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Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) 6 0 Browse Search
Homeric Hymns (ed. Hugh G. Evelyn-White) 6 0 Browse Search
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War 4 0 Browse Search
Euripides, Bacchae (ed. T. A. Buckley) 4 0 Browse Search
Polybius, Histories 2 0 Browse Search
Pausanias, Description of Greece 2 0 Browse Search
Homer, Odyssey 2 0 Browse Search
Hesiod, Shield of Heracles 2 0 Browse Search
Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis (ed. E. P. Coleridge) 2 0 Browse Search
Bacchylides, Odes (ed. Diane Arnson Svarlien) 2 0 Browse Search
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Homer, Odyssey, Book 5, line 50 (search)
On to Pieria he stepped from the upper air, and swooped down upon the sea, and then sped over the wave like a bird, the cormorant, which in quest of fish over the dread gulfs of the unresting sea wets its thick plumage in the brine. In such wise did Hermes ride upon the multitudinous waves.But when he had reached the island which lay afar, then forth from the violet sea he came to land, and went his way until he came to a great cave, wherein dwelt the fair-tressed nymph; and he found her within. A great fire was burning on the hearth, and from afar over the isle there was a fragranceof cleft cedar and juniper, as they burned; but she within was singing with a sweet voice as she went to and fro before the loom, weaving with a golden shuttle. Round about the cave grew a luxuriant wood, alder and poplar and sweet-smelling cypress,wherein birds long of wing were wont to nest, owls and falcons and sea-crows with chattering tongues, who ply their business on the sea. And right there about th