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  Speaker 1: Bookleven, Part two of Avid's Metamorphoses. This is LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 1: by Drew Altchell. Metamorphoses by Publius Ovidius Nazzo, translated by
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  Speaker 1: brooks More bucleven, Part two. Great Pelias's heart was filled
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  Speaker 1: with happiness because of his great son Anthetus's dear wife.
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  Speaker 1: He was blessed in everything except in killing Phocus. The
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  Speaker 1: Trichinian land received him guilty of his brother's blood. When
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  Speaker 1: he fled banished from his native home. There, Saix, who
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  Speaker 1: had the fine countenance of Lucifer, his father, reigned as
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  Speaker 1: king without the cost of violence or blood. Before this time,
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  Speaker 1: his days had always given him joy and comfort, but
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  Speaker 1: all now was changed, for he was mourning a loved
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  Speaker 1: brother's death. Pelias, outwearied with his journey's length, left his
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  Speaker 1: fine flock of sheep and all the herds he had
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  Speaker 1: brought with him. Not far from the walls of that
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  Speaker 1: city where says Long had reigned. He entered with an
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  Speaker 1: olive branch, all swathed in woolen. Philes symbol of good will,
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  Speaker 1: and with a suppliant hand disclosed his name. He told
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  Speaker 1: the monarch who he was, also his father's name, But
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  Speaker 1: he concealed his crime, giving untruthful reasons for his flight,
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  Speaker 1: and begged of refuge, either in town or field. The
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  Speaker 1: King of Trachon answered with kind words, Ah, Pelias, even
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  Speaker 1: the lowest ranks enjoy our bounties and our hospitality, And
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  Speaker 1: you bring with you powers which compel attention and respect.
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  Speaker 1: Your name is so illustrious, and is not Jupiter, your grandsire.
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  Speaker 1: Do not lose your time by such entreaties. Everything you
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  Speaker 1: may desire is yours as soon as known, and all
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  Speaker 1: you see is partly yours. But in how sad a state?
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  Speaker 1: And then he wept. When Pelias and his friends asked
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  Speaker 1: him the reason of his grief, he said, perchance you
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  Speaker 1: deem that bird which lives on prey, which is the
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  Speaker 1: terror of all other birds, had always feathered wings. It
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  Speaker 1: was a man, and now the vigor of its courage
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  Speaker 1: is as great as when all well known by his
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  Speaker 1: man's name Dadelian, bold in wars, and strong and harsh,
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  Speaker 1: and not afraid hazard violence. His father with unequal lucifer
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  Speaker 1: star of mourning, who at dawn brings forth Aurora and
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  Speaker 1: withdraws the last of all the shining stars of heaven.
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  Speaker 1: My brother, named Dadelian, son of that great star, was
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  Speaker 1: fond of cruel warfare, while I cherished peace and loved
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  Speaker 1: the quiet of my married life. This brother, powerful in
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  Speaker 1: the art of war, subdued strong kings and nations, and
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  Speaker 1: tis he transformed from manhood, now a bird of prey
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  Speaker 1: that so relentlessly pursues the doves, known as the pride
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  Speaker 1: of thisby's citizens. My brother had a daughter, Cayone so
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  Speaker 1: beautiful she pleased a thousand men, And when she had
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  Speaker 1: reached the marriageable age of twice seven years, it happened
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  Speaker 1: by some chance that Phoebus, the son of Maya, who
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  Speaker 1: returned one from his Delphi the other from Silini's heights,
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  Speaker 1: beheld this lovely maid, both at the same time, and
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  Speaker 1: were both inflamed with passion. Phoebus waited till the night
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  Speaker 1: hermes could not endure delay, and with the magic of
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  Speaker 1: his wand that causes sleep, he touched the virgin's face,
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  Speaker 1: and instantly, as if entranced, she lay there fast asleep
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  Speaker 1: and suffered violence from the ardent God. When knight bespangled
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  Speaker 1: the wide heaven with stars, Phoebus became an aged crone
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  Speaker 1: and gained the joy he had deferred until that hour,
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  Speaker 1: when her mature womb had completed time. Autolocus was born,
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  Speaker 1: a crafty son who certainly inherited the skill of wingfoot Mercury,
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  Speaker 1: his artful sire, notorious now for every kind of theft.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, Autoclcus, with Mercury's craft, loved to make white
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  Speaker 1: of black and black of white. But Phoebus child, for Caione,
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  Speaker 1: bore twins with named Philammon, like his sire, well known
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  Speaker 1: to all men for the beauty of his song and
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  Speaker 1: famous for his handling of the lyre. What benefit in
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  Speaker 1: life did she obtain because she pleased to gods and
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  Speaker 1: bore such twins? Was she blessed by good fortune? Then?
