英语词汇fast as ladas的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

fast as Ladas. This literary reference is rarely heard today but should be remembered, for Alexander the Great’s courier Ladas was said to run so fast that he never left a footprint. Other leg- endary runners include Queen Camilla of the Volsci, who, ac- cording to Virgil in the Aeneid, could run over water without getting her feet wet; and the Greek Iphicles, who, the Greek poet Hesiod says, could run over standing corn (wheat) with- out bending the ears. The Greek god Hermes (Mercury to the Romans) was swifter than all of them and was represented with wings on his sandals.

词汇	fast as ladas
词源	fast as Ladas. This literary reference is rarely heard today but should be remembered, for Alexander the Great’s courier Ladas was said to run so fast that he never left a footprint. Other leg- endary runners include Queen Camilla of the Volsci, who, ac- cording to Virgil in the Aeneid, could run over water without getting her feet wet; and the Greek Iphicles, who, the Greek poet Hesiod says, could run over standing corn (wheat) with- out bending the ears. The Greek god Hermes (Mercury to the Romans) was swifter than all of them and was represented with wings on his sandals.
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