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The Argonautica

BOOK II
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But of these things we will converse hereafter.

And do ye first put clothing upon you.

By heaven's devising, I ween, have ye come to my hands in your sore need." (ll.

1168-1178) He spake, and out of the ship gave them raiment to put on.

Then all together they went to the temple of Ares to offer sacrifice of sheep; and in haste they stood round the altar, which was outside the roofless temple, an altar built of pebbles; within a black stone stood fixed, a sacred thing, to which of yore the Amazons all used to pray.
Nor was it lawful for them, when they came from the opposite coast, to burn on this altar offerings of sheep and oxen, but they used to slay horses which they kept in great herds.


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