Sacred Texts: The Classics

Argonautica: Book 1: line 402

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| (1.402-410) Next, piling up shingle near the sea, they raised there an altar on the shore to Apollo, under the name of Actius and Embasius, and quickly spread above it logs of dried olive-wood. Meantime the herdsmen of Aeson's son had driven before them from the herd two steers. These the younger comrades dragged near the altars, and the others brought lustral water and barley meal, and Jason prayed, calling on Apollo the god of his fathers: | | 402 Ἔνθεν δ' αὖ λάιγγας ἁλὸς σχεδὸν…

Argonautica: Book 1: line 402

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