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| | The Love Books of Ovid: ELEGY VI: To A River Which Has Overflowed Its Banks And Hindered The Poet, Who Was Hastening To ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) |
 | | The Nile itself, the mighty river that through seven mouths flows to the sea and hides so well the secret of its source, could not with all its waters overwhelm the flame with which he burned for Evadne, Asopus' daughter. |
 | | Enipeus, so he might embrace the daughter of Salmoneus, commanded his waters to recede, and, obedient to his command, those waters did recede. |
 | | Her, from his swift-flowing waters, the generous river saw, and raising his head above the flood called hoarsely to her, saying, "Wherefore in sorrow wanderest thou by my banks, O Ilia, seed of Laomedon of Ida? Whither hath thy raiment gone? |
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