< Page:The Greek bucolic poets (1912).djvu
This page has been proofread, but needs to be validated.

THEOCRITUS XIII, 70–76

passed the night a-clearing of the channel,[1] waiting upon Heracles. But he alas! was running whithersoever his feet might carry him, in a frenzy, the God did rend so cruelly the heart within him.

Thus came fairest Hylas to be numbered of the Blest, and the heroes to gird at Heracles for a deserter because he wandered and left the good ship of the thirty thwarts. Nevertheless he made the inhospitable land of the Colchians afoot.

  1. ↑ "The channel": the hollow in the sand down which the ship would be launched.

163

This article is issued from Wikisource. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.