Hercules's Third Work

Aristheus next ordered Hercules to capture and bring back Eilis a stag, sacred to Diana. For a whole year Hercules pursued this animal, resting for the hours of darkness and pressing on next day in its tracks. At the end of the year the stag, wary of the long hunt, could run no longer. He was seized in his strong hands, tied first its forelegs, and then a tine legs together, but the body of the beast with its drooping antler'd head over his neck. When he had promised that, once the stag had been carried to Eurystias, it would be sent free again in the forest that it loved,. The