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Strong man throws enormous stone.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Persons with extraordinary powers. · Remarkably strong man. · view the constellation · filed as F624.2.0.1

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“As she spoke Minerva touched him with her wand and covered him with wrinkles, took away all his yellow hair, and withered the flesh over his whole body; she bleared his eyes, which were naturally very fine ones; she changed his clothes and threw an old rag of a wrap about him, and a tunic, tattered, filthy, and begrimed with smoke; she also gave him an undressed deer skin as an outer garment, and furnished him with a staff and a wallet…”

The Odyssey, Book XIII · served from our shelf

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  • GreekThe Odyssey, Book XIIIThompson cites: Odyssey XIII 184, IX 482, X 120, Iliad XII 381.
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Filed under Strong man lifts large stone.

1 finer motif beneath it
Strong man throws mountain. (Cf. F623, F626.)
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Strong man moves enormous rockStrong man lifts millstoneStrong man lifts large stone with one hand

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