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  Speaker 1: Book fourteen, Part two of Ovid's Metamorphoses. This is a
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  Speaker 1: Recording by Kevin Weir. Metamorphosies by Publius Ovidius Nazo, translated
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  Speaker 1: by brooks More, Book fourteen, Part two. The full space
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  Speaker 1: of a year detain'd us there, and I remaining that
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  Speaker 1: long stretch of time, saw many things and heard as
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  Speaker 1: much besides. And this, among the many other things, was
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  Speaker 1: told me secretly by one of the four handmaidens of
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  Speaker 1: those rites. While Circe passed her time from all apart
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  Speaker 1: except my chief, she brought me to a white marble shape,
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  Speaker 1: a youth who bore a woodpecker upon his head. It
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  Speaker 1: stood erected in a hallowed place, adorned with many wreaths.
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  Speaker 1: When I had asked the statue's name, and why he
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  Speaker 1: stood revered in that most sacred temple, and what caused
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  Speaker 1: that bird he carried on his head, she said, listen, Macareus,
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  Speaker 1: and learn from this tale to the power of Circe,
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  Speaker 1: and weigh the knowledge well. Picus, off spring of Saturn,
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  Speaker 1: was the king of the Orsonian land, one very fond
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  Speaker 1: of horses raised for war. The young man's form was
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  Speaker 1: just what you now see, and had you known him
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  Speaker 1: as he lived, you would not change a line. His
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  Speaker 1: nature was as noble as his shape. He could not
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  Speaker 1: yet have seen the steeds contend four times in races
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  Speaker 1: held with each fifth year at Grecian Ellis, But his
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  Speaker 1: good looks had charm'd the dryads borne on Latin hills.
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  Speaker 1: Niads would pine for him. Both goddesses of spring and
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  Speaker 1: goddesses of fountains pined for him, And nymphs that live
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  Speaker 1: in streaming albullah numisis Aneo's course, brief, flowing Almo and
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  Speaker 1: rapid mar and pharphurous, so cool in its delightful shades,
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  Speaker 1: all these and those which haunt the forest lake of
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  Speaker 1: Scythian Diana, and the other near by lakes. But heedless
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  Speaker 1: of all these, he lov'd a nymph whom on the
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  Speaker 1: hill called Palatine. Tis said Venilia bought her Janus double faced.
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  Speaker 1: When she had reached the age of marriage, she was
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  Speaker 1: given to Picus Laurentine, preferred by her above all others.
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  Speaker 1: Wonderful indeed, her beauty but more wonderful her skill in singing,
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  Speaker 1: from which art they called her Canaans. The fascination of
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  Speaker 1: her voice would move the woods and rocks, and tame
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  Speaker 1: wild beasts and stay long rivers, and it even detained
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  Speaker 1: the wandering bird once while she sang it lay with
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  Speaker 1: high clear voice. Picus, on his keen horse, rode in
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  Speaker 1: Laurentian fields to hunt the boar, two spears in his
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  Speaker 1: left hand, his purple cloak fastened with gold. The daughter
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  Speaker 1: of the Sun wandered in woods near by to find
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  Speaker 1: new herbs growing on fertile hills, for she had left
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  Speaker 1: Susay in fields called so from her own name. From
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  Speaker 1: a concealing thicket, she observed the youth with wonder All
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  Speaker 1: the gathered herbs dropped from her hands, forgotten to the ground,
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  Speaker 1: and a hot fever flame seemed to pervade her marrow.
