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Quotation from The Library (Bibliotheca) by Apollodorus (attributed)

“being a seer and the first to devise the cure by means of drugs and purifications”

Apollodorus (attributed) (spoken by Narrator)

The Library (Bibliotheca), Book II.2.2, trans. Sir James George Frazer (1921)

Portrait of Apollodorus (attributed)

Melampus is introduced as he offers to cure the maddened daughters of Proetus, who roam the Argive land.

Citation: "being a seer and the first to devise the cure by means of drugs and purifications" — Apollodorus (attributed), The Library (Bibliotheca), Book II.2.2, trans. Sir James George Frazer (1921). (id apollodorus-library-q3)

Portrait: Bibliotheke des Apollodor, Title page of an 1805 edition of the Bibliotheca, Public domain.

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