HERACLES
oval of those awful jaws
cowled his golden hair.
ANTISTROPHE i
Next the centaurs: slaughtered them,
that mountain-ranging savage race, 365
laid them low with poisoned shafts,
with winged arrows slew them all.
Too well the land had known them:
Peneios' lovely rapids,
vast plains, unharvested,
homesteads under Pelion, 370
and the places near Homole,
whence their cavalry rode forth
with weapons carved of pine,
and tamed all Thessaly.
And next he slew the spotted hind 375
whose antlers grew of golden horn,
that robber-hind, that ravager,
whose horns now gild Oenoe's shrine,
for Artemis the huntress.
STROPHE 2
Then mounted to his car 380
and mastered with the bit
Diomedes' mares, that knew
no bridle, stabled in blood,
greedy jaws champing flesh,
foul mares that fed on men! 385
And thence crossed over
swirling silver, Hebros' waters,
on and on, performing labors
for Mycenae's king.
And there by Pelion's headland,
near the waters of Anauros, 390
his shafts brought Cycnus down,
that stranger-slaying monster,
host of Amphanaia.
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