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Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars

BOOK VI
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After Hercules had been married to Deianira, and when they were on a journey, they came to the River Evenus.
Here Nessus, a Centaur, acted as ferryman, and Hercules bade him carry Deianira across.

In doing so he insulted her, and Hercules shot him with an arrow.
(21) Admetus was King of Pherae in Thessaly, and sued for Alcestis, the daughter of Pelias, who promised her to him if he should come in a chariot drawn by lions and boars.

With the assistance of Apollo, Admetus performed this.

Apollo, for the slaughter of the Cyclops, was condemned to serve a mortal, and accordingly he tended the flocks of Admetus for nine years.

The River Amphrysos is marked as flowing into the Pagasaean Gulf at a short distance below Pherae.
(22) Anaurus was a small river passing into the Pagasaean Gulf past Iolcos.


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