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Metamorphoses
Book 9, Line 27 by Henry T. Riley (English)
Every God has some one to favour; and their jarring discord is increasing by their various interests, until Jupiter opens his mouth, and says, “O, if you have any regard for me, to what rash steps are you proceeding? Does any one of you seem to himself so powerful as to overcome even the Fates? By the Fates has Iolaüs returned to those years which he has spent; by the Fates ought the sons of Calirrhoë to become young men, and not by ambition or by dint of arms. And do you, too, endure this as well with more contented mind, for even me do the Fates govern; could I but change them, declining years should not be making my son Æacus to bend beneath them ; and Rhadamanthus should have the everlasting flower of age, together with my son , Minos, who is now looked down upon on account of the grievous weight of old age, and does not reign with the dignity with which once he did .”
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