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Metamorphoses

Book 7, Line 17 by Henry T. Riley (English)

The city, too, of Eurypylus, in which the Coan matrons wore horns, at the time when the herd of Hercules departed thence ; Phœbean Rhodes also, and the Ialysian Telchines, whose eyes corrupting all things by the very looking upon them, Jupiter utterly hating, thrust beneath the waves of his brother. She passed, too, over the Cartheian walls of ancient Cea, where her father Alcidamas was destined to wonder that a gentle dove could arise from the body of his daughter.

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