TH.770 νηλειής, τέχνην δὲ κακὴν ἔχει: ἐς μὲν ἰόντας
TH.771 He has a wicked trick, for he fawns with his tail and his ears on
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σαίνει ὁμῶς οὐρῇ τε καὶ οὔασιν ἀμφοτέροισιν,
TH.772 Those going in, but he doesn't permit anybody to go out.
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ἐξελθεῖν δ' οὐκ αὖτις ἐᾷ πάλιν, ἀλλὰ δοκεύων
TH.773 Watching, he catches and eats anyone going out by the gateway.
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ἐσθίει, ὅν κε λάβῃσι πυλέων ἔκτοσθεν ἰόντα.
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[ἰφθίμου τ' Ἀΐδεω καὶ ἐπαινῆς Περσεφονείης]
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ἔνθα δὲ ναιετάει στυγερὴ θεὸς ἀθανάτοισι,
TH.776 There is the dwelling as well of the goddess abhorred by immortals,
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δεινὴ Στύξ, θυγάτηρ ἀψορρόου Ὠκεανοῖο
TH.777 Terrible Styx, the most senior daughter of retrograde Ocean.
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πρεσβυτάτη: νόσφιν δὲ θεῶν κλυτὰ δώματα ναίει
TH.778 Far from the gods she inhabitis a glorious house overhung by
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μακρῇσιν πέτρῃσι κατηρεφέ': ἀμφὶ δὲ πάντῃ
TH.779 Sizeable rocks, and with silvery columns surrounding it all it
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κίοσιν ἀργυρέοισι πρὸς οὐρανὸν ἐστήρικται.
TH.780 Rises right up to the sky. All too seldom the daughter of Thaumas,
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παῦρα δὲ Θαύμαντος θυγάτηρ πόδας ὠκέα Ἶρις
TH.781 Swift-footed Iris traverses the broad-backced sea to deliver
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ἀγγελίη πωλεῖται ἐπ' εὐρέα νῶτα θαλάσσης.
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ὁππότ' ἔρις καὶ νεῖκος ἐν ἀθανάτοισιν ὄρηται,
TH.783 There any message. However when discord and quarrels among the
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καί ῥ' ὅστις ψεύδηται Ὀλύμπια δώματ' ἐχόντων,
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Ζεὺς δέ τε Ἶριν ἔπεμψε θεῶν μέγαν ὅρκον ἐνεῖκαι
TH.785 Deathless are stirred up, Zeus sends Iris to fetch in a golden
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τηλόθεν ἐν χρυσέῃ προχόῳ πολυώνυμον ὕδωρ,
TH.786 Pitcher the gods' great oath from afar, the notorious chilly
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ψυχρόν, ὅ τ' ἐκ πέτρης καταλείβεται ἠλιβάτοιο
TH.787 Stygian water that trickles down from precipitous heights.
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ὑψηλῆς: πολλὸν δὲ ὑπὸ χθονὸς εὐρυοδείης
TH.788 Flowing a long way under the wide-travelled earth from the sacred
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ἐξ ἱεροῦ ποταμοῖο ῥέει διὰ νύκτα μέλαιναν:
TH.789 River a branch of the Ocean cascades through the blackness of night. A
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Ὠκεανοῖο κέρας, δεκάτη δ' ἐπὶ μοῖρα δέδασται:
TH.790 Tenth of the waters of Ocean belong the Styx as her birthright.
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ἐννέα μὲν περὶ γῆν τε καὶ εὐρέα νῶτα θαλάσσης
TH.791 Swirling in nine silver eddies the stream that encircles the earth and
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δίνῃς ἀργυρέῃς εἱλιγμένος εἰς ἅλα πίπτει,
TH.792 Broad-backed sea falls into the briny, but this one alone which
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ἡ δὲ μί' ἐκ πέτρης προρέει, μέγα πῆμα θεοῖσιν.
TH.793 Springs from a rock in the sight of the gods is a major misfortune.
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ὅς κεν τὴν ἐπίορκον ἀπολλείψας ἐπομόσσῃ
TH.794 One of the gods who inhabit the snow-covered peaks of Olympus,
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ἀθανάτων οἳ ἔχουσι κάρη νιφόεντος Ὀλύμπου,
TH.795 When he has poured a libation to Styx, if he perjures himself, lies
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κεῖται νήϋτμος τετελεσμένον εἰς ἐνιαυτόν:
TH.796 Breathless and doesn't draw breath till the whole of a year is completed.
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οὐδέ ποτ' ἀμβροσίης καὶ νέκταρος ἔρχεται ἆσσον
TH.797 Nor does he ever approach to partake of ambrosia or of
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βρώσιος, ἀλλά τε κεῖται ἀνάπνευστος καὶ ἄναυδος
TH.798 Nectar, but lies without spirit or voice on a bed hat is strewn with
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στρωτοῖς ἐν λεχέεσσι, κακὸν δ' ἐπὶ κῶμα καλύπτει.
TH.799 Bed clothes; and him a malignant and magical slumber envelops.
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αὐτὰρ ἐπὴν νοῦσον τελέσει μέγαν εἰς ἐνιαυτόν,
TH.800 Once he has done with that illness and come to the end of a long year,