The third labour is a rule-problem, and the rule comes from the horns: the Cerynitian hind “had golden horns and was sacred to Artemis” [The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK II, ch. V]. Sanctity dictates method — “wishing neither to kill nor wound it, Hercules hunted it a whole year”, a year of restraint being harder than any fight [ibid.]. The served text then lets its own tension stand: “Hercules shot it just as it was about to cross the stream”, shouldered it, met an angry Artemis, pleaded necessity and blamed Eurystheus, and “carried the beast alive to Mycenae” [ibid.]. Frazer’s notes decorate the animal from both ends of scholarship: Pindar’s hind bore the inscription “Taygete dedicated (me) to Artemis”, while Ridgeway, reasoning from the antlered female, argued “the hind with the golden horns was no other than the reindeer” [ibid., editor’s note]. Dedication-plaque or zoology, the golden horns are the whole plot: they mark the beast as property, and property of a goddess turns a hunt into a diplomatic incident. The candidate lane offered only the chapter already wired; Thompson’s single row is Frazer’s note, resolved. One witness, complete arc.