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  Speaker 1: Book fourteen, Part one of Avid's metamorphoses. This is a
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  Speaker 1: Recording by Brian Haggerty. Metamorphoses by Publius Ovidius Nasso, translated
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  Speaker 1: by brooks More, Book fourteen, Part one. Now the Ubean
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  Speaker 1: dweller in great waves, Glaucus had left behind the crest
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  Speaker 1: of Etna, raised upward from a giant's head, and left
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  Speaker 1: the cyclops fields that never had been torn by harrow
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  Speaker 1: or by plow, and never were indebted to the toil
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  Speaker 1: of Oxen yoked left zanklely, also in the opposite walls
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  Speaker 1: of Regium, and the sea abundant cause of shipwreck, which
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  Speaker 1: confined with double shores, bounds the Ausonian and Sicilian lands,
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  Speaker 1: All these behind him. Glaucus, swimming on with his huge
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  Speaker 1: hands through those Tirrhenian seas, drew near the hills so
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  Speaker 1: rich in magic herbs, and halls of Circe, daughter of
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  Speaker 1: the Sun, halls filled with men in guise of animals.
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  Speaker 1: After due salutations had been given received by her as kindly,
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  Speaker 1: Glaucus said you, as a goddess certainly should have compassion
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  Speaker 1: on me. A god for you alone, if I am
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  Speaker 1: worthy of it, can relieve my passion. What the power
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  Speaker 1: of herbs can be Titania, none knows more than I,
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  Speaker 1: For by their power I was myself transformed to make
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  Speaker 1: the cause of my strange madness known. I have found
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  Speaker 1: scylla on Italian shores directly opposite Messinian walls. It shames
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  Speaker 1: me to recount my promises in treaties and caresses, and
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  Speaker 1: at last rejection of my suit. If you have known
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  Speaker 1: a power of incantation, I implore you now repeat that
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  Speaker 1: incantation here with sacred lips. If herbs have greater power,
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  Speaker 1: use the tried power of herbs. But I would not
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  Speaker 1: request a cure. The healing of this wound much better
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  Speaker 1: than an end of pain. Let her share and feel
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  Speaker 1: with me my impassioned flame. But Circe was more quick
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  Speaker 1: than any other to burn with passion's flame. It may
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  Speaker 1: have been her nature, or it may have been the
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  Speaker 1: work of Venus, angry at her tattling. Sire, you might
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  Speaker 1: do better, she replied to court. One who is willing,
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  Speaker 1: one who wants your love and feels alike desire you
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  Speaker 1: did deserve to win her love. Yes, to be wooed yourself.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, you might be. If you give some hope
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  Speaker 1: you have my word, you shall indeed be wooed, that
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  Speaker 1: you may have no doubt, and so retain all confidence
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  Speaker 1: in your attraction's power. Behold, I am a goddess, and
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  Speaker 1: I am the daughter also of the radiant Sun. And I,
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  Speaker 1: who am so potent with my charms, and I, who
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  Speaker 1: am so potent with my herbs, wish only to be yours.
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  Speaker 1: Despise her who despises you, and her who is attached
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  Speaker 1: to you, repay with like attachment. So by one act
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  Speaker 1: offer each her just reward. But Glaucus answered her attempt
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  Speaker 1: of love. The trees will sooner grow in ocean waves,
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  Speaker 1: the seaweed sous, when her grow on mountain tops. Then
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  Speaker 1: I shall change my love for graceful Scylla, the goddess,
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  Speaker 1: in her jealous rage, could not and would not injure him,
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  Speaker 1: whom she still loved, but turned her wrath upon the
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  Speaker 1: one preferred. She bruised immediately the many herbs, most infamous
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  Speaker 1: for horrid juices, which, when bruised she mingled with most
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  Speaker 1: artful care and incantations given by Hecate. Then clothed in
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  Speaker 1: azure vestments, she passed through her troop of fawning savage
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  Speaker 1: animals and issued from the center of her hall, pacing
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  Speaker 1: from there to Regium, opposite the dangerous rocks of Zankli.
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  Speaker 1: She at once entered the tossed waves, boiling up with tides.
