a pile of wood, and kindle the flames himself:—

One more demand he makes (according to our ideas, a revolting request)—Hyllus must take Iole to wife. The son, after much reluctance, promises obedience; and so the drama ends. Ovid tells us how one of these commands was obeyed—how the pile was reared; how calm, "as though at a banquet," the hero spread his lion's skin over it and reclined thereon; how the roaring flames rose upwards and around him—