Bion, Poems 11 (trans. Edmonds) (Greek bucolic C2nd to 1st B.C.) :
"When he beheld thy [Hyakinthos'] agony Phoebus was dumb. He sought every remedy, he had recourse to cunning arts, he anointed all the wound, anointed it with ambrosia and with nectar; but all remedies are powerless to heal the wounds of Fate."
Lucian, Dialogues of the Gods 16 (trans
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