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  Speaker 1: When she could select her thought, she wanted to confess
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  Speaker 1: her great desire, but the swift horse and his surrounding
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  Speaker 1: guards prevented her approach. Still you shall not escape me,
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  Speaker 1: she declared, although you may be borne on winds if
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  Speaker 1: I but know myself, and if some potency in herbs remains,
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  Speaker 1: and if my art of charms does not deceive. Such
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  Speaker 1: were her thoughts. And then she formed an image of
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  Speaker 1: a bodiless wild swine, and let it cross the trail
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  Speaker 1: before the king and rush into a woodland, dance with trees,
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  Speaker 1: which fallen trunks made pathless for his horse. Picus at once,
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  Speaker 1: unconscious of all harm, followed the phantom prey, and hastily
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  Speaker 1: quitting the reeking back of his good steed, he wandered
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  Speaker 1: in pursuit of a vain hope on foot through that
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  Speaker 1: deep wood. She seized the chance, and by her incantation,
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  Speaker 1: called strange gods with a strange charm, which had the
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  Speaker 1: power to hide the white moon's features and draw thirsty
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  Speaker 1: clouds about her father's head. The changing sky then lowered
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  Speaker 1: more black at each repeated tone of incantation, and the
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  Speaker 1: ground exhaled its vapors, while his people wandered there along
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  Speaker 1: the darkened paths, until no guard was near to aid
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  Speaker 1: the imperiled king. Having now gained an opportunity and place,
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  Speaker 1: she said, O, youth, most beautiful, by those fine eyes
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  Speaker 1: which captivated mine, and by that graceful person which brings
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  Speaker 1: me even me a goddess suppliant to you have pity
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  Speaker 1: on my passion. Let the son who looks on all
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  Speaker 1: things be your father in law. But do not despise
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  Speaker 1: Circe the Titaness. But fiercely he repelled her and her prayer.
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  Speaker 1: Whoever you may be, you are not mine, he said,
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  Speaker 1: Another lady has my heart. I pray that for a
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  Speaker 1: lengthening space of time she may so hold me. I
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  Speaker 1: will not pollute conjugal ties with the unhallowed loves of
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  Speaker 1: any stranger. While the fates preserved to me the child
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  Speaker 1: of Janus, my dear Canaans, Titan's daughter, when many pleas
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  Speaker 1: had failed, said angrily, you shall not leave me with impunity,
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  Speaker 1: and you shall not return to Canaan's. And by your
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  Speaker 1: experience you shall now learn what can be done by her,
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  Speaker 1: so slighted what a woman deep in love can do.
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  Speaker 1: And circey is that slighted love. Then twice she turned
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  Speaker 1: herself to face the west, and twice to face the east.
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  Speaker 1: And three times then she touched the young man with
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  Speaker 1: her wand and sang three incantations. Picus fled, but marveling
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  Speaker 1: at his unaccustomed speed, he saw new wings that spread
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  Speaker 1: on either side and bore him onward. Angry at the
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  Speaker 1: thought of transformation, also suddenly added a strange bird to
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  Speaker 1: the Lassian woods. He struck the wild oaks with his
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  Speaker 1: hard new beak, and in his rage, inflicted many wounds
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  Speaker 1: on the long waving branches. His wings took the purple
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  Speaker 1: of his robe. The piece of gold which he had
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  Speaker 1: used so nicely in his robe, was changed to golden feathers,
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  Speaker 1: and his neck was rich as yellow gold. Nothing remained
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  Speaker 1: of Picus as he was, except the name. While all
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  Speaker 1: this happened, his attendants called on Picus often, but in vain,
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  Speaker 1: throughout surrounding fields, and finding not a trace of their
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  Speaker 1: young king. At length, by chance they met with Circe,
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  Speaker 1: who had cleared the darkened air and let the clouds
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  Speaker 1: disperse before the wind and clear rays of the sun. Then,
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  Speaker 1: with good cause they blamed her. They demanded the return
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  Speaker 1: of their lost king, and with their hunting spears they
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  Speaker 1: threatened her. She, sprinkling baleful drugs and poisoned juices over them,
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  Speaker 1: invoked the aid of Night and all the gods of
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  Speaker 1: Night from erebus and chaos, and desired the aid of
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  Speaker 1: Hecate with long wailing cries, most wonderful to tell. The
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  Speaker 1: forests leapt from fixed localities, and the torn soil uttered
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  Speaker 1: deep groans. The trees surrounding changed from life green to
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  Speaker 1: sick pallor, and the grass was moistened with besprinkling drops
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  Speaker 1: of blood. The stones sent forth harsh longings. Unknown dogs
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  Speaker 1: barked loudly, and the ground became a mass of filthy snakes,
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  Speaker 1: and un substantial hosts of the departed flitted without sound.
