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Do not babble of such things now. Keep war and all battles apart from the immortals. But lend your tongue to the city of Protogeneia, where, by the ordinance of Zeus with the flashing thunderbolt, Pyrrha and Deucalion came down from Parnassus and made their first home, and without the marriage-bed
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they founded a unified race of stone offspring, and the stones gave the people their name Pun on λαὸ’δψ λαοὶ δ᾽, “people”, and λήθοι, “stones.” , Arouse for them a clear-sounding path Reading with Snell and MSS οἶμον for οὖρον, of song; praise wine that is old, but praise the flowers of songs
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that are new. They tell, indeed,
how the strength of the waters overwhelmed the dark earth; but by the skills of Zeus the ebbing tide suddenly drained off the flood. From these were descended your ancestors with their bronze shields,
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young men sprung from the beginning from the stock of the daughters of Iapetus and from the powerful sons of Cronus, always a native line of kings,
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until the ruler of Olympus carried off the daughter of Opus from the land of the Epeians, and lay with her peacefully in the glens of Mount Maenalus, and brought her
to Locrus, so that age would not overtake him and lay the burden of childlessness on him. His bride was carrying in her womb the seed of the greatest god, and the hero rejoiced to see his adopted son, and gave him the same name as his mother’s father, Opus,
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a man beyond words in beauty and fine deeds. Locrus gave him a city and a people to govern,
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and strangers came to him from Argos and Thebes, from Arcadia and Pisa, But among the settlers he chiefly honored the son of Actor
