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"And Jove answered, 'Wife, what harm have Priam and Priam's children
done you that you rage so furiously against them, and want to sack
their city? Will nothing do for you but you must eat Priam with his
sons and all the Trojans into the bargain? Have it your own way
then, for I will not quarrel with you--only remember what I tell
you: if at any time I want to sack a city that belongs to any
friend of yours, it will be no use your trying to hinder me, you
will have to let me do it, for I only yield to you now with the
greatest reluctance. If there was one city under the sun which I
respected more than another it was Troy with its king and people.
My altars there have never been without the savour of fat or of
burnt sacrifice and all my dues were paid.'
"'My own favourite cities,' answered Juno, 'are Argos, Sparta, and
Mycenae. Sack them whenever you may be displeased with them. I
shall not make the smallest protest against your doing so. It would
be no use if I did, for you are much stronger than I am, only I will
not submit to seeing my own work wasted.


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