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The Judgement of the Goddesses (8)

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but these goddesses are all equally beautiful and I do not know how a man could withdraw his eyes from one and transfer them to another. They are not inclined to come away readily, but wherever one directs them first, they take firm hold and commend what is before them; and if they pass over to something else, they see that this too is beautiful and linger upon it, mastered by what is near. In short, their beauty encompasses and completely enthralls me, and I am distressed that I cannot see with my whole body as Argus did. I think I should pass a becoming judgement if I should give the apple to them all.— Another thing: one of them is Zeus sister and wife,

v.3.p.397
and the other two are his daughters! How, then, could the decision help being hazardous from that point of view also?

HERMES I do not know; but it is impossible to escape carrying out what Zeus has commanded.

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