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Apollo’s painless shafts

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Apollo’s painless shafts
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Apollo’s painless shafts kill Syra’s inhabitants when they grow old.

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“Apollo comes with Diana and kills them with his painless shafts”

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“Apollo comes with Diana and kills them with his painless shafts”

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Book 15 · Passage 34

‘You may have heard of an island called Syra that lies over above Ortygia, {134} where the land begins to turn round and look in another direction. {135} It is not very thickly peopled, but the soil is good, with much pasture fit for cattle and sheep, and it abounds with wine and wheat. Dearth never comes there, nor are the people plagued by any sickness, but when they grow old Apollo comes with Diana and kills them with his painless shafts. It contains two communities, and the whole country is divided between these two. My father Ctesius son of Ormenus, a man comparable to the gods, reigned over both.