And on his feet he tied these sandals light,

The trail of whose wide leaves might not betray

His track; and then, a self-sufficing wight,

Like a man hastening on some distant way,

He from Pieria's mountain bent his flight;

But an old man perceived the infant pass

Down green Onchestus heaped like beds with grass.

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