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Metamorphoses

Book 3, Line 20 by Henry T. Riley (English)

But the omnipotent father (for it is not allowed any God to cancel the acts of another Deity) gave him the knowledge of things to come, in recompense for his loss of sight, and alleviated his punishment by this honor.

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