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| | Envy, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com |
 | | He was a contemporary of the utterly impious Lycaon 2, who sacrificed a human baby on the altar of Zeus, and was punished for this outrage by being turned into a wolf. |
 | | When he was still a baby, she put him in a chest and committed it to Pandrosus, one of the daughters of Cecrops 1, not telling her what there was within, and forbidding her to open it. |
 | | Some say that Pandrosus' sisters, out of curiosity, opened the chest, being destroyed by a serpent which was coiled about the child, but others affirm that the girls were driven mad by the goddess' anger, and threw themselves down from the Acropolis. |
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