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  Speaker 1: Because she was the daughter of a valiant father, and
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  Speaker 1: even the grand child of the Morning Star. Can glory
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  Speaker 1: be a curse? Often it is, and surely it was
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  Speaker 1: so for Caone. It was a prejudice that harmed her
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  Speaker 1: days because she vaunted that she did not surpass Diana's
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  Speaker 1: beauty and decried her charms. The goddess in hot anger
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  Speaker 1: answered her sarcastically. If my face cannot give satisfaction, let
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  Speaker 1: me try my deeds without delay. Diana bent her bow,
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  Speaker 1: and from the string and arrow swiftly aflu and pierced
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  Speaker 1: the vaunting tongue of Chaone. Her tongue was silenced, and
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  Speaker 1: she tried in vain to speak or make a sound.
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  Speaker 1: And while she tried, her life departed, with the flowing
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  Speaker 1: blood embracing her. I shared her father's grief. I spoke
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  Speaker 1: consoling words to my dear brother. He heard them as
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  Speaker 1: a cliff might hear the sea, and he lamented bitterly
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  Speaker 1: the loss of his dear daughter snatched away from him. Ah.
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  Speaker 1: When he saw her burning, he was filled with such
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  Speaker 1: an uncontrolled despair. He rushed four times to leap upon
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  Speaker 1: the blazing pyre. And after he had been four times repulsed,
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  Speaker 1: he to me, ran beyond the speed of any human being.
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  Speaker 1: You would think his feet had taken wings. He left
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  Speaker 1: us far behind, and swift in his desire for death,
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  Speaker 1: he stood at last upon par Nassa's sight. Apollo pitied him,
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  Speaker 1: and when de Delian leaped over the steep cliff, Paulo's
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  Speaker 1: power transformed him to a bird. Slender toes gave crooked claws.
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  Speaker 1: His former courage still remains, with strength greater than usual.
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  Speaker 1: In birds, he changed to a fierce hawk, cruel to all,
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  Speaker 1: and his rage on other birds. Grieving himself, he is
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  Speaker 1: a cause of grief to all his kind. Well. Sex,
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  Speaker 1: the royal son of Lucifer, told these great wonders of
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  Speaker 1: his brother's life Onator, who had watched the while those
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  Speaker 1: herds which Pelleas had assigned to him, ran up with
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  Speaker 1: panting speed, and cried out as he ran Pelias, Pelias,
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  Speaker 1: I bring you dreadful news. Pelias asked him to tell
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  Speaker 1: what had gone wrong, and with King Saix, he listened
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  Speaker 1: in suspense. I drove the weary bullocks to the shore
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  Speaker 1: onatorb then began about the time when the high burning
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  Speaker 1: sun and middle course could look back on as much
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  Speaker 1: as might be seen remaining, And some cattle that had
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  Speaker 1: then bent their knees on yellow sand, and as they
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  Speaker 1: lay might view the expanse of water stretched beyond. Some
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  Speaker 1: with slow steps were wandering here and there, and others
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  Speaker 1: swimming stretched their lofty necks above the waves. A temple
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  Speaker 1: near that sea was fair to view, although twas not
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  Speaker 1: adorned with gold nor marble. It was richly made of
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  Speaker 1: beams and shaded with an ancient grove. Sailor, while he
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  Speaker 1: dried his nets upon the shore nearby, declared that aged
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  Speaker 1: Nereus possessed it with his nerids, as the gods who
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  Speaker 1: ruled the neighboring waters. Very near it is a marsh
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  Speaker 1: made by the encroaching waves, all thickly covered with low
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  Speaker 1: willow trees. From there a loud, uncanny crashing sound alarms
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  Speaker 1: the neighborhood. A monster wolf, all stained with mud, he
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  Speaker 1: breaks forth from the marsh, his thundering jaws thick covered
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  Speaker 1: with vile foam and clotted blood, his fierce eyes flashing
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  Speaker 1: flames of crimson. And though he was raging both with
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  Speaker 1: fury and with hunger, the true cause of his fierce
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  Speaker 1: passions was ferocity. He never paused to sate his ravenous
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  Speaker 1: hunger with the first cattle that he fell upon, but
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  Speaker 1: mangled the whole herd as if it wore, And some
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  Speaker 1: of us, while we defended them, were wounded with his
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  Speaker 1: fatal bite and killed. The shore and nearest waves were
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  Speaker 1: red with blood, and marshy fens were filled with mournful sounds.
