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Metamorphoses
Book 2, Line 30 by Henry T. Riley (English)
There was no one more beauteous in all Hæmonia than Larissæan Coronis. At least, she pleased thee, Delphian God , as long as she continued chaste, or was not the object of remark. But the bird of Phœbus found out her infidelity; and the inexorable informer winged his way to his master, that he might disclose the hidden offence. Him the prattling crow follows, with flapping wings, to make all inquiries of him. And having heard the occasion of his journey, she says, “Thou art going on a fruitless errand; do not despise the presages of my voice.”
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