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| | All about flowers - PHEASANT'S EYE, Adonis autumnali |
 | | As a matter of course, he could not love the ladies equally, and as his heart leaned to Aphrodite, he gave her the four months over which he had control, and thus was her companion eight months in the year. |
 | | Whether the gods disapproved of this, Panyasis does not say, but he tells that the youth was killed by a boar during the chase. |
 | | The story, as told by Ovid, brings Adonis before us as passionately beloved by Venus, who always cautioned him against the wild boars, but all in vain, for he would pursue them, even when, with tears and entreaties, the beautiful wooer besought him to remain beside her in safety and peace. |
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