 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1906 - 352 pages
...games. Now once, when the Argives were keeping a festival of the goddess Hera, their mother had need to be drawn to the temple in a chariot, but the oxen...from the field in time. The young men, therefore, seeing that the hour was late, put the yoke on their own necks and drew the car in which their mother... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 434 pages
...victorious in the public games. Moreover, the following story is told of them : when the Argives were celebrating a festival of Juno, it was necessary that...in which their mother sat; and having conveyed it forty -five stadia [eight miles], they reached the temple. After they had done this in sight of the... | |
 | 1852 - 110 pages
...the public games ; and, moreover, the following story is related of them : — When the Argives were celebrating a festival of Juno, it was necessary that...but the oxen did not come from the field in time, and the young men therefore, being pressed for time, put themselves heneath the yoke and drew the car... | |
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Moreover, the following story is told of them : when the Argives were celebrating a festival of Juno, it was necessary that their mother should be drawn to the temple in a chariot ; but the oxen did not come from the field in time : the young men therefore,... 
