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... race . Many of her suitors had perished in the contest , when Hippomenes offered himself ; during the race , he dropped , at intervals , three golden apples from the garden of the Hesperides , which Atalanta stopping to pick up , he ...
... race . Many of her suitors had perished in the contest , when Hippomenes offered himself ; during the race , he dropped , at intervals , three golden apples from the garden of the Hesperides , which Atalanta stopping to pick up , he ...
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... race or blood . Begin with me , my pipe , Mæ- nalian strains . Relentless Love taught the mother " to stain her hands in her own children's blood ; a cruel mother too thou wast : whether more cruel was the mother or more impious the boy ...
... race or blood . Begin with me , my pipe , Mæ- nalian strains . Relentless Love taught the mother " to stain her hands in her own children's blood ; a cruel mother too thou wast : whether more cruel was the mother or more impious the boy ...
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... race , sprang up . Come then , let your sturdy steers forthwith turn up a soil that is rich for the first month of the year ; and let the dusty summer bake the scattered clods with mature suns . But , if the land be not fertile , it ...
... race , sprang up . Come then , let your sturdy steers forthwith turn up a soil that is rich for the first month of the year ; and let the dusty summer bake the scattered clods with mature suns . But , if the land be not fertile , it ...
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... race of men , sons of Cœlus and Terra : they were Vulcan's workmen in fabricating the thunderbolts of Jupiter , and were represented having only one eye in the middle of their forehead . 65 Eridanus , called afterwards Padus , ( the Po ...
... race of men , sons of Cœlus and Terra : they were Vulcan's workmen in fabricating the thunderbolts of Jupiter , and were represented having only one eye in the middle of their forehead . 65 Eridanus , called afterwards Padus , ( the Po ...
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... race . Fields of a loose crumbling soil are best ; this effect the winds and cold frosts produce , and the sturdy delver , close plying his acres , tossed and turned upside down . But those men , whom not any vigilance escapes , first ...
... race . Fields of a loose crumbling soil are best ; this effect the winds and cold frosts produce , and the sturdy delver , close plying his acres , tossed and turned upside down . But those men , whom not any vigilance escapes , first ...
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