Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 5 . e, orhellebore, which is dark and poisonous. After showing the beast to Eurystheus,Hercules safely returned him to the under world, and thus completed his twelvegreat labors. Hercules was subject to fits of madness, in one of which he slew a friend,and as a penalty he allowed himself to be sold as a slave. He was purchased bythe Queen of Lydia, Omphale, and remained in her service three years. Sheused to make him do a womans work, and even dresse
Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 5 . e, orhellebore, which is dark and poisonous. After showing the beast to Eurystheus,Hercules safely returned him to the under world, and thus completed his twelvegreat labors. Hercules was subject to fits of madness, in one of which he slew a friend,and as a penalty he allowed himself to be sold as a slave. He was purchased bythe Queen of Lydia, Omphale, and remained in her service three years. Sheused to make him do a womans work, and even dressed him at times in femalegarments, while she herself wore his famous lion skin and laughed at him. But strong as he was, Hercules had in time to meet death himself. He hadmarried a nymph named Deianira, and was taking her home, when he came to ariver where a Centaur named Nessus lived, and gained his bread by carryingtravellers over on his back. Hercules paid him the price for carrying Deianiraover, while he himself crossed on foot; but as soon as the river was betweenthem, the faithless Centaur began to gallop away with the lady. Hercules sent. THESEUS 6 an arrow after him, which brought him to the ground, and as he was dying heprepared his revenge by telling Deianira that his blood was enchanted with lovefor her, and that if ever she found her husbands affection failing her, she had onlyto make him put on a garment anointed with it, and his heart would return toher; he knew full well that his blood was full of the poison of the Hydra, butpoor Deianira believed him, and had saved some of the blood before Herculescame up. Several years after, Hercules made prisoner a maiden named lole, in Lydia,after gaining a great victory. Landing in the island of Euboea, he was going tomake a great sacrifice to Jupiter, and sent home to Deianira for a festal garmentto wear at it. She was afraid he was falling in love with lole, and steeped thegarment in the preparation she had made from Nessu
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