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Metamorphoses

Book 7, Line 40 by Henry T. Riley (English)

In tears, the hero is relating these things to them, as they weep, and, lo! Æacus enters, with his two sons, and his soldiers newly levied; which Cephalus received, furnished with valorous arms.

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