herac

Updated: June 12, 2025

Besides, while you were alive, you might possibly have done a thing like that; but now that you are a God, you surely understand that only the Fates are competent, and we cannot interfere? Herac. Then when I slew the lion or the Hydra, was I only the Fates' instrument? Zeus. Of course you were. Herac.

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No need of a Themistocles this time; it is absolutely plain. Herac. Father, I am only an alien, but I am not afraid to give my opinion. Let them begin their debate.

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And now, suppose any one insults me, or robs my temple, or upsets an image of me, am I not to pulverize him, just because the Fates have not decreed it long ago? Zeus. Certainly not. Herac. Then allow me to speak my mind; I'm a blunt man; I call a spade a spade. If this is the state of things with you, good-bye for me to your honours and altar-steam and fat of victims; I shall be off to Hades.

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