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 He unto Pytho sent, and to Dodona's Sagacious prophets, that he hence might learn Whereby in act or speech to please the gods— Nathless his messengers return'd, announcing Various, and dark, and mystic oracles. At length, an unambiguous answer came To Inachus, which urged him, 'monished him, T' expel me from my home and native land, That so abandon'd, I might wander on To earth's extremest verge: if he refused, It threaten'd that a fire-eyed thunderbolt Should fall from Jove t' exterminate his race. Persuaded by the Loxian prophecies, He drove me forth, and barr'd me from my home He loath, me loath; but Jove's coercive bit Constrain'd him to the act. Immediately Perverted were my human form and mind; And, horned as ye see, and goaded on By pungent insect, with emadden'd leap