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Metamorphoses

Book 10, Line 18 by Henry T. Riley (English)

“While she is hesitating into what she shall change them, she turns her eyes towards their horns, and is put in mind that those may be left to them; and then she transforms their huge limbs into those of fierce bulls.

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