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Metamorphoses
Book 8, Line 7 by Henry T. Riley (English)
Scarce has she said this, when she leaps into the waves, and follows the ships, Cupid giving her strength, and she hangs, an unwelcome companion, to the Gnossian ship. When her father beholds her, (for now he is hovering in the air, and he has lately been made a sea eagle, with tawny wings), he is going to tear her in pieces with his crooked beak. Through fear she quits the stern; but the light air seems to support her as she is falling, that she may not touch the sea. It is feathers that support her . With feathers, being changed into a bird, she is called Ciris; and this name does she obtain from cutting off the lock.
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