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Meanwhile we sing of how the son of Amphitryon, a bold-minded man, left
Oechalia
devoured by fire,
and arrived at the headland with waves all around it; there he was going to sacrifice from his booty nine loud-bellowing bulls for Cenaean Zeus, lord of the wide-spread clouds, and two for the god who rouses the sea and subdues the earth,
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and a high-horned unyoked ox for the virgin Athena, whose eyes flash with might. Then a god, useless to fight against, wove for Deianeira, to her great sorrow,
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Dithyrambs. Bacchylides. Diane Arnson Svarlien (Translator). New Haven, CT. 1996.
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