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  Speaker 1: Book ten, Part one of Ovid's metamorphoses. This is a
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  Speaker 1: Recording by Schlei for Mullilm Metamorphosies by Publius of Vidiousnesso,
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  Speaker 1: translated by Brooks Moore, Book ten, Part one veiled in
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  Speaker 1: a saffronmentle frudiere unmeasured. After the strange wedding, Hymenn departed
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  Speaker 1: swiftly for Chiconian Land, regardless at not listening to the
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  Speaker 1: voice of tuneful Aupheus. Truly Hymen there was present during
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  Speaker 1: the festivities of Orpheus and Eurydes, but gave no happy omen,
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  Speaker 1: neither hallowed words nor joyful glances, and the torch he
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  Speaker 1: held would only sputter, filled the eyes with a smoke
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  Speaker 1: and call. There was no blade while waving. The result
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  Speaker 1: of that sad wedding proved more terrible than such foreboding fate.
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  Speaker 1: While fru de grass delighted, Naance wandered with the bride,
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  Speaker 1: a serpent struck its venom tooth in a soft ankle,
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  Speaker 1: and she died. After the bird of Rhodope had mourned
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  Speaker 1: and filled the heyes of heaven with the moans of
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  Speaker 1: his lament. Determined also the dark underworld should recognize the
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  Speaker 1: misery of death, he dared descend by the Tenarian gate
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  Speaker 1: down to the gloomy Sticks, and there passed it through pale,
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  Speaker 1: glimmering phantoms and the ghosts escaped from sebulkers, until he
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  Speaker 1: found Pasephony and Pluto, master king of shadow realms, below,
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  Speaker 1: and then began to strike his tuneful liar, to which
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  Speaker 1: he sang, o deities of this dark world beneath the earth,
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  Speaker 1: the shadow underworld, to which all mortals must descend, if
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  Speaker 1: it can be called lawful, and if he will suffer
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  Speaker 1: speech of strict truth, all the winding ways of falsity forbidden.
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  Speaker 1: I come not down here because of curiosity to see
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  Speaker 1: the glooms of tardres, and have no thought to bind
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  Speaker 1: or strangle the free necks of the Medusan monster vile
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  Speaker 1: with snakes. But I have come because my darling wife
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  Speaker 1: stepped on a viper that sent through her vein's death poison,
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  Speaker 1: cutting off for coming years. If able I would bear it,
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  Speaker 1: I do not deny my effort. But the God of
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  Speaker 1: Love has conquered me. A god so kindly known in
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  Speaker 1: all the upper world, we are not sure he can
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  Speaker 1: be known so well in this deep world, but have
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  Speaker 1: good reason to conjecture he is not unknown here. And
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  Speaker 1: if all to report almost that you store your wife
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  Speaker 1: is not a fiction, Love united you the same as
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  Speaker 1: others by this place of fear, this huge avoid, and
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  Speaker 1: these vast and silent realms re knew the life fret
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  Speaker 1: of Eurydes. All things are due to you. And though
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  Speaker 1: on earth it happens we may tarry a short while,
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  Speaker 1: slowly or swiftly, we must go to one abode, and
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  Speaker 1: it will be our final home. Long andternationally you will
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  Speaker 1: possess in questioned mastery of the human race. She also
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  Speaker 1: shall be yours to rule. When the foot of age,
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  Speaker 1: she shall have lived the days of her allotted years.
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  Speaker 1: So I ask of you possession of a few days
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  Speaker 1: as a boon. But if the fades deny to me
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  Speaker 1: this prayer for my true wife, my constant mind must
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  Speaker 1: hold me always so that I cannot return. Due mid
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  Speaker 1: triumph in the death of two while he sang all
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  Speaker 1: his heart set to the sound of his sweet liar,
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  Speaker 1: the bloodless ghosts in themselves were weeping, and the anxious
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  Speaker 1: tentialers stopped clutching at a returned flow of the wave.
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  Speaker 1: Ixion's twisting wheels stood wander bound in Titia's liver for
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  Speaker 1: a wile escaped the vultures and the listening beladies forgot
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  Speaker 1: their seave like bowls. And even you, o Sisyphus, sit
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  Speaker 1: idly on your rock. Then fame declared that conquered by
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  Speaker 1: the song of Orpheus for the first and only time,
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  Speaker 1: the hard cheeks of the fierce yuminities were wet with tears.
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  Speaker 1: Nor could the royal queen nor he who rules a
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  Speaker 1: lower world deny the prayer of Orpheus. So they called
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  Speaker 1: to them Eurydes, who still was held among the new
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  Speaker 1: arriving shades, and she obeyed the call by walking to
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  Speaker 1: them with slow steps, yet hauting from her wound. So
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  Speaker 1: Orpheus then received his wife, and Plato told him he
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  Speaker 1: might now ascend from these avernium veils up to the light.
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  Speaker 1: Was was his Eurydes. But if he turned his eyes
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  Speaker 1: to look at her, the gift of her delivery would
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  Speaker 1: be lost. They picked their way in silence up a
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  Speaker 1: steep and gloomy path of darkness there remained, but lesser
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  Speaker 1: more to climb, till they would touch Earth's a surface. When,
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  Speaker 1: in fear he might again lose her, and anxious for
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  Speaker 1: another look at her, he turned his eyes so he
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  Speaker 1: could gaze upon her. Instantly she slipped away. He stretched
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  Speaker 1: down to her, his despairing arms, eager to rescue her
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  Speaker 1: or feel her form, but could hold nothing save the
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  Speaker 1: yielding air. Dying the second time, she could not say
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  Speaker 1: a word of censure of her husband's thought. Had she
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  Speaker 1: to complain of his great love. Her last word spoken
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  Speaker 1: was farewell, which he could barely hear, and with no
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  Speaker 1: further sound, she fell from him again to Hades. Struck
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  Speaker 1: quite senseless by this double death of his dear wife,
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  Speaker 1: he was as fixed for motion as a frightened one
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  Speaker 1: who saw the triple necks of Cerberus, that dog whose
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  Speaker 1: middle neck was chained. The sight felt him with terror
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  Speaker 1: he had no escape from until petrified. His stone or
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  Speaker 1: lie Gillana's, changed to stone, because he fastened on himself
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  Speaker 1: the guilt of his wife. Oh, unfortunately, thea too boastful
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  Speaker 1: of your beauty. You and he, united ones in love,
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  Speaker 1: are now two stones upon the mountain. Iida moistless springs.
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  Speaker 1: Orpheus implored in vain the fairyman to help him cross
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  Speaker 1: the river sticks again, but was the henied the very
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  Speaker 1: hope of death. Seven days he set upon Death's river bank,
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  Speaker 1: in squalid and misery, and without all food, nourished by grief, anxiety,
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  Speaker 1: and tears, complaining that the gods of Erebus were pitiless.
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  Speaker 1: At last he wandered back until he came to lofty
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  Speaker 1: rhodope enter hamers. Beaten by the strong north wind three times,
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  Speaker 1: the sun completed his full course to watery species, and
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  Speaker 1: in all that time, shunning all women, Orfia still believed
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  Speaker 1: his love pledge was forever, so he kept away from women,
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  Speaker 1: though so many grieved because he took no notice of
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  Speaker 1: their laugh. The only friendship he enjoyed was given to
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  Speaker 1: the young men of Drecy. There was a hill which
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  Speaker 1: rose up to a leather plateau, high and beautiful with
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  Speaker 1: green grass, and there was not any shade for comfort
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  Speaker 1: on the top. And there on that luxuriant grass, the barred,
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  Speaker 1: while heaven inspired, reclined and struck such harmonies on a
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  Speaker 1: sweet live that shade most grateful tooth hill was spread around.
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  Speaker 1: Strong trees came up there the canean oak, the Heliad's poplar,
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  Speaker 1: and the lofty branch deep master tree, the soft linden
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  Speaker 1: and the beach, the brittle hazel and the virgin laurel tree,
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  Speaker 1: the ash for strong spears, the smooth silver fir, the
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  Speaker 1: flegs bent with achns, and the plain the various tinted maple,
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  Speaker 1: and with those the lots in green willows from their streams,
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  Speaker 1: of a cream box and slender ham risks, rich myrtles
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  Speaker 1: of two colours, and the tyne bending with green blue
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  Speaker 1: berries and ye too. The pliant foot at ivy came
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  Speaker 1: along with tendril branching grapevines, and the alm all covered
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  Speaker 1: with twist fines, the mountain pitched trees and army trees
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  Speaker 1: of blushing fruit, the bending palm price after victories, the
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  Speaker 1: bare trunk pine of tufted foliage bristled upon the top
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  Speaker 1: a pleasant sigh, delightful to the mother of the gods.
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  Speaker 1: Since at his deer decyberly exchanged his human form, which
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  Speaker 1: hardened him that tree in all the frong, the cone
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  Speaker 1: shaped sun breast came a tree. Now it was changed
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  Speaker 1: from a dear youth loved by the god who stringed
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  Speaker 1: the lie and bow, For there was at one time
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  Speaker 1: a mighty stack, held sacred by those nymns who haunted
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  Speaker 1: the field's Carthian. His great antlers spread so wide they
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  Speaker 1: gave an ample shade to his own head. Those antlers
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  Speaker 1: shone with gold from a smooth throwed and necklace studded
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  Speaker 1: with a wealth of gems, hung down to his strong shoulders, beautiful,
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  Speaker 1: a silver boss fastened with little thongs played on his forehead,
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  Speaker 1: worn there from his birth and dependance from both ears
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  Speaker 1: of gleaming pearls adorned his hollow temples, free of fear,
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  Speaker 1: and now no longer shy, frequenting homes of men. He knew.
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  Speaker 1: He offered his soft neck even to strangers for their
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  Speaker 1: patting hands. But more than by all others, he was
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  Speaker 1: loved by you, O Siparis's various youth, of all the
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  Speaker 1: latter of sere, it was you who led the pet
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  Speaker 1: stack to fresh pasturage and the waters of the glearest spring.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes he wove bright garlands for his horns, and sometimes,
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  Speaker 1: like a horseman on his back. Now here now there,
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  Speaker 1: you guided his soft mouth with purple reins. It was
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  Speaker 1: upon a summer day at high noon, when the crab
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  Speaker 1: or spreading claws loving the sea shore almost burnt beneath
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  Speaker 1: the sun's hot, burning rays. And the pat Stag was
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  Speaker 1: then reclining on the grassy earth, and wearied of all action,
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  Speaker 1: found relief under the cool shade of the forest trees.
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  Speaker 1: That as he lay there, Sir Paris's pierced him was
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  Speaker 1: a javelin, And although it was quite accidental, when the
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  Speaker 1: shocked youth saw his loved stag dying from the cruel wound,
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  Speaker 1: he could not bear it and resolved on death. What
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  Speaker 1: did not Phoebe say to comfort him? He cautioned him
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  Speaker 1: to halt his grievance check consistent with the cause. But
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  Speaker 1: still the lad lamented, and with groans implored the gods
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  Speaker 1: that he might mourn for ever his life was exhausted
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  Speaker 1: by long weeping. Now his limbs began to take a
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  Speaker 1: green tint, and his hair, which overhung his snow white brow,
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  Speaker 1: turned up into a bristling crest, and he became a
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  Speaker 1: stiff tree with his slender top, and pointed up to
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  Speaker 1: the starry heavens, and the guard, groaning with sorrow, said
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  Speaker 1: you shall be mourned sincerely by me surely as you
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  Speaker 1: mourn for others, and forever you shall stand in grieve
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  Speaker 1: where others grieve. Such was a grove by orphe is
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  Speaker 1: drawn together, and he sat rounded by sumbat animals and
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  Speaker 1: many strange birds. When he tried the courts by touching
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  Speaker 1: Wish's thumb, and was convinced if the notes were all
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  Speaker 1: in harmony, although at you intervarious melody, he raised his
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  Speaker 1: voice and sang, Oh, my loved mother, muse from Jove
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  Speaker 1: in spy my song for all things yield to the
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  Speaker 1: unequaled sway of Jove. Oh, I have sung so often
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  Speaker 1: Jupiter's great power before this day, and in wilder strain,
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  Speaker 1: I've sung the giants and victorious balls hurled on fully
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  Speaker 1: grained plains. But now I need the gentler touch, For
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  Speaker 1: I would sing boys, the favorites of gods, and even
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  Speaker 1: of maids who had to pay the penalty of wrong.
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  Speaker 1: The king of all the gods, once burnt with love
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  Speaker 1: for Ganymede of Phrigia, he found a shade more pleasing
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  Speaker 1: even than his own. Jove would not take the form
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  Speaker 1: of any bird except the eagles, able to sustain the
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  Speaker 1: weight of his own thunderbolts without delay, Jove on fictitious
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  Speaker 1: eagle wings, stole and flew off with that loved Jojian boy,
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  Speaker 1: who even to this day, against the will of Juno
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  Speaker 1: mingles nectar and the cups of his protector, Mighty Jupiter.
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  Speaker 1: You also, Hyacinthus, would have been set in the sky
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  Speaker 1: the phoebus had been given time, which the cruel fads
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  Speaker 1: denied for you. But in a way you are immortal too,
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  Speaker 1: though you have died. Always, when warm spring drives winter
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  Speaker 1: out and aries the ram succeed to piecies watery fish,
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  Speaker 1: you rise and blossom on the green turf. And the
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  Speaker 1: love my father had for you was deeper than he
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  Speaker 1: felt for others. Delphy's center of the world had no
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  Speaker 1: presiding guardian, while the gods regranted the euratars, and the
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  Speaker 1: land of Sparta never fortified with walls, His if thither
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  Speaker 1: and his bow no longer fill his eager mind. And now,
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  Speaker 1: without a thought of dignity, he carried nets and held
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  Speaker 1: the docks in liege, and did not hesitate to go
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  Speaker 1: with Hyacinthus on the rough, steep mountain ridges. And by
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  Speaker 1: all such associations his love was increased. Now Titan was
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  Speaker 1: about midway betwixt the coming and banished night, and stood
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  Speaker 1: at equal distant from those two extremes. Then, when the
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  Speaker 1: youth and phoebes were well stripped and gleaming with rich
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  Speaker 1: olive oil, they tried a friendly contest with a discus.
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  Speaker 1: Phoever's well poised scented a whirl through air and left
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  Speaker 1: the clouds beyond with his broad weight, from which at
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  Speaker 1: length it fell down to the earth, a certain evidence
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  Speaker 1: of strength and skill. Heedless of danger, Hyacinthus rushed for
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  Speaker 1: eager glory of the game, resolved to get the discus,
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  Speaker 1: but it bounded back from of the hard earth, and
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  Speaker 1: struck full against your face, Oh, Hyacinthus, deadly pale, the
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  Speaker 1: god's face went as pallid as a boy's. With care
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  Speaker 1: he lifted the sad, huddled form. The kind God tries
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  Speaker 1: to warn you back to life, and next endeavors to
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  Speaker 1: attend your wound and stay your parting soul with healing herbs.
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  Speaker 1: His skill has no advantage, for the wound is pasted
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  Speaker 1: all art of cure, as if someone, when in a garden,
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  Speaker 1: breaks of violets, poppies, or lilies hung from golden stems,
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  Speaker 1: then drooping, they must hang their wizard head and gazed
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  Speaker 1: down towards the earth beneath them. So the dying boy's
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  Speaker 1: face droopes, and his bent neck, a burden to itself,
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  Speaker 1: falls back upon the shoulder. You are fallen in your prime,
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  Speaker 1: defrauded of your youth, Oh Hyacinths, moaned Apollo. I can
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  Speaker 1: see in your sad wound my own guilt, and you
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  Speaker 1: are my cause of grief and self reproach. My own
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  Speaker 1: hand gave you death unmerited. I only can be charged
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  Speaker 1: with your destruction. What have I done wrong? Cannot be
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  Speaker 1: called a fool to play with you? Should loving you
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  Speaker 1: be called a foolt And oh that I might now
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  Speaker 1: give up my life for you, or die with you.
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  Speaker 1: But since our destinies prevent us, you shall always be
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  Speaker 1: with me, and you shall dwell upon my care filled lips.
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  Speaker 1: The lies struck by my hand, and my drue songs
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  Speaker 1: will always celebrate you. You flower, You shall arise with
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  Speaker 1: markings on your petals close imitation of my constant moans.
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  Speaker 1: And there shall come another to be linked with this
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  Speaker 1: new flower, A valiant hero shall be known by the
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  Speaker 1: same marks upon its petals. And while Phoebe's apollo, saying
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  Speaker 1: these words with his truth telling lips. Behold the blood
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  Speaker 1: of Hyacinths, which had poured out on the ground beside him,
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  Speaker 1: and there stained. The grass was changed from blood, and
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  Speaker 1: in its place a flower more beautiful and than Tyrian
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  Speaker 1: dye sprang up. It almost seemed a lily, right, not
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  Speaker 1: that one was purple and the other white. But Phoebus
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  Speaker 1: was not satisfied with this, for it was he who
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  Speaker 1: worked a miracle of his sad words inscribed on flowered leaves,
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  Speaker 1: and these letters ai ai are inscribed on them. And
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  Speaker 1: Sparta certainly is proud to honor Hyacinthus as her son
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  Speaker 1: and his loved fame and ears, and every year they
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  Speaker 1: celebrate his solemn festival. If he should ask a martyrs,
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  Speaker 1: which is rich in metals, how can she rejoice and
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  Speaker 1: take a pride in deeds of her propoetidies, She would
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  Speaker 1: disclaim it and repudiate them all, as well as those
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  Speaker 1: of transformed men whose foreheads were deformed by two rough horns,
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  Speaker 1: from which their name sir asked Hi by their gaits
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  Speaker 1: an altar, and to joe stood, if by chance a
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  Speaker 1: stranger not informed of their dark crimes. Had seen the
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  Speaker 1: horrid altars smeared with blood, he would suppose that suckling
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  Speaker 1: calves and sheep of a martyrs were sacrificed thereon. It was,
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  Speaker 1: in fact the blood of slaughtered guests. Kind hearted Venus,
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  Speaker 1: outraged by such deeds of sacrifice, was ready to desert
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  Speaker 1: his seities and to snake infested plains. But how said
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  Speaker 1: she have their delightful lands together with my well built
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  Speaker 1: cities sinned? What crime have they done? Those inhabitants should
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  Speaker 1: pay the penalty of their own crimes by exile or
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  Speaker 1: by death. Or it may be a middle cause between
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  Speaker 1: exile and death. And what can that be but a
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  Speaker 1: punishment of a changed form. And while she hesitates in
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  Speaker 1: various thoughts of what form they should take, her eyes
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  Speaker 1: by chance observed as their horns, and that decided her.
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  Speaker 1: Such horns could well be on them after any change occurred,
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  Speaker 1: and she transformed to their big and brutal bodies, to
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  Speaker 1: savage bulls. But even after that, the obscene propoetiedies dared
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  Speaker 1: to deny divinity of Venus, for which fold and it
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  Speaker 1: is common fame. They were the first to criminate their
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  Speaker 1: bodies for the wrath of Venus, and so blushing shame
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  Speaker 1: was lost. White blood, and their bad faces grew so fast,
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  Speaker 1: so hard, it was no wonder they were turned, with
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  Speaker 1: small change into hard and lifeless stones. And of Book ten,
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  Speaker 1: Part one,