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<strong>The</strong> fainting chief, and wards the<br />

mortal wound.<br />

<strong>The</strong>n with a voice that shook the<br />

vaulted skies,<br />

<strong>The</strong> king insults the goddess as she<br />

flies:<br />

"Ill with Jove's daughter bloody<br />

fights agree,<br />

<strong>The</strong> field <strong>of</strong> combat is no scene for<br />

thee:<br />

Go, let thy own s<strong>of</strong>t sex employ thy<br />

care,<br />

Go, lull the coward, or delude the<br />

fair.<br />

Taught by this stroke renounce the<br />

war's alarms,<br />

And learn to tremble at the name <strong>of</strong><br />

arms."<br />

Tydides thus. <strong>The</strong> goddess, seized<br />

with dread,

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