![]() ![]() But mighty Ladon 9 flowed not yet, nor Erymanthus, 9 clearest of rivers waterless was all Arcadia yet was it anon to be called well-watered. There when thy mother had laid thee down from her mighty lap, straightway she sought a stream of water, wherewith she might purge her of the soilure of birth and wash thy body therein. Thence is the place holy, and no fourfooted thing that hath need of Eileithyia 7 nor any woman approacheth thereto, but the Apidanians 8 call it the primeval childbed of Rheia. ![]() In Parrhasia 6 it was that Rheia bare thee, where was a hill sheltered with thickest brush. O Zeus, some say that thou wert born on the hills of Ida 3 others, O Zeus, say in Arcadia did these or those, O Father lie? “Cretans are ever liars.” 4 Yea, a tomb, 5 O Lord, for thee the Cretans builded but thou didst not die, for thou art for ever. How shall we sing of him – as lord of Dicte 1 or of Lycaeum? 2 My soul is all in doubt, since debated is his birth. At libations to Zeus what else should rather be sung than the god himself, mighty for ever, king for evermore, router of the Pelagonians, dealer of justice to the sons of Heaven? ![]()
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