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Rh, and energy, though I am not present. For the proverb says:

And there is a saying:

And if you go, it is as if I went myself. Because, you

And again:

"Depart then, dear friend. And may the office of envoy prove a second guardian angel to you." So Victory departed and espied the elephant-king in the act of returning to the lake. He was surrounded by thousands of lordly elephants, whose ears, like flowering branches, were swaying in a dignified dance. His body was dappled with masses of pollen from his couch made of twigs from the tips of branches of flowering cassia trees; so that he seemed a laden cloud with many clinging lightning-flashes. His trumpeting was as deep toned and awe inspiring as the clash of