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Rh To Artemis. Prepare thee with all speed

The lustral streams, the consecrating rites.

Whence come?—what land's name do the strangers bear?

Hellenes: this one thing know I; nought beside.

Nor heardest thou their name, to tell it me?

Pylades one was of his fellow named.

And of the stranger's comrade what the name?

This no man knoweth, for we heard it not.

Where saw ye—came upon them—captured them?

Upon the breakers' verge of yon drear sea.

Now what have herdmen with the sea to do?