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  Speaker 1: The men all quaked, appall'd with magic rod. She touch'd
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  Speaker 1: their faces pale and all amazed. And at her touch
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  Speaker 1: the youths took on strange forms of wild animals. None
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  Speaker 1: kept his proper shape. The setting sun is resting low
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  Speaker 1: upon the far Tartusian shores, and now in vain. Her
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  Speaker 1: husband's expected by the eyes of longing canaans. Her slaves
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  Speaker 1: and people ran up about through all the forest, holding
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  Speaker 1: lights to meet him. Nor is it enough for that
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  Speaker 1: dear nymph to weep and frenzied, tear her hair, and
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  Speaker 1: beat her breast. She did all that and more. Distracted,
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  Speaker 1: she rush'd forth and wandered through the Latin fields. Six knights,
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  Speaker 1: six brightening dawns found her quite unrefreshed, with food or sleep,
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  Speaker 1: wandering at random over hill and dale. The Tiber saw
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  Speaker 1: her last with grief and toil, Wearied and lying on
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  Speaker 1: its widespread bank and tears, she poured out words with
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  Speaker 1: a faint voice, lamenting her sad woe, as when the
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  Speaker 1: swan about to die sings a funereal dirge. Melting with grief.
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  Speaker 1: At last, she pined away her flesh, her bones, her
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  Speaker 1: marrow liquefied and vanish'd by degrees as formless air. And
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  Speaker 1: yet the story lingers near that place, fitly named Canaan's
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  Speaker 1: by old time came an eye. Such things I heard
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  Speaker 1: and saw through a long year, sluggish, inactive, through our idleness,
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  Speaker 1: we were all ordered to embark again, out on the deep, again,
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  Speaker 1: to set our sails. The Titaness explained the doubtful paths,
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  Speaker 1: the great extent and peril of wild seas. I was alarmed,
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  Speaker 1: I will confess to you. So, having reached these shores,
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  Speaker 1: I have remained. Macareus finished, And Aeneas's nurse, now buried
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  Speaker 1: in a marble urn, had this brief, strange inscription on
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  Speaker 1: her tomb. My foster child of proven piety burned me
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  Speaker 1: Kaita here, although I was at first preserved from Argi
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  Speaker 1: fire I later burned with fire, which was my jew.
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  Speaker 1: The cable loosened from the grassy bank. They steered a
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  Speaker 1: course which kept them well away from ill famed circes
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  Speaker 1: Wiles and from her home, and sought the groves where Tiber,
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  Speaker 1: dark with shade, breaks with his yellow sands into the sea.
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  Speaker 1: Aeneas then fell heir to the home and won the
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  Speaker 1: daughter of Latinus, Phaunas's son, not without war. A people
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  Speaker 1: very fierce made war, and Turnus, their young chief, indignant,
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  Speaker 1: fought to hold a promised bride with Latium. All Etruria
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  Speaker 1: was embroiled. A victory hard to win, was sought through
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  Speaker 1: war by foreign aid. Each side got further strength. The
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  Speaker 1: camp of Rutali abounds in men and many throng the
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  Speaker 1: opposing camp of Troy. Aeneus did not find Ivander's home
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  Speaker 1: in Vain, but Venulus, with no success, came to the
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  Speaker 1: realm of exiled diomed that hero had marked out his
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  Speaker 1: mighty walls with favor of Iapigian downess, and held fields
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  Speaker 1: that came to him as marriage dower. When Venulis, by
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  Speaker 1: Turnus's orders, made request for aid, the Aetolian hero, said
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  Speaker 1: that he was poor in men. He did not wish
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  Speaker 1: to risk in battle himself any troops belonging to his
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  Speaker 1: father in law, and had no troops of his own
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  Speaker 1: that he could arm for battle. Lest you should think
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  Speaker 1: I feign, he then went on, although my grief must
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  Speaker 1: be renewed because of bitter recollections of the past, I
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  Speaker 1: will endure recital now to you. After the lofty ilion
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  Speaker 1: was burnt, and Pergama had fed the Grecian flames, and Ajax,
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  Speaker 1: the Nartian hero, had brought from a virgin for a virgin,
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  Speaker 1: wronged the punishment which he alone deserved on our whole expedition.
