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Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) 6 0 Browse Search
Homeric Hymns (ed. Hugh G. Evelyn-White) 6 0 Browse Search
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War 4 0 Browse Search
Euripides, Bacchae (ed. T. A. Buckley) 4 0 Browse Search
Polybius, Histories 2 0 Browse Search
Pausanias, Description of Greece 2 0 Browse Search
Homer, Odyssey 2 0 Browse Search
Hesiod, Shield of Heracles 2 0 Browse Search
Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis (ed. E. P. Coleridge) 2 0 Browse Search
Bacchylides, Odes (ed. Diane Arnson Svarlien) 2 0 Browse Search
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Homer, The Odyssey (ed. Samuel Butler, Based on public domain edition, revised by Timothy Power and Gregory Nagy.), Scroll 5, line 2 (search)
Thus he spoke, and Hermes, guide and guardian, slayer of Argos, did as he was told. Forthwith he bound on his glittering golden sandals with which he could fly like the wind over land and sea. He took the wand with which he seals men's eyes in sleep or wakes them just as he pleases, and flew holding it in his hand over Pieria; then he swooped down through the firmament till he reached the level of the sea, whose waves he skimmed like a cormorant that flies fishing every hole and corner of the ocean, and drenching its thick plumage in the spray. He flew and flew over many a weary wave, but when at last he got to the island which was his journey's end, he left the sea and went on by land till he came to the cave where the nymph Calypso lived. He found her at home. There was a large fire burning on the hearth, and one could smell from far the fragrant reek of burning cedar and sandal wood. As for herself, she was busy at her loom, shooting her golden shuttle through the warp and singing