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Then the horse Xanthos of glancing feet made answer unto him from beneath the yoke; and he bowed with his head, and all his mane fell from the yoke-cushion beside the yoke and touched the ground; for the white-armed goddess Hera gave him speech: "Yea verily for this hour, dread Achilles, we will still bear thee safe, yet is thy death day nigh at hand, neither shall we be cause thereof, but a mighty god, and forceful Fate.
This statue was found on May 8, 1877, in the Temple of Hera at Olympia, lying in front of its pedestal. Here it had stood when Pausanias saw it and recorded that it was the work of Praxiteles. Except for the loss of the right arm and the lower legs, the figure of Hermes is in admirable preservation, the surface being uninjured.
Holding up his hands he besought Hera of Mount Kithæron and all the other gods of the land of Platæa that if it were not the will of the gods that the Greeks should conquer, they might at any rate do some valorous deed before they died, and let their conquerors know that they had fought with brave and experienced warriors.
In Boeotia, as we have seen, the sacred marriage of Zeus and Hera, the oak god and the oak goddess, appears to have been celebrated with much pomp by a religious federation of states. And on Mount Lycaeus in Arcadia the character of Zeus as god both of the oak and of the rain comes out clearly in the rain charm practised by the priest of Zeus, who dipped an oak branch in a sacred spring.
Then the daughter of Zeus, Aphrodite, went to her house, and Hera, rushing down, left the peak of Olympus, and sped' over the snowy hills of the Thracian horsemen, even over the topmost crests, nor grazed the ground with her feet, and from Athos she fared across the foaming sea, and came to Lemnos, the city of godlike Thoas.
Last comes a group consisting of two Muses and a four-horse chariot bearing Zeus, the chief of the gods, and Hera, his wife. The figures are almost all drawn in profile, though the body is often shown more nearly from the front, e.g., in the case of the Seasons, and the eyes are always drawn as in front view.
As we drew near the African coast his fear of rocks and shoals became infectious. "I do not know dis coast," he used to say. "I cama hera because Gordon-Nasmyth was coming too. Den he does not come!" "Fortunes of war," I said, and tried to think in vain if any motive but sheer haphazard could have guided Gordon-Nasmyth in the choice of these two men.
"And now," said Hera, when the boys had been supplied with everything they could possibly desire, and more than they could eat "now for the story." "Yes," said Mabel intensely; and Kathleen said, "Oh yes; now for the story. How splendid!" "The story," said Phoebus unexpectedly, "will be told by our guests." "Oh no!" said Kathleen, shrinking.
The last hope fled when they heard the rattling of the cables weighing anchor. Soon the soft slap of the water around the bow and the regular heaving motion told that the Bozra was under way. The sea-mouse creaked and groaned through all her timbers and her lading. The foul bilge-water made the hold stifling as a charnel-house. Lampaxo, Hib being absent, began to howl and moan. “O Queen Hera!
Here we read of Euneos, a son whom Hypsipyle bore to Jason in Lemnos. Already, even in the 'Iliad, the legend of Argo's voyage has been fitted into certain well-known geographical localities. Argo escaped, it is said, 'because Jason was dear to Hera. It is plain, from various fragmentary notices, that Hesiod was familiar with several of the adventures in the legend of Jason.
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