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Knossos (Greece) (search for this): book Ep, poem 1
Makelo, loving the distaff, by the fair-flowing stream speaks fawning with the voice I am bereaved with double-edged grief deprivation totally on the third day warlike Minos came with a host of Cretans in fifty ships with flashing sterns. And by the will of Zeus Eukleios he subdued the deep-waisted maiden Dexithea, and left with her half of his people, battle-loving men, to whom he gave the craggy land as their share; and then he sailed off to the lovely city of Knossos, the king, the son of Europa. And in the tenth month the bride with beautiful hair bore Euxantius, to be ruler over the glorious island daughters city cut deep by the sun's rays. From his (Euxantius'?) family descended Argeius, who has a strong hand and the spirit of a lion, whenever the need for battle befalls him; and he is light on his feet, and does not the fine qualities of his father, those which Apollo, famed for the bow, bestowed on Pantheides: the art o