. The golden fleece and the heroes who lived before Achilles. herself in the armsof her mother, he said. And then he cried out: Ah, Persephone,strive to feel kindliness in your heart toward me who carriedyou off by violence and against your will. I can give to you oneof the great kingdoms that the Olympians rule over. And I,who am brother to Zeus, am no unfitting husband for you,Demeters child. So Aidoneus, the dark lord of the Underworld said, and hemade ready the iron chariot with its deathless horses that Per-sephone might go up from his kingdom. Beside the single tree in his domain Aidoneu
. The golden fleece and the heroes who lived before Achilles. herself in the armsof her mother, he said. And then he cried out: Ah, Persephone,strive to feel kindliness in your heart toward me who carriedyou off by violence and against your will. I can give to you oneof the great kingdoms that the Olympians rule over. And I,who am brother to Zeus, am no unfitting husband for you,Demeters child. So Aidoneus, the dark lord of the Underworld said, and hemade ready the iron chariot with its deathless horses that Per-sephone might go up from his kingdom. Beside the single tree in his domain Aidoneus stayed thechariot. A single fruit grew on that tree, a bright pomegranatefruit. Persephone stood up in the chariot and plucked thefruit from the tree. Then did Aidoneus prevail upon her todivide the fruit, and, having divided it, Persephone ate sevenof the pomegranate seeds. It was Hermes who took the whip and the reins of the drove on, and neither the sea nor the water-courses, northe glens nor the mountain peaks stayed the deathless horses of. THE VOYAGE TO COLCHIS 71 Aidoneus, and soon the chariot was brought near to whereDemeter awaited the coming of her daughter. And when, from a hilltop, Demeter saw the chariot approach-ing, she flew like a wild bird to clasp her child. Persephone,when she saw her mothers dear eyes, sprang out of the chariotand fell upon her neck and embraced her. Long and longDemeter held her dear child in her arms, gazing, gazing uponher. Suddenly her mind misgave her. With a great fear ather heart she cried out: Dearest, has any food passed yourlips in all the time you have been in the Underworld? She had not tasted food in all the time she was there, Per-sephone said. And then, suddenly, she remembered the pome-granate that Aidoneus had asked her to divide. When she toldthat she had eaten seven seeds from it Demeter wept, and hertears fell upon Persephones face. Ah, my dearest, she cried, if you had not eaten thepomegranate seeds you coul
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