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To highest honour did they beget her, crooked-counselled Cronos and Mother Rheia; and Zeus of imperishable counsel made her his chaste and duteous wife. But into Aphrodite herself Zeus sent sweet desire, to lie in the arms of a mortal man.
But Leto, for nine days and nine nights continually was pierced with pangs of child-birth beyond all hope. With her were all the Goddesses, the goodliest, Dione and Rheia, and Ichnaean Themis, and Amphitrite of the moaning sea, and the other deathless ones save white-armed Hera. Alone she wotted not of it, Eilithyia, the helper in difficult travail.
So spake she, and Hyperionides answered her: "Daughter of fair-tressed Rheia, Queen Demeter, thou shalt know it; for greatly do I pity and revere thee in thy sorrow for thy slim-ankled child.
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