Hypnos on Ida

ILIAD, B. XIV. V. 283
THEY then to fountain-abundant Ida, mother of wild beasts,Came, and they first left ocean to fare over mainland at Lektos,Where underneath of their feet waved loftiest growths of the woodland.There hung Hypnos fast, ere the vision of Zeus was observant,Mounted upon a tall pine-tree, tallest of pines that on IdaLustily spring off soil for the shoot up aloft into aether.There did he sit well-cloaked by the wide-branched pine forconcealment,That loud bird, in his form like, that perched high up in themountains,Chalkis is named by the Gods, but of mortals known as Kymindis.

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