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  Speaker 1: We were then dispersed and driven by violent winds over
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  Speaker 1: the hostile seas, and we, the Greeks, had to endure
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  Speaker 1: in darkness, lightning, reign, the wrath both of the heavens
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  Speaker 1: and of the sea, and Cafarius the climax of our woe.
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  Speaker 1: Not to detain you by relating such unhappy things in
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  Speaker 1: order Greece might then have seem'd to merit even Priam's tears.
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  Speaker 1: Although well arm'd, Minerva's care preserv'd me then and brought
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  Speaker 1: me safe through rocks and waves from my native Argos,
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  Speaker 1: I was driven again. For outraged, Venus took her full revenge,
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  Speaker 1: remembering still that wound of long ago. And I endur'd
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  Speaker 1: such hardships on the deep, and hazards amid armies on
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  Speaker 1: the shore that often I call'd those happy whom the
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  Speaker 1: storm an ill that came on all or Sepharius had drown'd.
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  Speaker 1: I even wished I had been one of them, My
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  Speaker 1: best companions, having now endured utmost extremities and wars and seas,
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  Speaker 1: lost courage and demanded a swift end of our long
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  Speaker 1: wandering acmon by nature, hot and much embittered by misfortune,
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  Speaker 1: said what now remains for you, my friends, that patience
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  Speaker 1: can endure? What can be done by Venus if she
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  Speaker 1: wants to more than she already has done. While we
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  Speaker 1: have a dread of greater evils, reason will be found
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  Speaker 1: for patience. But when fortune brings her worst, we scorn
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  Speaker 1: and trample fear beneath our feet upon the height of woe.
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  Speaker 1: Why should we care? Let Venus listen, Let her hate
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  Speaker 1: diamed more than all others, as indeed she does. We
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  Speaker 1: all despise her hate at a great price. We have
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  Speaker 1: bought and won the right to such contempt with language
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  Speaker 1: of this kind. Pluronian Acmon, provoking Venus further than before,
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  Speaker 1: revived her former anger. His fierce words were then approv'd
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  Speaker 1: of by a few, while we the greater number of
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  Speaker 1: his real friends, rebuked the words of Acmon. And while
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  Speaker 1: he prepared to answer us, his voice and even the
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  Speaker 1: passage of his voice were both at once diminished. His
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  Speaker 1: hair changed to feathers, while his neck took a new form.
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  Speaker 1: His breast and back covered themselves with down, and both
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  Speaker 1: his arms grew longer feathers, and his elbows curved into
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  Speaker 1: light wings. Much of each foot was changed to long toes,
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  Speaker 1: and his mouth grew still and hard with pointed horn.
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  Speaker 1: Amazed at his swift change were Lychus, Abas, Nicteus, and Rexenore.
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  Speaker 1: And while they stared, they took his feathered shape. The
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  Speaker 1: larger portion of my army flew from their boat, resounding
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  Speaker 1: all around our oars, with flapping of new fashioned wings.
