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Stories from Plato and other classic writers : Hesiod, Homer, Aristophanes, Ovid, Catullus, and Pliny (1896)

Burt, Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth), 1850-1918 · Boston : Ginn & Company · leaf 108

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e earthwhere lived dread Pluto and hisbride, to get a box of beautys oint-ment. This was a great task butPsyche took the box back to Venusand sweetly opened it for her, thatthe goddess might become morebeautiful than ever. But the oint-ment had such a powerful odor thatPsyche fainted and fell to… … CUPID. she could become as beautiful asPsyche. She had not now cause tobe jealous any longer. So she toldCui)id not to shun Psyche anymore, and their marriage was 96 STORIES FROM PLATO celebrated in the presence of thegods with great rejoicings. Roses were scattered before themand a rose-tree grew…

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