<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns:py="http://codespeak.net/lxml/objectify/pytype" py:pytype="TREE"><text><body><div type="translation" n="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0020.tlg001.perseus-eng2" xml:lang="eng"><l n="200">and Philommedes<note resp="Loeb" anchored="true">“Member-loving”: the title is perhaps
                      only a perversion of the regular<foreign xml:lang="grc">φιλομειδής</foreign>(laughter-loving).</note>
                              because she sprang from the members. And with her went Eros, and
                              comely Desire followed her at her birth at the first and as she went
                              into the assembly of the gods. This honor she has from the beginning,
                              and this is the portion allotted to her amongst men and undying
                                   gods,—</l><l n="205">the
                              whisperings of maidens and smiles and deceits with sweet delight and
                              love and graciousness.
                    

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                          But these sons whom he begot himself great Heaven used to call Titans
                              (Strainers) in reproach, for he said that they strained and
                              did presumptuously</l><l n="210">a fearful
                              deed, and that vengeance for it would come afterwards. And Night bore
                              hateful Doom and black Fate and Death, and she bore Sleep and the
                              tribe of Dreams.</l><l n="214">And again the
                              goddess murky Night, though she lay with none,</l><l n="213">bare Blame and painful Woe,</l></div></body></text></TEI>