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Homer’s Iliad
intolerable and stubborn spirit of your mother Juno: it is all I can
do to manage her, and it is her doing that you are now in this
plight: still, I cannot let you remain longer in such great pain; you
are my own off-spring, and it was by me that your mother
conceived you; if, however, you had been the son of any other god,
you are so destructive that by this time you should have been lying
lower than the Titans.”
He then bade Paeeon heal him, whereon Paeeon spread painkilling
herbs upon his wound and cured him, for he was not of
mortal mould. As the juice of the fig-tree curdles milk, and thickens
it in a moment though it is liquid, even so instantly did Paeeon
cure fierce Mars. Then Hebe washed him, and clothed him in
goodly raiment, and he took his seat by his father Jove all glorious
to behold.
But Juno of Argos and Minerva of Alalcomene, now that they had
put a stop to the murderous doings of Mars, went back again to the
house of Jove.
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