The children's book; a collection of the best and most famous stories and poems in the English language (1910)
Scudder, Horace Elisha, 1838-1902 · Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and company · leaf 475
and fledaway, but theseturned not asidethis way or that,seeking Laoco-on w b e 1- e hestood. And firstthey wrappedthemselvesabout his littlesons, one ser-pent abouteach, and be- y-gan to devour fthem. Andwhen the father would have given help to his chil-dren, having a sword in his hand, they seized… … his priests garlands dripping with blood. Nor didhe cease to cry horribly aloud, even as a bull bel-lows when after an ill stroke of the axe it fleesfrom the altar. But when their work was done,the two glided to the citadel of Minerva, and hidthemselves beneath the feet and the shield of…
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