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Aegis-bearing Zeus has a design for each occasion, and mortals find this hard to comprehend.
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And she conceived and bore to Zeus, who delights in the thunderbolt, two sons, Magnes and Macedon, rejoicing in horses, who dwell round about Pieria and Olympus.
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For full indeed is earth of woes, and full the sea; and in the day as well as night diseases unbidden haunt mankind, silently bearing ills to men, for all-wise Zeus hath taken from them their voice. So utterly impossible is it to escape the will of Zeus.
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And Zeus will destroy this race of mortal men too, when they, at their birth, have grey hair on their temples.
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