NEPTUNE'S LONG SLEEP.
Somo Greek fishermen recently made a very strange 'catch'of! Cape Artemisium in Euboea, they drew up in their not a-bronze liaud. .. ' . "'■■ A search was made, and on the sea floor was discovered the statue of a bearded-man eight feet high. ,- He is probably meant to be Neptune, who was worshipped' as god of the sea long before England was- part piS the civilised world. \ Now, ni'l-ev the very ruins of his temples have vanished, (he old pagan god has risen front t-ha sea* to'find a now world,- without slave markets or gladiators, and'with a blacksmith's son as Caesar-in Some, , , ■
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 10, 12 January 1929, Page 15
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102NEPTUNE'S LONG SLEEP. Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 10, 12 January 1929, Page 15
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