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Metamorphoses

Book 1, Line 15 by Henry T. Riley (English)

When the Father of the Gods , the son of Saturn, beheld this from his loftiest height, he groaned aloud; and recalling to memory the polluted banquet on the table of Lycaon, not yet publicly known, from the crime being but lately committed, he conceives in his mind vast wrath, and such as is worthy of Jove, and calls together a council; no delay detains them, thus summoned.

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Project Gutenberg #21765, The Metamorphoses of Ovid (Henry T. Riley), Book 1 extraction