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414 Dwellers in land hard by the Æthiops' home.

Haply, if armed with bows, I you had deemed

Unlorded flesh-devouring Amazons.

Instructed, I shall better understand

How ye descent and race from Argos claim.

They say that Io, in this Argive land,

Of Hera's temple bare of yore the keys.

True, certes;—widely the report prevails.—

Runs not the tale that Zeus a mortal loved?

Ay, and with dalliance not from Hera veiled.

How ended then these royal jealousies?

The goddess to a heifer changed the maid.

Zeus surely ne'er would touch a fair-horned heifer.

In fashion of a bull they say he came.

What further wrought the mighty spouse of Zeus?