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Prayer to Hercules

Hercules
Hercules, Founder of our city Saguntum, you who are called Alcidus, in whose footsteps we now reside on this hallowed earth, avert the threatening storms from our land.
Fons · Source
AuthorSilius Italicus
WorkPunica
Section1.505-507
Period1st c. AD
Classificatio · Taxonomy
Cultureroman
Formliterary
DeitiesHercules
Functionspetition · protection
Spherecivic