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  Speaker 1: On these as if she walked on the firm shore,
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  Speaker 1: she set her feet and hastening on dry shod she
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  Speaker 1: skimmed along the surface of the deep. Not far away
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  Speaker 1: there was an inlet curved round as a bent bow,
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  Speaker 1: which was often used by Scylla as a favorite retreat.
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  Speaker 1: There she withdrew from heat of sea and sky. When
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  Speaker 1: in the zenith blazed the unclouded sun and cast the
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  Speaker 1: shortest shadows on the ground. Circe infected it before that hour,
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  Speaker 1: polluting it with monster breeding drugs. She sprinkled juices over it,
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  Speaker 1: distilled from an obnoxious root, and thrice times nine she
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  Speaker 1: muttered over it with magic lips. Her most mysterious charm
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  Speaker 1: involved in words of strangest import and of dubious thought.
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  Speaker 1: Scylla came there and waded in waist deep, then saw
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  Speaker 1: her loins defiled with barking shapes. Believing they could be
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  Speaker 1: no part of her, she ran and tried to drive
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  Speaker 1: them back, and feared the boisterous canine jaws. But what
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  Speaker 1: she fled she carried with her, and feeling for her thighs,
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  Speaker 1: her legs, and feet, she found Serberian jaws. Instead. She
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  Speaker 1: rises from a rage of dogs and shaggy backs and
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  Speaker 1: circle her shortened loins. The lover Glaucus wept. He fled
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  Speaker 1: the embrace of Circe and her hostile power of herbs
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  Speaker 1: and magic spells. But Scylla did not leave the place
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  Speaker 1: of her disaster, and as soon as she had opportunity
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  Speaker 1: for hate of Sar Circe, she robbed Ulysses of his men.
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  Speaker 1: She would have wrecked the Trojan ships if she had
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  Speaker 1: not been changed beforehand to a rock, which to this
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  Speaker 1: day reveals a craggy rim, and even the rock awakes
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  Speaker 1: the sailor's dread. After the Trojan ships, pushed by their oars,
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  Speaker 1: had safely passed by Scylla and the fierce Charybdis, and
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  Speaker 1: with care, had then approached near the Ausonian shore, a
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  Speaker 1: roaring gale bore them far southward to the Libyan coast,
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  Speaker 1: and then Sedonian Dido, who was doomed not calmly to
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  Speaker 1: endure the loss of her loved Phrygian husband, graciously received
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  Speaker 1: Aeneas to her home and her regard, And on a
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  Speaker 1: pyre erected with pretense of holy rites, she fell upon
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  Speaker 1: the sword deceived herself. She there deceived them all eneas.
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  Speaker 1: Fleeing the new walls built on that sandy shore, revisited
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  Speaker 1: the land of Eiriks and Acestes, his true friend. There
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  Speaker 1: he performed a hallowed sacrifice and paid due honor to
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  Speaker 1: his father's tomb. And presently he loosened from that shore
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  Speaker 1: the ships which Iris Juno's minister had almost burned, and
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  Speaker 1: sailing passed far off the kingdom of the son of Hippotus,
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  Speaker 1: in those hot regions, smoking with the fumes of burning sulfur,
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  Speaker 1: and he left behind the rocky haunt of akilous daughters,
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  Speaker 1: the Sirens. Then, when his good ship had lost the pilot,
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  Speaker 1: he coasted near a Naamie, near Procada, and near the
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  Speaker 1: barren hill which marks another island, Bithecusi, an island named
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  Speaker 1: from strange inhabitants. The father of the gods abhorred the
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  Speaker 1: frauds and perjuries of the Circopians, and for the crimes
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  Speaker 1: of that bad, treacherous race, transformed its men to ugly animals,
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  Speaker 1: appearing unlike men, although like men he had contracted and
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  Speaker 1: had bent their limbs and flattened out their noses, bent
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  Speaker 1: back towards their foreheads. He had furrowed every face with
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  Speaker 1: wrinkles of old age, and made them live in that
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  Speaker 1: spot after he had covered all their bodies with long, yellow,
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  Speaker 1: ugly hair. Besides all that he took away from them
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  Speaker 1: the use of language and control of tongues so long
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  Speaker 1: inclined to dreadful perjury, and left them always to complain
