. Leander, a young thing from Abydus, swims every night to the other side of the Hellespont river, led by a burning firebone, to meet his beloved hero. He drowns in a storm night and is drowned by Nereïden. In the margin a twelve-line poem, in four columns, in Latin. Below a two-person caption with an assignment in Latin.

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