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529—546. 1, 2. nor of good pasturage, so that from it we should be able both to live well, and to do service to men."

But them Apollo, the son of Jove, smiling, answered: "Infant-like men, of sad cares, who wish for anxiety, and grievous toils, and groans in your mind, I will tell you an easy word, and set it in your minds. Let each of you, having a cutlass in his right hand, always slay sheep, (but they shall be at hand in all abundance,) as many as the renowned tribes of men bring to me. And guard my temple, and receive the tribes of men assembled hither, and regulate my banquet, as to if there be any vain word or deed, or injury, as is the wont of mortal men. And hereafter there will be other governors among you, under whose control ye will be restrained all your days."

All things are spoken unto thee, but do thou keep them in thy mind. And thou, indeed, hail! O son of Jove and Latona, and I will be mindful of thee and of another song.

 

, praise Mercury, the son of Jove and Maia, who rules over Cyllene, and sheep-abounding Arcadia, the bene- 