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Theogony

Book 1, Line 18 by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (English)

(ll. 207-210) But these sons whom he begot himself great Heaven used to call Titans (Strainers) in reproach, for he said that they strained and did presumptuously a fearful deed, and that vengeance for it would come afterwards.

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