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Metamorphoses

Book 3, Line 4 by Henry T. Riley (English)

There is no delay; he seizes the Phœnicians (whether they are resorting to their arms or to flight, or whether fear itself is preventing either step ); some he kills with his sting, some with his long folds, some breathed upon by the venom of his baneful poison.

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