rarion

Updated: May 3, 2025

Swiftly she sped down from the peaks of Olympus, and came to fertile Rarion; fertile of old, but now no longer fruitful; for fallow and leafless it lay, and hidden was the white barley grain by the device of fair-ankled Demeter.

Andrew Lang - The Homeric Hymns: A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological