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  Speaker 1: Book nine, Part three of Avid's Metamorphoses. This is a
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  Speaker 1: Recording by dru Altchell. Metamorphoses by Publius Sovitius Naso, translated
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  Speaker 1: by Brooks Moore, Book nine, Part three. Siane, who was
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  Speaker 1: known to be the daughter of the stream Meander, which,
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  Speaker 1: with many a twist and turn, flows wandering there. Sianae,
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  Speaker 1: said to be indeed most beautiful when known by him,
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  Speaker 1: gave birth to two, a girl called Biblis, who was
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  Speaker 1: lovely and the brother, Countess Twins. Biblis is an example
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  Speaker 1: that the love of every maiden must be within law.
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  Speaker 1: Sees with the passion for her brother, she loved him,
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  Speaker 1: descendant of Apollo, not as sister loves a brother, not
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  Speaker 1: in such a manner as the law of man permits.
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  Speaker 1: At first she thought it surely was not wrong to
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  Speaker 1: kiss him passionately while her arms were thrown around her
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  Speaker 1: brother's neck, and so deceived herself. And as the habit grew,
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  Speaker 1: her sister love degenerated till richly attired. She came to
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  Speaker 1: see her brother with all endeavors to attract his eye,
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  Speaker 1: and anxious to be seen most beautiful, she envied every
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  Speaker 1: woman who appeared of rival beauty, but she did not
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  Speaker 1: know or understand the flame hot in her heart, though
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  Speaker 1: she was agitated when she saw the object of her
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  Speaker 1: swiftly growing love. Now she began to call him lord.
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  Speaker 1: And now she hated to say brother, And she said,
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  Speaker 1: do call me biblis, never call me sister. And yet
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  Speaker 1: while feeling love, so when awake, she does not dwell
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  Speaker 1: upon in pure desire. But when dissolved in the soft
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  Speaker 1: arms of sleep, she sees the very object of her love,
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  Speaker 1: and blushing dreams, she is embraced by him to slumber
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  Speaker 1: has departed. For a time. She lies there silent as
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  Speaker 1: her mind recalls the loved appearance of her lovely dream,
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  Speaker 1: until her wavering heart, in grief, exclaims, what is his
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  Speaker 1: vision of the silent night? Ah, wretched me, I cannot
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  Speaker 1: count it true? And if he were not my own brother,
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  Speaker 1: he why is my fond heart tortured with this dream?
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  Speaker 1: He is so handsome even to envious eyes. It is
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  Speaker 1: not strange. He has filled my fond heart so surely
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  Speaker 1: would be worthy of my love, But it is my misfortune.
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  Speaker 1: I am his own sister. Let me therefore strive awake
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  Speaker 1: to stand with honor, but let sleep return the same
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  Speaker 1: dream often to me. There can be no fear of
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  Speaker 1: any witness to a shade which phantoms my delight, O, Cupid,
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  Speaker 1: swift of love, wing with your mother, and O my
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  Speaker 1: beloved venus wonderful The joys of my experience in the
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  Speaker 1: transport all as if reality sustaining lifted me up to
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  Speaker 1: Elyssian pleasure, while in truth I lay dissolving to my
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  Speaker 1: very marrow. The pleasure was so brief, and knight headlong
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  Speaker 1: sped from me, envious of my coming joys. If I
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  Speaker 1: could change my name and join to you, how good
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  Speaker 1: a daughter I would prove to your dear father, And
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  Speaker 1: how good a son would you be to my father?
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  Speaker 1: If the gods agreed, then everything would be possessed by
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  Speaker 1: us in common. But this must exclude ancestors, for I
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  Speaker 1: should pray compared with mine, yours might be quite superior,
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  Speaker 1: But O my love, some other woman by your love
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  Speaker 1: will be a mother. But because unfortunate my parents are
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  Speaker 1: the same as yours, you must be nothing but a brother. Sorrows, then,
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  Speaker 1: shall be to us in common from this hour? What
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  Speaker 1: have my night born visions signified? What weight have dreams?
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  Speaker 1: Do dreams have any weight? The gods forbid the gods
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  Speaker 1: have sisters. Truth declares. Even Saturn married Ops his own
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  Speaker 1: blood kin o. Sheanus is tethys O of Olympian his juno.
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  Speaker 1: But the gods are so superior in their laws. I
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  Speaker 1: should not measure human custom by the rights established in
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  Speaker 1: the actions of difinities. This passion must be banished from
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  Speaker 1: my heart, or if it cannot be so, I must
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  Speaker 1: pray that I may perish and be laid out dead
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  Speaker 1: upon my couch. So my dear brother there may kiss
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  Speaker 1: my lips. But then he must consent, and my delight
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  Speaker 1: would seem to him A crime tis known. The sons
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  Speaker 1: of Aolas embrace their sisters. But why should I think
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  Speaker 1: of these? Why should I take example from such lives?
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  Speaker 1: Must I do as they did? Far from it. Let
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  Speaker 1: such lawless flames be quenched until I feel no evil
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  Speaker 1: lore for him. Although the pure affection of a sister
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  Speaker 1: may be mine and cherished, if it should have happened
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  Speaker 1: first that my dear brother had loved me, ah, then
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  Speaker 1: I might have yielded love to his desire. Why not
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  Speaker 1: now I myself must woo him, since I could not
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  Speaker 1: have rejected him if he had first wooed me. But
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  Speaker 1: it is possible for me to speak of it with
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  Speaker 1: proper words. Describing such a strange confession. Love will certainly
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  Speaker 1: compel and give me speech. But if shame seal my lips,
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  Speaker 1: then secret flame in a sealed letter may be safely told.
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  Speaker 1: You might have knowledge of my wounded heart, because my pale,
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  Speaker 1: drawn face and downcast eyes so often tearful, and my
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  Speaker 1: sighs without apparent cause have shown it, and my warm
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  Speaker 1: embraces and my frequent kisses much too tender for his sister.
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  Speaker 1: All of this has happened while with agitated heart and
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  Speaker 1: in hot passion, I have tried all ways. I call
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  Speaker 1: upon the gods to witness it that I might force
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  Speaker 1: myself to sanity. And I have struggled wretched nights and
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  Speaker 1: days to overcome the cruelties of love, too dreadful for
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  Speaker 1: a frail girl to endure, for they most surely are
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  Speaker 1: all Cupid's art. I have been overborne and must confess
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  Speaker 1: my passion. While with timid prayers I plead for only
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  Speaker 1: you can save me. You alone may now destroy the
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  Speaker 1: one who loves you best. So you must choose what
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  Speaker 1: will be the result. The one who prays is not
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  Speaker 1: your enemy, but one most closely joined to you. Yet
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  Speaker 1: ask to knit the time more firmly. Let old men
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  Speaker 1: be governed by propriety, and talk of what is right
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  Speaker 1: and wrong, and hold to all the nice distinctions of
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  Speaker 1: strict laws. But love has no fixed law. For those
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  Speaker 1: whose age is ours is heedless and compliant. And we
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  Speaker 1: have not yet discovered what is right or wrong, And
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  Speaker 1: all we should do is to imitate the known example
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  Speaker 1: of the gods. We have no father's harsh rule, and
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  Speaker 1: we have no care for reputation, and no fear that
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  Speaker 1: keeps us from each other. But there may be cause
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  Speaker 1: for fear, and we may hide our stolen love. Because
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  Speaker 1: a sister is at liberty to talk with her dear brother,
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  Speaker 1: quite a part. We may embrace and kiss each other,
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  Speaker 1: though in public what is wanting Pity her whose utmost
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  Speaker 1: love compels her to confess, and let it not be
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  Speaker 1: written on her tomb. Her death was for your sake,
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  Speaker 1: and love denied here. When she dropped the tablet from
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  Speaker 1: her hand, it was so full of fond words which
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  Speaker 1: were doomed to disappointment that the last line traced the edge.
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  Speaker 1: And without thinking of delay, she stamped the shameful letter
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  Speaker 1: with her seal and moistened it with tears. Her tongue
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  Speaker 1: failed her for moisture. Then hot, blushing, she called one
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  Speaker 1: of her attendants, and with timid voice said, coaxing, my
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  Speaker 1: most trusted servant, take these tablets to my And after
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  Speaker 1: a long delay she said, my brother. While she gave
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  Speaker 1: the tablets, they suddenly slipped from her hands and fell.
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  Speaker 1: Although disturbed by this bad omen she still sent the letter,
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  Speaker 1: which the servant found an opportunity to carry off. He
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  Speaker 1: gave the sacred love confession. This her brother, grandson of Aander, read,
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  Speaker 1: but partly, and with sudden passion, threw the tablets from him.
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  Speaker 1: He could barely hold himself from clutching on the throat
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  Speaker 1: of her fear trembling servant. As enraged, he cried, a
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  Speaker 1: cursed pander to forbidden lust, be gone, before the knowledge
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  Speaker 1: of your death is added to this unforeseen disgrace. The
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  Speaker 1: servant fled in terror and told all her brother's actions
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  Speaker 1: and his fierce reply to Biblis. And when she had
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  Speaker 1: heard her love had been repulsed. Her startled face went pale,
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  Speaker 1: and her whole body trembled in the grip of ice chillels. Quickly,
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  Speaker 1: as her mind regained its usual strength, her maddening love returned,
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  Speaker 1: came back with equal force, And while she choked with
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  Speaker 1: her emotion, gasping, she said this, I suffer only from
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  Speaker 1: my folly. Why did I so rashly tell him of
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  Speaker 1: my wounded heart? And why did I so hastily commit
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  Speaker 1: to the tablets? All I should have kept concealed. I
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  Speaker 1: should have edged my way by feeling first obscurely hinting
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  Speaker 1: till I knew his mind and disposition toward me, and
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  Speaker 1: so that my first voyage might get favorable wind. I
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  Speaker 1: should have tested with close reel of sail, and knowing
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  Speaker 1: what the wind was, safely fared. But now with sails
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  Speaker 1: full spread, I have been tossed by unexpected winds, and
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  Speaker 1: so my ship is on the rocks and overwhelmed with
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  Speaker 1: all the power of ocean, I have not the strength
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  Speaker 1: to turn back and recover what is loss. Surely, clear
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  Speaker 1: Omens warned me not to tell my love so soon,
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  Speaker 1: because the tablets fell just when I would have put
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  Speaker 1: them in the hand of my picked servant. Certainly a
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  Speaker 1: sign my hasty hopes were destined to fall down. Is
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  Speaker 1: it not clear I should have changed the day and
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  Speaker 1: even my intention. Rather say, should not the day have
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  Speaker 1: been postponed? Once the God himself gave me unerring signs.
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  Speaker 1: If I had not been so deranged with love, I
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  Speaker 1: should have spoken to him face to face, and with
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  Speaker 1: my own lips have confessed at all. And then my
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  Speaker 1: passion had been seen by him, And as my face
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  Speaker 1: was bathed in tears, I could have told him so
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  Speaker 1: much more than my words engraved on tablets. And while
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  Speaker 1: I was telling him, I could have thrown my arms
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  Speaker 1: around his neck, and if rejected, could have seemed almost
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  Speaker 1: a point of death. As I embraced his feet while prostrate,
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  Speaker 1: even might have begged for life. I could have tried
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  Speaker 1: so many plans, and they together would have won his
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  Speaker 1: stubborn heart. Perhaps my stupid servant, in mistake did not
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  Speaker 1: approach him at a proper time, and even sought an hour.
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  Speaker 1: His mind was full of other things. All this has
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  Speaker 1: harmed my case. There is no other reason. He was
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  Speaker 1: not born of a tigress, and his heart is not
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  Speaker 1: of flint or solid iron, or of adamant, and notes
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  Speaker 1: she laon suckled him. He shall be one to my affection.
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  Speaker 1: And I must attempt again again, nor ever cease, so
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  Speaker 1: long as I have breath. If it were not too
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  Speaker 1: late already to undo what has been done, twere wiser
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  Speaker 1: not begun at all. But since I have begun it,
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  Speaker 1: now is best to end it with success. How can
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  Speaker 1: he help remembering what I dared? Although I should abandon
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  Speaker 1: my design in such a case, because I gave up,
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  Speaker 1: I must be to him weak, fickle minded. Or perhaps
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  Speaker 1: he may believe I tried to tempt him with a snare.
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  Speaker 1: But come what may, he will not think of me
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  Speaker 1: as overcome by some god who inflames and rules the heart.
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  Speaker 1: He surely will believe I was so actuated by my lust.
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  Speaker 1: If I do nothing more, my innocence is gone forever.
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  Speaker 1: I have written him and wooed him also in a
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  Speaker 1: way so rash and unmistakable, that if I should do
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  Speaker 1: nothing more than this, I should be held completely guilty
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  Speaker 1: in my brother's sight. But I have hope and nothing
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  Speaker 1: worse to fear. Then back and forth, she argues, and
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  Speaker 1: so great is her uncertainty. She blames herself for what
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  Speaker 1: she did, and is determined just as surely to succeed.
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  Speaker 1: She tries all arts, but is repeatedly repulsed by him,
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  Speaker 1: until enabled to control her ways. Her brother, in despair,
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  Speaker 1: fled from the shame of her designs, and in another
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  Speaker 1: land he founded a new city. Then, they say, the
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  Speaker 1: wretched daughter of Melitus lost control of reason. She wrenched
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  Speaker 1: from her breast her garments, and quite frantic, beat her
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  Speaker 1: arms and publicly proclaims unhallowed love. Grown desperate, she left
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  Speaker 1: her hated home, her native land, and followed the loved
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  Speaker 1: steps of her departed brother. Just as those crazed by
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  Speaker 1: your Thrysis, son of Semele, the bacchanals of Ismarus aroused
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  Speaker 1: howl at your orgies. So her shrieks were heard by
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  Speaker 1: the shocked women of Bubusus, where the frenzied Biblis howled
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  Speaker 1: across the fields, and so through Carria and through Lycia,
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  Speaker 1: over the mountains Kragus, and beyond the town Limira, and
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  Speaker 1: with the flowing stream Callsanthus, and the ridge where dwelt
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  Speaker 1: Chimera serpentailed in monstrous beasts, fire breathing from its lion
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  Speaker 1: head and neck. She hurried through the forest of that ridge,
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  Speaker 1: and there at last worn out with your pursuit, O Biblis,
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  Speaker 1: you fell prostrate, with your hair spread over the carred ground,
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  Speaker 1: and your wan face buried in fallen leaves. Although the young,
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  Speaker 1: still tender hearted nymphs of le Geles advised her fondly
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  Speaker 1: how to cure her love, and offered comfort to her
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  Speaker 1: heedless heart, and even lifted her in their soft arms.
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  Speaker 1: Without an answer, Bibliss fell from them and clutched the
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  Speaker 1: green herbs with her fingers, while her tears continued to
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  Speaker 1: fall on the grass. They say the weeping Naiads gave
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  Speaker 1: to her a vein of tears, which always flows there
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  Speaker 1: from her sorrows. Nothing better could be done. Immediately, as
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  Speaker 1: drops of pitch dripped forth from the gashed pine, or
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  Speaker 1: stickly bittermen distills out of the rich and heavy earth,
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  Speaker 1: or as the frozen water at the approach of a
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  Speaker 1: soft breathing wind melts in the sun, so Biblous sad
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  Speaker 1: scentant of the sun, dissolving in her own tears, was
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  Speaker 1: there changed into a fountain, which to this day in
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  Speaker 1: all those valleys has no name, but hers and issues
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  Speaker 1: underneath a dark oak tree. The tail this unh holy
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  Speaker 1: passion would perhaps have filled Crete's hundred cities. Then if
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  Speaker 1: Creed had not a wonder of its own to talk of.
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  Speaker 1: In the change of Iphus once there lived at Pistus,
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  Speaker 1: not far from the town of Nossus, a man Ligdus,
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  Speaker 1: not well known, in fact, obscure of humble parentage, whose
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  Speaker 1: income was no greater than his birth. But he was
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  Speaker 1: held trustworthy, and his life had been quite blameless. When
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  Speaker 1: the time drew near his wife should give birth to
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  Speaker 1: a child, he warned her and instructed her with words
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  Speaker 1: we quote, there are two things which I would ask
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  Speaker 1: of Heaven. That you may be delivered with small pain,
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  Speaker 1: and that your child may surely be a boy. Girls
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  Speaker 1: are such trouble fair strength is denied to them. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: may Heaven refuse the thought if chance should cause your
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  Speaker 1: child to be a girl, God's pardon me for having
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  Speaker 1: said the word. We must agree to have her put
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  Speaker 1: to death. And all the time he spoke such dreaded words,
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  Speaker 1: their faces were completely baseathes and tears, not only hers
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  Speaker 1: but also his. While he forced on her that unnatural command.
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  Speaker 1: Ah Telethusa ceaselessly implored her husband to give way to
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  Speaker 1: fortune's cast, but Ligdus held his resolution fixed, and now
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  Speaker 1: the expected time of birth was near. When in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of the night she seemed to see the goddess
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  Speaker 1: Isis standing by her bed in company of serious spirit forms.
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  Speaker 1: Isis had crescented horns upon her forehead, and a bright
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  Speaker 1: garland made of golden grain encircled her fair brow. It
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  Speaker 1: was a crown of freagal beauty. And beside her stood
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  Speaker 1: the dog Anubis and Bubastus. There the sacred dappled APIs,
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  Speaker 1: and the god of silence, with pressed finger on his lips.
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  Speaker 1: The sacred rattles were there, and Osiris, known the constant
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  Speaker 1: object of his worshiper's desire, and there the Egyptian serpent,
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  Speaker 1: whose quick sting gives long, enduring sleep. She seemed to
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  Speaker 1: see them all, and even to hear the God say
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  Speaker 1: to her, Oh, teleth Usa, one of my remembered worshippers,
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  Speaker 1: forget your grief. Your husband's orders need not be obeyed.
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  Speaker 1: And when Lucina has delivered, you save and bring up
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  Speaker 1: your child, if either boy or girl. I am the
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  Speaker 1: goddess who brings help to all who call upon me.
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  Speaker 1: And you shall never complain of me that you adored
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  Speaker 1: a thankless deity. So she advised by vision, were the
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  Speaker 1: sad mother and left her. The Cretan woman joyfully arose
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  Speaker 1: from her sad bed, and supplicating, raised ecstatic hands up
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  Speaker 1: towards the listening stars and prayed to them her vision
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  Speaker 1: might come true soon. When her pains gave birth, the
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  Speaker 1: mother knew her infant was a girl. The father had
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  Speaker 1: no knowledge of it, as he was not there. Intending
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  Speaker 1: to deceive, the mother said, feed the dear boy. All
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  Speaker 1: things had favored her deceit. No one except the trusted
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  Speaker 1: nurse knew of it, and the father paid his vow
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  Speaker 1: and named the child after its grandfather, whose name was
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  Speaker 1: honored Athus. Hearing it so called, the mother could not
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  Speaker 1: but rejoice because her child was given the name of
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  Speaker 1: common gender, and she could use it with no more deceit.
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  Speaker 1: She took good care to dress it as a boy,
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  Speaker 1: and either as a boy or girl, its face must
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  Speaker 1: always be accounted lovable. And so she grew ten years
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  Speaker 1: and three had gone. And then your father found a
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  Speaker 1: bride for you, Oithus promised you should take to wife
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  Speaker 1: the golden haired Ianthe praised by all the women of
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  Speaker 1: Faestus for the dower of her unequal beauty, and well
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  Speaker 1: known the daughter of a Cretan named Telestes, of equal
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  Speaker 1: age and equal loveliness. They had received from the same
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  Speaker 1: teachers all instruction in their childish runaments, so unsuspected love
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  Speaker 1: had filled their hearts with equal longing. But how different
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  Speaker 1: Ianthe waits in confidence and hope the ceremonial has agreed upon,
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  Speaker 1: and its quite certain she will wed a man. But
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  Speaker 1: Iphis is in love without one hope of passion's ecstasy,
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  Speaker 1: the thought of which only increased her flame. And she,
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  Speaker 1: a girl, is burnt with passion for another girl. She
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  Speaker 1: hardly can hold back her tears and says, Oh, what
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  Speaker 1: will be the awful, dreaded end with such a monstrous
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  Speaker 1: love compelling me? If the gods should wish to save me,
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  Speaker 1: certainly they should have saved me. But if their desire
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  Speaker 1: was for my ruin, still they should have given some
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  Speaker 1: natural suffering of humanity. The passion for a cow does
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  Speaker 1: not inflame a cow. No mare has ever sought another mare.
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  Speaker 1: The ram inflames that you, and every dough follows a
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  Speaker 1: chosen stag. So also birds are mated, and in all
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  Speaker 1: the animal world, no female ever feels love passion for
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  Speaker 1: another female. Why is it in me? Monstrosities are natural
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  Speaker 1: to crete. The daughter of the Sun there loved the bull.
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  Speaker 1: It was a female's love for the a male. But
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  Speaker 1: my desire is far more mad than hers in strict
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  Speaker 1: regard of truth, For she had hope of love's fulfillment.
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  Speaker 1: She secured the bull by changing herself to a heifer's form,
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  Speaker 1: and in that subtlety, it was the male deceived at last,
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  Speaker 1: though all the subtleties of all the world should be
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  Speaker 1: collected here, If Daedless himself should fly back here upon
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  Speaker 1: his waxen wings, what could he do? What skillful art
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  Speaker 1: of his could change my sex a girl into a boy?
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  Speaker 1: Or could he change ianthee? What a useless thought? Be bold,
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  Speaker 1: take courage, Iphus, and be strong of soul. This hopeless
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  Speaker 1: passion stultifies your heart, So shake it off and hold
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  Speaker 1: your memory down to the clear fact of your birth.
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  Speaker 1: Unless your will provides deception for yourself, do only what
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  Speaker 1: is lawful and confined. Strictly your love within a woman's
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  Speaker 1: right hope of fulfillment can beget true love and hope
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  Speaker 1: keeps it alive, deprived of this hope by nature of
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  Speaker 1: your birth. No guardian keeps you from her dear embrace,
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  Speaker 1: no watchful jealous husband, and she has no cruel father.
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  Speaker 1: She does not deny herself to you. With all that liberty,
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  Speaker 1: you cannot have her for your happy wife, though gods
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  Speaker 1: and men should labor for your wish. None of my
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  Speaker 1: prayers has ever been denied. The willing deities have granted
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  Speaker 1: me whatever should be, and my father helps me to
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  Speaker 1: accomplish everything I plan. She and her father also always help.
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  Speaker 1: But nature is more powerful than all, and only nature
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  Speaker 1: works for my distress. The wedding day already is at hand.
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  Speaker 1: The longed for time is come. I anthees soon will
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  Speaker 1: be mine only, and yet none my own. With water
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  Speaker 1: all around me, I shall thirst. Why must you know,
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  Speaker 1: Goddess of sweet brides? And why should hymen also favor
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  Speaker 1: us when man with woman cannot join in wadlock? But
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  Speaker 1: both And so she closed her lips. The other maiden
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  Speaker 1: flamed with equal love and often prayed for hymen to appear.
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  Speaker 1: But Telethusa, fearing that event, the marriage the giante caneenly sought,
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  Speaker 1: procrastinated causing first delay by some pretended illness, and then
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  Speaker 1: gave pretense of omens and a vision scene sufficient for delay,
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  Speaker 1: until she had exhausted every avenue of excuse, and only
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  Speaker 1: one more day remained before the fateful time it was
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  Speaker 1: so near at hand. Despairing then of finding other cause
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  Speaker 1: which might prevent the fated wedding day, the mother took
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  Speaker 1: the circled filets from her own head and her daughter's head,
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  Speaker 1: and prayed as she embraced the altar, her long hair
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  Speaker 1: spread out upon the flowing breeze, and said, O isis,
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  Speaker 1: Goddess of Peritonium, the merriotic fields Pharos and nile of
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  Speaker 1: seven horns divided, Oh, give help, Goddess of nations, heal
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  Speaker 1: us of our fears. I saw you, God, and your
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  Speaker 1: symbols once. I adored them, all the clashing sounds of
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  Speaker 1: sistra and the tortures of your train, and I took
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  Speaker 1: careful note of your commands for which my daughter lives
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  Speaker 1: to see the sun. And also I have so escaped
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  Speaker 1: from harm. All this is of your counsel and your gift. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: pity both of us, and give us aid. Tears, emphasized
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  Speaker 1: her prayer, the goddess seemed to move. In truth, it
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  Speaker 1: was the altar moved. The firm doors of the temple
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  Speaker 1: even shook, and her horns crescent flashed with gleams of light,
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  Speaker 1: and her loud sistrom rattled noisily, Although not quite free
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  Speaker 1: of all fear, yet pleased by that good omen, gladly,
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  Speaker 1: the mother left the temple with her daughter Iphis, who
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  Speaker 1: beside her walked but with a lengthened stride. Her face
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  Speaker 1: seemed of a darker hue. Her strength seemed greater, and
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  Speaker 1: her features were more stern. Her hair, once long, was
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  Speaker 1: unadorned and short. There is more vigor in her than
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  Speaker 1: she showed in her girl ways. For in the name
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  Speaker 1: of truth, Iphus, who was a girl, is now a man.
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  Speaker 1: Make offerings the temple and rejoice without a fear. They
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  Speaker 1: offer at the shrine, then add a votive tablet on
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  Speaker 1: which this inscription is engraved. These gifts are paid by Iphus,
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  Speaker 1: as a man which has a maid, he vowed to
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  Speaker 1: give the marror's dawn revealed a wide world. On the
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  Speaker 1: day agreed Venus, Juno and Hymen all have met our
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  Speaker 1: happy lovers at the marriage fires, and Iphus a new
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  Speaker 1: Man gained his ianthe end of Book nine, Part three,
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  Speaker 1: according by Drew Altschell,