Publisher's Synopsis
So Apollo arose, beautiful as the morning sun, and journeyed through many lands, seeking a dwelling place. He stopped for a time at the foot of Mount Olympus, andplayed so sweetly upon his lyre that Zeus and all his court were entranced. Then hewandered up and down through the whole length of the Thessalian land; butnowhere could he find a spot in which he was willing to dwell. At length he climbedinto his car, and bade his swan team fly with him to the country of theHyperboreans beyond the far-off northern mountains. Forthwith they obeyed; andthrough the pure regions of the upper air they bore him, winging their way evernorthward. They carried him over many an unknown land, and on the seventh daythey came to the Snowy Mountains where the griffins, with lion bodies and eaglewings, guard the golden treasures of the North
