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Metamorphoses
Book 10, Line 13 by Henry T. Riley (English)
“Phœbus would have placed thee too, descendant of Amycla, in the heavens, if the stern Fates had given him time to place thee there. Still, so far as is possible, thou art immortal; and as oft as the spring drives away the winter, and the Ram succeeds the watery Fish, so often dost thou spring up and blossom upon the green turf. Thee, beyond all others, did my father love, and Delphi, situate in the middle of the earth, was without its guardian Deity , while the God was frequenting the Eurotas, and the unfortified Sparta; and neither his lyre nor his arrows were held in esteem by him .
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