And heap’d the camp with mountains of the dead.”[89]
Chryses, having received the maiden[90] back from her kingly abductor,[91] then addressed Apollo again, saying, among other things:—
“If fir’d to vengeance at thy priest’s request,
Thy direful darts inflict the raging pest,
Once more attend! Avert the wasteful woe
And smile propitious and unbend thy bow.”[92]
The prayer was heard and answered as desired.
Surgical as well as purely medical aid was sought and received from Apollo. Thus, when the Lycian chief, Sarpedon, was killed, Glaucus, himself sorely wounded and unable to protect his friend’s remains, petitioned the “god of health,” the “god of every healing art,” and
“Apollo heard; and suppliant as he stood,
His heavenly hand restrain’d the flux of blood;