... obedient to his father's words, Down to the battle-field Apollo sped From Ida's height; and from amid the spears Withdrawn, he bore Sarpedon far away, And lav'd his body in the flowing stream; Then with divine ambrosia all his limbs Anointing, cloth'd him in immortal robes; To two swift bearers gave him then in charge, To Sleep and Death, twin brothers; in their arms They bore him ... — The Iliad • Homer
...