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  Speaker 1: of life and their ill conduct in harsh jabbering. After
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  Speaker 1: Eneas had passed by all those, and seen to his
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  Speaker 1: right hand the distant walls guarding the city of Parthenope,
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  Speaker 1: he passed on his left hand a mound grave of
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  Speaker 1: the Tuneful son of Eolus. Landing on Cume's marshy shore,
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  Speaker 1: he reached a cavern home of the long lived Sybylla,
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  Speaker 1: and prayed that she would give him, at the Lake
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  Speaker 1: of Vernus, access to his father's shade. She raised her
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  Speaker 1: countenance from gazing on the ground, and with an inspiration
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  Speaker 1: given to her by influence of the gods, she said,
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  Speaker 1: much you would have, o man of famous deeds, whose
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  Speaker 1: courage is attested by the sword, whose filial piety is
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  Speaker 1: proved by flame. But Trojan, have no fear. I grant
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  Speaker 1: your wish, and with my guidance, you shall look upon
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  Speaker 1: the latest kingdom of the world, shall see alesion homes
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  Speaker 1: and your dear father's shade. For virtue there is everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: Away she spoke, and pointed out to him a branch
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  Speaker 1: refulgent with bright gold, found in the woods of Juno
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  Speaker 1: of Avernus, and commanded him to pluck it from the stem.
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  Speaker 1: Eneus did what she advised him. Then he saw the
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  Speaker 1: wealth of the dread Orcus, and he saw his own ancestors,
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  Speaker 1: and beheld the aged ghost of great Anchises. There he
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  Speaker 1: learned the laws of that deep region, and what dangers
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  Speaker 1: must be undergone by him in future wars. Retracing with
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  Speaker 1: his weary steps the path up to the light, he
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  Speaker 1: found relief from toil in converse with the sage Cumian guide.
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  Speaker 1: While in thick dusk he trod the frightful way. Whether
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  Speaker 1: you are a deity, he said, or human and most
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  Speaker 1: favored by the gods. To me, you always will appear divine.
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  Speaker 1: I will confess too, my existence here is due to
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  Speaker 1: your kind aid for by your will. I visited the
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  Speaker 1: dark abodes of death, and I escaped the death which
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  Speaker 1: I beheld for this great service. When I shall emerge
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  Speaker 1: into the sunlit air, I will erect for you a
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  Speaker 1: temple and will burn for you the sweet incense kindled
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  Speaker 1: at the altar flame. The prophetess looked on him, and
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  Speaker 1: with sighs. I am no goddess, she replied, Nor is
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  Speaker 1: it well to honor any mortal head with tribute of
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  Speaker 1: the holy frankincense, And that you may not err through ignorance.
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  Speaker 1: I tell you, life eternal without end was offered to
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  Speaker 1: me if I would but yield virginity to Phoebus for
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  Speaker 1: his love. And while he hoped for this, and in desire,
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  Speaker 1: offered to bribe me for my virtue. First with gifts,
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  Speaker 1: He said, Maiden of cue me, choose whatever you may wish,
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  Speaker 1: and you shall gain all that you wish. I pointed
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  Speaker 1: to a heap of dust collected there and foolishly replied,
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  Speaker 1: as many birthdays must be given to me, as there
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  Speaker 1: are particles of sand, for I forgot to wish them
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  Speaker 1: days of changeless youth. He gave long life and offered youth. Besides,
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  Speaker 1: if I would grant his wish, this I refused. I
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  Speaker 1: live unwetted. Still, my happier time has fled away. Now
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  Speaker 1: comes with tottering step, infirm old, age, which I shall
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  Speaker 1: long endure. You find me ending seven long centuries, and
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  Speaker 1: there remain for me before my years equal the number
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  Speaker 1: of those grains of sand, three hundred harvests, three hundred advantages.
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  Speaker 1: The time will come when long increase of days will
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  Speaker 1: so contract me from my present size, and so far
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  Speaker 1: waste away my limbs with age, that I shall dwindle
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  Speaker 1: to a trifling weight, so trifling it will never be believed.
