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Metamorphoses

Book 9, Line 1 by Henry T. Riley (English)

Theseus, the Neptunian hero, inquires what is the cause of his sighing, and of his forehead being mutilated; when thus begins the Calydonian river, having his unadorned hair crowned with reeds:

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