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Metamorphoses

Book 1, Line 36 by Henry T. Riley (English)

The Delian God , proud of having lately subdued the serpent, had seen him bending the bow and drawing the string, and had said, “What hast thou to do, wanton boy, with gallant arms? Such a burden as that better befits my shoulders; I, who am able to give unerring wounds to the wild beasts, wounds to the enemy, who lately slew with arrows innumerable the swelling Python, that covered so many acres of land with his pestilential belly. Do thou be contented to excite I know not what flames with thy torch; and do not lay claim to praises properly my own.”

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