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  Speaker 1: I was once loved and even pleased a god. Perhaps
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  Speaker 1: even Phoebus will not recognize me, or will deny he
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  Speaker 1: ever bore me love. But though I changed till I
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  Speaker 1: would never know me, my voice shall live. The fates
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  Speaker 1: will leave my voice. Sybylla, with such words beguiled their
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  Speaker 1: way from Stygian realms up to the Eubean town. Trojan Eneus,
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  Speaker 1: after he had made due sacrifice and cue me, touched
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  Speaker 1: the shore that had not yet been given his nurses name.
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  Speaker 1: There Macarius of Neretus had come, companion of long tried Ulysses.
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  Speaker 1: There he rested, weary of his lengthened toils. He recognized
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  Speaker 1: one left in Etna's cave, Greek Acaemenides, and all amazed
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  Speaker 1: to find him yet alive. He said to him, what
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  Speaker 1: chance or what God Acumenides preserves you? Why is this
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  Speaker 1: barbarian ship conveying you a Greek? What land is sought?
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  Speaker 1: No longer ragged in the clothes he wore, and his
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  Speaker 1: own master wearing clothes not tact with sharp thorns, Acumenites
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  Speaker 1: replied again, May I see polyphemus jaws out streaming with
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  Speaker 1: their slaughtered human blood? If my own home and Ithaca
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  Speaker 1: give more delight to me than this barbarian bark, Or
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  Speaker 1: if I venerate eneas less than my own father, if
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  Speaker 1: I should give my all, it never could express my
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  Speaker 1: gratitude that I can speak and breathe and see the
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  Speaker 1: heavens illuminated by the gleaming sun. How can I be
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  Speaker 1: ungrateful and forget all this? Because of him? These limbs
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  Speaker 1: of mine were spared the Cyclop's jaws, And though I
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  Speaker 1: were even now to leave the light of life, I
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  Speaker 1: should at worst be buried in a tomb, not in
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  Speaker 1: his maw. What were my feelings when, unless indeed my
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  Speaker 1: terror had deprived me of all sense? Left there I
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  Speaker 1: saw you making for the open sea. I wished to
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  Speaker 1: shout aloud, but was afraid it would betray me to
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  Speaker 1: the enemy. The shoutings of ulysses nearly caused destruction of
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  Speaker 1: your ship. And there I saw the Cyclops when he
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  Speaker 1: tore a crag away and hurled the huge rock in
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  Speaker 1: the whirling waves. I saw him also throw tremendous stones
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  Speaker 1: with his gigantic arms. They flew afar, as if impelled
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  Speaker 1: by catapults of war. I was struck dumb with terror,
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  Speaker 1: lest the waves or stones might overwhelm the ship, forgetting
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  Speaker 1: that I was still on the shore. But when your
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  Speaker 1: flight had saved you from that death of cruelty, the Cyclops,
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  Speaker 1: roaring rage, paced all about Mount Etna, groping through its
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  Speaker 1: forests with his outstretched arms. Deprived of sight, he stumbled
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  Speaker 1: there against the rocks until he reached the sea, and,
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  Speaker 1: stretching out his gore stained arms into its waters, there
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  Speaker 1: he cursed all of the Grecian race, and said, oh,
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  Speaker 1: that some accident would carry back ulysses to me, or
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  Speaker 1: but one of his companions, against whom my rage might
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  Speaker 1: vent itself, whose joints my hand might tear, whose blood
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  Speaker 1: might drench my throat, whose living limbs might quiver in
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  Speaker 1: my teeth. How trifling, then, how insignificant would be the
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  Speaker 1: loss of my sight which he took from me. All
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  Speaker 1: this and more, he said, A ghastly horror took possession
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  Speaker 1: of me. When I saw his face in every feature,
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  Speaker 1: streaming yet with blood, his ruthless hands, and the vile
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  Speaker 1: open space where as one eye had been, and his
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  Speaker 1: coarse limbs and his beard matted through with human blood.