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  Speaker 1: The longings of our cattle. This delay is dangerous. We
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  Speaker 1: must not hesitate. We must unite before all is destroyed.
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  Speaker 1: Take up your arms, arm and unit, I say, and
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  Speaker 1: bear our weapons for the cause of right. So spoke
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  Speaker 1: the countryman. And yet the loss had no effect on Pelias,
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  Speaker 1: though severe, for he, remembering his red crime, believed that
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  Speaker 1: Nerid had given him that loss a just misfortune, as
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  Speaker 1: an offering to the departed. Focus After this, King sayex
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  Speaker 1: while he put his armor on, ordered his men to
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  Speaker 1: arm themselves with their best weapons, and to follow his command.
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  Speaker 1: But his fond wife, Helsione, a crouse by such a tumult,
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  Speaker 1: ran to him in haste, in such haste that her
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  Speaker 1: hair was still unfinished, and such as had been done,
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  Speaker 1: she threw in wild disorder. Clinging to the neck of
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  Speaker 1: her loved husband, she entreated him with the words in
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  Speaker 1: tears to send his men along, but keep himself at home,
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  Speaker 1: and so to save two lives in one. But Pelleas said, O, Queen,
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  Speaker 1: tis sweet and commendable in you to fear, but needless,
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  Speaker 1: though you promised generous aid, My hope lies not in
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  Speaker 1: fighting with the beast. I must appease a goddess of
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  Speaker 1: the sea, and the divinity of ocean must be properly adored.
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  Speaker 1: A lofty tower is near there, and upon its extreme
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  Speaker 1: height a signal fire is burning night and day, known
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  Speaker 1: to the grateful ships. They all went there, and from
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  Speaker 1: its summit day beheld with sighs. The mangled cattle scattered
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  Speaker 1: on the shore, and saw the ravager among the herd,
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  Speaker 1: his blood stained jaws and long hair dripping blood. Then
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  Speaker 1: Peleas stretched his arms out towards the sea, and he
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  Speaker 1: implored the azure Samanthe to lay aside her wrath and
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  Speaker 1: give him aid. But she was deaf to any word
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  Speaker 1: of Pelias entreating her, and would not offer aid till Thetis,
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  Speaker 1: interceding on behalf of her afflicted husband, moved her will.
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  Speaker 1: The monster wolf persisted in his rage even when the
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  Speaker 1: sea nymph bade him turn aside. His keen ferocity increased
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  Speaker 1: by taste of new sweet blood. Till Samanthe, while she
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  Speaker 1: was seizing the last mangled haifher's neck, transformed him to
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  Speaker 1: hard marble. Every part of that ferocious monster's shape remained,
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  Speaker 1: but it was changed to marble colored stone, which showed
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  Speaker 1: the monster with no more than a wolf and should
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  Speaker 1: no longer be a cause of fear. But still the
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  Speaker 1: guiding fates did not permit the banished Pelias to continue
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  Speaker 1: there in his land, governed by the friendly king. A
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  Speaker 1: wandering exile, he proceeded north into Magnesia, and was purified
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  Speaker 1: of guilt by King Acastus of that land. End of bogileven,
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  Speaker 1: Part two,