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Theogony

Book 1, Line 40 by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (English)

(ll. 545-547) So said Zeus whose wisdom is everlasting, rebuking him. But wily Prometheus answered him, smiling softly and not forgetting his cunning trick:

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