so Heracles and Deianira were parted. He was sold as a slave in
Lydia; the one who bought him was a womana widow named Omphale.
To her house Heracles wentcarrying his armor and wearing his lion's skin.
And Omphale laughed to see this tall man dressed in a lion's skin coming
to her house to do a servant's tasks for her.
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She and all in her house kept up fun with Heracles. They would set
him to do houseworkto carry waterand set vessels on the tablesand
clear the vessels away. Omphale set him to spin with a spindle as the
women did. And often she would put on Heracles's lion skin and go about
dragging his clubwhile hedressed in woman's garbwashed dishes and
emptied pots.
But he would lose patience with these servant's tasksand then
Omphale would let him go away and perform some great exploit. Often he
went on long journeys and stayed away for long times. It was while he
was in slavery to Omphale that he liberated Theseus from the dungeon in
which he was held with Peirithousand it was while he still was in slavery
that he made his journey to Troy.
At Troy he helped to repair for King Laomedon the great walls that
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