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  Speaker 1: If you should ask the form of these strange birds,
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  Speaker 1: they were like snowy swans, though not the same. Now
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  Speaker 1: as I Epigean Adernius son in law, I scarcely hold
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  Speaker 1: his town and arid fields, with my small remnant of
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  Speaker 1: trustworthy men. So Diomed made answer. Venulus soon after left
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  Speaker 1: the Caledonian realms, Pussysian bays, and the Messapian fields. Among
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  Speaker 1: those fields he saw a darkened cave in woods and
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  Speaker 1: waving reeds. The half goat pan now lives there, but
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  Speaker 1: in older time the nim possessed it. An Apulian shepherd
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  Speaker 1: scared them from that spot. At first he terrified them
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  Speaker 1: with a sudden fear, but soon in scorn, as they
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  Speaker 1: considered what the intruder was, they danced before him, moving
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  Speaker 1: feet to time. The shepherd clown abused them, capering grotesquely,
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  Speaker 1: imitating graceful steps, and railed at them with coarse and
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  Speaker 1: foolish words. He was not silent till a tree's new
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  Speaker 1: bark had closed his mouth. For now he is a tree,
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  Speaker 1: and the wild olive's fruit took bitterness from him. It
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  Speaker 1: now has the tartness of his tongue. When the ambassadors
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  Speaker 1: returned and told their tale about Aetolian arms refused, the
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  Speaker 1: bold Ratulians carried on the war without those forces, and
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  Speaker 1: much blood was shed. Then turnus with a greedy torch
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  Speaker 1: drew near the Trojan fleet, well built of clo snit pine.
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  Speaker 1: What had escaped the waves now feared the flame. Soon
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  Speaker 1: Moltzebeu was burning pitch and wax and other food of
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  Speaker 1: fire up the high masts. He ran and fed upon
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  Speaker 1: the tight furled sails, and even the benches in the
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  Speaker 1: curved hull smoked. When the Holy Mother of the Gods,
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  Speaker 1: recalling how those same pines were felled on Ida's crest,
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  Speaker 1: filled the wind with a sound of cymbals clashed and
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  Speaker 1: trill of boxward flutes borne through the light air by
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  Speaker 1: her famed lion yoke. She came and said, in vain,
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  Speaker 1: you cast the fire with impious hand, turnus, for I
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  Speaker 1: will save this burning fleet. I will not let the
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  Speaker 1: greedy flame consume trees that wepart in members of my grove.
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  Speaker 1: It thundered while she spoke, and heavy clouds following the
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  Speaker 1: thunder brought a storm of bounding hail. The Astraean brothers
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  Speaker 1: filled both air and swollen water with their rage, and
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  Speaker 1: rushed to battle. With the aid of one of them,
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  Speaker 1: the Kindly Mother broke the ropes which held the Phrygian ships,
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  Speaker 1: and drawing all prow foremost plunged them underneath the wave,
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  Speaker 1: softening quickly in the water's quiet depth. Their wood was
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  Speaker 1: changed to flesh. The curving prows were metamorphosed into human heads,
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  Speaker 1: blades of the oars made feet, The looms were changed
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  Speaker 1: to swimming legs, the sides turned human flanks. Each keel
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  Speaker 1: below the middle of a ship transformed became a spine.
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  Speaker 1: The cordage changed to soft hair, and the sail yards
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  Speaker 1: changed to arms. The azure color of the ships remained
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  Speaker 1: as sea nymphs. In the water, they began to agitate
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  Speaker 1: with virgins sports the waves, which they had always dreaded.
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  Speaker 1: Natives of the rugged mountains, they now so changed. They
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  Speaker 1: swim and dwell in the soft flowing sea with every
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  Speaker 1: influence of births forgot. Never forgetful of the myriad risks
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  Speaker 1: they have endured among the boisterous waves. They often gave
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  Speaker 1: a helping hand to ships tossed in the power of storms, unless,
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  Speaker 1: of course, the ship might carry men of Grecian race.
