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Odyssey

Book 8, Line 333 by Samuel Butler (English)

Thus did they converse, but lord Apollo said to Hermes, "Messenger Hermes, giver of good things, you would not care how strong the chains were, would you, if you could sleep with Aphrodite?"

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