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Metamorphoses

Book 9, Line 20 by Henry T. Riley (English)

“Her former activity still remains, and her back has not lost its colour; but her shape is different from her former one. Because she had assisted me in labour by a lying mouth, she brings forth from the mouth, and, just as before, she frequents my house.”

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