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Metamorphoses

Book 9, Line 46 by Henry T. Riley (English)

The following morn has disclosed the wide world with the rays of the Sun ; when Venus, and Juno, and Hymenæus, repair to the social fires; and Iphis, now a youth, gains his dear Iänthe.

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