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APOLLO Is the report true, father, that someone threw himself bodily into the fire, in the very face of the Olympic festivities, quite an elderly man, not a bad hand at such hocus-pocus? Selene told me, saying that she herself had seen him burning.The Olympic games were timed to come at the full of the moon, and the cremation took place at moon-rise (Peregr., 36). ZEUS Yes, quite true, Apollo. If only it had never happened!

APOLLO Was the old man so good? Was he not worthy of a death by fire?