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Theocritus, Bion and Moschus, Rendered into English Prose

Note 127 — IDYL XVII

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Odyssey. xix. 36 seq. (Reading απερ not ατερ.) ‘Father, surely a great marvel is this that I behold with mine eyes meseems, at least, that the walls of the hall . . . are bright as it were with flaming fire’ . . . ‘Lo! this is the wont of the gods that hold Olympus.’

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