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Theogony

Book 1, Line 69 by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (English)

(ll. 912-914) Also he came to the bed of all-nourishing Demeter, and she bare white-armed Persephone whom Aidoneus carried off from her mother; but wise Zeus gave her to him.

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