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LOVERS’ LEGENDS to shame even that of the Muses!" cried Thamyris unthinking, insulting the goddesses. "Oh no, he is mine! I have taken him in my arms and flown him through the sky!" howled Zephyrus in anger. "What if we let the boy decide?" suggested Apollo. The three of them approached Hyacinthus and laid all before him. "Well, which one of us will you keep as lover?" they wanted to know. "Whoever is most able?" replied the youth, a bit put out, unsure whom 88