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Dialogues of the Gods (7.3)

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Apollo

Ah, and you dont know what a glib young chatterbox he is; and, if he has his way, he is to be our errand-boy! Yesterday he challenged Erostripped up his heels somehow, and had

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him on his back in a twinkling; before the applause was over, he had taken the opportunity of a congratulatory hug from Aphrodite to steal her girdle; Zeus had not done laughing before the sceptre was gone. If the thunderbolt had not been too heavy, and very hot, he would have made away with that too.

Hephaestus

The child has some spirit in him, by your account.

Apollo

Spirit, yesand some music, moreover, young as he is.

Hephaestus

How can you tell that?

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