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Metamorphoses

Book 2, Line 3 by Henry T. Riley (English)

Then the Sun, from the midst of this place, with those eyes with which he beholds all things, sees the young man struck with fear at the novelty of these things, and says, “What is the occasion of thy journey hither ? What dost thou seek, Phaëton, in this my palace, a son not to be denied by his parent?”

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Project Gutenberg #21765, The Metamorphoses of Ovid (Henry T. Riley), Book 2 extraction