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But with Hera have I not so great indignation nor wrath: seeing it ever is her wont to thwart me, whate'er I have decreed." So said he, and whirlwind-footed Iris arose to bear the message, and departed from the mountains of Ida unto high Olympus. And even at the entrance of the gates of Olympus many-folded she met them and stayed them, and told them the saying of Zeus.
He will not be frightened of 'whirlwind-footed steeds. If his theme is a noble house, with everything handsome about it, Zeus on Olympus dwells in such a home, we shall be told. But your flatterer would use that line about the swineherd's hovel, if he saw a chance of getting anything out of the swineherd.
And instead of short-finned dolphins they shall take to them fleet mares, and reins instead of oars shall they ply, and speed the whirlwind-footed car.
O resting-place august of Alpheos, Ortygia, scion of famous Syracuse, thou that art a couch of Artemis and a sister of Delos , from thee goeth forth a song of sweet words, to set forth the great glory of whirlwind-footed steeds in honour of Aitnaian Zeus. For now the car of Chromios, and Nemea, stir me to yoke to his victorious deeds the melody of a triumphal song.
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