The screams of the fierce horses were heard by the men
of Thrace, and they, with their king, came after Heracles. He
left the horses in charge of Abderus while he fought the
Thracians and their savage king.
Heracles shot his deadly arrows amongst them, and then he fought
with their king. He drove them from the seashore, and then he
came back to where he had left Abderus with the fierce horses.
They had thrown Abderus upon the ground, and they were trampling
upon him. Heracles drew his bow and he shot the horses with the
unerring arrows that were dipped with the gall of the Hydra he
had slain. Screaming, the horses of King Diomedes raced toward
the sea, but one fell and another fell, and then, as it came to
the line of the foam, the third of the fierce horses fell. They
were all slain with the unerring arrows. Then Heracles took up
the body of his companion and he buried it with proper rights,
and over it he raised a column. Afterward, around that column a
city that bore the name of Heracles's friend was built.
Then toward the Euxine Sea he went. There, where the River
Themiscyra flows into the sea he saw the abodes of the Amazons.
And upon the rocks and the steep place he saw the warrior women
standing with drawn bows in their hands. Most dangerous
did they seem to Heracles. He did not know how to approach them;
he might shoot at them with his unerring arrows, but when his
arrows were all shot away, the Amazons, from their steep places,
might be able to kill him with the arrows from their bows.
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