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... original form to have been a folk - tale , in which the Fates visit the hero's mother , and say that her baby son will survive as long as a stick which is burning in the fire - place . So the mother hastens to remove the stick from the ...
... original form to have been a folk - tale , in which the Fates visit the hero's mother , and say that her baby son will survive as long as a stick which is burning in the fire - place . So the mother hastens to remove the stick from the ...
Page 75
... original readers would realize that he was the same person as ' Eurytides ' , if that is the right reading at 371. Since Hippasus plays no vital part in the story , this point probably did not worry the poet . primis etiamnum Nestor in ...
... original readers would realize that he was the same person as ' Eurytides ' , if that is the right reading at 371. Since Hippasus plays no vital part in the story , this point probably did not worry the poet . primis etiamnum Nestor in ...
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... original reading of M and N was apparently ' illa ' . But Philemon would then be under - employed , after welcoming the guests ( 639 ) and collecting some vegetables ( 646 ) ; ' ille ' ( also well - attested ) makes him lend a hand ...
... original reading of M and N was apparently ' illa ' . But Philemon would then be under - employed , after welcoming the guests ( 639 ) and collecting some vegetables ( 646 ) ; ' ille ' ( also well - attested ) makes him lend a hand ...
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12th cent Accius Achelous Aetia Althaea ambo Amores Ancaeus Apollodorus Baucis and Philemon boar Boeo Brooks Otis Burman Callimachus Calydonian Catullus Catullus 64 Cicero Ciris Compare corpora Crete Daedalus dixit Ennius episode epithet erat Erysicthon esset Euripides Fairy's Revenge Fasti folk-tale fragment Georgics Greek Hecale Heinsius Hellenistic Hermes heroes Heroides Hesiod Heteroeumena Homer Horace hunc Hunger Hyginus hymn Icarus illa ipse Latin legend Lelex Magnus manus manuscript Medea medio Megara Meleager Meleager's Mestra Metamorphoses mihi Minos modo neoteric Nicander Nisus Nonnus nunc Oeneus Ovid Ovid's Ovidian Parthenius pater Pausanias Perdix perhaps phrase Plan poem poetry probably Propertius pseudo-Hesiod quae quam quod quoque Roman saepe sanguine Scylla Silius simile story sunt tamen terra Theseus tibi tradition transformation Tristia undas unus variant verb viii Virgil word Zeus δὲ ἐν καὶ μὲν τε τὸν