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Metamorphoses

Book 10, Line 36 by Henry T. Riley (English)

“Even Envy herself would have commended his face; for just as the bodies of naked Cupids are painted in a picture, such was he. But that their dress may not make any difference, either give to him or take away from them, the polished quivers .”

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