Saturday, November 6, 2010

Ovid Book Nine

Achelous & Hercules
“My brawn is better than my tongue. You win in speech, but I can beat you with my blows.”

Hercules, Deianira, Nessus
“And Hercules entrusted to the centaur the fair Deianira; she was trembling, pale, afraid of the Evenus and of Nessus.”



Hercules & Deianira
“I must find some scheme, some plan—with speed, while there’s still time—before this stranger has usurped my bed.”

Alcmena
“She came indeed—but had already schemed with cruel Juno: they were both in league against me,”

Iolaus
“The words of Jove persuaded them: no god could now complain; for the exhaustion of old age was plain in Rhadamanthus, Aeacus, and Minos.”

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