Y. Temple of Hercules in Armenia

Comte de Gabalis [1913], at sacred-texts.com

TEMPLE OF HERCULES IN ARMENIA.

Y"In their march they captured the city of Ninos, the most ancient capital of Assyria, and a fortress, historically famous, as the spot where in the last battle  between Darius and Alexander the power of Persia fell. Gotarzes meantime was offering vows to the local divinities on a mountain called Sambulos, with special worship of Hercules, who at a stated time bids the priests in a dream equip horses for the chase and place them near his temple. When the horses have been

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laden with quivers full of arrows, they scour the forest and at length return at night with empty quivers, panting violently. Again the god in a vision of the night reveals to them the track along which he roamed through the woods, and every where slaughtered beasts are found." "ANNALS OF TACITUS," BOOK xii, §13. CHURCH AND BRODRIBB'S TRANSLATION.