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Metamorphoses

Book 1, Line 19 by Henry T. Riley (English)

“He, indeed, (dismiss your cares) has suffered dire punishment; but what was the offence and what the retribution, I will inform you. The report of the iniquity of the age had reached my ears; wishing to find this not to be the truth, I descended from the top of Olympus, and, a God in a human shape, I surveyed the earth. ’Twere an endless task to enumerate how great an amount of guilt was everywhere discovered; the report itself was below the truth.”

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