Zenobius 6.49
A Heraclean rash
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English
Proverb
A Heraclean rash
Explanation
that needing the baths of Heracles for cure. For Athena let flow for Heracles in many places hot baths for repose from his labours, as Peisander the poet says in his On Heracles.
Greek
Proverb
Ψώρα Ἡράκλειος
Explanation
ἡ τῶν Ἡρακλείων λουτρῶν δεομένη πρὸς θεραπείαν. Ἡ γὰρ Ἀθηνᾶ τῷ Ἡρακλεῖ ἀνῆκε πολλαχοῦ θερμὰ λουτρὰ πρὸς ἀνάπαυλαν τῶν πόνων, ὡς φησὶ καὶ Πείσανδρος ὁ ποιητὴς ἐν τοῖς περὶ Ἡρακλέους.
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