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 | | While Paris reflected, the goddesses, who for the occasion had bathed their immortal bodies, offered him bribes in order to win Eris' award of beauty: Athena offered him the command of Phrygia and the destruction of Hellas, or as some say, that he would be bravest of mortals and skilled in every craft. |
 | | Paris followed them because this was his favourite bull, and having decided to participate in the games, he defeated all other contenders, including his own brothers. |
 | | However, others say that Paris did not go to Ida, but that he instead sent a messenger to Oenone 1, asking her to hasten to Troy and heal him, saying also that she should forgive him, for all events happened, he argued, through the will of the gods. |
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