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  Speaker 1: Never forgetful of the Phrygians in catastrophe. Their hatred were
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  Speaker 1: so great of all Paleschians that they looked with joy
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  Speaker 1: upon the fragments of Ulysses ship, and were delighted when
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  Speaker 1: they saw the ship of King Aucinus growing hard upon
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  Speaker 1: the breakers as his wood was turned to stone. Many
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  Speaker 1: were hopeful that a fleet which had received life strangely
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  Speaker 1: in the forms of nymphs, would cause the chieftain of
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  Speaker 1: the rutely to feel such awe that he would end
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  Speaker 1: their strife. But he continued fighting. And each side had
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  Speaker 1: its own gods, and each had courage, too, which often
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  Speaker 1: can be as potent as the gods. Now they forgot
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  Speaker 1: the kingdom as a dour, forgot the scepter of a
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  Speaker 1: father in law, and even forgot the pure lavina. Their
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  Speaker 1: one thought was to conquer, and they waged war to
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  Speaker 1: prevent the shame of a defeat. But Venus finally beheld
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  Speaker 1: the arms of her victorious son. For Turnus fell and
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  Speaker 1: Ardir fell, a town which while he lived was counted strong.
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  Speaker 1: The Trojan swords destroyed it. All its houses burned and
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  Speaker 1: sank down in the heated embers, and a bird not
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  Speaker 1: known before that time flew upward from a wrecked heap,
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  Speaker 1: beating the dead ashes with its flapping wings. The voye,
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  Speaker 1: the lean pale look the sorrows of a captured city,
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  Speaker 1: even the name of the ruined city. All these things
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  Speaker 1: remain in that bird. Arda's fallen walls are beaten in
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  Speaker 1: lamentation by his wings. The merit of Aenius now had
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  Speaker 1: moved the gods. Even Juno stayed her lasting hate. When
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  Speaker 1: with the state of young Ayulus safe, the hero son
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  Speaker 1: of Scythyria, was prepared for heaven. In a council of
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  Speaker 1: the gods, Venus arose, embraced her father's neck and said,
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  Speaker 1: my father, ever kind to me, I do beseech your
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  Speaker 1: kind indulgence. Now grant dearest to Aeneas, my own son,
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  Speaker 1: and also your own grandson. Grant to him. A god had,
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  Speaker 1: although of lowest class, sufficient if but granted, it is
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  Speaker 1: enough to have look'd once upon the unlovely realme, and
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  Speaker 1: once to have gone across the Stygian streams. The gods assented,
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  Speaker 1: and the Queen of Jove nodded assent with calm, approving face.
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  Speaker 1: The father said, you well deserve the gift, both you
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  Speaker 1: who ask it and the one for whom you ask it.
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  Speaker 1: What you most desire is yours, my daughter, he decreed,
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  Speaker 1: and she rejoiced and thanked her parent. Borne by harnessed doves,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: over and through the light air, she arriv'd safe on
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: Laurentine's shores. Numissius there winds through his tall reeds to
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: the neighboring sea the waters of his stream. And there
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: she willed Numissius should wash perfectly away from her Anaeus
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  Speaker 1: every part that might be subject unto death, and bare
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  Speaker 1: it far with quiet current, into Neptune's realm. The horn'd
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Numissius sat satisfied the will of Venus, and with flowing
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  Speaker 1: waters wash'd from her Aeneus every mortal part, and sprinkled
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  Speaker 1: him so that the essential part of immortality remain'd alone.
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  Speaker 1: And she anointed him thus purified with heavenly essence. And
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  Speaker 1: she touch'd his face with sweetest nectar and ambrosia mixt,
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  Speaker 1: thereby transforming him into a god. The throng of the
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: Quarni later named the new god Indigies, and honored him.
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  Speaker 1: End of Bok fourteen, Part two recording by Kevin Weir, Seoul,
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  Speaker 1: South Korea.