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Charaxus

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145: 75:, wonderful with golden hair. Seized by the violent flames, his yellow locks burned fiercely, as a field of autumn grain; and even the scorching blood gave from the sore wound a terrific noise as a red-hot iron in pincers which the smith lifts out and plunges in the tepid pool, hissing and sizzling. 79:
shook the fire from his burnt locks; and heaved up on his shoulders a large threshold stone torn from the ground — a weight sufficient for a team of oxen. The vast weight impeded him, so that it could not even touch his foe — and yet, the massive stone did hit his friend, Cometes, who was standing
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near to him, and crushed him down. Then Rhoetus, crazed with joy, exulting yelled, 'I pray that all of you may be so strong!' Wielding his half-burnt stake with heavy blows again and again, he broke the sutures of his enemy's skull, until the bones were mingled with his oozing brains.
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Greek mythology
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Lapiths
Pirithous
Hippodamia
centaurs
Rhoetus
Cometes
Charaxus
Charaxus
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