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HESIOD, CATALOGUES OF WOMEN

And cloud-gathering Zeus was wroth and smote him, Eëtion, and laid him low with a flaming thunderbolt, because he sought to lay hands upon rich-haired Demeter. But Dardanus came to the coast of the mainland—from him Erichthonius and thereafter Tros were sprung, and Ilus, and Assaracus, and godlike Ganymedes,—when he had left holy Samothrace in his many-benched ship.

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Cleopatra...the daughter of...But an eagle caught up Ganymedes for Zeus because he vied with the immortals in beauty...rich-tressed Diomede; and she bare Hyacinthus, the blameless one and strong...whom, on a time Phoebus himself slew unwittinyly with a ruthless disk...

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