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Theogony

Book 1, Line 2 by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (English)

(ll. 26-28) 'Shepherds of the wilderness, wretched things of shame, mere bellies, we know how to speak many false things as though they were true; but we know, when we will, to utter true things.'

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