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Metamorphoses
Book 3, Line 39 by Henry T. Riley (English)
However, on being wounded, he says, “Give me thy aid, Autonoë, my aunt; let the ghost of Actæon influence thy feelings.” She knows not what Actæon means , and tears away his right hand as he is praying; the other is dragged off by the violence of Ino. The wretched man has now no arms to extend to his mother; but showing his maimed body, with the limbs torn off, he says, “Look at this, my mother!” At the sight Agave howls aloud, and tosses her neck, and shakes her locks in the air; and seizing his head, torn off, with her blood-stained fingers, she cries out, “Ho! my companions, this victory is our work!”
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