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"'You must not be angry with me, Venus,' she began, 'for being on
the Grecian side while you are yourself on the Trojan; but you know
every one falls in love with you at once, and I want you to lend me
some of your attractions. I have to pay a visit at the world's end
to Oceanus and Mother Tethys. They took me in and were very good to
me when Jove turned Saturn out of heaven and shut him up under the
sea. They have been quarrelling this long time past and will not
speak to one another. So I must go and see them, for if I can only
make them friends again I am sure that they will be grateful to me
for ever afterwards.'"
Venus thought this reasonable, so she took off her girdle and lent
it to Juno, an act by the way which argues more good nature than
prudence on her part. Then Juno goes down to Thrace, and in search
of Sleep the brother of Death. She finds him and shakes hands with
him. Then she tells him she is going up to Olympus to make love to
Jove, and that while she is occupying his attention Sleep is to send
him off into a deep slumber.


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