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Literal Translation. 65
was biding in the middle of the rock, and he flung the rock
into the river.
48. It is he that slew Busiris, who was playing the hero
beside the river Nile. The latter used to offer up his guests
to the river Nile.
50. It is he, moreover, that slew the cruel lion in the
great glen 1 in the south-west of the world.
52. It is he that slew the execrable, merciless snake with
seven heads, that abode in the Lernean swamp, (and) that
withered up and destroyed the north of the world as to human
beings and herds and cattle.
55. It is, he, moreover, that laid low Antaeus son of Terra
by force of valour.
56. It is he, moreover, that scattered the haughty woman-
folk of the Burnt-paps (Amazons), who swayed the Great Asia,
the third of the world, with rapine and ransacking, 2 and in-
cursion, so that they ruled the eastern half of the world for
the space of thirty years, till Hercules carried off from them
the Queen's armour, which he was sent to seek.
61. It is he that did innumerable deeds besides.
62. It is he that brought the golden fleece out of the
country of the Colchians.
63. A man, now, that did these deeds, could not bear to
refrain from abating 3 Laomedon's pride. Wherefore he went
thereafter, to seek multitudes and hosts, to the lights and to
the warriors of Greece. He went to beseech the kings and
the leaders and the champions of the country to come along
with him, to avenge his sigh and his groan.
68. This is (the side on which) he gave his goal and the
beginning of his muster, the kings of Lacedaemon, to wit,
1 The mountain -valley of Nemea is referred to. For alt meaning
'glen' see O'Don. Supp. to O'R.
2 For siniud, I read siriucl, 'searching', 'ransacking': cf. rabai
slat 7 siriud, LL. 224 b.
3 Lit. 'did not endure to him without ahating.'