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Metamorphoses
Book 2, Line 25 by Henry T. Riley (English)
The spouse of the great Thunderer had perceived this some time before, and had put off the severe punishment designed for her , to a proper time. There is now no reason for delay; and now the boy Arcas (that, too, was a grief to Juno) was born of the mistress of her husband . Wherefore, she turned her thoughts, full of resentment, and her eyes upon her , and said, “This thing, forsooth, alone was wanting, thou adulteress, that thou shouldst be pregnant, and that my injury should become notorious by thy labors, and that thereby the disgraceful conduct of my husband , Jupiter, should be openly declared. Thou shalt not go unpunished; for I will spoil that shape of thine, on which thou pridest thyself, and by which thou, mischievous one, dost charm my husband.”
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