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  Speaker 1: It seemed as if death were before my eyes. Yet
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  Speaker 1: that was but the least part of my woe. I seemed,
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  Speaker 1: upon the point of being caught, my flesh about to
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  Speaker 1: be the food of his. Before my mind was fixed
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  Speaker 1: the time I saw two bodies of my loved companions
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  Speaker 1: dashed three or four times hard against the ground, when
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  Speaker 1: he above them, like a lion, crouched, devouring quickly in
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  Speaker 1: his hideous jaws, their entrails and their flesh, and their
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  Speaker 1: crushed bones, white marrowed and their mangled, quivering limbs. A
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  Speaker 1: trembling fear seized on me, as I stood pallid and
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  Speaker 1: without power to move from there, while I recalled him
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  Speaker 1: chewing greedily and belching out his bloody banquet from his
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  Speaker 1: huge mouth, vomiting crushed pieces mixed with phlemy wine. And
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  Speaker 1: I feared such a doom in readiness awaited wretched me
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  Speaker 1: most carefully concealed for many days, trembling at every sound
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  Speaker 1: and fearing death. Although desiring death, I fed myself on
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  Speaker 1: grass and acorns mixed with leaves, alone and destitute, despondent
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  Speaker 1: unto death, awaiting my destruction, I lost hope in that
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  Speaker 1: condition a long while. At last I saw a ship
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  Speaker 1: not far off, and by signs prayed for deliverance. As
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  Speaker 1: I ran in haste down to the shore, my prayers
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  Speaker 1: prevailed on them. A Trojan ship took in and saved
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  Speaker 1: a Greek. And now, O, dearest to me of all men,
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  Speaker 1: tell me of your adventures of your chief and comrades,
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  Speaker 1: when you sailed out on the sea. Then Macarius told
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  Speaker 1: him of Eolus, the son of Hippotus, whose kingdom is
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  Speaker 1: the Tuscan Sea, whose prison holds the winds, and how
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  Speaker 1: Ulysses had received the winds tied in a bull's hide bag,
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  Speaker 1: an awesome gift. How nine days, with a favoring breeze,
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  Speaker 1: they sailed and saw afar their longed for native land.
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  Speaker 1: How as the tenth day dawned, the crew was moved
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  Speaker 1: by envy and a lust for gold, which they imagined
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  Speaker 1: hidden in in that leathern bag, and so untied the
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  Speaker 1: thong which held the winds. These rushing out had driven
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  Speaker 1: the vessel back over the waves, which they had safely
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  Speaker 1: passed back to the harbor of King Eolus. From there,
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  Speaker 1: he said, we sailed until we reached the ancient city
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  Speaker 1: of Lemas. Lestragon Antiphytes was reigning in that land, and
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  Speaker 1: I was sent with two men of our troop ambassadors
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  Speaker 1: to see him. Two of us escaped with difficulty, but
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  Speaker 1: the third stained the accursed Lestrigonian's jaws with his devoted blood.
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  Speaker 1: Antiphydes pursued us, calling out his murderous horde. They came, and,
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  Speaker 1: hurling stones and heavy beams, they overwhelmed and sank both
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  Speaker 1: ships and men. One ship escaped, on which Ulysses sailed, grieving,
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  Speaker 1: lamenting for companions lost. We finally arrived at that land
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  Speaker 1: which you may discern far off, and trust my word,
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  Speaker 1: far off it should be seen. I saw it near
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  Speaker 1: and olmost righteous Trojan Venus son Aeneas, whom I called
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  Speaker 1: no more foe. I warn you now avoid the shores
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  Speaker 1: of Circe. We moored our ship beside that country too,
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  Speaker 1: but mindful of the dangers we had run with lestragons
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  Speaker 1: and cruel Polyphemus refused to go ashore. Ulysses chose some
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  Speaker 1: men by lot and told them to seek out a
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  Speaker 1: roof which he had seen among the trees. The lot
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  Speaker 1: took me, then staunched Polidies. Next Eurylicus Alpinoor, fond of wine,
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  Speaker 1: and eighteen more, and brought us to the walls of Circes, dwelling.
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  Speaker 1: As we drew near and stood before the door, a
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  Speaker 1: thousand wolves rushed out from woods near by. And with
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  Speaker 1: the wolves there ran she bears and lionesses dread to sea.
