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Theogony

Book 1, Line 15 by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (English)

(ll. 173-175) So he said: and vast Earth rejoiced greatly in spirit, and set and hid him in an ambush, and put in his hands a jagged sickle, and revealed to him the whole plot.

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