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or swift Triton’s queen, or the Rhamnusian virgin, in person did exhort armed bodies of men. But after the earth was infected with heinous crime, and each one banished justice from their grasping mind, and brothers steeped their hands in fraternal blood,
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the son ceased grieving over departed parents, the sire craved for the funeral rites of his first-born that freely he might take of the flower of unwedded step-daughterPrint reads step-dame. Step-mother is an unlikely reading, although the Latin varies., the unholy mother, lying under her unknowing son, did not fear to sully her household gods with dishonor:
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everything licit and lawless commingled with mad infamy turned away from us the just-seeing mind of the gods. Wherefore neither do they deign to appear at such assemblies, nor will they permit themselves to be met in the daylight.
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