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Hymn 5 to Aphrodite (130-140)

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while I am now come to you: for unbending necessity is upon me. But I beseech you by Zeus and by your noble parents for no base folk could get such a son as you take me now, stainless and unproved in love, and show me to your father and careful mother
and to your brothers sprung from the same stock. I shall be no ill-liking daughter for them, but a likely. Moreover, send a messenger quickly to the swift-horsed Phrygians, to tell my father and my sorrowing mother; and they will send you gold in plenty and woven stuffs, many splendid gifts;
take these as bride-piece. So do, and then prepare the sweet marriage that is honorable in the eyes of men and deathless gods.”
When she had so spoken, the goddess put sweet desire in his heart. And Anchises was seized with love, so that he opened his mouth and said:
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