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