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  Speaker 1: And yet we had no cause to fear, for none
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  Speaker 1: would harm us with the smallest scratch. Why they, in friendship,
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  Speaker 1: even wagged their tails and fawned upon us while we
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  Speaker 1: stood in doubt. Then handmaids took us in and led
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  Speaker 1: us on through marble halls to the presence of their queen. She,
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  Speaker 1: in a beautiful recess, sat on her throne, clad richly
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  Speaker 1: in a shining purple robe, and over it she wore
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  Speaker 1: a golden veil. Nereids and nymphs, who never carted fleece
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  Speaker 1: with motion of their fingers, nor drew out a ductile thread,
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  Speaker 1: were setting potent herbs in proper order and arranging them
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  Speaker 1: in baskets. A confusing wealth of flowers were scattered among
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  Speaker 1: leaves of every hue, and she prescribed the tasks they
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  Speaker 1: all performed. She knew the natural use of every leaf
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  Speaker 1: and combinations of their virtues when mixed properly, and giving
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  Speaker 1: them her close attention, she examined every herb as it
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  Speaker 1: was weighed. When she observed us there and had received
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  Speaker 1: our greetings and returned them, she smiled, as if we
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  Speaker 1: should be well received at once. She had her maidens
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  Speaker 1: bring a drink of parched barley, of honey and strong wine,
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  Speaker 1: and curds of milk, and in the nectarous draft she
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  Speaker 1: added secretly her baleful drugs. We took the cups presented
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  Speaker 1: to us by her sacred right hand, and as soon
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  Speaker 1: as we so thirsty quaffed them with our parching mouths,
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  Speaker 1: that ruthless goddess with her outstretched wand touched lightly the
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  Speaker 1: topmost hair upon our heads. Although I am ashamed, I
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  Speaker 1: tell you this, stiff bristles quickly grew out over me,
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  Speaker 1: and I could speak no more. Instead of words, I
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  Speaker 1: uttered hoarse murmurs, and towards the ground, began to bend
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  Speaker 1: and gaze with all my face. I felt my mouth
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  Speaker 1: take on a hardened skin with a long crooked snout,
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  Speaker 1: and my necks swell with muscles, with the very member
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  Speaker 1: which a moment earlier had received the cup. I now
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  Speaker 1: made tracks in sand at the palace court. Then with
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  Speaker 1: my friends, who suffered alike. Change charms have such power.
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  Speaker 1: I was prisoned in a stye. We saw Eurylicas alone
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  Speaker 1: avoid our swinish form, for he refused the cup. If
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  Speaker 1: he had drained it, I should still remain one of
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  Speaker 1: a bristly herd. Nor would his news have made Ulysses
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  Speaker 1: sure of our disaster, and brought a swift avenger of
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  Speaker 1: our fate. Peace Bearing Hermes gave him a white flower
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  Speaker 1: from a black root called Molly by the gods. With
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  Speaker 1: this protection and the god's advice, he entered Circe's hall,
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  Speaker 1: And as she gave the treacherous cup, and with her
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  Speaker 1: magic wand essayed to touch his hair, he drove her
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  Speaker 1: back and terrified her with his quick drawn sword. She
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  Speaker 1: gave her promise, and right hands exchanged. He was received unharmed,
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  Speaker 1: into her couch, where he required the bodies of his
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  Speaker 1: friends awarded him as his prized marriage gift. We then
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  Speaker 1: were sprinkled with more favored juice of harmless plants, and
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  Speaker 1: smitten on the head with the magic wand reversed and
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  Speaker 1: new charms, who were repeated, all conversely to the charms
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  Speaker 1: which had degraded us. Then, as she sings more and
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  Speaker 1: yet more, we raise ourselves erect. The bristles fall off,
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  Speaker 1: and the fissures leave our cloven feet, Our shoulders overcome
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  Speaker 1: their lost shape, and our arms become attached as they
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  Speaker 1: had been before. With tears of joy, we all embrace him,
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  Speaker 1: also weeping tears, and we cling fondly to our chieftain's neck.
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  Speaker 1: Not one of us could say a single word till
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  Speaker 1: thus we had attested gratitude. End of Book fourteen Part
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  Speaker 1: one recording by Brian Haggerty, Minneapolis, Minnesota,