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Metamorphoses

Book 4, Line 9 by Henry T. Riley (English)

“Her prayers, however, moved the Gods, and moved their parents. For the color of the fruit, when it has fully ripened, is black; and what was left of them, from the funeral pile, reposed in the same urn.”

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